Nursing - News May 15, 2013

Doctors group: Ban sale of tobacco in hospitals (WHDH)
A statewide association of doctors and medical students is backing a proposed ban on the sale of tobacco products by health care institutions.

Being cancer-free worth concerns about body image and sexuality, doctor says (The Globe and Mail)
Writing about her decision to undergo a preventative double mastectomy, actress Angelina Jolie stressed, "I do not feel any less of a woman.

Royal Hampshire County Hospital stroke care praised (Andover Advertiser)
Stroke care at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust , which runs the hospital, has been recognised by the South East Stroke Network.

Go with your gut feeling, Wintonians told (Hampshire Chronicle)
The Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust staff are taking the message of coeliac disease to the streets of Winchester .

Damages upheld in medical liability case; man's deadly infection not detected (Brandon Sun)
Neither the doctors, nor the nurses, nor the paramedics could see that a bacterial infection that was ravaging Ken Wilson's body until it was too late.

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