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Gran, 86, waits 25 hours in hospital corridor after heart attack - before giving up
An 86-year-old woman who had suffered a suspected heart attack waited 25 hours in a hospital corridor for a ward bed - before giving up and going home. Maria Bodea, 86, had a suspected heart attack failure at home and was taken to St Helier Hospital, Sutton, London, by ambulance. But there were no ward beds available and the gran-of-two was put on a trolley bed in a corridor with up to 20 others, her family say. Widow Maria and her daughter Sanda Ghiurcusor, 57, were stationed next to a door leading outside, forcing them to wear wooly hats to keep warm. A spokesperson for Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust said:   “While we always do our best for our patients, these are not the conditions we want to care for them in and we are really sorry that Mrs Bodea did not have a good experience. “When our services are exceptionally busy, as they are at the moment, we sometimes have to care for people in other areas of the hospital until a suitable bed becomes available - this is always only a temporary measure and patients are supervised by clinical teams at all times.”
The Daily Beast
Trump Rants ‘Women Won’t Even Think About Abortion If I Win’
Donald Trump, who has taken credit for abolishing women’s constitutional right to abortion with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, vowed in a lengthy Truth Social post on Friday night to “PROTECT WOMEN AT A LEVEL NEVER SEEN BEFORE”.The Republican presidential candidate appears to be trying to strike a more moderate position on women’s rights as Vice President Kamala Harris keeps hammering him on the issue of reproductive freedom.“WOMEN ARE POORER THAN THEY WERE FOUR YEARS AGO, ARE LESS HEALTHY THAN
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15 Biggest "Myths" About Aging, According To Older Adults 60 And Up
"One myth is that your 20s and 30s are the best years of your life. Absolutely not! I was miserable as a young, married woman. I was self-conscious and depressed all the time. At 50, I don't care what others think, and I don't put up with toxic people. My life is so much better at this stage of my life."
Associated Press
Euphoric two years ago, US anti-abortion movement is now divided and worried as election nears
Just two years ago, leading anti-abortion activists were euphoric as the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, thus ending the nationwide right to abortion. Michael New, an abortion opponent who teaches social research at The Catholic University of America, offered an overview of how the movement had fared since the Roe ruling in June 2022. “I always remind fellow pro-lifers that we were never promised a smooth glide path to victory,” he added.
CBC
COVID-19 hitting N.L. harder than many people think, according to researcher
Tara Moriarty says governments are downplaying the broad impact that COVID-19 continues to have on the public. (Lisa Xing/CBC)Summer may be not quite over but cold and flu season is kicking into high gear early — and COVID-19 is still in the picture, a leading Canadian researcher says. Prof. Tara Moriarity, PhD, an infectious diseases researcher at the University of Toronto, said one in every 37 Canadians have COVID-19 right now, and infections are climbing. "There are about 1.1 million infectio
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Health Matters: Updated Novavax COVID-19 shot approved by Health Canada
Health Canada has approved an updated Novavax COVID-19 vaccine to protect against the variants of the virus currently circulating. The move comes just after the agency approved Moderna's updated mRNA COVID vaccine earlier this week. Katherine Ward has this story and more in Health Matters for Sep. 20, 2024.
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Missouri health worker who had contact with bird flu patient develops symptoms, US officials report
(Reuters) -A second Missouri healthcare worker who had contact with a hospitalized patient infected with bird flu developed mild respiratory symptoms but was not tested for the virus, U.S. officials said on Friday. The number of people who were in contact with the hospitalized bird flu patient in Missouri and developed symptoms is now up to three, officials said. The other two symptomatic cases included a healthcare worker who tested negative for influenza and a household contact of the patient who developed symptoms at the same time as the hospitalized patient, but was never tested.