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Washington Post – May 11, 2008
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Washington Post – May 11, 2008
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New study shows kids should go rear-centre in cars | HEALTH | NEWS |…
TVNZ – May 11, 2008
Unfortunately, only 28% of children in their study were sittingin that position at the time of the car accident, the researchersreport in the journal Pediatrics. There are obstacles to placing a car seat in the centreposition, Kallan’s team acknowledges. It is physically harder to strap a child, especially a heavierchild, into a centre-positioned seat. A centred child seat can alsomake it difficult for other people to sit in the rear of thecar. But based on the current findings, the researchers write,this centre position is the safest place for babies andtoddlers to ride. The results are based on data from 4,790 car crashes involvingchildren ages 3 and younger that occurred between 1998 and 2006. Atthe time of the accident, 41% of the children were in a car seatpositioned in the right-hand back seat, while 31 percent were inthe left-hand seat.
Uganda: Health Minister Beats Up Nurse
AllAfrica.com – May 11, 2008
Ms Margaret Tageyerawo, a nursing officer at Mulago Hospital Complex, alleges that the minister ". pulled a heap of files on my desk and slapped me on the neck with them… He attempted to slap me with his hand but I ducked and avoided the slap. " GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”);Dr Otaala, however, denies the allegations saying "this is something being framed". But in a 3-page explanation to the executive director of Mulago, Ms Tageyerawo says that while on duty on July 28, 2007, in Ward 3BES (emergency surgical ward), a smartly dressed man walked in and introduced himself as a doctor. "Immediately he sat on [the] admission table facing me," Ms Tageyerawo writes in her August 6, 2007 letter. "I offered a seat but he declined to take it. "The nurse writes that the doctor asked for a file of a patient whom he claimed was being "tossed and forced out" of the hospital. "I did not know this particular patient and the M.
