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
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The Labour Party and spokesmen for doctors bristled defensively to a study that showed that productivity in hospitals has declined precipitately since Labour came to power,
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The Prime Minister, Helen Clark, dismissed it as “silly” and Ian Powell, executive director of the Association of Salaried Medical Specialists, the activist union for hospital doctors, said it insinuated that doctors were “slackers”. In fact the report made findings that, Read the rest of this entry »
THE real problem with Julia Gillard’s boyfriend, Tim Mathieson, is that he’s a bloke.
If Tim were actually Kim, long-time girlfriend of deputy prime minister John Gillard, there wouldn’t have been this fuss we’ve seen over his appointment last week as a “health ambassador”.
Doing such voluntary work is exactly the kind of thing political partners do.
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The police action has also resulted in the arrest of 473 people since September last year. The seizures included nearly 50,000kg of Class A substances and 42 firearms.
Kenny MacAskill, the justice secretary, said it underlined that the Serious Organised Crime Taskforce, which held its sixth meeting yesterday, will use all means available to crack down on crime lords.
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China has poured billions of dollars into Tibet for schools, roads, rail links and other infrastructure and bristles at any suggestion that Tibet is not an inalienable part of China. Beijing’s belief that Tibetans should be grateful for such contributions left the leadership all the more shocked by the scope and intensity of anti-Chinese riots that broke out last March across ethnic Tibetan territories.
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Nov. 18
consider influenza a severe and potentially life-threatening disease that can strike anyone, only half say it is likely their families will get vaccinated this season, according to a new survey from the American Lung Association.
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After two weeks, the team found no effect on blood vessels of the inner
retina, but did find a significant increase in the number of dying cells of
the inner and outer nuclear layers which include amacrine cells that
participate in transmitting the visual signal; Muller cells that also
participate in the visual signal and support the photoreceptors; and,
photoreceptors, which are responsible for color and night vision. The team
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Nine-year-old Jasmine Clark, a fifth-grader at Salt Lake City’s Wasatch Elementary School, knows that the colors of her favorite Starburst candy have nothing in common with the colors of nutrient-rich fruits and vegetables.
She knew that before Monday’s statewide launch of the Utah Wellness Week program educating children about diet and exercise at her school, in fact.
But the 45-minute school assembly of advice from grown-up health Read the rest of this entry »