Of all the things the Pella (Ia.) High baseball team expected to find after their final loss of the 2013 season, Jim Carrey on their bus wasn’t one of them.
Incredibly, that’s precisely what they got after the famous actor bumped into the team at a local Burger King and hopped on board the...
People in most cultures view women with small feet as attractive. Like smooth skin or an hourglass figure, petite feet signal a potential mate's youth and fertility. Because they signal reproductive potential, a preference for mates with these qualities may have evolved in the brains of our...
While global attention has for decades been focused on reducing maternal mortality, population-based data on other causes of death among women of reproductive age has been virtually non-existent. A study conducted by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that...
Hands-only CPR (CPR without mouth-to-mouth resuscitation), may not be the best method for rural or remote areas or for anyone who has to wait more than a few minutes for an ambulance, a new study suggests. New guidelines released by the American Heart Association in 2010 permit the use of...
Vodafone's first rural trial of 4G technology in the Lake Brunner area of the South Island's West Coast runs until the end of July using 700 MHz technology.
Vodafone New Zealand, the company deploying the "last mile" wireless resources switched on the first wave of newly built cell sites under the Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI).
The new supply arrangement allows Chorus to use Huawei's technology to increases the data capacity of existing rural fibre optic cables to connect remote schools, roadside cabinets and cellular sites.
Rural doctors are urging more rural Australians to undertake a painless, at-home bowel cancer test to help reduce deaths by cancer. The call follows recent Cancer Council research which shows that although more than 80% of people aged 50 and over are aware of the simple, at-home screening...
okay well its been my dream to go to japan watching those anime's and all the relationships that happen in them are in rural cities. So i am asking what is a nice place to go and stay that will be good fora highschooler and his friend to live and work
A country doctor has taken out a national award for more than 20 years of dedicated service to his community in northern Victoria. Dr Lindsay Sherriff, who practises in Kerang, has advanced skills in anaesthetics, obstetrics, and child health, said he and his wife Dianne, who is also a doctor...
Jenny Johnson, currently Executive Officer of the Rural Doctors Association of Queensland (RDAQ), will commence duties as the new CEO of the Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) from January. Jenny replaces outgoing CEO, Steve Sant, who began a new role as CEO of the ACT Division of...
A rural specialist obstetrician who has provided decades of exceptional service to the community of Albury-Wodonga on the NSW-Victorian border, and also helped establish a national locum scheme to support overworked rural obstetricians, is the recipient of the Westpac RDAA Rural Doctor of the...
Port Hedland GP Registrar, Dr Sarah McEwan, has been awarded the Westpac RDAA-ACRRM Rural Registrar of the Year Award for 2010, in recognition of her commitment to rural practice and her dedication to providing high quality medical care to the remote communities in her region. Dr McEwan...
Rural health outcomes will be a key focus at GP10 - the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) and Australian Association of Practice Managers (AAPM) combined annual conference. This year, GP10 - Shape Our Future - will be held in Cairns, northern Queensland from 6-9 October...
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the expansion of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS) Rural Community Hospital demonstration program, through the Affordable Care Act. Up to 20 small rural hospitals in selected states will be eligible for enhanced reimbursement for...
The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) is urging the key rural independent MPs to require an incoming Government to introduce formal rural proofing of all proposed health policies and programs. Rural proofing would require policy-makers to genuinely consider the impact of new policies...
The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) says it is staggered that Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott are spending so much time debating whether they will have another election debate when 4600 rural Australians are dying each year because they can't get adequate access to healthcare. "We...
Evansville (Ind.) Courier & Press reports on the struggles rural physicians face in providing care by focusing on Dr. Lloyd "Pat" McGinnis, a family medicine and geriatrics specialist who was "one of only five doctors in Spencer County, a rural area of Southwestern Indiana. ... Doctors...
The AMA today welcomed the Government's updated advice that revised rural incentive payments to rural doctors will not be subject to 46.5 per cent PAYE withholding tax. Rural doctors were recently told that they would be hit with the high tax rate when the Department of Health and Ageing...
The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) welcomes the federal government's acknowledgment last week that the proposed National Health and Hospitals Network reform would take into account all local costs in rural areas and look at a form of national block funding able to...