Nursing - News January 11, 2011

State budget cuts put the squeeze on Medi-Cal patients (KFMB-TV San Diego)
El Cajon - Governor Jerry Brown is calling for 12.5 billion dollars in spending cuts, slashing everything from welfare and social services, to health care and higher education.

Nursing center for disabled kids cited in another death (Chicago Chronicle)
Chicago Chronicle Tuesday 11th January, 2011 State regulators have cited a troubled Chicago facility for disabled children in yet another death, this one involving a 14-month-old girl.

Iqaluit experiences holiday 'baby boom' (CBC)
Qikiqtani General Hospital in Iqaluit usually sees about one birth a day, but staff handled nine births within a 36-hour period just after Christmas.

Heart group: Require students to get CP... (Black Hills Bandit)
"I'm not as worried if something would happen," said Olivia, a ninth-grader at Shaker Heights High School in suburban Cleveland.

New device silences shriek of dental drill (The Age)
New device ... has "the potential to make fear of the drill a thing of the past". Illustration: Matthew Martin THE piercing sound of a dentist's drill is enough to make most people's teeth ache.

Union slams Frere's 'bloody sheets' (Independent Online)
Nurses' union Denosa is "disturbed" by a media report claiming that patients and newborn babies at two Eastern Cape hospitals slept on bloodied beds during the festive season.

China works on smoke-free public environment (People's Daily Online)
Two nurses hold warning signs that read "Smoking is strictly prohibited" in Chinese in a hospital in Xiangyang City, central China's Hubei Province, Jan.

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Neuronix NICE Technology to be Clinically Tested at Harvard Medical... (PRWeb)

"We have been impressed by the results of prior clinical trials using the NICE system in patients with Alzheimer's Disease" said Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School.

Editorial - A state of emergency at hospital's ER (The Times)

The hospital has been stretched to breaking point and private facilities choked with influenza patients.

Dade Medical College expands and hopes... (South Florida Business Journal)

After hiring 200 people last year, Dade Medical College has set its sights on a new campus in West Palm Beach and expansion at three of its existing campuses.

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