Jan. 14 (Bloomberg) — Former Czech President
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“The president’s condition is stable but serious,”
hospital spokeswoman Eva Jurinova said by phone today. Doctors
at a news conference later said Havel’s condition was not life-
threatening for now and its seriousness stems from his past
illnesses and the threat that the inflammation may progress.
Havel, who underwent “minor surgery” for an acute
respiratory inflammation on Jan. 12 Read the rest of this entry »
Since September 2007, I have had the privilege to serve as the regional dean of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine at Amarillo.
Our mission not only involves educating a diverse group of health care professionals, offering outstanding patient care, conducting ground-breaking research but also providing programs and services for the people we serve. In order to raise the awareness and gain ongoing community support, Read the rest of this entry »
Christian Squillaciotti, the South Philadelphia man charged in the road rage shooting of a motorist on the Schuylkill Expressway in October, will remain hospitalized pending further mental evaluation ahead of a hearing on the criminal charges scheduled for Feb. 11.
Municipal Court Judge Marsha Neifield today granted the request by David Ayers, of the district attorney’s mental health unit, to extend Squillaciotti’s civil commitment at Norristown Read the rest of this entry »
Dr. Todd Mitchell was awakened by a phone call at 8 a.m. on the Tuesday after Christmas.
A woman and her twin 11-year-old grandsons had eaten soup made from deadly mushrooms they picked in the woods. Dr. Kent Olson of California Poison Control was asking for the phone number of the German company that makes a drug used to treat death cap mushroom cases in Europe.
The call gave Mitchell chills.
He knew mortality from death caps is higher for Read the rest of this entry »
E.
coli
. The premature babies were in the neonatal unit at the Luton and
Dunstable Hospital in Bedfordshire.
A spokesman for the hospital said that the bacterium would have contributed to
the deaths of the babies, but would not have been the sole cause.
The drug-resistant bacterium was discovered in the unit at the end of last
month. Two other babies are being treated for the condition and another
seven are known to have it in their systems Read the rest of this entry »
ne of the unwritten rules of provincial budgeting is that medicare is sacrosanct.
Governments may warn that health spending is growing at an unsustainable rate. They may promise to rein it in. But they almost never do.
When the Liberals took power five years ago, they told Ontarians: “Health-care costs cannot continue to grow faster than the economy. This can only lead to the continued crowding out of available funding for other priorities.” Read the rest of this entry »
Gay, Lesbian Advocacy Groups Focus On National HIV/AIDS Strategy At Denver Conference
conference in Denver called on the Obama administration to create a domestic HIV/AIDS strategy, the
reports. Conference Director Sue Hyde said, “People will have a hard time choosing marriage if they are sick and dying,” adding, “HIV and AIDS have never lost their grip” in the U.S.
The conference, which is sponsored by the
, was expected to attract about Read the rest of this entry »
The action by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco gives the financially squeezed state government at least temporary relief from a federal judge’s orders to start paying for improvements to bring the health system up to constitutional standards.
The system’s court-appointed overseer said it also means at least a slight delay in his plans to start building new hospitals and other health facilities for 10,000 inmates and improve Read the rest of this entry »
In our goal to inform the community of a growing concern over heroin use in the area, the Valley Sun continues to interview those who are on the front lines of drug prevention, rehabilitation and law enforcement.
There is no getting around the fact that heroin is an addictive drug. Whether it is injected or smoked, it gets into the system and wraps around the users body and soul. Heroin slows down the central nervous system. It can cause the heart Read the rest of this entry »
Associated Press – September 13, 2008 11:35 AM ET
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (AP) – At least 13 common drugs, including caffeine, several antibiotics, antidepressants and substances designed to lower human cholesterol levels, were found in test samples of Tennessee River water.
Sean Richards, a professor of biological and environmental sciences at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, is taking the samples as part of a study conducted with another Read the rest of this entry »