Thursday, December 27, 2012

[Health] Former South African President Mandela Released from Hospital

Former South African President Mandela Released from Hospital
http://www.voanews.com/content/south-africa-mandela-discharged/1572909.html
A spokesman for South African President Jacob Zuma said former President Nelson Mandela will begin to get home-based medical care following his release Wednesday from a Pretoria hospital, where he has been since December 8th.

Letters: Twin-Boro News, Dec. 27
http://www.northjersey.com/news/opinions/184889741_Letters__Twin-Boro_News__Dec__27.html
For 55 years, Vantage Health System has treated children, adolescents and adults with mental health challenges in Bergen County. The tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School has affected every one and burdens our hearts.

Storm Weakened a Fragile System for Mental Care
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/nyregion/new-yorks-mental-health-system-thrashed-by-services-lost-to-storm.html?pagewanted=all
When a young woman in the grip of paranoid delusions threatened a neighbor with a meat cleaver one Saturday last month, the police took her by ambulance to the nearest psychiatric emergency room.

Young Ugandan orphan treated at LA burn center
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=8933052
Adolf Baguma's caretakers at the orphanage call him their Christmas gift, because it was on Christmas two years ago when they found the 9-year-old in the bushes behind a building in a small Ugandan town.

Grim limbo for nursing home evacuees
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/grim-limbo-nycs-nursing-home-evacuees-18067669
NEW YORK - Hundreds of elderly and disabled New Yorkers who were hurriedly evacuated from seaside nursing homes and assisted living residences after Superstorm Sandy are still in a grim limbo two months later, sleeping on cots in temporary quarters ...

Jasonville man wins second place in Quit Now Indiana contest
http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/why-one-in-five-smokers-who-try-to-quit-fail-in-24-hrs-569664.html
Sean Terrell, 31, was the silver medal winner in the contest, coming in second in the random draw of 4,600 people throughout Indiana.

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