At present, most registered nurses have two-year associate’s degrees. No state requires a four-year degree for initial licensing or afterward. Under a bill, lawmakers are considering as part of a national push to raise educational standards for nurses, even as the health care industry faces staffing shortages. New registered nurses would have to earn bachelor’s degrees within 10 years […]
Smoking can be acquainted to cancer, heart disease and other major health problems. Women who smoke during pregnancy put themselves and their unborn babies at risk for numerous health problems. The jeopardy of smoking or even second-hand smoking during the duration of pregnancy includes premature birth, birth defects and infant death and pregnancy complications for […]
For the tiny South Pacific Island nation December 30, Friday has been skipped this year as it ditched a time-zone alliance with the United States and moved its time zone 24 hours ahead to catch up with Asia, New Zealand and Australia. In a move to make it easier for Samoa to trade with key […]
Boston music student, Muchen Hsieh at the New England Conservatory, traveled to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Tuesday. Christine O’Brien, a spokeswoman for the Philadelphia police, who helped Hsieh track down the missing instrument, said Hsieh realized she had forgotten the instrument after she was picked up from the bus station. She blamed her absent-mindedness on travel […]
Pillows filled the air marked with the names of bosses; teachers and exam subjects filled Shanghai as a massive pillow battle was staged. The yearly event was on its fifth year with much of its participants from stressed young office workers and students. The event was held for nights of pillow fighting before Christmas Day […]
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) said that its twin spacecraft are on their way to arrive back-to-back at the moon after a 3½-month journey. The Grail probes – short for Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory, the $496 million mission, won’t land on the moon’s surface but rather orbit to study the uneven lunar gravity field. […]
A SWEET tooth doesn’t just add pounds to your belly, it also causes your skin to age prematurely, and making you look older than you really are. Diana van Heemst at Leiden University in the Netherlands, who led a research team, divided 569 healthy volunteers into three groups according to whether they had low, medium […]
In northern Uganda, large areas are experiencing an outbreak of nodding syndrome, a mysterious disease that causes young children and adolescents to nod violently when they eat food. The syndrome may be an unusual form of epilepsy that might be linked to the parasitic worm responsible for river blindness. The recent outbreaks affected the districts […]
The Washington Wizards fans greeted Kris Humphries relentlessly with boos when he was first introduced. Kris Humphries is famous for his short lived-72 day, grandiose-$10 million marriage to Kim Kardashian. Maybe the fans were ‘Keeping up with the Kardashians’. The booing reached its peak when Humphries was about to attempt a free throw in the […]
Grammy-award winning Canadian singer and songwriter, Michael Buble is becoming the virtual Santa Claus for players of the popular Facebook game “CityVille.” Players of “CityVille” will be able to socialize with his personal avatar which talks and sings, as well as a holiday bonfire and presents that he himself would like under his own Christmas […]
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