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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 ...
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Missouri lawmakers to study Medicare other issues before 2014 session
In the last few years, the Kansas City-based video production firm T2 Studios and its so-called Experience Lab have gained a growing reputation for creating what are called immersion experiences. In a world of way-too-much stuff passing before our eyes, what all these flashy sights are about is an elevated form of ...
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Belleville Memorial battling UnitedHealthcare
Mark Turner Belleville Memorial Hospital and UnitedHealthcare are locked in a contract dispute over hospital and physician reimbursement rates. If the two parties cannot soon come to an agreement, Memorial and its physicians group will no longer be in the network of the nation's largest insurer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Memorial recently sent its patients a form letter, signed by ...
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ViVita Technologies wins UC Davis contest with plan for heart valve replacement
ViVita Technologies has a new approach to heart valve replacement, which nascent company says is less likely to rejected by the immune system. ViVita Technologies won the 13th annual Big Bang! Business Plan Competition at the University of California Davis Graduate School of Management. The ViVita team won both the $10,000 first place prize and also won the $2,000 Peoples Choice award at the ...
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Coming Up in Lists Baltimore crab houses construction firms
Coming Up On May 24, well publish our famous List of the top crab houses in Greater Baltimore, ranked by Yelp.com ratings. Well also have our List of top 25 construction and general contracting firms in the Baltimore area, ranked by local contracting revenue and based on our own survey results. Next in May and June For May 31, its our List of the fastest-growing public companies headquartered in ...
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Hannibal Rising
It's hard to write about Hannibal Lecter without making a culinary reference, so suffice it to say that Hannibal Rising, which ponderously charts the path by which Lecter became a serial killer, is one course too many. There are some stories that are better left untold, and ... ...
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Allegheny General picked for cardio study
Allegheny General Hospital has been picked to join the clinical trial of Absorb III, which involves a bioresorbable vascular scaffold that opens a blocked artery and later dissolves. Undergoing study among 2,250 people in a year is Abbott Healthcare's Absorb BVS; 200 will be involved in the trial at Allegheny General Hospital. Allegheny General said it will join the study under the direction ...
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Cleveland facing possible labor shortage study says
Growing manufacturing and medical fields, along with coming retirements, make a labor shortage in northeast Ohio possible, a new report says. Northeast Ohio's growing medical and manufacturing industries, along with a large swath of retirements looming, make the region primed for a skills gap and possibly even a labor shortage, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The region will add about ...
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Planned Parenthood American Journal of Public Health Study Shows Public Clinics Provide More Choices More Care
American Journal of Public Health Study Shows Public Clinics Provide More Choices, More Care WASHINGTON - August 14 - A new study in ...
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Physicians for a National Health Program Millions of Chronically Ill Lacking Insurance Cant Get Needed Care
Millions of Chronically Ill, Lacking Insurance, Can't Get Needed Care CHICAGO - August 4 - Over 11 million Americans with chronic physical illnesses like heart disease, diabetes and asthma are not getting the medical care they need because they ...
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Physicians for Human Rights Human Rights Groups Petition Iran for Release of HIVAIDS Doctors
www.IranFreeTheDocs.org MEXICO CITY - August 4 - A coalition of AIDS and human rights organizations that includes Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) has launched a campaign to free two Iranian physicians, Drs. Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei. The doctors, who are brothers, are active in HIV/AIDS education, prevention and treatment in Iran. According to ...
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