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Fransman urges health workers to stay in SA
Source: Cape Argus (South Africa)
by SIPOKAZI MAPOSA Health MEC Marius Fransman has urged health workers to stay in South Africa, promising to engage more with them to improve conditions in the public health sector and make the province more attractive for doctors, nurses and other health professionals. Speaking…
Resource type: News
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NUIG allocated first UNESCO-sponsored post
Source: Irish Times
by LORNA SIGGINS ANY GOVERNMENT keen to save money will ensure that continued support is given to preventative and early intervention services for children in potential difficulty and there is an "overwhelming economic argument" for such an approach, according to Prof Pat Dolan, who…
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Civil rights groups file suits on voter harassment
Source: The Associated Press State & Local Wire
by HEATHER CLARK Two civil rights groups have filed separate lawsuits to stop members of the Republican Party from obtaining and making public private voter information and intimidating voters ahead of Election Day. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, or MALDEF, filed a…
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New understanding of how we remember traumatic events
Source: The University of Queensland
Neuroscientists at The University of Queensland have discovered a new way to explain how emotional events can sometimes lead to disturbing long term memories.In evolutionary terms, the brain's ability to remember a fear or trauma response has been crucial to our long term survival.However, in…
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Cone shell toxin offers new hope for chronic pain sufferers
Source: University of Queensland
Original Source Better chronic pain relief could be possible in the future, according to research announced today by scientists at UQ's Queensland Brain Institute. Neuropathic and chronic pain is typically caused by injury to the nerves, resulting in uncontrolled activation of pain pathways, and affects…
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The State of our Union in Crisis: Widening the Lens of Children and Families
Keynote speech by Gara LaMarche, President and CEO, The Atlantic Philanthropies, given at the Annual Conference of Grantmakers for Children, Youth and Families at the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Illinois. This is an extraordinary moment to gather and reflect, as we have planned to do…
Resource type: Speech
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Infant Deaths Decline in U.S.
Source: The New York Times
by GARDINER HARRIS WASHINGTON - Infant deaths in the United States declined 2 percent in 2006, government researchers reported Wednesday, but the rate still remains well above that of most industrialized countries and is one of many indicators suggesting that Americans pay more but get…
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Income levy grossly unfair to low earners warns charity
Source: Irish Times
by CARL O'BRIEN PEOPLE ON low incomes will be hit hardest by the introduction of an 1 per cent income levy in the Budget, a number of lobby groups for the disadvantaged warned yesterday. The Society of St Vincent de Paul said the levy was…
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Cuts could wreck poorer children's college chances
Source: Irish Independent
THE cutting of child benefit payments to those over the age of 18 could exclude children from lower-income families from third-level education and may even prevent others from completing secondary school, children's groups said yesterday. In his Budget, Brian Lenihan announced that benefit payments for…
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South Africa officially accepts HIV link to AIDS
Source: The Associated Press
The new health minister broke dramatically Monday from a decade of discredited South African government policies on AIDS, declaring that the disease was unquestionably caused by HIV and must be treated with conventional medicine. Health Minister Barbara Hogan's pronouncement marked the official end to denial…
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