Category Archives: Treated

Whistle-blower: Contractor mischief in Kabul ‘over the top’

By doris | Published: September 6, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Terry Pearson, who worked as an operations manager for contractor R.A. International at Camp Sullivan in Afghanistan, said he witnessed mistreatment among the guards employed by ArmorGroup North America, who were housed at the camp. “It was just downright stupid, some of the things they were doing,” Pearson told CNN. “And [...]

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Woman sentenced for drunken breast-feeding

By doris | Published: August 8, 2009

Full Story at msnbc.com GRAND FORKS, N.D. – A North Dakota woman accused of breast-feeding her 6-week-old baby while drunk has been ordered to get treatment that could help her avoid jail. Stacey Anvarinia pleaded guilty to child neglect in June. She told Judge Sonja Clapp at her sentencing Friday that she knew what she [...]

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Unsung heroes work hard to cut hospital-acquired infections

By doris | Published: July 10, 2009

Full Story at CNN.com Still, patients became sick with bacterial infections after checking in. Some died. “I never saw anything change. I saw things getting worse,” Torress-Cook said. Torress-Cook eventually joined Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, in California, where as director of epidemiology and patient safety, he changed the rules and slashed the number of [...]

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Kids’ Peanut Allergy Treated, With Peanuts

By doris | Published: February 23, 2009

Full Story At cbsnews.com Medical researchers at a Cambridge University hospital took four kids who were highly allergic to peanuts — eating the smallest amount would send them into possibly-deadly anaphylactic shock — and started giving them tiny doses of peanut flour ever day. Now, they can eat peanuts. The small-scale study at Cambridge’s Addenbrooke’s [...]

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