A medical flight left Antarctica for New Zealand on Tuesday to evacuate an American worker in serious medical condition, after blizzard conditions eased enough to allow for the landing.
The man’s identity and condition have not been disclosed. Few winter evacuations of sick workers have been undertaken from Antarctica, but they include a dramatic midwinter flight in 1999, with blazing fuel barrels to light the runway, to pick up a U.S. woman doctor at a South Pole station.
In the latest evacuation, A New Zealand air force Orion airplane with three medical staff aboard landed on an ice runway at the U.S.
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The number of dengue cases in the capital continued to escalate with 64 more patients testing positive Saturday for the vector-borne disease, taking the total number of cases to 1,716.
With four deaths due to dengue so far and 70 cases on a daily basis in the capital, the Commonwealth Games host city can witness worst outbreak of the deadly disease in the last five years, according to data.
According to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi, 1,153 dengue cases and three deaths were reported in 2009, 1,312 cases and two deaths in 2008, 548 cases and one death in 2007, and 3,366 cases and 36 deaths in 2006.
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Senior doctors are accusing Scotland’s largest health board of ignoring their views on matters of patient safety – putting the care of children at risk.
The British Medical Association (BMA) has written to the chief executive of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (GGC), Robert Calderwood, asking for an independent investigation into the way services for vulnerable young people are being run.
The unusual step followed clashes between consultants and managers about changes to the service, which doctors said were being imposed at short notice.
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Phoning a bank, visiting the doctor, ordering a pizza, or dealing with tradesmen – these are the tasks which most of us take for granted, but for deaf people they can be a mountainous challenge.
In the past, deaf people who needed to communicate over the phone had two choices – hire a sign language interpreter, or use a system commonly known as Typetalk.
The former is expensive, and can be slow to arrange. The latter enables a caller to communicate with hearing people remotely, by typing their message and having it read out by a hearing person – but is slow and far from user-friendly.
Neither method copes well with modern telephone handling systems which require users to select promptly from a menu of options.
Now Scottish charity Deaf Connections is pioneering a new approach, Sign On Screen, which it believes will revolutionise communication for more than 50,000 deaf and hard of hearing people from across the UK. The G
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