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Today in healthcare Tuesday 21 May
Good morning and welcome to the daily live blog from the Guardian Healthcare Professionals Network. Throughout the day, we'll be bringing you news, comment and analysis from around the web. The Guardian reports that England's ...
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Opportunities to stop girls drifting into gangs are being missed study finds
children in our communities. Yet through effective early intervention, involving both children's services and adult social care, girls at risk of getting involved in gangs can be supported to build better lives. And when they do get involved in gangs, it is vital that efforts to help them leave are tailored to the needs of girls and young ...
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How can telehealth help patients take responsibility for their health
With telehealth, patients can take their own blood pressure, weight or oxygen readings and send them to a website that is monitored by a clinician. Photograph: ...
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Universal credit assessments are a recipe for confusion for leaseholders
As the roll out of universal credit nears, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has begun distributing a range of guidance notes on how various assessments will be made.Recently, the department published notes on how the universal credit will be calculated for payments on service charges where home owners are on a long lease, which offers an interesting insight into just one tiny aspect of ...
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Adult abuse is an under-reported area of concern for councils
While shocking stories in the news about the abuse and neglect of elderly people in care homes and people with physical or learning disabilities rightly provokes outrage, the abuse of adults in all categories is still largely unnoticed and under-reported.Though the number of reported cases of adult abuse in Brent has risen from 435 in 2011-12 to 664 at the start of 2013, we fear the real figure ...
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Titanium disc implants give freediver another shot at sport
To treat her severe neck pain, free-diver Jill Yoneda faced the possibility she would never again glide in the ocean to depths of 180 feet.In 2012, three herniated discs forced Yoneda to take a break from her sport and consider her options for treatment.She was told the "gold standard" would involve fusing two vertebra together with bone grafts, severely limiting her mobility ...
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Report into Basildon hospital condemns service failure - video
Tina Papalabropoulos, 23, died of aspiration pneumonia at Basildon hospital in 2009. As an NHS ombudsman report into her death is published, her mother, Christine, speaks about the negligent care Tina received, the family's struggle for recognition of their case, and her unwitting role in her daughter's ...
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In Ukraine no way to avoid a bumpy ride
KIEV (Reuters) - As the snow and ice began to melt in Ukraine this spring, exposing fresh cracks and potholes in the roads, hundreds of motorists gathered outside a government building carrying unusual ...
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Thai Sports Authority Sets Mid-July Deadline for FA Polls
(Reuters) - Thailand's sports authority has threatened to intervene if the country's football association fails to hold its presidential elections by the middle of July, local media reported on Tuesday. Last week, the Football Association of Thailand (FAT) postponed its June 15 polls to align itself with a new FIFA charter which will be ratified at a general meeting of the world ...
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Mervyn Kings housing warning is too little too late | Polly Toynbee
George Osborne, Britain's chancellor, and Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, at the G7 finance ministers and central bank governors summit on 11 May 2013 Photograph: Yui ...
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How community groups can find small companies to link with
charities and some of the biggest corporates in the country.However, there are also an increasing number of successful partnerships evolving between charities and community groups and local, smaller businesses. Jan Levy, managing director ...
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Star Times 2013 spring sports all-area team
In 1978, Star Times was born as a reference to the mega-hit "Star Wars" movie. The Seattle Times picked three high-school all-area teams then, in football, boys basketball and girls basketball. Thirty-five years later, Star Times has grown to eight teams. Today, we honor the best athletes in our coverage area for three spring sports -- baseball, softball and boys ...
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DWTS So who should win
Image Credit: ABC Hmm. Can we switch up the partnerships in our imaginations, then activate special rainbow glitter explosions to make them official? Those are the rules of Reality, right? Great! Then I vote for Kellie and Val to ...
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Bates Motel finale Talk about it
first kill, mind you. That happened before the pilot — as far as we know, Norman attacking his father was his firsthomicidalbreak. But this was different: This was Norman being comforted by an older woman and then coerced by his ';mother'; into slashing her throat. That’s right: Our budding psycho offed sweet, pre-pedophiliac Miss Watson in Monday’s finale, which also ...
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Oscar Pistorius rules return to sport in 2013
Oscar Pistorius has turned his back on athletics for the rest of the year to focus on fighting the murder charge hanging over him. The South African's agent Peet van Zyl told Press Association Sport the 26 year old was not mentally ready to return to competition as he awaits trial, charged with the premeditated murder of his girlfriend. Instead, the athlete has turned down a number of ...
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FEATURE-In the Hamptons catering to the rich and their dogs is good business
By Beth Pinsker EAST HAMPTON, New York | Tue May 21, 2013 12:59am EDT EAST HAMPTON, New York May 21 (Reuters) - Judging by early demand for everything from doggie daycare to Ferrari rentals and fine art, rich Americans are going to make this a strong summer in one of their favorite playgrounds - the beach towns on the eastern end of Long Island collectively known as the Hamptons. With ...
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Mt. Lebanon School District to charge for sports extracurriculars
The Mt. Lebanon School Board passed an $83.16 million budget on Monday night, instituting fees ranging from $5 to $40 per year for students participating in sports and extracurricular ...
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UPI Sports Calendar for Tuesday May 21
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Sports Briefing | Golf Guan Tianlang to Play at Jack Nicklauss Memorial Tournament
Guan Tianlang, the 14-year-old Chinese amateur who became the youngest player to make the cut in a major championship when he finished 58th at the Masters, has accepted an exemption to play at Jack ...
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Sports Briefing | Track and Field Oscar Pistorius Will Not Compete This Year
Oscar Pistorius, the South African Paralympic champion who is charged with murdering his girlfriend, will not compete this year, his coach said Monday. His agent had previously said the world championships in Moscow were ...
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Sports Briefing | Cycling Denis Menchov of Russia Retires From Cycling
The former Giro ...
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Sports Briefing | Horse Racing More Horses Test Positive for Steroids
Seven more horses owned by the Godolphin stable, owned by Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum, tested positive for steroids, the British racing authorities said. They include Encke, a 25-1 shot who won the 2012 St. Leger. A test on Encke after the race was ...
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Sports Briefing | Table Tennis Another Table Tennis World Title for Zhang Jike
Zhang Jike sealed a hat trick of major titles when he beat a fellow Chinese, Wang Hao, 4-2, in the final of the world championships in Paris. Zhang, who had also beaten Wang in the 2011 world championships final and the 2012 Olympic final, prevailed, 11-7, 11-8, 6-11, 14-12, 5-11, ...
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Saladin Ambar Luhrmanns Gatsby From Old Sport to Dude in 143 minutes
-- we're never quite certain about just who our protagonist is. "Call me Ishmael." Well, if you say so. Fitzgerald was one in a long line of writers who honed in on the mystery and eccentricity of American reinvention -- and its failures. Fitzgerald just captured it best. And like the novel, Baz Luhrmann's work does so on its own terms. It is a beautiful film. Those shirts ...
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The death of Maria Stubbings
Maria Stubbings called for help many times, long before she was strangled with a dog lead by her ex-boyfriend and left under a pile of coats in the downstairs toilet. Her killer, Marc Chivers, had already been arrested for assaulting her and breaking into her home when he opened the door to the police and told them all was well. They believed him and left a card for the mother-of-two, asking her ...
Kuala Lumpur Spotlight
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City's major raw water project
It’s been in the pipelines for several years, but finally the Pahang-Selangor raw water transfer project has found its feet with an official groundbreaking ceremony held in April of 2010, the facility, when completed, will enable a massive region of the country, including Kuala Lumpur, Selangor and Putrajaya to cope with increasing demand for raw water treatment from industrial, residential and tourism sectors of the economy.
The raw water treatment project is a massive undertaking: a pipeline is to be constructed run from Sungai Semantan in Pahang to the Hulu Langat water treatment facility in Selangor, it will be 44.6 kilometers long, the longest tunnel of its kind in Asia and the sixth largest in the world. When operating at maximum capacity, over 1,800 litres of raw water will be pumped to Selangor and treated for conversion to fresh water, according to Kuala Lumpur news media. Read more
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