LAGOS, Feb. 23 (Xinhua) — Tragedy struck at the Olabisi Onabanjo University Teaching Hospital (OOUTH), Sagamu, Ogun State, on Sunday as Ajoke Amuda Bello, the 32-year-old mother of sextuplets, died in the early hours of the day.
According to the Nigerian Tribune newspaper Monday, Bello died as a result of excessive bleeding. She passed away at about 7:15 a.m. (0715 GMT)
Bello gave birth to six babies, three males and three females, in the hospital Read the rest of this entry »

MINNEAPOLIS — The daughter of a pioneering medical device developer has pledged $50 million to the new children’s hospital being built at the University of Minnesota.
Caroline Amplatz pledged the money over 12 years to honor her father, Kurt Amplatz, a former radiology professor who holds more than 30 patents. Amplatz developed a number of non-invasive techniques, including a tiny device to repair a congenital heart defect that allowed thousands Read the rest of this entry »

The old-fashioned Westerns I watched as a kid were simple: good guys vs. bad guys. And if you ever wondered which were which, you just had to look at their hats.
George W. Bush, never managed to grow up past that kind of thinking. There were white hat countries and black hat countries — with us or against us. A professor of ethics wrote a book about him called “The President of Good and Evil.”
Real life, of course, is rarely that simple. Bush Read the rest of this entry »

In the run-up to yesterday`s England game, captain of both England and Chelsea said something that gives an indication just how low things had fallen under Phil Scolari.
“I know I need to improve – my fitness, my game,” he admitted. Now that should ring the alarm bells at Stamford Bridge.
Lest we forget, one of the reasons why José Mourinho`s Chelsea just refused to lose was because they were always fitter than anyone else. Whilst other teams Read the rest of this entry »

Two Sydney shark attack victims are likely to undergo further surgery this week, a hospital spokesman says.
Both men are recovering in Sydney’s St Vincent’s Hospital after shark attacks within 48 hours of each other.
A 33-year-old local surfer had his hand almost severed in an attack off Bondi on Thursday, just a day after a navy diver was mauled by a shark in Sydney Harbour.
Both patients have been moved from the hospital’s intensive care unit Read the rest of this entry »

The whole world is in recession. But the United States is the only wealthy country in which the economic catastrophe will also be a health care catastrophe — in which millions of people will lose their health insurance along with their jobs, and therefore lose access to essential care.
Which raises a question: Why has the Obama administration been silent, at least so far, about one of President Obama’s key promises during last year’s Read the rest of this entry »

January 12, 2009 7:31 a.m. EST
Miami, FL (AHN) – Federal regulators approved the use of a controversial drug to treat high cholesterol last week.
The Food and Drug Administration gave Vytorin the OK a year after a study came out suggesting it wasn’t any more effective than Zocor in lowering bad cholesterol.
Vytorin is a combination of simvastatin, the generic name for Zocor, and ezetimibe.
But now the FDA said a recent trial found a 56-percent Read the rest of this entry »

10:27 PM CST on Friday, January 30, 2009
New research by a UT Southwestern Medical Center physician calls into question whether health insurers are adequately performing one of their main functions: containing costs.
Dr. Ethan Halm, chief of internal medicine at UT Southwestern, found that private managed-care plans for Medicare do no better job of steering patients away from unnecessary surgeries than the traditional Read the rest of this entry »

Like other analysts, Jennings identifies patients with chronic illnesses as the drivers behind increased health care costs. “If we are going to deal with quality, value and cost, we will need to do a better job of prevention and caring for the chronically ill,” he says.
“I can think of no physician group better positioned to make that case than family doctors,” says Jennings, who refers to family physicians as the “first line of defense” in the Read the rest of this entry »

LOS ANGELES—The woman who gave birth to octuplets this week conceived all 14 of her children through in vitro fertilization, is not married and has been obsessed with having children since she was a teenager, her mother said.
Angela Suleman told The Associated Press she was not supportive when her daughter, Nadya Suleman, decided to have more embryos implanted last year.
“It can’t go on any longer,” she said in a phone interview Friday. Read the rest of this entry »