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The medicine man of Kolkata

Posted on Thu 26 Jun 2008, 09:47 in Health

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The sound of crying from the slums behind my home tormented me. I thought about the people dying because they couldn't afford medicines and devised a plan to help them.

More NHS Trusts failing hygiene tests

Posted on Wed 20 Jun 2007, 16:50 in Health

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More health Trusts are failing to meet hygiene standards. But you won’t find the watchdog funded to check health standards rushing to force them to clean up their act.

7 hours of agony

Posted on Sun 20 May 2007, 22:16 in Health

Imagine that yesterday you had very painful bone surgery on both feet. In theatre, you were given nerve blocks on both legs. Now the nerve blocks have worn off ....

Slow food on the move

Posted on Tue 6 Mar 2007, 16:53 in Health

With the prospect of McDonalds opening a store in Rome, Italian journalist Carlo Pertini, issued a rallying cry to people everywhere.

Premature ejaculation stopped by spray!

Posted on Mon 5 Feb 2007, 12:51 in Health

Patients with premature ejaculation who used a topical anesthetic spray were able to delay ejaculation for five times as long, according to a study in the urology journal BJU International.

Fat Scan

Posted on Fri 2 Feb 2007, 14:28 in Health

Traditional ways of measuring body fat are giving people the wrong idea of how much fat they are storing internally. The new fat scan is set to change this.

TRAVEL NURSES BEWARE

Posted on Fri 2 Feb 2007, 11:31 in Health

Travel RN's Always check your companies out....Listen to experienced travelers beware of NURSE ONE STAFFING OUT OF ALABAMA

Another daughter left doing the caring

Posted on Tue 28 Nov 2006, 11:11 in Health

My dad is getting worse and, much as I love him to bits, it’s getting harder and harder being the only one looking after him.