The Ottawa Hospital will cut nursing positions and conduct a review of each of its units in an attempt to find savings in the face of a $19-million budget shortfall.
Restructuring is already underway at the Ottawa Hospital. Cuts include slashing 70 nursing positions through early retirement and leaving several vacant positions unfilled. Some staff will also be reassigned to different jobs.
By law, hospitals in Ontario are unable to carry a deficit. Read More…
HIV has become the leading cause of death and disease among women of reproductive age worldwide, the UN programme on HIV/Aids says.
At the start of a 10-day conference in New York, UNAids launched a five-year action plan addressing the gender issues which put women at risk.
Maria Alaimo wanted a breast augmentation, not a breast duplication.
But “four breasts” is what the Staten Island mother got after a 2003 visit to Dr. Keith Berman, which was intended to enlarge the woman’s breasts to a full 36 C cup.
Cost of Food-borne Illness Vastly Higher Than Previous Estimates
By Daniel J. DeNoon
March 3, 2010 — Food poisoning costs the U.S. $152 billion, kills 5,000 people, and sends 325,000 to the hospital each year, new calculations suggest.
Extra small condoms for boys as young as 12 are going on sale in Switzerland
Alexandra Williams in Geneva
Called the Hotshot, the condom has been produced after government research showed 12 to14-year-olds did not use sufficient protection when having sex.
The study, conducted on behalf of the Federal Commission for Children and Youth, interviewed 1,480 people aged 10 to 20.
It showed more 12 to 14-year-olds were having sex, in comparison with the 1990s.
The Hotshot condoms, which cost 7fr60 (£4.70) for a packet of six, have been created by Lamprecht AG, a leading condom manufacturer in Switzerland. Read More…
Millions of migraine sufferers could find relief from the condition thanks to an invention which delivers a magnetic pulse to the back of their head.
By Rebecca Smith, Medical Editor
The findings have been hailed as a ‘major step forward’ in the treatment of migraine which strikes one in four women and one in 12 men in Britain.
by Xinhua Writers Wang Fengfeng, Wang Wei
U.S. President Barack Obama delivers remarks about moving forward into the final stage of the health insurance reform debate at the East Room of the White House in Washington D.C., capital of the United States, March 3, 2010. Obama urged on Wednesday the Congress to move swiftly toward votes on the legislation. (Xinhua/Zhang Jun)
WASHINGTON, March 3 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Barack Obama made a last-ditch effort on health insurance reform on Wednesday when unveiling a revised version of his proposal.
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Recently, a panel of experts joined the Consults blog to answer readers’ questions about sex addiction. One reader, responding to reports of golfer Tiger Woods’s sex addiction, wondered if the sex addiction claim was just to save face and release all personal responsibility for his actions.
By THE NEW YORK TIMES
Recently, a panel of experts joined the Consults blog to answer readers’ questions about sex addiction. Here, two of those experts respond to one wife who is concerned that her husband may be a sex addict who is addicted to her.
By WILLIAM NEUMAN
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday released 17 warning letters to food manufacturers, making good on a vow to crack down on misleading labels on food packages.
The agency accused the companies of pumping up the nutritional claims of their products or masking contents like unhealthy fats. The letters went out to the makers of a broad array of products, including Gerber baby food, Juicy Juice, Dreyer’s ice cream, POM pomegranate juice and Gorton’s fish fillets. Read More…
