Twelve people on stretchers, including a stroke patient with a bleeding brain and a trauma patient transported by helicopter, were lined up in the entrance hallway at Manitoba’s largest emergency department on Sunday evening because no beds were available inside, a physician at the hospital said.
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Veterans Affairs reverses decision, opens beds for Allied war vets
Veterans Affairs will expand access to Halifax’s Camp Hill Veterans Memorial Hospital after a veteran was denied access because his wartime service wasn’t with the Canadian military. Now the minister of veterans affairs says 25 beds will be opened to Allied and modern-day veterans.
Chimpanzee beds are cleaner than ours, study finds
Chimpanzees appear to keep tidier sleeping arrangements than humans do. That’s one finding of a recent study that evaluated the microbes and arthropods found in the treetop beds that chimpanzees make each night. Who knew that our closest animal relatives, the great apes — specifically chimpanzees — keep tidier bedrooms than we humans do? A group of researchers in […]
No mental health beds planned for new children’s hospital in Saskatoon
There are no plans to include in-patient beds for children and teens with mental health problems at Saskatchewan’s new children’s hospital.
California couple charged with torture after police rescued their 13 children, some of whom were chained to beds
Riverside County Sheriff’s Department via Reuters A couple in California was charged with torture after their thirteen malnourished children were rescued from a house on Monday. Some of the children, ranging in age from 2 to 29, were found chained to beds. Police rescued the siblings after a 17-year-old girl escaped from the house and […]
30 Things For People Who Basically Live In Their Beds
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The beds on the bus go zzz-zzz-zzz: Introducing the Snoozeliner
You’ve fallen asleep on the London Tube. Maybe you’ll wake up in time for your stop. Maybe you’ll be woken up by the conductor at the end of the line in Cockfosters, 29 stops past your own. Maybe you’ll be woken up much sooner but by a creeper who suspiciously smells of gravy. Who knows! […]
NHS hospital patients could stay in PRIVATE houses to free up hospital beds
A CARE scheme which could see NHS hospital patients staying with private home owners in accommodation rented Airbnb-style provoked a backlash from critics last night. Daily Express :: Health Feed
The Best Beds in the Skies
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Sleeping in separate beds? Chronic Sleep Deprivation driving HALF the nation apart
Last week we were told a healthy amount of sleep every night ‘is better for you than money’. Insomnia can drive people to dark places, ironically where they can’t get to sleep. But did you know terrible sleeping habits have driven almost half of Britons to sleep in separate beds? And as many as one […]