| | myLot Discussions| 14-year-old Iowa girl abandoned under Nebraska law | | OMAHA, Neb. - A 14-year-old Iowa girl was abandoned Tuesday in Nebraska under its safe haven law, but the person who left her could face prosecution in the girl's home state, Nebraska health officials said. The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services said the girl is from Council Bluffs, Iowa, just across the Missouri River from Omaha. She was left at Creighton University Medical Center on Tuesday afternoon, and her case was reported to Iowa authorities.The girl is the 17th child overall and the first from another state to be abandoned since the law took effect in July.Many children left to date under the safe-haven law have been teenagers or preteens. The law mentions "child" without defining it, and as a result encompasses anyone up to age 19.Nine children abandoned last month were siblings abandoned by a father who said he was overwhelmed.(follow link for full story)http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081008/ap_on_re_us/safe_haven;_ylt=AtIVUPmNBpqLc3iZq3CnvHas0NUEThis is insane. People are now just free to abandon their kids? I think the law on this needs to be rewritten and soon.Could you abandon your... | |
| | Now, ‘exercise beds’ to help hospitalised patients recover? | | A US expert says that patients can be encouraged to exercise with the help of a hospital bed that folds down at one end to place its occupant onto a treadmill.Charles Filipi, a surgeon at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, has even created a design for such a bed.He thinks that “exercise beds” can prove quite worthwhile for obese patients who are required to work out as part of their treatment.He says that these beds can do away with the involvement of numerous staff to get the obese into a standing position, and to find a treadmill for them to work out.Filipi suggests that the treadmill be made into the hospital bed, reports New Scientist magazine.According to his design, the treadmill will sit in a vertical position at the end of the bed when not in use.When the patient needs to exercise, the bed slowly tips into the vertical position, planting the treadmill onto the ground ready to be used.A patient can easily access the treadmill with minimal assistance from anyone else, ...... | |
| | Calcium, vitamin D cut stress fractures | | MAHA, Neb. - Very active young women who took higher-than-recommended doses of calcium and vitamin D supplements for eight weeks had fewer stress fractures than women who were given dummy pills, a study of Naval recruits showed. Experts called the results encouraging and of interest to young female athletes as well as women in the military. "What really surprised us is that calcium/vitamin D supplements made a significant difference in such a short period of time," said lead researcher Joan Lappe of Creighton University. "Frankly, we were not sure we would see any statistically significant results in only eight weeks." The study, funded by the Department of Defense, was presented recently at the Orthopaedic Research Society's annual meeting in San Diego. Stress fractures are the most common type of injury seen in military trainees, particularly women, and are also prevalent in some athletes. | |
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