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...uncomfortably dry?as low as 5% humidity is common, compared with 30% in the earth's temperate zones. Some doctors advise using saline sprays to prevent nasal passages from drying out, which makes them more susceptible to colds and other germs, and wearing glasses rather than contact lenses to ward off dry and itchy eyes. But don't expect the carriers to instigate change. "If airlines increased cabin humidity beyond the customary level, condensation inside the aircraft's interior walls would trickle downward after landing and eventually enter the plane's sensitive electronics system," says Luft-hansa's chief medical...
...When you get upstairs in the kids' ward, the tiny nurse about this size is my wife," says the large EMT, gesturing. "She'll take care...
...sometimes even a star has trouble getting what she wants. First, says Stone, the zoo sent its own medics; then a fire engine arrived, and then paramedics wanted to take them to a hospital that had no trauma ward. When the apologetic--and panicky--director of the zoo, Manuel Mollinedo, arrived at the hospital, Stone says she told him, "Look, this is all we want from you: we don't want you to do any sensationalized press, and we want you to move the animal into quarantine. "So the first thing the zoo did was a fund raiser with...
...Finally, we get an ambulance, and they insist that they have to take him to Glendale Hospital, which does not have a trauma ward...
...know it didn't have a trauma ward...