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Patient Refuses To Be Treated In Local Hospital Due To The Fear Of Contracting MRSA

... due to this infection. On such case is that of a widow Freda Geldard, 63 who refuses to be operated due to the fear of acquiring MRSA. She says that she will travel to Bradford, West Yorks, to be treated privately because of the high risk in the local hospitals. In response to this situation the hospital...

Needed, more space for women's sexual identity on marquees

...akra" for instance. Deepti Naval is a cantankerous widow who enjoys sexually explicit phone calls from a neighbor and transforms into a cheerful coquette when she gets a teenager boy as a paying guest. In "Dil Chahta Hai" Akshaye Khanna's confession of love for the alcoholic divorcee Dimple is viewed as a...

Ostracised Woman Cremated Her AIDS-Affected Husband Alone

...DS, as nobody turned up// give a helping hand. The widow dragged his body to the backyard of her hut and performed his last rites herself. Grief-stricken Dhanua Devi (named changed), a 36-year-old resident of Khaira village in Darbhanga district, says not a single person visited her thatched hut to consol...

Sati Raises its Ugly Head in Madhya Pradesh

... they prevented police personnel from rescuing the widow as she was being devoured by the flames. Accordi... sati. Sati, the traditional Hindu practice of a widow immolating herself on her husband's funeral pyre, was prevalent among certain sects of the society i...

Non Smoking Women Less Prone To Lung Cancer

... such case is that of Dana Reeve, a non-smoker and widow of Superman star Christopher Reeve. Statistics show that about 80-90 % of the 174,470 new cases of lung cancer in US were caused by smoking. The other causes of death among non smokers in US include secondhand smoke, asbestos exposure and radon gas....

Kenyan Women Six Times More Likely To Be HIV Positive Than Kenyan Men

...practices like polygamy, wife inheritance (where a widow is forced to marry to her dead husband's brother even if he died of AIDS) as well as early marriage were the main reasons for the spread of AIDS. Myths like having sex with virgins cure HIV are rife in the country and provide an excuse for abusing ...

Dead Body on Hospital Bed for Four Days

...s who have told staff to leave corpses on wards, a widow whose husband's body was left on a hospital bed fo... because of the staffing problems, the 53-year-old widow from Accrington, who did not want to be named, said bosses had promised her that no family would hav...

PM promises forward-looking IT, electronics policy soon

... the new world of Rajivji's dreams."Rajiv Gandhi's widow and United Progressive Alliance (UPA) chairperson Sonia Gandhi said: "Sriperumbudur is full of painful memories for me but now I also have pleasant memories. It was Rajiv Gandhi who ushered India into the era of computers. He saw technology as an ins...

Nepal's Most Influential Woman 'Critically' Ill

...t year. The white-haired, diminutive Nona is the widow of Keshav Koirala, an elder brother of the prime minister, and a senior member of his Nepali Congress party. While the ailing premier has visited her at least thrice, several ministers and senior leaders of the party have also gone to the hospital ...

Embittered Widow to Sue Hospital

Admitting her ‘ bitter’ feelings, a grieving widow has decided to take the hospital from which her late husband caught a fatal infection, to court. // Great-grandmother Mavis Burton-Pye, 67, said she would speak to a lawyer about the circumstances that led to the death of her husband Leslie, 74, a...

Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses

...families, when the law was passed, Thursday. For widow Rebeccah Erskine of Stittsville, the news means that her firefighter husband is finally at peace and that his death has a purpose. He died of colon cancer last April. At the time of his death he was lobbying the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board...

Genetic Secrets Behind the Dragline Silk

... key proteins in the 'dragline silk' of the black widow spider an advance that may lead to a variety of n...industrial, medical and military uses. The black widow spiders dragline silk is a standout compared to other spider silks because of its superior strength ...

Bush Administration Allows Returning Soldiers to Disintegrate, Say Critics

...lies)," said clinical psychologist Marion Frank, a widow who is president of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Gold Star Wives of America, a support group for military widows. In parts of Montana, some families drive two hours to see a physician of any kind that will take Tricare, said Dorrie Hagan, state...

Ostracized HIV-affected Widow Turns to Begging

An HIV positive widow has been reduced to begging for survival in Orissa after villagers ostracized her and her son out of fear that the disease can be passed on by social contact. And after her own parents also refused to provide support to her, Sukanti (name changed)...

Louisiana Residents Warned Against Brown Recluse Spiders

A poisonous brown widow spider, a cousin to the well-known black widow, is...griculture Web site, the most common symptoms of a widow spider bite are intense pain, rigid abdominal muscles, muscle cramping, malaise, sweating, nausea an...

Ontario Grants Fast-Track Compensation Rights for Work-Related Illnesses

...families, when the law was passed, Thursday. For widow Rebeccah Erskine of Stittsville, the news means that her firefighter husband is finally at peace and that his death has a purpose. He died of colon cancer last April. At the time of his death he was lobbying the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board...

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