http://www.newstin.com/us/NURSES_AND_GLOBAL_HEALTH Global Social News Platform Copyright © 2006 I2S a.s. Copyright © 2006 I2S a.s. http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57405168 Posted to the web 15 May 2008 Musa Sesay in Kabala Freetown Italian doctors last week arrive in Kabala, Koinadugu district to assess the immediate needs of the Kinadugu government hospital, train it nurses and offer treatments to sick people. District council chairman Peter Bayuku Conteh of the... Thu, 15 May 2008 15:52:20 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57405168 2008-05-15T15:52:20Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57420079 Wendy Bjurstrom had never wanted to go to Africa but once she did, the experience changed the Westlake Village resident's life. She and her husband, Ed, a former Amgen vice president, were so deeply touched by the people they met on their first trip in 2002 that they formed an organization to... Thu, 15 May 2008 17:44:48 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57420079 2008-05-15T17:44:48Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57456641 One of the UK?s leading independent bus operators is now offering in-vehicle Wi-Fi to passengers between Nottingham and Derby in the UK Midlands. Moovera Networks, a UK-based developer of fixed and mobile wireless communications systems, has installed its Moovbox M Series mobile broadband gateway... Thu, 15 May 2008 18:50:37 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57456641 2008-05-15T18:50:37Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57399136 TORONTO, May 15 /CNW/ - The Honourable Stéphane Dion, Leader of the Official Opposition, will visit the Somerset West Community Health Centre in Ottawa on Friday to join in celebrating National Nursing Week. The visit is part of the Take Your MPP/MP to Work event organized annually by the... Thu, 15 May 2008 15:17:26 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57399136 2008-05-15T15:17:26Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57411396 NEW Gwent mums' experience of birth and parenting is being compromised by a lack of midwives, claims the profession's trade union. Gwent Healthcare Trust needs another 16 full-time midwives, and existing staff are "exhausted" according to the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), which fears the... Thu, 15 May 2008 16:37:34 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57411396 2008-05-15T16:37:34Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57300734 By Sheryl Ubelacker, THE CANADIAN PRESS TORONTO - Nearly one-fifth of the nurses in hospitals across the country acknowledge making errors when giving patients medications, with understaffing and working too much overtime primarily blamed for the likelihood of those mistakes occurring, a report... Thu, 15 May 2008 02:00:30 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57300734 2008-05-15T02:00:30Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57365554 Wudu, China - For three days and nights the chief surgeon and his team of 40 young doctors and nurses from Wudu hospital have laboured without power and short of medical supplies in an effort to save survivors of China's worst quake in 30 years. "The worst has been watching people die, knowing... Thu, 15 May 2008 11:55:42 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57365554 2008-05-15T11:55:42Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57207768 Immigrants Sedated Without Medical Reason by Amy Goldstein and Dana Priest | Washington Post Staff Writers Michel Shango said he fled Congo after working as a journalist there. A Long Trip Home A graphical timeline of Michel Shango's deportation trip, based on a log filled out by a U.S. public... Wed, 14 May 2008 13:30:12 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57207768 2008-05-14T13:30:12Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57288626 The worst earthquake to hit China in at least three decades has mobilized the whole nation to battle against the disaster. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao flew in Chengdu, capital of the quake-hit Sichuan province immediately after the disaster on Monday. Doctors, nurses, policemen, repair workers and... Wed, 14 May 2008 13:31:02 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57288626 2008-05-14T13:31:02Z http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57267775 The U.S. government has injected hundreds of foreigners it has deported with dangerous psychotropic drugs against their will to keep them sedated during the trip back to their home country "The government's forced use of antipsychotic drugs, in people who have no history of mental illness,... Wed, 14 May 2008 16:11:47 GMT http://www.newstin.com/tag/us/57267775 2008-05-14T16:11:47Z