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We received 362 responses from Rural Bulletin readers within the timeframe (more came in afterwards). Of these 185 were from people living in rural areas, 66 from people in small towns and 94 from people in cities. Our thanks go to you all. How you receive it: just under half the respondents received Rural Bulletin by email, and slightly under half were sent it by mail. A small number downloaded it from Rural Women New Zealand’s website. .
The heart saver
Next online forum: stent and angioplasty concerns. If you have a question for Dr Thomas Stuttaford on this topic or wish to read other recent topics click here If Elizabeth Barrett Browning had lived in this century rather than the 19th, the nature of her illness would not have been debated for 170 years. Today’s abundance of medical expertise, and the latest high-tech equipment, would have solved the question of whether her trouble was a tubercular disease that had spread from her spine, asthma, or, as she believed, chronic heart disease. Elizabeth Barrett retired from the world and hid behind her ivy-covered attic windows of 50 Wimpole Street for years. She was sustained by opium and red wine and wrote great poetry even as she was predicting her imminent death.
Allergists Highlight New National Asthma Guidelines: Emphasis on Prevention, Avoiding "Attacks"
Highlights of the 2007 asthma guidelines from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute's National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) were presented during the ACAAI Annual Meeting in an effort not only to increase awareness of the new recommendations, but to help make sure they get put into practice. .
Elms to train nurse managers
CHICOPEE - Elms College's announcement yesterday that it is adding a new master of science in nursing program in January was met with unabashed enthusiasm by local hospitals, colleges and employment agencies trying to deal with an ongoing nursing shortage. The master's program will have two tracks, one in nursing and health services management and one in nursing education. "We have a nursing shortage now, and we need to educate more people to educate nurses," said Kathleen B. Scoble, chair of the division of nursing at Elms, during a press conference at Elms yesterday afternoon. Representatives from Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton, Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Springfield Technical Community College, and the Regional Employment Board of Hampden County Inc.
Asthma education brochures aimed at minorities miss the mark in Wisconsin
A Wisconsin study found that take-home educational materials designed for the state's minority children with asthma do not adequately address the cultural and linguistic issues unique to racial/ethnic minority groups. The study evaluated the educational pamphlets using a tool created by the Wisconsin Asthma Coalition, a group of administrators, researchers and health care professionals. The researchers analyzed the strengths and weaknesses of the language, visuals, depictions of cultural attitudes and medical provider practices. "This is a first of its kind. No one has developed a tool to gauge the cultural competence of asthma education materials," said lead study author Jane Brotanek, M.D. "It may serve as a model for other states." The study appears in the autumn issue of the journal Ethnicity & Disease .
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