CHICAGO — Having a defibrillator at home can help a heart attack survivor live through a second crisis, but so can CPR and at a much lower cost. That’s the bottom line from the first test of using these heart-shocking devices in the home.The devices worked. But so few people in the study were stricken [...]
WASHINGTON — You’ve just been diagnosed with cancer, and the doctor is discussing treatment options. Should the cost be a deciding factor?
Chemotherapy costs are rising so dramatically that later this year, oncologists will get their first guidelines on how to have a straight talk with patients about the affordability of treatment choices, a topic too [...]
At age 30, Kelly Perkins, an avid mountain climber, was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy, a chronic heart muscle disease. For more than three years, she lived in and out of hospital, so frail her husband Craig carried her up stairs. Then in 1995 she received a heart transplant and began reclaiming her life, one mountain top [...]
Judge Jennifer English said the photographs were stomach-churning and described the womans conduct as vile.
It is almost incomprehensible that a mother of two young girls could behave such a way, she said yesterday.
The 41-year-old Sydney woman was arrested after US police found her boyfriends laptop and alerted NSW police. The woman pleaded guilty to eight [...]
My mother wanted to protect us from Sophie’s more extreme paranoid ideas, so we were not taken to see her as children. But, as we got older, Jane told us about her; the good bits and the weird bits, shielding us from the worst. It was difficult to grasp who she really was or what [...]
The weekends winning ticket was sold at Hastings Peter Dunkerleys Radius Pharmacy - which has sold more first division-winning tickets than any other store nationwide.
The couple, frequent visitors to Hawkes Bay, knew of its golden reputation and made a point of buying their ticket there last week.
Their loyalty paid off on Sunday when they checked [...]
Overton is charged with two counts of criminal sexual assault and one count of criminal sexual abuse.
The charges stem from the alleged sexual assault of the 76-year-old, but others came forward and were allowed to testify at the trial, said Tandra Simonton, a spokeswoman for the state’s attorney’s office.
The woman who testified [...]
Alt TV, which broadcasts only on Sky, wants to hire an articulate female to strip down and read the autocue for the stations evening Naked News Flash.
Alt TVs creative director and former Shortland Street actor Oliver Driver told Sunday News mainstream TV news had become a farce. So we thought we might as well join [...]
What are the facts? A new paper submitted to the journal Public
Library of Science Medicine by Hull University researchers has concluded
that the commonly used antidepressant drugs called selective serotonin
reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) provide little benefit for most people with mild
and moderate depression, and actively help only a small group of the most
severely depressed. Last year a [...]
Sunshine touched the early Bank Holiday for once; life eased and slowed. Parents watched their children play and paddle, lovers walked hand in hand, people fiddled harmlessly with bikes and cars and boats and plants. More smiling, more sleeping. Not everyone gets the benefit, of course; for some the job goes on, and for others [...]
