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• Journal Of Hospice Palliative Nursing Names New Editor

  
  disabilityresourcelinks.com — Authority: 142
    Journal Of Hospice & Palliative Nursing Names New Editor
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• Journal Of Hospice & Palliative Nursing Names New Editor

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 724
  Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is pleased to announce that the Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA) has appointed Betty Ferrell, PhD, MA, FAAN, FPCN, as the new editor of The Journal of Hospice & Palliative Nursing.
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• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
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• Darn Dyspnea Dilemma ( Part 1)

  
  breathinstephen.com — Authority: 120
  ……………….Try saying that 5 times really fast. Before reading this post, you might find it useful to read the first two of paragraphs in the “ My Asthma ” section of my blog. This will give you a little background as to why my dyspnea (shortness of breath) is so difficult to manage. Along those same ...
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• Scientists And Childrens Hospice Team Up On Unique Study

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 724
  A partnership between researchers at the University of Leeds and Martin House Childrens Hospice has resulted in the worlds first comprehensive study of palliative care received by children and young people.
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• Oregon Hospice Pays $1.83 Million to Settle False Claims Act Liability

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 156
  Kaiser Foundation Hospitals – Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest and Northwest Permanente P.C., Physicians & Surgeons (collectively, Kaiser NW) has agreed to pay the United States $1,830,322.41 to settle False Claims Act liability. The United States contends that ...
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• New Guide Sets the Baseline for a Quality End of Life Care Workforce

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 143
  Common core competences and principles for health and social care workers working with adults at the end of life    JUNE 2009 National End of Life Care Programme Click on the title above to gain access to the full-text New Guide Sets the Baseline for a Quality End of Life Care Workforce Abstract
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• Palliative Care Grand Rounds 1.10

  
  Dr Shock MD PhD — Authority: 545
  The new Palliative Care Grand Rounds is up. It’s the monthly review of the best of palliative care related blogs. This month I am handing out awards because I am so glad to see so many bloggers talking about palliative care issues and I think some of them need to be recognized. If you need to pick up your ...
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• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
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• Life, Suffering and Death

  
  Dr Roy's Thoughts — Authority: 535
  I recently attended a lecture given by Dr Jose Periera . The lecture was called Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: A Pandora’s Box? Dr Pereira is a prominent professor of palliative care. He actually worked at a hospital in Switzerland which allowed doctor assisted suicide. definitions: Euthanasia is a doctor( ...
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• International Journal of Palliative Nursing 2009 (Vol. 15 No. 10)

  
  Fade Library — Authority: 147
  International Journal of Palliative Nursing 2009 (Vol. 15 No. 10) Contents Fade Fave: Using play therapy in paediatric palliative care: listening to the story and caring for the body Fade Skinny: Palliative care for children must address more than pain control and symptom management. Parents and caregivers ...
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• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
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• The Dementia End of Life Care Project (DeLCaP) – Supporting families caring for people with late stage dementia at home

  
  Lancashire Care Library and Information Service — Authority: 143
  The Dementia End of Life Care Project (DeLCaP) – Supporting families caring for people with late stage dementia at home, Dementia, Vol. 8, No. 3, 349-361 (2009) Chris Ghiotti Redbridge Dementia Partnership, UK Abstract: This article describes the development of a locally based project funded by ...
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• India: Provide Access to Pain Treatment

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 673
  (New Delhi) - Hundreds of thousands of patients in India unnecessarily experience excruciating pain, Human Rights Watch said in a report today. Restrictive drug regulations, lack of training for health care workers, and poorly integrated care result in needless suffering for patients because they cannot get ...
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• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
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• 6,000 eat brekkie on Harbour Bridge

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Six thousand people have found the best picnic spot in Sydney this morning - sitting down to breakfast on the Harbour Bridge. The citys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a Sydney-wide food festival, was hailed a success. Picnickers say the event was well organised and there have been very few ...
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• Patients In US 5 Times More Likely To Spend Last Days In ICU Than Patients In England

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 724
  Patients who die in the hospital in the United States are almost five times as likely to have spent part of their last hospital stay in the ICU than patients in England. Whats more, over the age of 85, ICU usage among terminal patients is eight times higher in the U.S.
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• Australia faces famine, expert warns

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  A food production expert says Australia may face a massive famine if governments fail to address an impending global food shortage. A conference of food productivity experts in Sydney this week heard the greatest threat to the world is not climate change, but food production on land and in the water. Science ...
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• Gallup poll: Should marijuana be legalized?

  
  Citizens Against Pro-Obama Media Bias — Authority: 535
  October 23, 2009Gallup video changing views on legalization of marijuana. He actually uses the word “hippies”.DOJ isn’t about to legalize marijuana but they are going to leave the medical marijuana folks alone.Should marijuana be legal?1969 YES 12%2009 YES 44%Legal/not legalRep 28-70Ind 49-50Dem 54-4519-29 ...
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• Swindler Madoff king of ‘wild sex and drug parties’

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 432
  Convicted Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff presided over an office fuelled by sex and drugs, with wild late night parties that included topless entertainers, a lawsuit said. His "affinity for escorts, masseuses, and attractive female employees was well known in the office culture," said the suit which was filed in ...
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