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  • New colonoscope could revolutionize colorectal cancer screening

    A study featuring a new colonoscope that allows doctors to see more of the colon shows promise that could revolutionize colorectal cancer screening. Researchers compared both the adenoma miss rate using the new colonoscope with the miss rate of a traditional colonoscope. The miss rate for the new colonoscope was only 7.6 percent as compared to 41.7 percent for the traditional colonoscope, in ...

  • Berlusconis bunga bunga parties featured nuns and nurses but no sex

    The exotic dancer, who was at the center of Silvio Berlusconi's sex trial, revealed at her first court appearance that young women wore nun and nurse costumes to perform "sensual" dances at his "bunga bunga" parties. Karima El Mahroug said that she often received envelopes filled with notes of 500 euros from the former Italian prime minister, but asserted that the money was not in return for ...

  • Most US public swimming pools contain poop bacteria

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has warned US citizens that public swimming pool is filled with fecal matter. The researchers from CDC collected water samples from filters at 160 indoor and outdoor pools around Atlanta, and found traces of feces in nearly 60 percent of them, demonstrated by the presence of E. coli bacteria. The agency said that the E. coli bacteria enters ...

  • Lifestyle Mauritius-based hospital seeks to hire Kenyan nurses

    Mauritius , situated in the central plateau of the island is seeking dynamic and talented Kenyan healthcare nursing professionals to join its multicultural team. The hospital said the recruitment exercise which goes on until Friday 24, would help it grow and to pursue its vision to become the World's leading healthcare institution. Among the professionals required includes Paediatric Nurse, ...

  • Health Minister Attends WHO Meeting

    Geneva-May-19(BNA)Health Minister Sadiq bin Abdulkarim Al-Shehabi today attended the Eastern Mediterranean Region Health Ministers' meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. The minister's participation followed an invitation from the World Health Organisation (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Regional Director Dr Ala'ddine Alwan, on the sidelines of the 66th WHO annual meeting The session ...

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Hamlet 2

Hamlet 2

Hamlet 2 is a feature-length joke about the silliness of dreaming big that, in the end, reifies the dream. Its main character is Dana Marschz (Steve Coogan), an endearingly inept former actor who traded in a mediocre career of appearing in infomercials and STD ads for a gig teaching dra ... ...

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  • IBMs Watson Maybe The Doctors Will Strangle It At Birth

    Where legislators come in is that health care is one of the most heavily licensed and heavily regulated fields of endeavor in the world. Already there are substantial state-to-state differences in what nurses are allowed to do without the supervision of doctors, differences that tend to reflect the entrenched political power of doctors rather than any sound public policy ...

  • Drop in doctors rise in clerks

    TASMANIAN hospitals are down by 120 doctors and 65 nurses but the number of clerks and administrators has gone up by 15, says health analyst Martyn ...

  • Will County activates its West Nile virus hotline for mosquito season

    The Will County Health Department has responded to the opening of the 2013 mosquito season by activating its annual telephone line to help zero in on potential West Nile virus hot spots by identifying birds that died from the disease.Launched in May 2002, the county program relays information collected on its 24-hour line (815-740-7631) to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Although ...

  • To Increase Bicycle Use Improve Public Health A Change In Cycle Track Policy Needed

    Bicycle engineering guidelines often used by state regulators to design bicycle facilities need to be overhauled to reflect current cyclists' preferences and safety data, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) researchers. They say that U.S. guidelines should be expanded to offer cyclists more riding options and call for endorsing cycle tracks - physically ...

  • Vic nurses want action to stop violence

    ONCE a week, Jackie sees a violent outburst in her workplace. Like many Victorian nurses, she fears being assaulted, threatened or abused by patients and their relatives at her hospital workplace, and says it's time something was done. Jackie - who only wanted to be identified by her first name - says she has had death threats made against her and her family on two separate ...

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