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 Health & Wellness  Ombretta - 5 days ago - nytimes.com I think many of us share a similar fear: dying alone, incapacitated, perhaps unable to speak, to remember, to do the simplest thing for ourselves. Read this piece & share your thoughts on prolonging life when real life itself has already departed.
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 Health & Wellness Ombretta - 41 days ago - hospitalcompare.hhs.gov This site provides in-depth information and comparisons of hospitals on several different levels. You can compare up to three health facilities at a time by overall care, location, specific diseases and procedures, etc. This is one to bookmark.
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 Health & Wellness  Jacquelin - 138 days ago - news.com.au THE humble teddy bear and soft toys will be restricted in Melbourne hospitals because of fears they could harbour dangerous germs.
The Royal Children's Hospital has banned donations of second-hand soft toys and restricts children from sharing toys they
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 Health & Wellness  Jill - 209 days ago - alternet.org Annual no of lives lost to medical error? roughly equivalent to a WorldTradeCenter attack occurring every 2 wks. Author Hallisy became more savvy & educated the longer her child's illness went on. What every patient/patient's advocate needs to know...
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 Health & Wellness  Blue - 212 days ago - nytimes.com In our health care system, if you have a slew of physicians and a willing patient, almost any sort of terrible excess can occur.
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 Health & Wellness  Terrah - 224 days ago - sptimes.com When Bayfront Medical Center had to turn away trauma patients this week because the hospital didn't have enough neurosurgeons, it exposed an emergency system in crisis. That crisis goes far beyond one hospital. Across Florida, hospitals lack enough..
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 Health & Wellness Blue - 227 days ago - dailymail.co.uk Deaths from a highly infectious bug have risen by almost three-quarters in a year, according to shocking official figures released today.
The number of deaths involving Clostridium difficile rose by 72 per cent, the Office for National Statistics said
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 Health & Wellness  Sharon - 227 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk The number of people treated for dog bites at hospitals in England has risen sharply,figures obtained by the Liberal Democrats.NHS statistics show the number attending A&E after a dog attack has risen by more than 40% in the last 4yrs to nearly 3,800 a yr
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 Health & Wellness  Chrissy - 254 days ago - news.com.au GOVERNMENT spending on private hospitals is growing at more than triple the rate of funding for the public sector, a report has revealed. The Report on Government Services, prepared by a committee of officials from the commonwealth, state and territory
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 Health & Wellness Chrissy - 270 days ago - news.com.au A BLUNDER in a jobs recruitment program in the UK will result in relief 19,000km away with hundreds of doctors set to migrate to Australia to help fill staff shortages in our ailing public hospitals system. More than 5000 British medics have found themsel
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 Health & Wellness Chrissy - 271 days ago - abc.net.au The states and territories have welcomed a new deal with the Commonwealth to slash elective surgery waiting lists by 25,000 operations this year. The meeting of the nation's treasurers and health ministers has agreed to an immediate $150 million plan to
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 Health & Wellness Chrissy - 282 days ago - news.com.au THE drug ice, or methamphetamine, caused havoc in the past year, endangering the lives of thousands of young Victorians and placing a strain on emergency services' resources. Ambulance paramedics treated more than 500 amphetamine-related cases in 2007,
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 Health & Wellness  Danielle - 282 days ago - cnn.com NEW YORK (AP) -- Just because you're in the hospital doesn't mean you'll quickly get treated if your heart stops beating. About one-third of patients don't get a potentially live-saving shock within the recommended two minutes, a new study found.
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 Health & Wellness Danielle - 282 days ago - abcnews.go.com If your heart were to stop suddenly, you'd think a hospital would be the safest place to be. Maybe not. An alarming new study, released today in the New England Journal of Medicine, says that in about a third of cardiac arrest cases nationwide, hospital
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 Health & Wellness  Cissy - 289 days ago - dailymail.co.uk In a child's eyes, the most scary thing about hospitals isn't the needles or even the dinner trolley. It's the clowns painted on the walls. A survey of young patients found that most were terrified by the red noses and grinning faces.
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