#Health : What is the real first health care system around the world ? by Ashish Jha
The ranking of eight health care systems: * by the New York Times Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Singapore, Switzerland, United Kingdom United States. PRACTICAL WORLD TRUE NEWS MAGAZINE by radiopratica.com This forced me to think about a pretty fundamental question: what do we want from a health care system? What does an ideal health care system look like? I would argue that most people want a health care system where they can get timely access to high-quality, affordable care and one that…
#Health : New hope for people with fibromyalgia
A novel psychological therapy that encourages addressing emotional experiences related to trauma, conflict and relationship problems has been found helpful for people with the chronic pain condition fibromyalgia. A research team led by Mark A. Lumley, Ph.D., distinguished professor of psychology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Wayne State University, in collaboration with a team from the University of Michigan Medical Center led by David A. Williams, Ph.D., professor of anesthesiology, has released the results of its research …
#Health : Rapid hepatitis C testing may help better screen young adults .
Routine and rapid hepatitis C virus (HCV) testing among young adults who use injection drugs improves life expectancy and may provide a good use of limited resources, according to new research out of Boston Medical Center, in partnership with the Boston Public Health Commission. The findings are published online ahead of print in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. HCV is a viral infection that affects the liver. An estimated 3.2 million people in the United States are infected with HCV, and most do not feel ill or know that th…
#Lifestyle : Superfamily lives in #UK ! Sue Radford gave birth to her twentieth baby !
Britain's biggest family has grown again after Sue Radford gave birth to her twentieth baby - but promised this is her last child. Mrs Radford, 42, has welcomed her 11th son Archie on Monday after an hour's labour but her husband Noel, 46, revealed he still won't get a vasectomy. The grandmother said she is happy to stop on a 'nice even number' after she held her 8lb 6oz son in her arms at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. She wrote online: 'We are so thrilled to announce our precious new addition has arrived. …
#Health&Sex :Same-Sex Marriage Could Prevent 3000 High School Suicide Attempts A Year in Australia
Five of Australia's most prominent mental health groups have waded into the nation's aggressive same sex marriage debate, claiming up to 3000 high school suicide attempts a year could be averted by a 'yes vote'. The extraordinary and unprecedented intervention into politics by groups such as the Black Dog Institute, headspace, ReachOut, Brain and Mind Centre at University of Sydney and Orygen on Thursday comes as gay Australians make heartbreaking pleas to neighbours to vote 'yes' in the contentious survey. …
#HurricaneMaria : All Power Out as Maria Crushes Puerto Rico
Authorities say it could be four to six months before electricity is returned to Puerto Rico and its nearly 3.5 million people. Hurricane Maria is likely to have "destroyed" Puerto Rico, the island's emergency director said Wednesday after the monster storm smashed ripped roofs off buildings and flooded homes across the economically strained U.S. territory. Intense flooding was reported across the territory, particularly in San Juan, the capital, where many residential streets looked like rivers. Yennifer Álvar…
#SexScandal : French Cardinal Barbarin faces charges of covering up sexual abuses by priest.
French Cardinal Barbarin faces charges of covering up sexual abuses by priest. French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin will go on trial in April on charges of covering up for a priest accused of abusing children in his Lyon diocese over 25 years ago, a court ruled Tuesday. Barbarin, the most senior French Catholic leader to be tried for allegedly failing to report a predator priest, will go on trial on April 4 next year along with six co-defendants, the court in Lyon said. The trial is set to run for three days. The 66-year-old cardinal is ac…
#LatestUpdate : At least 149 people were dead in Mexico City after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake .
At least 149 people were dead after a magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck on Tuesday, crumbling dozens of buildings across a wide area 32 years to the day after a major quake devastated the capital city in 1985. The earthquake was the second to strike in 12 days. An earlier temblor rocked southern Mexico and shook the capital. On Tuesday, residents spilled out of buildings — many stayed in the streets until authorities inspected their buildings. Sirens blared throughout the afternoon. Federal Police were spotted bringing in sniffer dogs to …
#BreakingNews : Earthquake strikes Mexico City
Thousands of people fled office buildings and hugged to calm each other along Mexico City’s central Reforma Avenue as alarms blared, and traffic stopped around the Angel of Independence monument. In the Roma neighbourhood, which was struck hard by the 1985 quake, piles of stucco and brick fallen from building facades littered the streets. Two men calmed a woman seated on a stool in the street, blood trickling form a small wound on her knee. At a nearby market, a worker in a hardhat walked around the outside warning people not to smoke as …
#Health :Women More Likely Than Men to Lose Sex Spark
'Women More Likely Than Men to Lose Sex Spark' In long-term relationships, women are more likely than men to lose interest in sex, a new study finds. Researchers surveyed more than 4,800 men and nearly 6,700 women in Britain, ages 16-74, and found that 15 percent of men and 34 percent of women said they lacked interest in sex for three months or more in the previous year, USA Today reported. Reasons for lack of interest in sex included age, health and depression, according to the study in the journal BMJ Open. It also found th…
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