Rheumatic Fever

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Rheumatic Fever

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 18 hours ago - 1 reports

Doctors seek help to mend broken hearts

A simple swab can diagnose a Third World disease that's striking down kids from New Zealand's poorer areas. District Health Boards are using part of an extra $21 million cash injection to expand a programme in our schools to stem acute rheumatic fever ... [Published New Zealand Herald - 18 hours ago]

Entities: Rheumatic Fever, Auckland, Acute pharyngitis, Strep Throat, Vaccine

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

Diana Lennon: Our future wasted

You've seen the pictures of large numbers of people with mattresses on the floor, small houses where families crowd together because rents are too high. Close contact spreads infectious disease.Rheumatic fever is a barometer of the delivery of healthcare ... [Published New Zealand Herald - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Rheumatic Fever, Pneumonia, Infectious Diseases, Health Care

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 1 reports

University of Otago

Family counts blessings after superbug scare

A young father-of-three is learning to walk again after a terrifying battle with the deadly flesh-eating disease necrotising fasciitis.Rick Teal, 33, of Wellington, was at work last month when he noticed a nagging pain in his right leg.Within half an ... [Published Southland Times - 19 hours ago]

Entities: University of Otago, Wellington (New Zealand), Infection

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Tariana Turia

Maori Party turning focus on poverty

BRUNT: Tariana TuriaMaori people have borne the brunt of the last lean years - so the Maori Party has been pleased to bring a focus on poverty to this year's Budget, co-leader Tariana Turia says.Its three MPs had punched above their weight by using their ... [Published Wanganui Chronicle - May 17 2013]

Entities: Tariana Turia, Maori Party (NZ), Rheumatic Fever, New Zealand National Party, Loan Sharking

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

University of the Free State

Petronel Malan to perform at the Odeion Concert Hall of the University of the Free State

As part of a national concert tour, South African pianist, Petronel Malan will perform for Bloemfontein audiences in July with a recital in the Odeion Concert Hall of the University of the Free State. Having last performed in Bloemfontein during 2005, ... [Published Media Update South Africa - May 17 2013]

Entities: Petronel Malan, University of the Free State, Bloemfontein

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Studies from Central Hospital Further Understanding of Cardiology Research

(NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Heart Disease Weekly -- Data detailed on Cardiology Research have been presented. According to news reporting originating from Enshi, People's Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, ... [Published NewsRX - May 17 2013]

Entities: Cardiology, Enshi (China), Patient, Autonomic Nervous System, Rheumatic Fever

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 2 reports

Take the time to plan homes and communities - Caritas (Fuseworks)

Rushing legislation to implement new housing policy could actually undermine promising new housing initiatives in the 2013 Budget, says Catholic social justice agency Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand.Caritas Director Julianne Hickey welcomes the recognition ... [Published Yahoo!Xtra - May 17 2013]

Entities: Well-being, New Zealand, Rheumatic Fever

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Budget 2013: Lean Pickings for Those Most in Need

The background to the 2013 Budget is the fact that social service agencies throughout the country are facing record demand for their support services. Our networks of social workers, counsellors, nurses and care workers, budget advisors, community housing ... [Published Scoop - May 17 2013]

Entities: Action, Child Poverty, Fitness, Rheumatic Fever

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 3 reports

An inadequate response all around

The Budget is an unimaginative and inadequate response to a dire need to address the job crisis, child poverty and housing availability. It does not do enough to support struggling families and continues to prioritise short-term debt reduction over jobs ... [Published New Zealand Herald - May 16 2013]

Entities: Rheumatic Fever, Child Poverty, misleading, Fitness, warrants

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 3 reports

Confirmed: Meridian Energy next cab off rank

The Government has announced Meridian Energy is the next State-Owned Energy company to be partially sold.In unveiling Budget 2013, Finance Minister Bill English says Treasury has been instructed to ready the company for partial sale in the second half ... [Published Radio New Zealand - May 16 2013]

Entities: Meridian Energy Ltd, Christchurch (New Zealand), Bill English (NZ Politician)

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 4 reports

Carer payment law change attacked

A law change to allow family members to be paid for looking after disabled relatives will leave many carers with little extra in the pocket, the Green Party says.Health Minister Tony Ryall today announced $23 million a year would be set aside over the ... [Published Otago Daily Times - May 16 2013]

Entities: Tony Ryall, Catherine Delahunty, Ministry of Health, Rheumatic Fever, Disability

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

Budget boosts support for low-income families

Low-income families receive considerable further assistance in Budget 2013 to improve their quality of life, Finance Minister Bill English and Wh?nau Ora Minister Tariana Turia say.Mr English, who chairs the Ministerial Committee on Poverty, says taxpayers ... [Published Noodls - May 16 2013]

Entities: Tariana Turia, Child Poverty, Rheumatic Fever, Bill English (NZ Politician)

Quotes

"I wish there was something I could have spotted earlier so I could have helped."

Doctors seek help to mend broken hearts [Published New Zealand Herald - 18 hours ago]

"I don't know how people do it otherwise. And your family and friends are your cheer squad. But yeah, it was definitely pretty freaky."

Family counts blessings after superbug scare [Published Southland Times - 19 hours ago]

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Doctors seek help to mend broken hearts [Published New Zealand Herald - 18 hours ago]
Diana Lennon: Our future wasted [Published New Zealand Herald - 19 hours ago]
Family counts blessings after superbug scare [Published Southland Times - 19 hours ago]
McDaniel kept plugging at school even as mom [Published MySanAntonio - May 18 2013]
Maori Party turning focus on poverty [Published Wanganui Chronicle - May 17 2013]
Variety of diseases transmitted by ticks [Published The Star Gazette - Moose Lake - May 17 2013]
Petronel Malan to perform at the Odeion Concert... [Published Media Update South Africa - May 17 2013]
Studies from Central Hospital Further Understan... [Published NewsRX - May 17 2013]
Take the time to plan homes and communities - C... [Published Yahoo!Xtra - May 17 2013]
Take the time to plan homes and communities – C... [Published Scoop - May 17 2013]
Budget 2013: Lean Pickings for Those Most in Need [Published Scoop - May 17 2013]
Gordon Campbell on the 2013 Budget [Published Scoop - May 17 2013]
‘Budget 2013: Delivering progress and optimism’ [Published Scoop - May 16 2013]
An inadequate response all around [Published New Zealand Herald - May 16 2013]
NZMA welcomes increased health spending [Published Voxy.co.nz - May 16 2013]
Confirmed: Meridian Energy next cab off rank [Published Radio New Zealand - May 16 2013]
Sadarjung Hospital doctors say two deaths not t... [Published KeralaNext.com - May 16 2013]
A MANA Analysis of the 2013 Budget [Published Scoop - May 16 2013]
Whanau Ora gets financial boost in Budget [Published Radio New Zealand - May 16 2013]
Carer payment law change attacked [Published Otago Daily Times - May 16 2013]
Budget 2013: Delivering progress and optimism [Published Beehive.govt.nz - May 16 2013]
Budget announcements on child poverty a good start [Published Scoop - May 16 2013]
Budget 'a missed opportunity' for the nation's ... [Published Yahoo!Xtra - May 16 2013]
Greens slug Government's plan to subsidise purc... [Published Interest.co.nz - May 16 2013]
Bill English: Full Budget Speech 2013 [Published Scoop - May 16 2013]
Budget: Govt puts loan sharks on notice [Published 3 News - May 16 2013]
Budget: Govt's poverty response 'weak' [Published 3 News - May 16 2013]
Credit rating agency happy with Budget [Published Interest.co.nz - May 16 2013]
Budget 'doesn’t do enough for growing social pr... [Published Voxy.co.nz - May 16 2013]
Budget 2013: Govt considers WoF for rental housing [Published New Zealand Herald - May 16 2013]

Blogs

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Uneasy Lies the Head That Wears the Flu [Published Science-Based Medicine - Apr 19 2013] Infectious diseases (ID), as those who read my not so secret other blog know, is without a doubt the most interesting speciality of medicine. Every interesting disease is infectious in etiology. What is cool about ID is that it has connections into almost ...
Dr. Carroll on Holy Saturday night in Haiti [Published H5N1 - Mar 31 2013] Via his blog Dying in Haiti, Dr. Carroll sends the world a message: Holy Saturday Night in Haiti.This is how Marie has been trying to sleep for months. She cannot lie down because she cannot breathe.Her exam today revealed a very tight mitral valve. The ...
Novartis partnership in Zambia tackles rheumati... [Published RDD Blog - Mar 04 2013] By Mia Burns Novartis announced last week an effort to eradicate rheumatic heart disease in Zambia through a collaboration with Lusaka University Teaching Hospital, the Ministry of Health in Zambia, the Pan-African Cardiology Society, and Massachusetts ...
Harvard Medical School content to be part of He... [Published The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) - Jan 16 2013] p> Orca Health's HeartDecide app is now powered by data from Harvard Medical School, thanks to a newly-formed partnership. As AllThingsD reports , the new union has already yielded a wealth of new content for iOS devices. The app, which is designed ...