Dr. Bernard Thébaud lives in two very different worlds. As a specialist in the Stollery Children's Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, he cares for tiny babies, many of whom struggle for breath after being born weeks before they are due. Across town, in his laboratory in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta, Dr. Thébaud...
Dr. Bernard Thébaud lives in two very different worlds. As a specialist in the Stollery Children's Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, he cares for tiny babies, many of whom struggle for breath after being born weeks before they are due. Across town, in his laboratory in the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry at the University of Alberta, Dr. Thébaud...
I've just heard that sales of one of my novels and a talk I gave at a literary lunch have raised over £900 for two charities: the Portsmouth Hospitals Rocky Appeal and the Wessex Cancer Trust. I donated copies of my crime thriller novel, In Cold Daylight , to the Portsmouth Hospitals Rocky Appeal shop where they were snapped up within one week thus raising £90.00 towards the Three Peaks...
Currently on his fourth deployment to Afghanistan, Royal Navy Surgeon Commander Graham Hill believes that this is his hardest tour so far. Cdr Hill, who is normally based at the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth, is currently saving lives and limbs in his post at the operating table of Camp Bastion's field hospital in Helmand province. He deployed to Afghanistan in October 2009 for an eight-week...
Hours of analysing snoring sounds have paid off for a group of researchers from The University of Queensland and Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital. Led by Dr Udantha Abeyratne from the
(PhysOrg.com) -- Hours of analysing snoring sounds have paid off for a group of researchers from The University of Queensland and Brisbane's Princess Alexandra Hospital.
Here is a brief personal family story that links two immense world-historical events, the fall of Singapore and 9/11, and ponders the mysteries of destiny. I never met by father’s brother Bert. He was swept up in the gigantic events of the Second World War. Barely weeks after marrying, he was called up and sent to the Far East, leaving his newly pregnant bride behind. It was his misfortune to...
Patients whose melanoma has spread to one or more lymph nodes face a decreased risk of the deadly skin cancer returning if they have radiation treatment following the removal of the nodes, a new Australian study shows. In a paper to be presented Monday at the American Society for Radiation Oncology annual meeting in Chicago, lead researcher Dr. Bryan Burmeister, a radiation oncologist at Princess...
High-risk melanoma patients who are treated with radiation after surgery have a significantly lower risk of their cancer returning to the lymph nodes (19 percent), compared to those patients who do not have radiation therapy (31 percent), according to the first randomized study of its kind presented at the plenary session, November 2, 2009, at the 51st Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation...
Financial challenge Its regrettable that I have to start this edition with a description of our current financial position. At the Board meeting yesterday, the Director of Finance reported that at the end of September we were over £2m overspent. This is despite warnings earlier in the year that the organisation needed to return to balance. The Board collectively expressed its grave concern and...
I’ve just returned from signing copies of my novels at the Rocky Appeal shop based in Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth. The Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust £3 million Rocky Appeal is for new state of the art digital keyhole operating theatres which will have features that are the first of their kind in the United Kingdom and will be sited in the new, re-developed Queen Alexandra Hospital,...
A 55-year-old woman is fighting for her life in the Princess Alexandra Hospital after being hit by a car at Holland Park West on Brisbane's southside last night.
More local news from in and around the Hampshire areas from Dibben and Dibben as The Princess Royal will be in Portsmouth, Gosport and Fareham to meet and dine with employees and leaders at six local establishments. She will be at HMS Victory in Portsmouth Naval Base on the evening of October 21 where she will join a Trafalgar Night dinner in keeping with tradition, and in her role as Commodore in...
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