"He grasped life with both hands." Nephew pays tribute to world's longest surviving heart transplant patient
THE Scots nephew of the world’s longest-surviving heart transplant patient has paid tribute to his “inspirational” uncle, who has died at the age of 73. John McCafferty, who was originally offrom Shotts in Lanarkshire, passed away on Tuesday, more than three decades after being told he had just five years to live. Mr McCafferty underwent the life-saving operation carried out by world-renowned surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub at Harefield Hospital in Middlesex in 1982. In 2013 the grandfat..>> view original3 school districts confirm cases of whooping cough
The Hempfield Area and Avonworth school districts sent a letter home to parents and guardians informing them of confirmed cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, within the districts.In the letter, the Hempfield Area School District said that there has only been one student confirmed to have pertussis at the Wendover Middle School. Avonworth School District said that the actual number of cases is very small, but warned that other students may have been exposed.FREE APPS | NOW | FACEBOOK | TWITTER..>> view original11 Things You Didn't Know About The History Of Condoms
Health bodies refuse to release Zika virus details
Experts have questioned the decision by public health bodies to not reveal the countries that two pregnant Australian women with the Zika virus travelled to before being infected. On Thursday, Queensland Health reported a pregnant Australian woman ...>> view originalThe tobacco endgame: Radical proposals part of strategy to win faltering war on smoking
In the faltering war against cigarettes, the latest battle cries are eye openers: prohibit smoking for anyone born after the year 2000; require a licence to buy cigarettes; nationalize the tobacco industry. Or just make selling cigarettes illegal. All have been proposed as part of the “tobacco endgame,” a radical — and controversial — new approach to the smoking scourge that a select group of Canadian public-health experts will discuss later this year. Endgame proponents note that a stubborn 20 ..>> view originalScabies study may aid indigenous people
Scabies study may aid indigenous peopleThousands of scabies mites were analysed by Australian researchers in a study that could lead to more healthy skin in people in remote Aboriginal communities.The team used cutting-edge genome technologies to identify the genetic "map" of the human parasitic scabies mite.Scabies, a contagious disease characterised by extreme itching, is a major health problem in developing countries and in indigenous Australian populations.The research, published in PLoS Neg..>> view originalSubcomittee considers medical marijuana ordinances
By DANNY YOEONO Martinez Tribune MARTINEZ, Calif. – Marijuana cultivation faces another city choice of banishment or regulation. Martinez will also need to choose whether or not to ban or regulate medical cannabis delivery services. From a legal standpoint, if the city were to ban cultivation, the state law that allows it does not trump the city ordinance. Last May, the City Council passed the ordinance that banned outdoor growing. The County of Contra Costa has banned both outdoor and indoor ..>> view originalAll-night vigil supports Brisbane hospital's stand against children in detention
Lady Cilento Children's Hospital refuses to release injured refugee baby to return to Nauru Photo: baby asha Hospital staff served late night snacks to the handful of people keeping vigil in support of the Lady Cilento Children's Hospital decision to refuse the return of an injured, asylum-seeker toddler to off-shore detention in Nauru.GetUp! campaigner Ellen Roberts, who was among the supporters who spent the night on the pavement, said hundreds and thousand..>> view originalReview: Aboriginal artefacts make a surprising return to Australia
Tunga (bark basket), Encounters exhibition at the National Museum of Australia. Photo: George Serras Civilisation is a concept that has changed beyond recognition over the past century. To the pioneering ethnographers of the Victorian era, tribal cultures were merely stages on the way to the civilised state. Viewed as backward, impoverished and superstitious, it was accepted that such communities would wither and die as they fell under the spell of European systems of knowledge and governmen..>> view original
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