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  • Toddler who survived Saudi car crash found moving in body bag

    A toddler, who survived a car crash horror, was taken to a morgue in a body bag before doctors realised that he was actually breathing. Eisa Hayat was the only survivor of the car accident that took the lives of five members of the then one-year-old's British family on a pilgrimage to Mecca, the Daily Star reported. Doctors in Saudi Arabia saw the toddler moving in the bag just before they ...

  • Fallbrook Hospital may be forced to negotiate with nurses

    The National Labor Relations Board is set to go to federal court June 5 to request a rare federal injunction to force the hospital to comply with federal labor ...

  • UTMB researchers awarded $2M grant to study pain

    Researchers from UTMB will use a five-year, $1.8 million grant to study pain caused by malfunctions in the nervous system. Researchers at The University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston have been awarded a $1.8 million, five-year grant to apply methods of gene therapy to pain that arises from malfunctions in the nervous system, known as neuropathic pain. Neuropathic pain is caused by accidental ...

  • Court lets UC strike go on 447 ordered to report for work

    A Sacramento Superior Court Judge David Brown has ordered 447 technical, patient care and professional employees to report for work during a two-day strike Tuesday and Wednesday at five University of California medical centers. But the strike can still continue, otherwise. A Sacramento Superior Court Judge David Brown has ordered 447 technical, patient care and professional employees to report ...

  • Portlands fluoride debate sparks national media frenzy

    Portland voters will decide whether to fluoridate the water. The national media loves Portland. It loves to tout our craft beers and sizzling food scene, our sustainability and quirky personalities (thank you "Portlandia"), and now our fluoride or lack thereof. Over the past week, everyone from the Wall Street Journal to Gawker has weighed in on Portland's resistance to fluoride. ...


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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

As J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels have grown thicker and thicker with masses of interweaving subplots, back histories, and increased focus on tortured interiority, the art of adapting them successfully to the screen has become more and more diffi ... ...

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  • Brekkie Wrap Nurses tell of treating Dzhokhar Tsarnaev mid-air balloon crash kills three

    THE nurses whose job it was to care for the injured Boston bombing suspect have told of their conflicting emotions at helping to save the life of a suspected terrorist. "You see a hurt 19-year-old and you can’t help but feel sorry for him," said a woman identified as Marie, who was among the nine nurses who agreed to treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as they believed it was their ethical ...

  • Second union to strike UC med centers in sympathy with AFSCME on Tuesday unions face limits

    Two unions are preparing to strike at five University of California medical centers on Tuesday. Members of a second union, UPTE-CWA, are expected to join picket lines along with AFSCME Local 3299 at five University of California medical centers Tuesday, including UCSF Medical Center and UC Davis Medical Center. The University Professional & Technical Employees/Communications Workers of America ...

  • Impax board steps in to oversee Hayward manufacturing issues

    Larry Hsu is president and CEO of generic drug maker Impax Laboratories Inc. Stung by problems at its Hayward manufacturing plant that led federal regulators not to approve a treatment for Parkinson's disease symptoms, Impax Laboratories Inc. established a compliance committee on its board of directors. The FDA's citation of problems at the Hayward plant are important from the standpoint ...

  • Victim of Miami ‘zombie’ attack makes strides in recovery doctors say

    One year after surviving a savage, bizarre attack in Miami that left him blind, beaten and facially disfigured, Ronald Poppo is continuing his recovery at a long-term care facility in Cutler Bay. Poppo’s caregivers said he is in good spirits and plays guitar every day in his room at Jackson Memorial Perdue Medical Center, and he has put on about 50 pounds since the Memorial Day weekend ...

  • Man dies from SARS-like virus in Saudi Arabia

    A Saudiman who had contracted the coronavirus has died, raising the death toll in the kingdom from the SARS-like virus to 16, the health ministry announced on Monday on its Internet ...

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