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“Carrie Underwood covers Women’s Health Magazine - Accidental Sexiness” plus 2 more

“Carrie Underwood covers Women’s Health Magazine - Accidental Sexiness” plus 2 more


Carrie Underwood covers Women’s Health Magazine - Accidental Sexiness

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 09:20 PM PDT

Carrie Underwood covers Women's Health Magazine

Newly married and in the middle of a huge national tour, Carrie Underwood is on a major hot streak. The blond beauty who was just named "Celebrity Ambassador" for Olay Skin Care, sat down with Women's Health Magazine and chatted about how she stays healthy, fit, and connected to her hockey star hubby.

Carrie has been on a tough touring schedule which has taken her to one hundred cities. The poor thing confesses the difficulty she faces from being in different places all the time.

"I sleep with a light on in the bathroom so I can see where I'm at, because I wake up and have no clue!!"

Even though she is on the road a lot, she talks about how she eats healthy and how that has helped her prevent illnesses throughout her tour. That would really be the hardest thing for me. When I go on vacation I think its a free for all to eat whatever I want!

For more on Carrie Underwood, pick up the October 2010 issue of Women's Health Magazine, in stores now!

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Beating Global Health Crises... With Business - ABC News

Posted: 24 Sep 2010 03:26 AM PDT

By JANE E. ALLEN, ABC News Medical Unit

Sept. 24, 2010

Bob McDonald, Gary Cohen and Chuck Slaughter spend much of their time in conference rooms, not operating rooms.

Like doctors, these U.S. business executives are dedicated to improving the health of women and children in the world's poorest countries. But unlike doctors, they wield the tools of modern business to aid some of the most vulnerable people on the planet.

"Four thousand children die a day," because of bad water, said McDonald, the chairman, president and chief executive officer of Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble, a company whose cleaning, beauty, grooming, health and hygiene brands are mainstays in American homes. For the last six years, P&G has contributed 2.4 billion liters of clean water through its Safe Drinking Water Program.

This week, at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York, McDonald announced that P&G would expand the program to provide 2 billion liters of clean water a year by 2020 to people in 20 countries of Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. One packet of its PUR powder converts 10 liters of dirty, potentially disease-causing water into a day's supply of potable water for a family -- for 10 cents per packet, including delivery, he said.

"A dime a day to stay alive. Not a bad deal," said former President Bill Clinton.

Asked what motivated this effort, McDonald told Clinton: "The Procter & Gamble company has been around for 172 years, and over that time, our purpose has always been to touch and improve lives all over the world. We think it's good business as well as good philanthropy, and consumers around the world today want to know what they're buying into when they spend their dollars for products."

He said the company has worked hard to tie some of its brands to causes, such as linking purchases of Pampers to donations of vaccines to eradicate tetanus.

The State Department has been working closely with P&G to provide water purification to areas of Pakistan devastated by the recent catastrophic flooding, according to Richard C. Holbrooke, the State Department's special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. He noted obstacles that must be overcome to assure that the packets get used to protect people from such devastating infectious diseases as dysentery.

One example:

Each packet of water purifier is meant for a 10-gallon jerry can, but when Holbrook visited a camp for displaced flood victims, he was told, "We can't use it, because we don't have 10-gallon jerry cans and if you put it into smaller containers, it smells of chlorine, so no one's using it."

Holbrooke said the solution was simple -- use part of the packet and save the rest -- but the State Department had to find ways to communicate that to illiterate Pakistanis who could not read instructions.

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Posted: 15 Sep 2010 08:09 AM PDT

Nelson E. Bailey learned the hard — and excruciatingly painful — way that the cure can sometimes be worse than the disease.

The Palm Beach County, Fla., judge had surgery last October for diverticulitis, a digestive disease of the large intestine. But the 67-year-old found his stomach pain only became more pronounced following his operation at Good Samaritan Hospital in West Palm Beach.

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While doctors puzzled over Bailey's discomfort, it was a full five months before he was opened back up and found to have a 12-by-12-inch surgical sponge festering inside his body, left there during the initial surgery.

Needless to say, Bailey was angry — and a respected veteran judge is probably the last person a hospital wants to face in court. They reached a settlement for an undisclosed amount with him, but Bailey also insisted he be able to talk about the case publicly.

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"I am not the same person I was before," Bailey told NBC affiliate WPTV in West Palm Beach. "I expected to get the same treatment anybody else got. Didn't turn out that way."

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The Journal of Radiology calls the leaving behind of surgical objects in patients a "highly underestimated problem," and a recent report says that some 1,500 patients in the U.S. find themselves in the same boat as Bailey every year — with foreign matter left in their bodies after surgery. And the most common items left behind are surgical sponges, though not all are as large as the one found in Bailey.

Bailey told the Palm Beach Post newspaper that he was in agony following his surgery, but repeated trips to his primary doctors, and repeated CT scans, failed to pinpoint a reason. Meanwhile, the sponge left in him was soaking up pus and bile, literally rotting him away from the inside.

When he finally had additional surgery in March, Bailey couldn't believe his eyes when doctors showed him what had been left inside him. "I was expecting something the size of a kitchen sponge — I was shocked," he told the Post.

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The sponge had done considerable damage to his insides, he added to WPTV.

"When they opened me up, the medical report shows that [the sponge] was rotting," he said. "Because the sponge was left there and it was rotting, it created perforations in my intestines, so when they removed the sponge, they had to remove a section of my intestines as well."

'They nearly killed him twice'
Amazingly, the left-behind sponge wasn't the only error the hospital made in treating Bailey. He was also given the wrong post-op medicine at the hospital last fall — one that speeded up his heart rate instead of one to lower his blood pressure — and he nearly had a heart attack as a result.

"It was the only time in my life that I knew I was actually dying," Bailey told the Post. His wife, Carol, along with friends, feared the worst.

"Sadly, they nearly killed him twice," fellow county judge Peter Evans said. "If he wasn't such an ornery old coot, they may have."

Indeed, Bailey remains ornery, and he isn't finished pursuing his legal options. He served notice on two radiologists of his intent to sue, and said he plans to sue his surgeon as well. He says his quality of life has been damaged by the medical foul-ups.

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Bailey, with his long beard and gift of gab, is a popular speaker around Florida, performing as a "Florida Cracker Storyteller" from the late 1800s. He often informs and entertains at events with his horse, and he told WPTV he and Carol like nothing so much as to ride across the state on their horses.

"I can no longer contemplate a day, or a half a day, on horseback," he said.

Shelly Weiss Friedberg, a spokeswoman for Tenet Healthcare Corporation, owners of Good Samaritan, told the Post the hospital is bound by privacy and confidentiality agreements not to comment on the Bailey case, and said that the 90-year-old institution takes pride in giving safe, quality care to its patients.

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