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50 Best Hospitals in the US
We all know that the hospital is the last place you want to go, unless you really desperately need to be there. That's where the gnarly infections live.
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What to do for a choking victim?
I can't tell you how many times I've been taught the Heimlich maneuver in CPR and first aid classes. Plenty. Well over 20 years worth of certifications and re-certifications. So I've been trained. In my last recert (2009) we were taught back slaps for infants, and they called the uncorking procedure used on adults "abdominal thrusts". It seems ( Read more... ) -
Flu: it's H1N1 and in 5 states now
--H1N1, type A
--California, Texas, Kansas, New York, Ohio
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Mercury found in High Fructose Corn Syrup
A new study, written up in the Chicago Tribune, shows that mercury contamination is present in corn syrup. Though we were already avoiding that particular noxious ingredient, weren't we?
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Your Right to Vote
Nice bit of work here, with some funky music and groovy graphics inspiring you to vote, and then some snippets from the news in Florida (in 2000) and Ohio (in 2004) and elsewhere, from actual elections here in America that were obviously FUBAR. Worth a look, I think, just to keep in mind that it is not our imagination that there has been foul play ( Read more... ) -
Another Reason to Suspect the Ohio '04 Election Results
COLUMBUS - Despite a federal judge's order to preserve all ballots from the 2004 presidential election - in which Ohio provided President Bush's margin of victory - boards of elections in 56 of Ohio's 88 counties lost, shredded or dumped nearly 1.6 million ballots and election records. elections, ohio