Wards, ICUs remain shut due to shortage of nurses The Star | KUALA LUMPUR: The shortage of nurses in Malaysia has caused several wards and intensive care units in newer hospitals to remain closed. | Revealing this on Friday, Health Minister Datuk Liow Tiong Lai said the situation existed in hospitals including those in Serdang, Sungai Buloh, Ampang and Sung...
Cellphones do fry your brain, warns cancer specialist NZ Herald | The head of a cancer research institute has warned against cellphone use, advising staff to use headsets or handsfree. | PITTSBURGH - The head of a prominent cancer research institute issued an unprecedented warning to his faculty and staff: Limit cell phone use because of the possible risk of can...
Little suckers clear the path to the brain Sydney Morning Herald | WHEN Mehdi Jaffari was told his left carotid artery was so severely blocked he faced the risk of an imminent stroke, he turned the clock back to medieval times. | The 52-year-old counsellor, from Chatswood, bought more than 35 leeches from a Victor...
The view: Would Fight Club cure your blues? The Guardian The sun's out at last, just in time to find this week's film blogs variously fixated with fist-fights, depression and suicide. | All smiles ... Edward Norton and Brad Pitt in Fight Club. Photo: 20th Century Fox | While I'm still not certain of the ti...
HAL's DVD pick for weekend: Space Odyssey Toledo Blade "...as human beings we are capable of making sense of situations based on the thinnest slice of experience." | — , author of Blink and The Tipping Point. | Popcorn? Check. Icy cold beverage? Check. Remote control? Check. Shhhhhhh, the movie's startin...
Lightning-strike victims returning home Philadelphia Daily News | By Larry King | Inquirer Staff Writer No question, Sheila Gallagher said, this was a miracle. | Less than 24 hours after being knocked unconscious by a lightning strike, her daughter Bridget, 21, came home yesterday from Temple University Hospital....
Deep brain stimulation can help severely depressed Canada Dot Com | Testing on severely depressed patients shows that brain implants can successfully "re-set" the brain's mood switch from sad to normal, with results that last for at least a year,...
Dead man's brain tested for mad cow disease Houston Chronicle TOOLS | CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The brain of a Corpus Corpus man who died earlier this month was tested for a human form of mad cow disease, health officials said. | Annette Rodrig...
Harvard stem cell research gets boost The Boston Globe | British drug giant has agreed to sponsor at least $25 million in work at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge, one of the largest investments in stem cell research ever by a major pharmaceuticals company. | As part of the five-year agreemen...
What about Amanda, now? Daily Advance | Never, ever underestimate the power of a mother's love for her child. Some members of the medical profession did, it would appear, and they might eat their words if they knew how far now 15-year-old Amanda Brown has come in the span of a year. | La...
Harney and hospital co-location Irish Times In this section » | Government cutbacksPopulation growth in AfricaPreserving census recordsDigicel sponsorship of cricketAviation and global warmingDrowning of Roma children | Madam, - The recent Supreme Court decision regarding private healthcare in...
Election loss deals blow to UK's Brown Irish Times | Britain's Labour Party lost a parliamentary seat in one of its traditional strongholds, a stinging electoral setback for Prime Minister Gordon Brown, results showed today. | Defeat in yesterday's poll in the Glasgow East constituency, which Labour won with a huge 13,500 majority at the 2005 election, will fuel Labour discontent with Mr Brown's le...
China says its population of Internet users rises to world No. 1 at 253 million The Oklahoman By Joe McDonald | AP Business WriterBEIJING (AP) - China's booming Internet population has surpassed the United States to become the world's biggest, with 253 million people online despite government controls on Web use, according to government data reported Friday. | ord=Math.random()*10000000000000000; document.write(' | One dead after crane coll...
