Oak Cliff baby, brain damaged after injury, taken off life support
09:29 PM CST on Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Darlene Diles spent the first 17 days of her life in her mother’s care before an injury on Jan. 30 left her with severe brain damage.
She spent the remaining days of her life hooked to tubes and machines inside Children’s Medical Center Dallas, where doctors blamed her head injury on child abuse.
On Tuesday afternoon, Read the rest of this entry »

By E.J. Mundell
WEDNESDAY, Feb. 11 (HealthDay News) — A broad swath of Americans support President Barack Obama’s anticipated overhaul of the U.S. health care system, especially such key proposed elements as government negotiation with drug companies to lower drug prices, or some form of a national health insurance exchange, a new
poll finds.
In fact, half of the 2,491 adults surveyed in the nationwide poll said they either “strongly” or “somewhat” Read the rest of this entry »

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Help a leading fashion accessories brand, Swarovski, raise awareness about women’s heart health by purchasing red and heart-shaped jewelry items from its 2009 Go Red For Women® Collection. The company will donate a minimum contribution of $150,000 from the sales of this collection to the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women movement.
The company has donated more than $1.6 million to the issue of women and heart disease awareness Read the rest of this entry »

In the last week, millions of Americans have tackled the annual ritual of making New Year’s resolutions.
Some will succeed, some will stumble and others, come March, will join the ranks of those vowing to try again next year. What is the secret to success? Not going alone.
This year, YMCAs nationwide are encouraging families to put a new twist on the old custom and make resolutions together as a family. We have worked for more than 150 years to Read the rest of this entry »

“May God make you be victorious,” she said. “I cannot stand what is happening to your people.”
Neither, apparently, can Hussein, a Palestinian policeman whose right arm was broken when Israeli missiles hit his police academy Dec. 27. Hussein voted for
in the last election but said he never joined their militia. That’s about to change.
“I want to go back and fight with Hamas,” he said.
strategy in Gaza is to crush Hamas’s will to fight, especially Read the rest of this entry »

Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Michelle Gildernew and the Deputy President of the Ulster Farmers Union (UFU), Harry Sinclair have lent their support to Action Cancer’s efforts to raise awareness of their services in rural communities.
Attending an event this week organised by Northern Ireland’s leading, local cancer charity, Action Cancer, the Minister and UFU guests were given a tour of the Action Cancer Big Bus mobile screening Read the rest of this entry »

Complaints about Georgia’s mental health system may soon draw independent state investigations, as the launch of an ombudsman office has suddenly gained momentum.
Gov. Sonny Perdue this week announced a panel that would nominate candidates for mental health ombudsman, a post established by last year’s General Assembly but left unfilled amid the state’s budget crunch.
State officials for months had given no indication that Read the rest of this entry »

At Lehigh Regional Medical Center in Lehigh Acres, admissions and surgeries are significantly lower than preceding years, but this parallels the rest of the country. Almost two-thirds or recently surveyed hospitals are reporting the same information with dwindling admissions, less surgery and significant increases in non-paying patients.
People with and without insurance try to avoid hospitalization because of the financial burden it places on the Read the rest of this entry »

12:00 AM CST on Saturday, February 14, 2009
stevethompson@dallasnews.com
Just last month, attorneys were considering whether to withdraw life support from 7-month-old David Coronado Jr., whose parents are accused of inflicting scars too numerous to count.
Now the brain-damaged Dallas boy is breathing on his own, and authorities are looking into who might eventually get custody of David should he survive.
“He is off life support at this time, Read the rest of this entry »