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Sunflower oil saves at-risk newborns from infection
Saturday, March 5, 2005Simply massaging low birth weight babies with sunflower seed oil can protect them from potentially fatal infections. Infections and complications from preterm birth cause more than half of all neonatal deaths, and very low birth weight babies are particularly vulnerable. Preterm babies have immature skin that lacks a protective film called vernix […]
November 19, 2021 – 3:01 pm
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Small plane with one pilot crashes near Virginia airport
Wednesday, April 1, 2015 A small plane, piloted by sixteen-year-old Ryan McCall, crashed near Orange County Airport in Virginia, at about 9:45 a.m. local time Sunday morning, police said. He was killed in the accident. The boy, Ryan McCall, a sophomore at Riverbend High School in Spotsylvania County, was alone on the plane. The plane, […]
November 18, 2021 – 3:38 pm
Here’s An Opinion On: Filmmaking Courses Sydney Types of Animations Available For Use by Shriv Realizing what appears impossible is what life is. Humans have always been the upper breed of animals who dared to dream and then worked to make it possible. The various items of both necessity and luxury that we enjoy today […]
November 16, 2021 – 3:32 pm
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US unemployment rate reaches 9.8%
Friday, October 2, 2009 Companies in the United States are shedding more jobs, pushing the country’s unemployment rate to a 26-year high of 9.8%. The US Labor Department said on Friday that employers cut 263,000 jobs in September, with companies in the service industries — including banks, restaurants and retailers — hit especially hard. This […]
November 12, 2021 – 3:40 pm
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Dying Canadian infant moved to U.S. hospital for medical treatment
Tuesday, March 15, 2011 A thirteen-month-old Canadian infant dying from a unknown neurological condition was transferred Sunday night from a Canadian hospital, where he had received treatment since October 2010, to a U.S. hospital. In January, a Canadian Superior Court judge had ruled that the Canadian hospital could remove the infant’s breathing tube against the […]
November 11, 2021 – 4:26 pm
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Calls for bottled water bans grow in Canada
Saturday, August 23, 2008 London, Ontario is the latest in a string of Canadian cities to have acted on increasing public demand to ban bottled water. On Monday, the decision to eliminate bottled water sales in city-run facilities was passed by London’s city council with a vote of 15-3 in favour. The move was driven […]
November 5, 2021 – 3:06 pm
Here’s An Opinion On: Note Counter When your spouse has borderline personality disorder (BP), whether it’s a sudden realization or a long-known fact, it can be challenging. Those in relationships with BP individuals may be subject to unique forms of manipulation or toxicity. Recognizing these habits of the BP is the first step to liberation.I […]
November 4, 2021 – 3:10 pm
Thursday, August 20, 2009 Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi, the only individual convicted in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in 1988, has been released by Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill, on compassionate grounds. Megrahi is suffering from terminal prostate cancer and will be allowed to return to his home country of Libya. 270 […]