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...Baise said. “We’d like to be, as a team, around .250 and .300, and that’s the stat that really matters.” NO. 1 PENN STATE 3, HARVARD 0Penn State showed why it is the current number one team in the country, decisively beating Harvard in a 3-0 (30-13, 30-13, 30-20) sweep on Friday night at Rec Hall in State College, Penn.“Penn State is a really great team,” sophomore Shaun Mansour said. “It was a great...
...stripe for a total of 14 points.“That’s what we need from Max,” Amaker said. “We need him to make a splash and make his presence felt.”Harvard made 21 free throws, double the number of its opponent’s attempts from the line, but the Crimson made only four three-pointers, going zero-for-six from behind the arc in the second half. The Cornell transition game was on full display, as Harvard’s 16 turnovers...
...five hospitals in her hometown, and died en route to a hospital in another city. In 2007, the percentage of cases that require immediate medical attention within total emergency transportation for the year was 11% for the general population, 1% for maternal cases, and 8% for children. "These [numbers] are not high," says James Kondo, president and vice chairman of Health Policy Institute, Japan, a Tokyo-based healthcare think-tank, "but when things go wrong in these areas, it could be fatal." The number of emergency transportation cases for Japan hit 4.92 million in 2007, and the number of serious...
...population of Japan ages - with a peak expected in 2025 when the number of those aged 75 or older will reach 22 million, or about 19% of the projected total population, compared to 13 million today - the situation is not likely to improve anytime soon. The need for emergency transportation jumped 50% between 1996 and 2006, and 108% for the elderly. One solution, Kondo says, is to increase the number of doctors, which, given the fierce competition for medical school slots in Japan, will take time despite the fact that Japan has fewer doctors and nurses than the average developed...
...also help. So-called "light" and "medium" medical cases fielded by Japan's ambulance system increased by 56% and 58%, respectively, between 1996 and 2006. Last year, Health Minister Yoichi Masuzoe urged communities to help to ease the burden on their hospitals and called for an increase in the number of trained doctors, but his plan has been criticized for lacking specific measures. Child care circles, such as those developed by communities in the Kansai area, are examples of how mothers educate each other on what qualifies as a medical emergency for their children, and what doesn't - a system...