| Inside the unit where babies cling on to life
They are called miracle babies. Born to mothers who are just over halfway through their pregnancies, their lives are balanced on a knife edge, resting precariously on whether modern medicine can complete the job that nature has chosen to abandon. Babies are usually born at 40 weeks and anything under 37 weeks' gestation is defined as premature. Increasingly, however, hospitals are reporting that babies are surviving much earlier births, sometimes after a gestation period of just 22 weeks; an age at which some foetuses can still be legally aborted. Hope for these children is a brittle construct, measured not in days but in hours. In neonatal wards across the country, parents endure agonising vigils lasting many months. 'Our daughter was born five weeks ago, but we haven't even been able to take her out of the incubator and cuddle her,' said Laurie, whose child, Janie, was born at 23 weeks.
Dr. Kevin J. Logel Joins Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic
Raleigh Orthopaedic Clinic welcomes Kevin J. Logel, M.D., to the practice effective December 17, 2007. Dr. Logel is a fellowship-trained Foot and Ankle specialist focusing on sports injuries, post-traumatic reconstruction, and chronic conditions of the foot and ankle. Dr. Logel has a special interest in dance medicine and has worked closely with the Carolina Ballet since 2005. In addition to several research publications and presentations, Dr. Logel served as a clinical instructor of Orthopaedics at WakeMed teaching UNC Orthopaedic residents from 2005-2007. Dr. Logel attended the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, for both undergraduate and medical school. He completed his residency in Orthopaedic surgery at the University of Utah Hospitals. A fellowship in Foot and Ankle Reconstruction followed at the Union Memorial/Johns Hopkins Hospitals in Baltimore, Maryland.
UMDNJ-School of Public Health joins child study
The UMDNJ-School of Public Health in Piscataway will join forces with the Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Institute in a vast new federal research project targeting children's health. The National Children's Study will run for more than two decades, making it the largest long-term study of environmental and genetic effects on children's health ever attempted in the United States. The study will follow 100,000 children from before birth to age 21, seeking information that will uncover new ways to prevent and treat some of the nation's most pressing childhood health problems, including autism, birth defects, diabetes, heart disease and obesity. "We are especially excited about helping to lead such a monumental study," said Dr. George Rhoads, chairman of the Department of Epidemiology, UMDNJ-School of Public Health.
Brown mark II
They also know that Brown faces accusations of indecision after refusing to act straightaway when Hain admitted to serious oversights in his declarations. But senior figures believe this criticism is a price worth paying, according to one minister, who explained the simple calculations that dictated Number 10's conduct over the last two weeks. 'Peter was politically dead the moment he admitted failing to declare so many donations,' the minister said. 'But Number 10 couldn't do anything until he was reprimanded by an independent authority or the police were called in. If they had moved before that had happened, then Harriet [Harman, the deputy Labour leader] and Wendy [Alexander, Labour's leader in Scotland who also made funding mistakes] would have been in difficulty. Now that Peter is facing a police investigation, there is a lot less pressure on them.' Such claims will be dismissed by the Tories as at best a preposterous attempt by Labour to spin itself out of a messy corner, or at worst a sign that Brown is still a 'machine politician' who calculates his moves in the manner of an obsessive chess player.
Dr. Phil injects himself into Britney Spears' trainwreck (Medical ...
Britney Spears was released from Cedars-Sinai hospital on Saturday. The hospital no longer viewed her to be a danger to herself after her Thursday night meltdown and took Britney off 5150 hold. In the midst of all this, Dr. Phil somehow gained access to her room and supposedly counseled Britney. Here's the statement he issued to Entertainment Tonight: "My meeting with Britney and some of her family members this morning in her room at Cedars leaves me convinced more than ever that she is in dire need of both medical and psychological intervention. She was released moments before my arrival and was packing when I entered the room. We visited for about an hour before I walked with her to her car. I am very concerned for her." However, Britney's meeting with Dr. Phil was all her parents' idea and she was blindsided by the visit, according to TMZ: Sources say Phil tried speaking with Spears for about 15 minutes -- not an hour as Dr.
Humiliation for Edwards
In any case, this piece is completely wrong. Hillary had plenty of time, on her private plane to be in Chicago and to be at this fundraiser. Hey guys, she actually did both. So it's wrong on facts, as well as silly and naïve in its analysis, but hey who cares? I hear Edwards got a haircut. ... 1) Yes, Hillary has to have fundraisers. But then she should be honest about it--she shouldn't try to hide the cause of her "scheduling conflict" from the Kos crowd, treating them like children who can be conned. That's the basic complaint; 2) Yes, she was at the Kos convention and at the fundraiser, but she didn't apparently have time for the advertised "breakout" session after the YearlyKos candidates' forum. When Kossacks kicked up a fuss, a session was apparently hastily scheduled for before the forum; 3) These things are scheduled long in advance, as Alterman says.
The First Amendment Gone Wild: Big Pharma’s ‘Right’ to Find Out ...
The founders of the United States took the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and the concepts of free speech and freedom of conscience very seriously. "Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech," said Benjamin Franklin. "Information is the currency of democracy," intoned Thomas Jefferson — one of countless Jefferson odes to the central importance of ideas and free transmission of information in fostering a working democracy. But could they possibly have imagined the twisted purposes to which the First Amendment is put today? Two crucial developments in U.S. constitutional jurisprudence — the grant of Bill of Rights protections to corporations, and the extension of First Amendment protections to commercial speech — have enabled corporations to invoke the First Amendment to defend their right to hawk goods, so long as they are legal, by almost any means short of outright lying or clear deception.
Medco Unveils Three New Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Options for ...
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Many seniors recall the days when a dime could buy quite a bit. While a dime can't buy much anymore, for millions of seniors across the country, it could potentially pay for a day's worth of their medications. Medco Health Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: MHS) , today unveiled the Medco Medicare Prescription Plan(TM), a suite of three new Medicare Part D plan options for 2008 that offers seniors a range of deductible, plan and coverage options for their prescription drug needs. The new Medco Medicare Prescription Plan portfolio consists of the following: "The needs of seniors vary greatly - from access to a wide range of medications to a low premium to coverage in the gap - and we've designed a range of plan options for seniors to select based upon their individual needs," said David B.
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