Archives: March, 2008

Sound Monitors Protect Premature Babies
INDIANAPOLIS — Warning lights hover over the snoozing patients in Riley Hospital for Children’s neonatal intensive care unit, ready to flash whenever sound levels creep beyond normal conversation. As decibels rise, the colors on the new monitoring system change from green to yellow to red, hushi…

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Sound Monitors Protect Premature Babies
INDIANAPOLIS — Warning lights hover over the snoozing patients in Riley Hospital for Children’s neonatal intensive care unit, ready to flash whenever sound levels creep beyond normal conversation. As decibels rise, the colors on the new monitoring system change from green to yellow to red, hushi…

URL: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/health/index_xml/~3/260969708/AR2008032802082.html

Small Hospitals Push to Do Heart Work
CHICAGO — Is it safe to have your arteries unclogged at a hospital that lacks heart surgeons who can operate if something goes wrong?

URL: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/health/index_xml/~3/260515353/AR2008032900988.html

D.C. Plan Could Aid Uninsured
A D.C. Council member will propose a sweeping plan next week to mandate health-care coverage for all District residents by offering a city-subsidized program for the uninsured that would be funded through new taxes on health companies and cigarettes.

URL: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/health/index_xml/~3/260050749/AR2008032803473.html

Indians Pressure Dow on Bhopal Cleanup
NEW DELHI, March 28 — Twenty-three years after a Union Carbide chemical plant in India spewed poisonous gas in what remains the world’s worst industrial disaster, survivors are demanding a cleanup of toxic chemicals at the abandoned factory site that have contaminated their groundwater.

URL: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/health/index_xml/~3/260050751/AR2008032803276.html

City Tries to Cut Down on Unnecessary Ambulance Calls
The ambulances come screaming down city streets, rushing on calls to burst boils, clip hangnails and check on smelly body parts. At the cost of $700 a visit.

URL: http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/~r/wp-dyn/rss/health/index_xml/~3/260050750/AR2008032803285.html

Adios, Mr. McMuffin
We don’t normally go out of our way to mark the passing of fast-food chain executives, but we felt compelled to tip our hat to Herb Peterson, inventor of the Egg McMuffin in 1972.
His eggs Benedict-inspired sandwich introduced the world to fast-food breakfast. We’ll reserve comment on whether or not that’s a good […]

Adios, Mr. McMuffin
We don’t normally go out of our way to mark the passing of fast-food chain executives, but we felt compelled to tip our hat to Herb Peterson, inventor of the Egg McMuffin in 1972.
His eggs Benedict-inspired sandwich introduced the world to fast-food breakfast. We’ll reserve comment on whether or not that’s a good […]

Adios, Mr. McMuffin
We don’t normally go out of our way to mark the passing of fast-food chain executives, but we felt compelled to tip our hat to Herb Peterson, inventor of the Egg McMuffin in 1972.
His eggs Benedict-inspired sandwich introduced the world to fast-food breakfast. We’ll reserve comment on whether or not that’s a good […]

Adios, Mr. McMuffin
We don’t normally go out of our way to mark the passing of fast-food chain executives, but we felt compelled to tip our hat to Herb Peterson, inventor of the Egg McMuffin in 1972.
His eggs Benedict-inspired sandwich introduced the world to fast-food breakfast. We’ll reserve comment on whether or not that’s a good […]