Nursing - News February 26, 2012

NY nurse called in alert when Kennedy took newborn (WSJV-TV South Bend)
Obama joins Mick Jagger, B.B. King, Keb Mo and more to belt out the blues in East Room concert NYPD monitored students at colleges across Northeast; sent agent on rafting trip, noted prayer.

Shock results of probe into Darlington child asthma deaths (The Advertiser)
A SHOCK report has discovered that nearly half of child asthma deaths in a North-East town occurred in youngsters with mild or moderate forms of the illness.

Ancient killer TB thrives in shadow of London wharf (Venice Gondolier)
In the shadows of some of London's tallest skyscrapers and richest banks lurks a disease borne of the poverty and squalor usually associated with the Victorian era rather than a 21st-century financial capital.

More psych patients are flooding local hospitals (KNDO)
RICHLAND, Wash. -- Washington state has the fewest number of private psychiatric beds in the US.

CSUB nursing students hold free clinics thanks to grant money (KGET-TV Bakersfield)
There is some good news for the health of our community. Thanks to a nursing grant from the California Wellness Foundation, nursing students at CSUB can provide free health screenings for the next few years.

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