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2 hrs ago | Sky News

Tornado: 'Miracle' Baby Born Amid Devastation

Speaking to KOCO Channel 5, she said all of the 30 patients survived, as did all the doctors and nurses.

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6 hrs ago | Congleton Guardian

Owen to star in Soderbergh show

The Traffic director has just announced he is retiring from filmmaking with his final film, Behind The Candelabra starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, premiering at the Cannes Film Festival and about to air on HBO in the US this week.

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Related Topix: Movies, Entertainment, Medicine

8 hrs ago | Cornish Guardian

Questions over heart surgery death of St Minver farmer David Wills, 80

The son and daughters of St Minver farmer Thomas Anthony Wills, known as David, say they were told there would be a 5 per cent chance of their father not surviving the operation, yet he never recovered from surgery after weeks spent on a ventilator.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Surgery

Thu May 23, 2013

Farmington Hills Observer

Botsford nurses recognized for extraordinary achievement

Botsford Hospital honored 19 nurses with the Nursing Excellence Award, given to highlight high-achieving nurses for their skill, compassion, and commitment to nursing.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Farmington Hills, MI

News and Star

Union's fears over plans to shift surgery from Cumbrian hospital

A nurses' union has raised "extreme concerns" over plans to move all emergency orthopaedic surgery from Whitehaven to Carlisle's Cumberland Infirmary.

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Related Topix: Orthopaedic Surgery, Medicine

Cape Gazette

Beebe Medical Staff creates Nursing Scholars Program

Two senior students at Margaret H. Rollins School of Nursing at Beebe Medical Center have earned the new Beebe Medical Staff Nursing Scholars scholarship.

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Related Topix: Beebe Medical Center, Hospital Administration, Healthcare Industry, Lewes, DE, Sussex County, DE

Bradford Today

Tornado birth: Mom endures labor as twister destroys hospital

When a devastating tornado touched down in Moore, Okla., on Monday afternoon, Shayla Taylor was on the upper floor of the local hospital, in active labor with her second child.As the floor shook ?like an earthquake' beneath her and ceiling tiles and insulation fell overhead, the 25-year-old huddled with four nurses, braving both the peak ... (more)

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Inside Bay Area

Nurses go on strike at two San Jose hospitals

Hundreds of registered nurses moved from patient bedsides to the streets on Thursday morning to begin a strike against two San Jose hospitals affiliated with the Hospital Corporation of America.

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CBS 3 Springfield

UMass Memorial, nurses, reach contract deal

UMass Memorial Medical Center and the union representing 1,100 nurses have reached a tentative contract agreement that staves off a scheduled strike.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Holyoke, MA, Springfield, MA

Daily Mail

Oklahoma tornado: Shayla Taylor relives giving birth as twister destroyed hospital around her

'All of a sudden I could see daylight and the wall was gone': Mother relives giving birth as twister destroyed hospital around her Shayla Taylor, 25, was in the middle of labor on the upper floor of Moore Medical Center delivering her second child when the monstrous storm directly hit She was forced to brave both the peak contractions of childbirth ... (more)

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Related Topix: Moore, OK, Medicine

KFMB-TV San Diego

UC hospitals face second day of worker walkout

Workers at University of California hospitals around the state are picketing for a second day over staffing and pension issues.

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Wed May 22, 2013

Enfield Independent

Nurses Kym Owen, Louise Henderson, Barbara Vacher and Anne-Marie Hammond with patient Eleni Robb.

Nursing heroes were showered with flowers, tea and cake as a special thank you for the work they do caring for terminally ill patients in Barnet and Enfield.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Palliative Care

Canberra Times

One in five nursing home residents malnourished, study finds

And symptoms of malnutrition are frequently confused for natural signs of ageing, according to the report by a Canberra academic.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Nutrition, Australia, Oceania, World News, Medicine

Pocono Record

Oklahoma man with Pocono ties tells how he fled from tornado

Andy Georgalas was watching live tornado coverage from his Moore, Okla., home when he realized that the destructive funnel cloud on television was spinning his way.

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Related Topix: Moore, OK, Medicine

BBC News

Community nursing service under fire

The Royal College of Nursing and Queen's Nursing Institute say the situation is adding to the pressure on hospitals.

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Business Journal

Nursing school to close

The nonprofit organization opened the school in 2010 and graduated 40 students, largely to supply licensed practical nurses to its group of nursing homes.

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Bay of Plenty Times

Hospital criticised over death

A raft of mistakes at Tauranga Hospital led to the misdiagnosis of a patient who later died, the Health and Disability Commissioner has found.

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Related Topix: New Zealand, World News, Medicine, Hernia, Health

WDHN

Wallace Honors Spring 2013 Nursing Students

Wallace Community College recently conferred credentials upon spring 2013 graduates of the associate degree and practical nursing programs at the Dothan Civic Center.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Dothan, AL, US Politics, US News, Jeff Sessions, US Senate, Republican, Alabama, Abbeville, AL

South End Standard

Hospital boss to seek out "rotten apples" at Basildon

HOSPITAL boss Clare Panniker has promised to root out the "rotten apples" working in Basildon in an effort to improve care.

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This is Wiltshire

Badminton to host 10k twilight charity spectacular

From left, Marie Curie supporter Irene Vallis, Breeze FM presenter Tony Wright, Marie Curie nurse Catherine LeRoy, Breeze FM presenter, grooms girl Jadie Myatt and Playboy the horse Brush off your walking boots, grab your glow sticks and load up your picnic baskets in support of Marie Curie Cancer Care this summer.

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