Kettering General Hospital has become the first hospital in Europe to fit 100 of a new type of recording device to measure heart rhythm for up to three years. The device – called an implantation loop recorder - is an inch (2.5cm) long and is fitted just under the skin of a patient’s chest and used to diagnose infrequent heart rhythm disturbances like atrial fibrillation (unusually irregular/fast heart rate). Because such disturbances can occur infrequently it can be difficult to determine what...
IT was one of the first mass school shootings to shock the world. The Columbine killings 25 years ago tomorrow resulted in the deaths of 13 children aged 14 to 18 before the two killer pupils, Eric
One of the year's 164,949 emergency calls to New Haven’s 911 center came from a man at the edge of a bridge. Kenya James answered it.
This story was originally published in the Daily Yonder. Adaline Sneak lives at the end of a long, unmarked dirt road in a rural area of the Navajo Nation in Utah. Getting there requires a high clearance vehicle and at least moderate navigation skills. Residents here don’t have typical addresses
Park Chan-wook started a revenge revolution with 2003’s Oldboy; that stylish, bloody-as-all-hell thriller featuring a man in a dark suit still gets made today. This month alone sees the release of two Oldboy-inspired action movies, Monkey Man and Boy Kills World. Now, Lionsgate, the finest purveyors in American Oldboy knockoffs, is teaming with director Park for an all-new Oldboy television adventure that presumably ends with a man cutting out his own tongue because he doesn’t want to tell his...
A program that provides some patients acute-level care in their own home is now up and running at four Vancouver hospitals: Vancouver General, St. Paul's, Mount St. Joseph and the University of B.C. hospital.
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State Police in Massachusetts have begun implementing a program to improve interactions with people on the autism spectrum, building upon legislation that won Senate approval in January and remains before a House committee.
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Studies have shown how important experiencing art is to young minds. It expands a child's ability to learn and critically engage subject matter, which makes them score higher in areas such as math and science.
“When 23% of Air Force JROTC programs aren’t meeting cadet enrollment requirements, it’s pretty clear the status quo isn’t working,” said U.S. Rep. Chrissy Houlahan.
“Harm reduction” vending machines, offering everything from naloxone to condoms, have begun popping up in Washington, D.C.