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New Zealand Geothermal Pool Kills Boy
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A boy has died in a New Zealand Hospital after being scalded head to foot when he fell into a geothermal pool which could have been as hot as 212 degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees Celsius), a Hospital spokeswoman said late Thursday. It was not clear immediately how the 8-year-old was burned while visiting Kuirau Park in the North Island city of Rotorua, which is known for its steaming geothermal geysers and hot mud and water pools. Witness Anna Kare said the boy w...

Glorious Socialist Medicine: Penis Amputated Following Misdiagnosis and Delay
By RightKlik Uninsured Americans get better care than this: A Swedish man was forced to have his penis amputated after waiting more than a year to learn he had Cancer. When he returned in March 2010 complaining of foreskin irritation, the doctor on duty at the time diagnosed the problem as a simple case of inflammation. After three weeks passed without the prescribed treatment alleviating the man’s condition, he was instructed to seek further treatment at Blekinge Hospital. But it took f...

US worker freed from Haitian jail
A US aid worker has been freed from a Prison in Haiti after a judge declined to charge him over claims he kidnapped a baby from a Hospital where he worked. A Haitian man had accused Paul Waggoner of Kidnapping his 15-month-old son in February from the Haitian Community Hospital in Petionville. The aid worker spent 18 days in the notoriously overcrowded National Penitentiary in Port-au-Prince. The court was shown evidence that the baby in question had died in hospital. Mr Waggoner received medi...

Man's Penis Amputated Following Misdiagnosis
The man, who is in his sixties, first visited a local clinic in Blekinge in southern Sweden in September 2009 for treatment of a urinary tract infection, the local Blekinge Läns Tidning (BLT) reported. When he returned in March 2010 complaining of foreskin irritation, the doctor on duty at the time diagnosed the problem as a simple case of inflammation. After three weeks passed without the prescribed treatment alleviating the man’s condition, he was instructed to seek further treatment at B...

Obamacare: Swedish Government Run Health Care has Mans Penis Amputated after Misdiognosed & Delayed Treatment
The ghost of ObamaCare future … misdiagnosed  UTI turns into penile amputation. Who needs Death Panels when you have penile amputation. So you want Obama government run Health Care America, eh? You might want to checks out what happened to a man who received medical care from the Swedish government run Health Care system . A man in his 60′s was misdiagnoses with a UTI, then was screwed around with delays In Treatment and Hospital visits, later learned he had Cancer. Welcome to the...

Underage Drinkers Get Carried Away On New Year's Eve, Too
What is this? Mom and Dad aren't the only ones who overdo it New Year's Eve. Admissions of Underage drinkers to Hospital Emergency Rooms jump on New Year's Day. Drinking binges on New Year's Eve can lead to a hospital-size hangover Underage partyers. Drinking binges on New Year's Eve can lead to a hospital-size hangover Underage partyers. A national estimate derived from a sample of ERs around the country finds nearly 2,000 Young People wound up in the Hospital on New Year's Day in 2009 because ...

Northern Ireland 'swine flu' cases have more than doubled
The number of Swine Flu cases in Northern Ireland has more than doubled in the past week. The Public Health Agency said those eligible for the H1N1 Vaccine should see their doctor as soon as possible. Official data shows the number of cases has more than doubled from 56 to 129. But BBC Northern Ireland Health Correspondent Marie Louise Connolly said that, judging by last year's statistics, the real figure is probably a lot higher. According to the Public Health Agency there has been an incre...

How Government Regulations Push Up Cost of Medicine and Limit Patient Choice
It’s no secret that Health Care is an industry beset by huge problems. The problem doesn’t as much stem from “evil Insurance Companies” as it does from a system created by federal and State Governments to make a system as economically inefficient as possible. For instance, most people do not pick their own Insurance companies. Their employer does. The customer then isn’t the consumer, it is the business that contracts them to provide Insurance for their employees....

NZ boy dies after fall into boiling geothermal pool...
A warning sign at Kuirau Park. The council is satisfied that the park had sufficient safety measures in place. Photo / APN. The 8-year-old boy who fell into a geothermal pool as hot as 100C on Boxing Day has died. The boy fell into one of the pools at Rotorua's Kuirau Park and suffered severe burns to his face and body. He was rushed to Rotorua Hospital and later airlifted on Life Support and a ventilator to the intensive care unit at Middlemore Hospital in Auckland. A hospital spokeswoman last ...

Boy dies from hot pool burns
An eight-year-old boy died in Hospital Wednesday after a fall into a boiling geothermal pool in New Zealand. The boy suffered severe head-to-toe burns on Boxing Day in the pool in Rotorua, the New Zealand Herald reports. A teenager carried the injured boy to his parents, who called Paramedics. "There was screaming and yelling. It was just horrible. He would say, 'My feet, my feet,' then after the water he was saying, 'My face, my face,' then back to his hands again," bystander Anna Kare told the...

Okla. prisoner dies of blunt trauma to head
The state Medical Examiner's Office says a Eufaula man who was booked into the Pittsburg County Jail later died of blunt trauma to the head. The McAlester News-Capital reports that 31-year-old Ricky Lanham died at a Tulsa Hospital on Dec. 23. Records indicate Lanham was arrested by Quinton police on Dec. 21 and booked on initial complaints of Public Intoxication, possession of a Controlled Substance and resisting an officer. Pittsburg County Sheriff Joel Kerns says Lanham was taken to a hospital...

Haiti frees U.S. aid worker accused of kidnapping
Port-au-Prince | Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:23pm EST Port-au-Prince (Reuters) - An American aid worker has been released from a Prison in Haiti more than two weeks after being jailed on allegations he kidnapped a 15-month-old boy from a Hospital, a Haitian prosecutor said on Thursday. The boy's father had accused Paul Waggoner of stealing the baby boy, who was admitted to a hospital where Waggoner was a worker. The court was shown evidence the baby had died in hospital. Waggoner, who co-founded the ...

Swine flu has 'more than doubled'
The number of Swine Flu cases in Northern Ireland has more than doubled in the past week. The Public Health Agency said those eligible for the H1N1 Vaccine should see their doctor as soon as possible. But BBC Northern Ireland Health Correspondent Marie Louise Connolly said that, judging by last year's statistics, the real figure is probably a lot higher. According to the Public Health Agency there has been an increase in all flu activity, including those with respiratory problems. The cl...

Haiti frees U.S. aid worker accused of kidnapping
The boy's father had accused Paul Waggoner of stealing the baby boy, who was admitted to a Hospital where Waggoner was a worker. The court was shown evidence the baby had died in hospital. Waggoner, who co-founded the aid group Materials Management Relief Corps after the quake, was freed on Wednesday when a judge granted a request from his lawyer, Enock-Gene Genelus, the prosecutor in the case, told Reuters. Genelus said the judge had not issued a final ruling. However, Waggoner's release sugge...

Haiti frees U.S. aid worker accused of kidnapping
Port-au-Prince | Thu Dec 30, 2010 12:23pm EST Port-au-Prince (Reuters) - An American aid worker has been released from a Prison in Haiti more than two weeks after being jailed on allegations he kidnapped a 15-month-old boy from a Hospital, a Haitian prosecutor said on Thursday. The boy's father had accused Paul Waggoner of stealing the baby boy, who was admitted to a hospital where Waggoner was a worker. The court was shown evidence the baby had died in hospital. Waggoner, who co-founded the ...

Cops: Man playing real-life 'Frogger' hit by SUV
(12-29) 05:17 PST Clemson, S.C. (AP) -- A man has been hospitalized after police in South Carolina say he was hit by an SUV while playing a real-life version of the Video Game "Frogger." Authorities said the 23-year-old man was taken to a Hospital in Anderson after he was struck at around 9 p.m. Monday. In the "Frogger" arcade game, players move frogs through traffic on a busy road and through a hazard-filled river. Before he was hit, police say the man had been discussing the game with his fr...

Which Borough Got Hit The Worst In The Blizzard?
An unplowed tree grows in Brooklyn (sea kay's flickr) As we've sorted through the wreckage of the last couple marshmallowy days, blame has been shuffled, Tony Soprano and Corey Booker emerged as heroes, and at least two teens got wasted. But seeing as how everything was supposed to be cleared by 7 a.m. this morning, maybe it's time to debate: which borough got hit the worst? The News and the Post agree: Brooklyn suffered "the most serious problems." In particular, southern Brooklyn neighborhoo...

Delta flight makes emergency landing
A Delta Air Lines Boeing 757 en route from Detroit, Michigan, to Phoenix, Arizona, made an Emergency Landing Thursday morning in Colorado Springs, Colorado, after reporting engine trouble, an airport spokesman said. Flight 1921 landed safely, but passengers had to use emergency chutes to evacuate the plane after rescue crews found the craft's brakes were hot. Two of the plane's 225 passengers and crew suffered minor injuries during the Evacuation and were treated at a Hospital....

National Guard's Misplaced Priorities
In a really weak effort to mimic David Letterman's "top ten" lists, the National Guard Bureau released its top ten list of 2010 missions. At number nine, it lists the DoD's decision (not completion) to develop ten Homeland Response Forces that will aid in the response to a CBRN incident - even if that incident never happens. The National Guard added a Homeland Response Force package to its Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and high-yield Explosive response capa...

Health insurance mandates Constitutionality and the "necessary and proper" clause
It appears that the main question, or at least one of the main questions, about the Health Care mandate in ObamaCare that requires Americans buy Health Insurance may revolve around the "necessary and proper" clause and not just the badly abused Commerce clause. From the New York Times: The necessary-and-proper clause sits at the end of Article I, Section 8, after 17 paragraphs that enumerate the powers delegated to Congress, ranging from the establishment of Post Offices to the declar...

Three people killed in Oakland fire
(12-30) 10:26 PST Oakland -- Three people - including a three year-old girl - died in a fire in East Oakland early this morning that gutted a bank-owned apartment. Just before 2 a.m. Thursday morning, Oakland Firefighters found a second-story apartment near 82nd Avenue and Birch Street fully engulfed in flame, said Barry Donelan, an Arson investigator with the Oakland Police Department. Five people were taken to Highland Hospital. Three, a male of an unknown age, a 27-year-old female and a thr...

DMC to pay feds $30M settlement
The Detroit Medical Center has agreed to pay the Federal Government $30 million to settle claims that it engaged in improper financial relationships with referring physicians, the U.S. Department of Justice announced today. The announcement comes the same day that the DMC is holding a “special announcement” about the pending sale of its facilities to Vanguard health Systems, Inc.,which is headquartered in Nashville, Tenn. The closing deadline for the sale is Dec. 31. Vanguard also sign...

Queen's first great-grandchild born
Buckingham Palace has announced the birth of the Queen's first great-grandchild. The wife of the Queen's grandson, Peter Phillips, gave birth to a daughter on Wednesday. The Queen is "delighted" with the birth, the palace said. Autumn and Peter Phillips' first child, whose name is yet to be confirmed, weighed 3.857kg (8lbs 8z). She was born at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital. The palace statement read: "The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Princess Royal, Captain Mark Phillips and Autumn's famil...

Crack! Boom! Grucci Grandfather Shoots Grandson
The Grucci family is known for their Fireworks shows, but early this morning they showed a different kind of boom. Joseph Grucci was arrested after he shot his 20-year-old grandson during a dispute in Bellport early this morning, Suffolk County Police said. Officers responded to the Grucci home after a 911 caller reported a dispute and possible gunshots being fired at approximately 3 a.m. When police arrived, Grucci, 70, told police he had a fight with his grandson, Christopher Giresi. During th...

D.M. shooting victim now in 'critical but stable' condition
A 54-year-old Des Moines woman critically injured in a Wednesday night shooting is now reported to be in critical but stable condition. “She is still critical but we have just learned she’s stable,” police Sgt. Jeff Edwards said shortly before 11 a.m. Portia Deering of 930 School St., was nearly home shortly after 10:30 p.m. when she collapsed and began yelling that she had been shot. Her mother and stepfather, who reside with her in an apartment nearby, were unaware of the shooting until l