Local officials in Middleton, NS, are calling on the provincial government to improve emergency services at Soldiers Memorial Hospital after a recent patient death.
Paramedics and firefighters responded to a call about a patient in cardiac arrest last Thursday while the doctor on call wasn’t on site.
Town officials say it’s a symptom of a failing system, but the health authority says staff followed the normal process.
In a letter to Premier Tim Houston on Monday that was forwarded to CBC, Middleton Mayor Sylvester Atkinson writes that members of the Middleton Fire Department who were paged to Soldiers Memorial assumed…
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Man swimming with family in Midlands lake disappeared under the water, SC coroner said
A death is under investigation after a Midlands man disappeared under water for more than an hour Sunday, the Fairfield County Coroner’s Office said in a news release.
Coroner Chris Hill said his office responder to the scene of a drowning in Lake Wateree at about 3:15 pm, according to Tuesday’s release. The drowning happened in a portion of the lake in Ridgeway, the coroner’s office said.
Johnny Mack Simmons, a 37-year-old Winnsboro resident, was swimming in the lake with his family, according to the release.
At one point Simmons went under water and did not resurface, the coroner’s office…
How vulnerable is your neighborhood to excessive heat?
Extreme heat has a way of exposing society’s vulnerabilities. And as extreme heat events become more frequent in the United States, data shows that the poorest Americans will be most at risk.
People living in the largest, most densely populated metropolitan cities and those living in the most remote, rural parts of the country face similarly high risks during severe heat waves, an NBC News analysis of US Census Bureau and US Department of Agriculture data found. But while the risks are high, the reasons often differ.
Use this interactive map to explore the country and see how vulnerable the…
Tentative deal halts strike action by thousands of Manitoba health-care workers, days before deadline
Strike action by about 6,500 rural paramedics and emergency dispatch, respiratory therapists, lab and diagnostic technologists, and other allied health professionals throughout Manitoba will not go as planned this week, after Shared Health reached a tentative agreement in principle with their union, the provincial organization announced on Monday.
On June 1, the Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals (MAHCP) threatened strike action if it did not accept a new collective agreement by 8 am on Thursday.
Members had voted 99 per cent in favor of a strike mandate in April. Their union said earlier this month that members had gone…
BC health authority at the center of legal battle
An ugly legal battle between one of BC’s biggest health authorities and a medical services provider in Vancouver is threatening to alienate medical providers and disrupt patient care.
Vancouver Coastal Health is trying to appoint a receiver to sell Seymour Health’s two urgent and primary care centers (UPCCs), after which the company racked up millions of dollars in debt following the health authority’s decision to throttle payments for medical diagnostics, which the centers performed anyway . As a result, thousands of non-urgent patients were diverted from emergency departments and the company fulfilled one of the core goals of the UPCC…
A windfall in health insurance rebates? It’s not as crazy as it sounds
“Americans will get $1.1 B in rebates from health insurance companies this year cuz of a provision I wrote in the ACA.”
[–Former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), in a tweet on May 17, 2023
[–Former Democratic Sen. Al Franken tweeted recently that Americans will receive “$1.1 B in rebates from health insurance companies this year” because of a provision he wrote into the Affordable Care Act.
[–The tweet prompted many comments, including some from people who said they had never seen such a check from their insurers. That got us wondering: Is Franken’s tweet correct and, if…
Do You Absolutely Hate Broccoli?
June 7, 2023 · 8:50 AM
If so, it may well be because of your genes according to an article at SBS.com. Particular genes determine whether you can detect a bitter chemical (called PTC) in broccoli and other brassicas like cauliflower and brussels sprouts.
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“On average, about 70% of us can taste something bitter in broccoli or PTC, but those with two copies of the bitter sensitivity gene are closer to 20%, and they are much more likely to hate it.”
US President George HW Bush said in March 1990, “I do…
Tina Turner died before getting to meet her grandchildren and great-grandchildren
Tina Turner never got to meet her grandchildren or great-grandchildren before her death aged 83, it has been revealed (Getty Images)
Tina Turner never got to meet her grandchildren or great-grandchildren before her death, according to reports.
A representative for the music legend confirmed that she died “peacefully” at her home in Switzerland aged 83 on May 24.
The Proud Mary hit-maker had long been battling high blood pressure and kidney failure and passed away from natural causes.
News of her death sent shockwaves across the world, including to some of her nearest and dearest who had no idea how…