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Primavera pretty
Spring/summer 2011 is about bold splashes of colour and vibrancy. In theory, and on the runway, this sounds great. However, in real life how do we make this season’s fuchsia lip or cobalt blue eye work? Simple… focus on a few key products, texture and finish. After a long winter during which our [...]
Cholera death toll in Haiti reaches 142
People wait for treatment in a hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) SANTO DOMINGO, Oct. 22 (Xinhua) — At least 142 people have died of cholera in the last 72 hours in Haiti, and some 1,600 more are infected, Haiti’s Public Health and Population Ministry said on Friday. According [...]
Diarrhea outbreak kills over 130 in Haiti
People receive serum in a hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Thursday, Oct. 21, 2010. (Xinhua/AFP Photo) SANTO DOMINGO, Oct. 21 (Xinhua) — More than 130 people have died in a recent diarrhea outbreak in Haiti, health authorities there said Thursday. According to information reaching here from Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital, authorities said that the deaths were [...]
Haiti cholera epidemic kills over 200, fears of wider outbreak
Patients suffering from diarrhea and other cholera symptoms are helped by other residents as they wait for treatment at the St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) SANTO DOMINGO, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) — About 208 people have died from a cholera epidemic in Haiti and more than 2,600 [...]
Cholera death toll in Haiti rises to 253
Patients suffering from diarrhea and other cholera symptoms are helped by other residents as they wait for treatment at the St. Nicholas hospital in Saint Marc, Haiti, Friday, Oct. 22, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) by Alejandra del Palacio SANTO DOMINGO, Oct. 24 (Xinhua) — The death toll from a recent cholera outbreak in Haiti has risen [...]
Haiti’s cholera death toll reaches 442
Medics from the Mexican Navy Forces, give medical aid to victims of cholera in Saint-Marc, Haiti, on Nov. 1, 2010. (Xinhua/SEMAR) SANTO DOMINGO, Nov. 3 (Xinhua) — In the last few days, Haiti registered 105 new deaths from cholera, increasing the death toll to 442, Haitian health authorities said on Wednesday. According to information reaching [...]
UN develops alert system for reporting new cholera cases in Haiti
Nurses help a cholera victim into the Hopital de l’Universite d’Etat d’Haiti in Port-au-Prince on November 9, 2010. (Xinhua/AFP) UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 9 (Xinhua) — The United Nations has developed an alert system in Haiti to report new cases or resurgences of water-borne diseases, such as cholera, which has left 544 people dead, UN spokesman [...]
Cholera death toll in Haiti rises to 917
A Haitian resident holds her baby, who is suffering from cholera, at St-Catherine hospital in the slum of Cite-Soleil in Port-au-Prince November 12, 2010. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) SANTO DOMINGO, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) — The number of deaths in Haiti due to the cholera epidemic rose to 917, the Haitian Public Health Ministry said on Sunday. According [...]
Health care system poorly managed in U.S.: report
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) — The United States is falling far behind other developed countries in terms of the health care system, said an article published online Thursday in the Health Affairs magazine. Compared with 10 other industrialized nations, the U.S. health care system is poorly managed on many measures of access, quality, efficiency [...]