Care

Slain doctors brought medical care to Afghanistan (AP)

August 8th, 2010

In this undated photo released by David L. Evans, Tom Little, top center in blue shirt with baseball cap, optometrist and team leader with the International Assistance Mission, joins villagers and other team members in Afghanistan. Members of a medical team, including Little, were shot and killed by militants as they were returning from providing eye treatment and other health care in remote villages in northern Afghanistan, a spokesman for the team said Saturday, Aug. 7, 2010.  (AP Photo/Provided by David L. Evans) NO SALESAP - Friends of the members of a medical team gunned down in Afghanistan said Sunday the doctors brought some of the first toothbrushes and eyeglasses villagers had ever seen…

Dutch child care wants to keep control of sailor (AP)

July 20th, 2010

AP - Child care authorities are asking a Dutch court to extend their guardianship over 14-year-old sailor Laura Dekker for another year, a move that would further delay her plan…

Poor get better health care in post-quake Haiti (AP)

May 11th, 2010

In this May 7, 2010 photo, doctors look at an X-ray using sunlight coming through a door's window in an emergency room at the General Hospital of Port-au-Prince.  From cracked hospitals to tent-camp clinics, aid groups are working furiously to treat patients amid failing generators and disappearing supplies while simultaneously struggling to build institutions from the rubble. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)AP - The 6-month-old baby boy was rushed to the field hospital near death in a donated ambulance, his body trembling in shock.


Tags: Haiti, health, better, postquake, Poor

To Europeans, U.S. Universal Health Care Is Long Overdue (Time.com)

March 23rd, 2010

Time.com - Europe can’t understand why it took so long for the U.S. to pass universal health care. Now that Americans are finally closing in, they’re getting a little gentle…