| B.C. boy mauled by neighbour's dogs
Like many 11-year-old boys, Alex Nightingale always loved animals, especially dogs. B.C. schoolboy Alex Nightingale says he feared for his life when he was mauled by a neighbour's dogs on Friday.(CBC) But not since the B.C. boy had his face ripped open by the next door neighbour's dogs. Alex was walking across a lawn on his way home after visiting a friend on Tuesday afternoon in the Sunshine Coast community of Halfmoon Bay when he was attacked by two dogs — described as American bulldog/German Shepherd crosses. They pulled him to the ground and starting biting, and a third dog soon joined them. Larry Nightingale says he's thankful his neighbour gave animal control the dogs who attacked his son, Alex, on Friday.(CBC) The dogs ripped open Alex's face and mauled his back.
Let us invest in health education - Yamson
Accra, Nov. 18, GNA - Mr Ishmael Yamson, Chairman of University of Ghana Council has called on corporate institutions and organisations to invest in health education to ensure the development of the required human resource base for quality health care delivery in the country. He noted that knowledge acquired by health personnel would save the lives of many Ghanaians. Mr Yamson made the call at a fund-raising dinner and awards night organised by College of Health Sciences of the University of Ghana in Accra at the weekend. It was to support its Post Graduate Endowment Fund and reward individuals, institutions and organisations that had contributed to the fund. Mr Yamson said most corporate institutions and organisations, used most of their funds to support beauty pageants and it would be appropriate to channel these funds in health education.
human nature
In recent days, the shape of this assault has become clear. First, on the morning of Justice Samuel Alito's debut, the Supreme Court announced that it would review the constitutionality of the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, setting up what pro-lifers hope will be the beginning of the end of Roe v. Wade. The next day, South Dakota lawmakers passed a ban on virtually all abortions, and pro-choicers vowed to litigate it all the way to the high court, which would force the justices either to overturn or reaffirm Roe. A few days later, the court told pro-choicers they could no longer use racketeering laws to halt blockades and protests at abortion clinics. The impending legal battles put us on the verge of repeating the last two decades of the abortion war: pro-life victory, pro-choice backlash, pro-choice complacency, pro-life revival.
Kevin Drew: Socialising Solo
Dave Newfeld was working with the Super Furry Animals and making his new studio, and preparing for Los Campesinos!, so we were just doing what we needed to do. There must be times where you don't see these people – your friends and band mates – for a long while…
It's true, I don't see some people for months on end. I mean, it's good that these people – my friends – are doing things, and there's always someone to go to a bar with here, still, but it's different. Obviously that was going to happen, and it's great – everyone's soaring past Social Scene and doing really well. These people gave up a lot of their lives focusing on Social Scene, and that can spin you around. Now they're working that out – some publicly, some privately – and I know that, under the belly of all that, when we all get back together again it'll still be fun and crazy.
Wisconsin Screens Newborns For 'Bubble Boy Disease'
Wisconsin became the first state in the nation to screen all newborns for Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID). Sometimes known as "Bubble Boy Disease," SCID is a genetic disorder that is fatal without early diagnosis and treatment. Babies diagnosed can be referred for potentially life-saving treatment.The Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services approved moving to phase two of the pilot screening program in which screening for SCID will be routine for all newborns in Wisconsin (estimated at 70,000 annually). The screening has been added to the current panel of 47 other tests that are given to newborns.The pilot program began one year ago as a collaborative effort between the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin in Milwaukee and the Jeffrey Modell Foundation.
The Storyteller
Our examiner would give us clippings of news to read. I pushed her to start first, which wasn't a smart move. As soon as she opened her mouth, breaking the news of war, I felt that bombs were already falling over our heads. She was brilliant. I told my examiner, ‘It's not fair, this woman was armed and dangerous!' He smiled and told me that each of us had her own flavor and style, and the radio needs both of us." Just months later, Papa Sharo had a fight with the minister; the host left his post, and Tawfik was offered the chance to take the kids' program. The rest, as they say, is history: Even when Sharo came back to head Egyptian Radio, he left the children's program in her capable hands. “Children are so loyal. When Papa quit his show, I used to get letters asking where he went.
Scar Away Your Pain? Some Docs Back Prolotherapy
In college Barry Taft could bench-press a maximum of 225 pounds. But over time the strain of weight lifting led Taft to severely injure the rotator cuff in his left shoulder. "Boy, it just really hurt after that," Taft said. "For weeks and weeks it would not get any better." Taft could no longer take the 45-pound bar off the rack, let alone bench-press it with weights attached. Eventually he opted for a little-known treatment that involved four sets of injections over the course of a year. .
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