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Friday, June 22, 2012

Mubarak health scare started with fall in bathroom, lawyer says

Hosni Mubarak was convicted of ordering security forces to kill anti-government protesters and this month was given a life term.Mubarak developed a blood clot when he hurt his neck in the fall, his lawyer saysHe's in the ICU at Maadi Military HospitalMubarak's in the same hospital where his predecessor died

Cairo (CNN) -- The recent health crisis for former Egyptian ruler Hosni Mubarak started when he slipped in a prison bathroom, his attorney told CNN Thursday.

The ousted strongman hurt his neck and developed a blood clot after the fall in Tora prison, attorney Farid El Deeb said.

El Deeb said Mubarak was taken off life-support equipment and his health improved on Wednesday, a day after grim and contradictory news emerged over the 84-year-old man's health.

The state-run Middle East News Agency reported that he was "clinically dead." The nation's military rulers denied the report, with one general saying Mubarak's health was deteriorating and he was in critical condition.

Mubarak was transferred from Tora prison to Maadi Military Hospital. Now, El Deeb said, his ailing client is out of a coma and under the care of doctors at the facility's intensive care unit.

He said he had warned before that "the prison hospital was not equipped with well-trained nurses or personnel to assist him or proper equipment."

The lawyer said he hadn't been informed about how the latest bout of health problems started because he was in Lebanon when Mubarak fell sick.

"I was getting information by phone with a minute-to-minute update, but I learned that he fell when I returned to Cairo," he said.

The hospital, located minutes away from Tora prison, is under heavy security. Dozens of Mubarak supporters and opponents stood outside the hospital Wednesday and argued. Security forces stepped in to prevent clashes.

Maadi is the same hospital where former president Anwar Sadat died after he was shot in 1981. Mubarak became president after the assassination. He ruled Egypt with an iron hand and as a staunch ally of the United States, which gives the nation $1.3 billion a year in military aid.

More than 800 people died and 6,000 were wounded during the uprising that ended Mubarak's 29-year rule in February 2011.

Mubarak and his former interior minister, Habib al-Adly, were convicted of ordering security forces to kill anti-government protesters and this month were given life terms. But other top aides -- as well as Mubarak's two sons, who had been tried on corruption charges -- were acquitted.

El Deeb appealed the verdict four days after it was issued. He has until August 1 to submit a memo indicating the reasons for the appeal

Prior to his sentencing, Mubarak was already suffering from health problems; he attended court on a gurney. He had been in Tora for 17 days until he was transferred to Maadi.

Egypt's Presidential Election Commission has delayed, from Thursday until a date to be announced, the release of the results of Egypt's presidential election, state-run Nile TV reported Wednesday.

"The committee has not completed the verification of a total of 400 electoral violation reports submitted by the two presidential candidates," said Tarek Shibl, a senior member of electoral committee. "Most probably the announcement of the election results will be delayed a day or two but nothing is final yet."

The results of last weekend's runoff between Ahmed Shafik, the last prime minister to serve under Mubarak, and Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, remain uncertain.

Shafik and Mosri each proclaimed himself winner in the race to succeed Mubarak 16 months after a popular uprising ended his three-decade rule.

Military rulers dissolved the lower house of parliament last week, extending their power and sparking accusations of a coup.

The military council announced it had full legislative authority. The Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest Islamist group, was the dominant party in the parliament.

Under an interim constitutional declaration released Monday, the military council retains the power to make laws and budget decisions until a new constitution is written and a new parliament elected. The declaration says Supreme Council members "shall decide all matters related to military affairs, including the appointment of its leaders." The president has the power to declare war, it says, but only "after the approval" of the Supreme Council.

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Health scare for Big B

Amitabh Bachchan undergoes CT scan at Mumbai hospital Megastar Amitabh Bachchan, who had an abdominal surgery two months back, on Tuesday (April 10) underwent a CT scan at Nanavati hospital after he complained of excruciating pain.

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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

Mariah Carey Interview: Discusses Nick Cannon's Health Scare, Says He Needs 'Lifestyle Change'

Singer explains how husband Nick Cannon's illness hit the couple "very hard."

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Monday, February 6, 2012

Some Say New York City Health Ads Should Inspire, Not Scare

The ads are the latest installment in a campaign by the Bloomberg administration to jolt New Yorkers out of bad health habits; other ads, which have run in the transit system and on local broadcast outlets and the Internet, have depicted smokers who lost fingertips or their ability to speak normally.

The city’s approach — in one recent ad it sharpened its message by editing off a model’s leg — has drawn some criticism for its negativity. But it is not the health department’s first brush with controversy: In 2009, it ran an ad that suggested drinking a can of soda a day could add 10 pounds of fat a year. Internal e-mails exposed dissent about that claim among officials of the department.

On a lighter note, the department has been running an ad that claims a person would have to walk the three miles from Union Square in Manhattan to Brooklyn to burn off the calories in a 20-ounce soda.

The department explained its approach on Sunday in a statement: “When science tells us that smoking does not cause lung cancer or that obesity is not driving an epidemic of Type 2 diabetes, we will stop depicting those facts in ads. Until then we are going to accurately convey the facts in our advertising — advertising that has helped to successfully reduce smoking in New York City to a historic low of 14 percent, saving thousands of lives.”

The ads are far from the first to try to frighten people away from risky behavior. Startling and disgusting imagery has been a staple of prevention ads for decades, even before an egg sizzling in a frying pan represented “your brain on drugs.”

That ad, which had its debut in 1987 and has been copied and parodied ever since, was a vivid counterpoint to the “Just say no” campaign led by Nancy Reagan, the first lady. It was an experiment that sparked a variety of arresting messages, said Steve Pasierb, president of the Partnership at Drugfree.org, then known as the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.

Still, Mr. Pasierb said, scare tactics do not always have the desired effect. As an example, he cited efforts to reduce cigarette smoking among teenagers by running ads that depicted diseased lungs and other potential long-term effects. Focus groups and other studies of effectiveness showed that teenagers were undeterred and continued to take up smoking, he said.

“Folks tell us all the time: ‘You need to tell kids that doing drugs is going to kill them,’ ” Mr. Pasierb said. But because “14-year-olds think they’re bulletproof,” he said, scare tactics like that rarely work.

“The definition of a scare tactic is a non-credible risk message,” Mr. Pasierb said.

Beth Anne Sacks, a Manhattan actress and singer who posed for one of the ads the city health department started running last month, said she herself was not scared by the ads, especially the one showing her trudging up the stairs of a subway station. Despite having been paid $300 for her appearance, Ms. Sacks said the ads would not be effective with obese people like her and suggested that the health department instead try to inspire overweight people to eat fresh fruit and vegetables and get more exercise.

In Miami and some other cities, local health departments are doing just that: In a campaign called Make Healthy Happen, residents of South Florida are being encouraged to walk more and to make wiser choices at vending machines.

“We wanted to be more positive with how we dealt with it,” said Ann-Karen Weller, who is overseeing the campaign, which was financed by a $14.7 million grant of federal stimulus money in 2010.

Ms. Weller said the department would not know how effective the campaign had been until its results were measured later this year.

In Grand Rapids, Mich., a three-year campaign called Project Fit wrapped up at the end of December. Dr. Hye-Jin Paek, who researches health-related communications, said the positive message used there was less likely to have the unintended consequences of victimizing obese people.

Dr. Paek, who recently left the faculty of Michigan State University to return to South Korea, said her research on anti-smoking ads concluded that “fear appeals could work, but most of the time could backfire.” She said “a wealth of literature” showed that appealing to people’s fears was not effective in reducing tobacco or marijuana smoking. It may be more useful in preventing the use of highly addictive substances like methamphetamine, she said.

Mr. Pasierb cited shocking ads aimed at cutting methamphetamine use in Montana as the sort of scare tactic that may sometimes be necessary. But he cautioned that with cigarette smoking and teenagers, a message of empowerment was significantly more effective.

He cited the Truth campaign of the American Legacy Foundation, whose ads depicted young people sounding off to tobacco companies. In one, antismoking campaigners pile 1,200 body bags outside the Manhattan offices of one company to illustrate what they said was the daily death toll from smoking.

“You need a multitude of approaches,” Mr. Pasierb said. “No one ad is right for all people.”

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Saturday, January 28, 2012

Demi Moore Health Scare: New Details Emerge About Substance Abuse, Whip-its Accusations

Conflicting reports arise about actress Demi Moore's recent hospitalization.

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Thursday, January 26, 2012

Demi Moore Health Scare: New Details Emerge About Substance Abuse, Whip-its Accusations

Conflicting reports arise about actress Demi Moore's recent hospitalization.

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Saturday, January 21, 2012

PIP Implants : a global health scare

More than 400,000 women throughout the world have potentially faulty PIP implants. These implants, of which more than 80% were destined for export out of France, are today at the heart of a global scientific scandal.

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