Italian minister apologises after delivery room fight
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Italy's health minister has apologised to a woman for a fight between two doctors in the delivery room as she was about to give birth. Laura Salpietro, 30, had her uterus removed and her baby boy suffered heart problems and possible brain damage at birth on Thursday in Messina, Sicily. After a heated exchange of words, one of the doctors seized his colleague by the neck and shoved him into a wall, according to Mr Molonia's account to police, reports said. The other doctor reacted by punching a window, which shattered, injuring his hand, they said. Prosecutors have placed five...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 09:26:29 AM
Zsa Zsa Gabor refuses operation and goes home
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LOS ANGELES (AFP) – Zsa Zsa Gabor, the 93-year-old Hollywood star who had been hospitalized due to complications from a broken hip, refused a new operation and was released from hospital and allowed to go home, her publicist has said. John Blanchette said doctors were ready to perform a liver operation, but gave up on the idea after the actress insisted she wanted to return to her Bel Air home...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 09:26:29 AM
The End of My Cancer
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On 23 April I had a routine colonoscopy, and found out that I had cancer. I knew then I’d have to write this column once I knew the outcome. I had 25 days of chemotherapy, simultaneous with radiation therapy, followed by surgery on 11 August. The pathology reports came back yesterday. They were, as my surgeon said, ‘the best possible, given the circumstances.” They were clean margins and clean lymph nodes. The margins are the areas all around the site of the surgery. The lymph nodes are where cancer usually spreads first, from its original site. In laymen’s terms, I...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 09:26:29 AM
Cheney Still Hospitalized After Heart Surgery
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney is still in the hospital after heart surgery in early July. Daughter Liz Cheney says her 69-year-old dad is out of intensive care and hopes to return home this week. She tells "Fox News Sunday" that he's already planning trips for fly fishing and hunting later this year. Dick Cheney has had five heart attacks since he was 37. In his recent surgery at a northern Virginia hospital, Cheney had a small pump installed to help his heart work.
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 09:26:29 AM
UK: Axe falls on NHS [Socialized Medicine] services
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NHS bosses have drawn up secret plans for sweeping cuts to services, with restrictions on the most basic treatments for the sick and injured. Some of the most common operations — including hip replacements and cataract surgery — will be rationed as part of attempts to save billions of pounds, despite government promises that front-line services would be protected. Patients’ groups have described the measures as “astonishingly brutal”. An investigation by The Sunday Telegraph has uncovered widespread cuts planned across the NHS, many of which have already been agreed by senior health service officials. They include: Š Restrictions on some of...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 09:26:29 AM
Waitress demands sick pay for boob op
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A waitress who works on a Baltic Sea ferry is suing her employers after they refused to give her sick pay while she was recovering from cosmetic breast surgery. The waitress, who was born in 1981, took two weeks off from work last autumn to recover from the operation, which she admits was not for medical reasons. When the ferry company, Viking Line, found out why she had taken sick leave, bosses refused to give her sick pay and docked the time from her holiday allowance. Now, union bosses are taking Viking Line to the labour court. Documents submitted to...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 09:26:29 AM
From she to he: Warren Beatty's daughter Kathlyn plans sex change to become Stephen
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The eldest daughter of Warren Beatty and Annette Bening is living as a young man after changing her name. Kathlyn Beatty, 18, is now known as Stephen Ira and is said to be planning a sex-change operation. According to reports in the U.S., Hollywood veteran Beatty, 73, is 'crushed' by his child's determination to change her gender. Meanwhile Miss Bening, 52, who starred in American Beauty, is trying to support her daughter as best she can, despite finding the situation heartbreaking. The National Enquirer reported that the teenager was currently attending college dressed as a man. 'Warren Beatty is beside...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 09:26:29 AM
Cancer patients denied surgery (Australia)
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But angry surgeons claim some patients have already deteriorated as a result of the fiasco. The error has also made politically sensitive hospital performance figures - much vaunted by the health department - look better than they are. A spokeswoman... Full Article at Sydney Morning Herald
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 09:26:29 AM
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