Tag: earthquake
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Italy grieves as state funeral held for victims of powerful quake
Amongst the 35 coffins laid out in a sports hall were small caskets holding the bodies of an 18-month-old baby and a nine-year-old girl, two of the 21 children who are known to have died when the quake hit central Italy early on Wednesday. “What we need is a reconstruction in record time.
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An Earthquake Strikes? A Flood Hits? Grab the Insulin!
Wars. Terrorist attacks. Earthquakes. Floods.They are the stuff of front-page news, the kinds of stories we associate with a scramble for health care workers whose expertise is emergency medicine – people who know how to stitch up lacerations, set bones, transfuse blood.Until recently, the more mundane health needs typically associated with…
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Email interventions may offer a way to better wellbeing
By Kathryn Doyle (Reuters Health) – An email-based program may help decrease stress and increase confidence and feelings of gratitude, according to an unusual study from Finland. It’s not clear how interesting these findings are, said Dr. Giovanni A. Fava of the University of Bologna and the State University of New York at Buffalo, who…