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...potential danger to trained professionals who are best equipped to assist them. "We used to provide a huge amount of information about mental health and counseling, and our RAs sometimes felt overwhelmed, or like they were counselors themselves," said Travis Hill, director of residential life at Hamilton, in a press release. "That's bad for them, and bad for the troubled student. Now, we're focused on making RAs a resource to make referrals to trained professionals who can handle potentially dangerous situations...
...Nonetheless, the British government yesterday ordered 300,000 doses of FMD vaccine from Merial in case of a wider outbreak, leading to calls in the national press for the private company to be stripped of profits form the sale should it be confirmed as the source of the infection. FMD causes blistering and fevers in cloven-hoofed animals including cows, sheep, pigs and goats, but rarely infects humans. While rarely fatal, it decimates the health of livestock, reducing weight and milk yield...
Sachs, who is the chief of obstetrics and gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, will also assume the role of senior vice president in charge of all medically related activities, the press release said. Sachs has been at Beth Israel since 1989, and he also spent time working at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in the early 1980s...
...study’s authors expressed great surprise at the intense press coverage their paper had garnered in a wide range of media outlets ranging from national and international newspapers to late-night TV. Stories about the study ran in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post, and was remarked about on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno...
...bridge was deemed "structurally deficient" starting in 1990. That didn't result in an emergency repair order, but rather an intention to replace the bridge by 2020 - not unusual, evidently, since the designation doesn't suggest imminent danger. According to Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, speaking Thursday afternoon at a press conference, there are no fewer 70,000 to 80,000 bridges in the U.S. in the same category; at least another 80,000 are considered "functionally obsolete," or not up to current design standards, another label that fails to testify to a structure's safety for travel...