Rapper 50 Cent undergoes surgery, posts photos on Twitter
May 18, 2012 at 4:06 AM by AHN · Leave a Comment
Rapper 50 Cent is recovering in a New York hospital after being admitted Wednesday for an unspecified condition. The rapper, who had to cancel shows because of his hospitalization, kept mum about the reason why. He tweeted, “I’m in the hospital but my gangsta grillz LOST TAPE is done so it will be out on time.” He referred to his EP “The Lost Tape” to be released nex...
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FDA bans Korean shellfish, warns against eating product
May 18, 2012 at 3:17 AM by AHN · Leave a Comment
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Thursday warned consumers against eating shellfish from Korea that the agency banned on May 1 and may soon be recalled. The FDA had already taken Korea off the list of certified shellfish shippers and had warned state health authorities that such fresh and frozen products maybe contaminated with water pollution from the source. No incidence or reports of...
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Finger found in Arby’s sandwhich
May 18, 2012 at 3:12 AM by AHN · Leave a Comment
A Michigan teen bit off more than he could chew when he took a bite of his Arby’s roast beef sandwich and munched on a piece of human finger. Fourteen year old Ryan Hart said he was enjoying his afterschool snack at an Arby’s on N.West Ave in Jackson, Michigan, on May 11 when he bit onto something he described as quite rubbery. Hart spit out the item, which turned out to be part of a human...
Read More...Gulf Arabs shun exercise but eat their veggies
May 17, 2012 at 4:50 AM by AHN · Leave a Comment
The Media Line Staff Riyadh, Saudi Arabia David Rosenberg (The Medi – This Saturday, Food Revolution Day, a global campaign to get people to eat better is being marked in the Gulf with vegetable-oriented dinner parties, lectures on healthy eating and cooking classes for the kitchen-challenged. But a new Gallup survey shows they will have to eat a lot of celery washed down with water in order...
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Treat the mother – save the baby
May 16, 2012 at 8:37 AM by AHN · Leave a Comment
The past decade has seen great advances in child survival, but while toddlers and small children are benefiting, the death rate for new-born babies remains stubbornly high. Now a new report suggests that paying more attention to their mothers’ health, and focusing on certain damaging but treatable diseases, could be one key to tackling neonatal mortality. The traditional childhood killers R...
Read More...Ailing Palestinian hospital awaits cash infusion
May 16, 2012 at 5:17 AM by AHN · Leave a Comment
The Media Line Staff Jerusalem, Israel Arieh O’Sullivan / The Me – Husni Samara is a gynecologist and endoscopic surgeon at Al-Makassed hospital on Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives. Even though he has a family to support and hasn’t been paid in months, he won’t consider lucrative offers from abroad. “I am probably the only person who can do endoscopic surgery in the...
Read More...HIV widows on the edge
May 15, 2012 at 8:55 AM by AHN · Leave a Comment
Widows living with HIV in Nepal’s remote hill districts in some of the country’s poorest and vulnerable communities face a particularly bleak future. “My husband died four years ago. We had to sell our cattle and farm to pay his medical bills,” 32-year-old Sumi Karki* told IRIN in the tiny village of Rakam in Dailekh District, about 700 kilometers northwest of the capital, K...
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Airdrops to fight schistosomiasis in Ghana
May 15, 2012 at 6:41 AM by AHN · Leave a Comment
At the Kpong airfield, a few kilometers from Lake Volta in northern Ghana, Patricia Mawuli, pilot and co-founder of Medicine on the Move (MoM), a local NGO, is preparing her plane for takeoff. She is one of four health workers who fly weekly to isolated communities around the lake to raise awareness of the dangers of schistosomiasis, also called bilharzia. Schistosomiasis is a parasitic disease cause...
Read More...The Medical Minute: Injury Prevention for Children with Special Needs
May 14, 2012 at 6:00 AM by Gant Team · Leave a Comment
By Susan Rzucidlo, R.N. Injuries are both predictable and preventable and the leading cause of death and disability for all children 1 to 14 years of age. All children and their families need information on keeping their children safe as they grow and wherever they are – for example at a babysitter’s home, school, a playground or staying with grandparents. Injury prevention for children with special...
Read More...Ribbon-cutting held at new Heart and Vascular Institute Clinic
May 13, 2012 at 6:00 AM by Gant Team · Leave a Comment
By Scott Gilbert, Penn State A ribbon-cutting and open house May 10, celebrated the new Penn State Hershey Heart and Vascular Institute-Hanover. The opening marks a significant expansion of Penn State Hershey’s heart and vascular services in the Hanover community. The practice is located in Hillside Medical Center at 250 Fame Ave., Suite 101. Among those on hand for the ribbon-cutting were Harold...
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