Qld nurses agree to 12.5pc pay rise

Queensland’s public sector nurses will get a 12.5 per cent pay rise over the next three years as part of a new enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA).

Your morning adorable: Dog nurses red panda cubs in Chinese zoo

Surrogate Mothers: Womb for Rent

Abigail Haworth

The midday sun is ferociously hot outside the Akanksha Infertility Clinic, a scuffed concrete building in the small Indian city of Anand. Crammed into a single patch of shade by the gate, a stray cow and a family of beggars — caked so uniformly in dung-colored dust they resemble clay models — wait out the noontime heat. Inside, the lobby is jammed with barefoot female patients in circus-bright saris. Nurses in white Indian tunics scuttle among them, hollering out names and brandishing medical files. The air smells faintly of sweat and damp cement. On the walls, blurry photos of babies and newspaper clippings celebrate the clinic’s raison d’être: “The Cradle of the World” declares one headline. Read More…

British Girl’s Heart Heals Itself After Transplant

LONDON – British doctors designed a radical solution to save a girl with major heart problems in 1995: they implanted a donor heart directly onto her own failing heart.

Dozens of doctors probed in Michael Jackson’s death

By Dan Whitcomb

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – California’s attorney general said on Wednesday his office has run dozens of doctors’ names, some of them thought to be aliases, through its prescription drug database to aid police investigating the death of Michael Jackson.

Obama: Health Reform Closer Than Ever

Posted by Stephanie Condon

Daily News: President Obama Addresses Nurses in Rose Garden

President Barack Obama was joined by members of the American Nurses Association Wednesday afternoon in the Rose Garden. Here is a transcript of his speech:

A nursing nightmare

Three years to investigate complaints is too long; new board should help.

Gov. Schwarzenegger didn’t waste any time firing most members of the state Board of Registered Nursing after an L.A. Times report Sunday described in frightening detail how the board failed to discipline scores of nurses who endangered patients in their care.

President Obama Delivers Remarks on Health-Care Reform

CQ Transcription

PRESIDENT OBAMA: I’m pleased to be joined today by representatives from the American Nurses Association on behalf of the 2.9 million registered nurses in America – men and women who know as well as anyone the urgent need for health reform.

Federal Government Restricts Alaska’s Health Care Programs

Alaska’s state programs intended to help disabled and elderly Alaskans with daily life – taking a bath, eating dinner, getting to the bathroom – are so poorly managed, the state cannot assure the health and well-being of the people they are supposed to serve, a new federal review found.
The situation is so bad the federal government has forbidden the state to sign up new people until the state makes necessary improvements.