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Welsh fisherman feels shark’s revenge

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:38:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks:
"Conservation group, The Shark Trust, said Steve got what he deserved because he attacked the fish.

Spokesman Richard Pierce said: “When you’ve stuck a hook in something’s mouth and dragged it through the water and put it on a boat, you’ve basically attacked the shark. If the shark accidentally bites you, it’s hardly its fault.”

Clip Source: www.walesonline.co.uk

A SOUTH Wales fisherman who celebrated catching a “mini version of Jaws” was airlifted to hospital after the shark tore into his arm.

Steve Perkins, 52, of Penarth, was posing for a picture after landing the 6ft fish off the north Devon coast when it went on the attack and ripped a five-inch chunk from his right forearm.

He and three pals were fishing off Lundy Island, when he hooked the 80lb creature.

“It took us 15 minutes to haul it into the boat and the idea was to pose for a quick picture and then put it back,” he said.

“I was holding it by the nose when it gave me a bit of nip.

“I dropped it over the side and looked at my arm – it looked horrendous.

The carpenter was airlifted by an RAF Sea King helicopter to North Devon District Hospital and later underwent reconstructive surgery at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital after two arteries were severed.

The severed arteries had to be pinned back together, a nerve was reattached and tendons were repaired in the three-hour operation.

London News: Gay man fighting for life after gang's homophobic attack in Hackney Road, Shoreditch

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:09:05 GMT

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Clip Source: www.thelondonpaper.com

A MAN is fighting for his life in hospital after being stabbed seven times by a gang of youths during a brutal homophobic attack in London.

The 20-year-old victim was with a female friend outside a gay-friendly pub in Shoreditch when they were surrounded by five teenage boys.

They verbally abused him before smashing a bottle over his head and stabbing him seven times in the back and torso.

Police believe the victim was targeted because of his sexuality and have launched an attempted murder investigation following the attack last Thursday near the George and Dragon pub in Hackney Road.

Brain Blasting Laser

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 10:26:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In a world first, a man was strapped to a bed in Paris and had laser beams fired into his brain. He not only survived but, amazingly, wasn't James Bond.

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

The revolutionary surgery was carried out at Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital to destroy a brain tumor that wasn't responding to conventional treatment. Drilling a hole in somebody's skull and piping laser destruction into it, on the other hand, definitely counts as "unconventional treatment" and destroyed the tumor.

A laser's ability to vaporise things is widely known - thanks to movies it was known long before it was actually true. But in medical applications the trick isn't blowing things up, but convincing the laser to stop burning things up in a precisely controlled way. In this case fiber optic cabling (like copper wire for light) was used to direct the laser to the correct location, and constant Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) allowed surgeons to monitor its progress on a screen - like a very expensive videogame. And you only get one life.

AN ENGLISH CIGARETTE TO DIE FOR !

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:19:01 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Cigarette addiction to kill for ? don't know what they cost in England but at $7.00 a pack ,oh yeah, that's worth shooting someone ? that makes a whole carton of sense ! Puff,puff ,cough,cough, oh yeah ,that's killer !

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

Ex-boxing champ shot dead in smoking dispute

LONDON (Reuters) - Former British heavyweight boxing champion James Oyebola was shot in the neck in a nightclub after asking a group of men to stop smoking, a court heard Tuesday. Prosecutor Jeremy Donne told the Old Bailey that the boxer died after the "senseless" shooting at the Chateau 6 club in Fulham, west London, in July 2007.

He never regained consciousness after being hit in the neck and leg and died in hospital four days later when doctors switched off his life-support machine.

The Nigerian-born, 6ft 9" boxer won the UK heavyweight title in 1994 and the bronze medal at the 1986 Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh, where he lost to Lennox Lewis in the semi-finals.

Four men are on trial for his murder: Cyle Carth, 18; Dean Francis, 24; Rene McKoy, 20 and Kanyanta Mulenga, 23, all from south London. They deny murder and affray.

Radioactive Energy Drinks

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:44:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Radioactive Energy Drink was a glowing sponsor at the 18th Annual St. Jude Charity Golf Classic. This event was held on July 14th at the Ivanoe Country Club in Chicago, Illinois, with proceeds benefiting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Participants included football Hall of Famer’s, Gale Sayers, Dan Hampton, and Otis Wilson. Samples of Radioactive Energy Drink were enjoyed by all! Catch the Glow!

Clip Source: www.radioactiveenergy.com

Lungensequester

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 20:04:19 GMT

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clipper's remarks: CTisUs, viele Bild, extralobar sequestration

Clip Source: www.ctisus.com

7/8/08

Extralobar sequestration with pericardial absence

Case submitted by: Mahmood Tehrai Nasrabadi
Head of Department of CT Scanning
Day General Hospital, Tehran Iran

History: A case of a 22 year male who was refered to me for chest Cta for chest pain ,suspicious for pulmonary emboli.

CTA findings: Anterior mediastenal mass being supplied by anomalous artery arising from left main pulmonary artery (extralobar sequestration),also absence of pericardium anteriorly ,findings were confirmed at surgery.

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US Teen Suicide Rate Rising

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:22:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Take away the meds from kids and this is what happens. Yet the reason for keeping kids away from psychiatric medication persists however absurd it might be.

And the reasons are absurd. If a teenager had a malfunctioning liver, only religious weirdos would say to keep the child off the medication. But when a child's brain malfunctions and there is is a medication that can help, many people cry foul and become suspicious. Why? We are only talking about organs of the body. Just as yellowing skin can be a symptom of a malfunctioning liver, so depression can be a symptom of a malfunctioning brain. The meds can save lives.

Clip Source: www.upi.com

A spike in U.S. teen suicides in 2004 -- sharpest increase in the past 15 years -- appears to have persisted into 2005, researchers said.

Jeff Bridge of Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus said researchers have identified what may be an emerging crisis, but the next step is to figure out why. One answer may lie in the prescription of antidepressant medication. Because of concerns over side effects, the number of teens prescribed antidepressants has dropped by as much as 20 percent.

"The vast majority of young people who complete suicide have some sort of psychiatric disorder. Most commonly depression or some mood disorder," Dr. John Campo also of Nationwide Children's Hospital said. "Kids who need the medicine most may not be getting it."

Brain Tumor Blasting Laser

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:02:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Now if Medical science could just give me a new back...

Clip Source: www.dailygalaxy.com

In a world first, a man was strapped to a bed in Paris and had laser beams fired into his brain. He not only survived but, amazingly, wasn't James Bond.

Unbelievably, this incredible example of genuine Mad Science converted to humanitarian efforts is running out of funding. Apparently people think "curing brain cancer" isn't important enough for a few million dollars of funding. (Note: America alone spends four billion dollars a year on cat food.)

We can only hope that somebody official gets their act together and budgets for some more research

AIPEUC - Temas

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:52:46 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Revista informativa

Clip Source: www.aipeuc-ps.org

_POSTED 14 Nov, 2007 - 12:21 AM

John Hopkins Memorial Hospital

1. Todos tenemos células cancerígenas. Estas células no aparecen en análisis estándares hasta que las mismas se hayan multiplicados por billones. Cuando un médico le dice a un paciente de cáncer que no tiene más células cancerígenas en su cuerpo, luego de un tratamiento, esto significa que el examen no es capaz de detectar las células cancerigenas porque la cantidad de ellas en el cuerpo no han alcanzado las cantidades necesarias para ser detectadas en el análisis normal.

Sandy ESPINOZA FERRIER
Facultad de Ciencias, especialidad de Biologia
Universidad Nacional Agraria La Molina (UNALM)
PERÚ

Can toomuch or too little pain med cause delirium in the elderly?

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:23:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: This is an interesting article-read the full thing:
http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/578507?src=mp&spon=24&uac=123819PT

Clip Source: www.medscape.com

Aging and Delirium: Too Much or Too Little Pain Medication?

Delirium, also known as acute confusion, is common in hospitalized elders and can result in poor outcomes. Delirium occurs in as many as 50% of general hospital patients and rises to more than 80% in intensive care patients and patients at the end of life (Esper and Heidrich 2005, Inouye 1998, Inouye 2006, Pisani et al 2003). Delirium is associated with increased morbidity, increased length of stay, poorer functional outcomes, increased risk of nursing home placement, and increased patient care costs (Pompei, Foreman, Rudberg, Inouye, Braund & Cassel, 1994). Medicare hospital expenditures attributable to delirium are nearly $6.9 billion (Inouye, 2006). The clinical features include a rapid onset, disordered attention, disturbance of the sleep-wake cycle, and a fluctuating course with deterioration in the evening. Alertness can be either increased (hyperactive) or decreased (hypoactive) (Burns, Gallagley, & Byrne, 2004).

Tags: delirium, elderly, confusion, hospitalization, pain, pain_medication, drugs, medication, aging

Gunfire Erupts Near North Philadelphia Playground

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 22:51:26 GMT

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Clip Source: cbs3.com

PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ― Gunfire rang out near a North Philadelphia playground, leaving one person in critical condition Tuesday.

Police said at least 15 shots were fired near an elementary school on the 700 block of East Thayer Street at about 2:30 p.m.

A 31-year-old male was rushed to Temple University Hospital in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the chest.

2 casos de HANTA en menos de 10 días en Gualeguay

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:23:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: el Hanta es trasmitido por ratones camperos que huyen de la deforestación. El motivo se llama SOJA. Pero el problema NO SON LOS RATONES sino la inmunidad . A elevar con vacunas como las que el Malbrán produjo hace más de 30 años para una enfermedad muy similar, el Mal de los Rastrojos. Toda una cuestión de política sanitaria. De Estado(s).

Clip Source: www.gualeguayaldia.com.ar

Fueron derivados a la capital provincial

Alertan sobre las medidas de precaución
por dos casos de Hantavirus en las islas

Dos casos de hantavirus en Gualeguay en menos de 10 días. Si bien la confirmación del segundo aún espera los análisis que lleguen desde la capital provincial, el martes una persona debió ser derivada desde el Hospital San Antonio hacia Paraná a raiz de la sospecha de tratarse de hantavirus.

nut case

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 23:19:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: hard to believe what some will put them self through

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Welder's love plan unscrewed as nut removed from penis

A MALAYSIAN welder had to have a nut removed from around his penis after a bid to lengthen it before he got engaged went embarrassingly wrong.

The nut got stuck on his penis following an erection, the Star newspaper reported today, forcing him to seek help at a hospital in southern Johor state.

Staff from the Sultanah Aminah hospital had to drain some blood from the penis and cut away a top layer of skin before the object could be removed, the newspaper said.

It said the fire and rescue department were also involved in trying to remove the nut from the unnamed welder, who is in his 20s and hoped the nut would weigh down his penis to make it longer before he got engaged next week.

On August 25, another young man in Kuala Lumpur had tried to increase his sexual prowess by slipping a steel ring around his penis, forcing the fire department to cut off the ring after doctors were unable to remove it, the newspaper said.

Tags: penis, nut, sex

America's Universal Health Insurance

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:45:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: what enterprising young conservative wouldn't be able to add that one to this one and come up with the idea of defining homelessness out of existence because "so long as you have a bridge to sleep under, you can't really be homeless"?

There is no hunger. So long as we have soup kitchens and edible weeds, people will always have enough to eat. And John McCain was a POW, so he knows what it's like to miss a meal occasionally.

Clip Source: patriotboy.blogspot.com

We Have Never Had Uninsured Citizens; America Will Always Have Universal Health Insurance

I don't suppose anything says "you're on your own" quite like "your primary source of health care will be emergency room of whichever hospital lets you in." How many Republicans are willing to openly admit, though, that their political party and political leaders are consciously and deliberately consigning large numbers of fellow Americans to the most expensive, least effecient, and often times worst form of primary health care this nation has to offer?

Not too many, I suspect, which is probably why the Republican Party is getting so good at Doublethink. The above position is, after all, adopted by the same people who have decided that if you can get to an emergency room for health care, then you aren't really "uninsured." So all Americans have always had universal health insurance, right?

It's a bad thing

must wait until their condition gets so desperate that they have to go to the emergency room

Tags: healthcare, american, america

A Kind of Courage That’s Hard to Translate

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:49:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: You need to read the whole article...such people are amazing really!!!

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

By CARA BUCKLEY

The military translator from Queens sat beside his mother in a wheelchair in a hospital room on Manhattan’s Upper East Side on Thursday. His right leg was encased in a black boot, affixed with Velcro straps from his swollen toes to his knee. What was left of his left leg, which had been amputated at the knee, was wrapped in a snug elastic rubber stocking on which the word “stump” had been scrawled.

The man’s name is Syed Shah and he was grievously wounded in July in a bomb attack on a military convoy in Afghanistan, where he had been working as a translator for soldiers battling the Taliban. Mr. Shah is learning to walk with a prosthetic leg, though his progress is severely hindered because he cannot put any weight on his partly shattered right leg.

Yet to his family’s shock and anguish, and to his doctors’ awe, Mr. Shah is aiming to be back in Afghanistan by year’s end.

Working in Afghanistan instilled in him a sense of purpose that he had not quite felt before.