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Dennis Carl Dow
July 2, 1950 – March 15, 2019
Dennis passed away two years ago at Stanford Hospital from complications of an undiagnosed heart condition. He would have turned 70 last year, and though he didn’t like being the center of attention, he definitely would have been had he reached that milestone. Inevitably, someone would have brought up that as a kid, he thought Fourth of July fireworks were for him.
Dennis was born in San Francisco and raised there by his parents, Frances Garcia Dow from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Harold Charles Dow, an architect, who, as a boy, emigrated from Poland through Ellis Island with his sister Anna. Dennis loved the city as a child and explored it with his friends on his scooter and by trolley and bus. He studied piano and rooted for his home baseball team, the San Francisco Giants. During the summer, he and his sister, Debora, would spend time in Southern California with their Aunt Lil and Uncle Dave, and would also take tr
Longford parents concerned as ‘unsafe staffing levels’ are a severe threat on diabetes unit
‘Unsafe staffing levels’ are a severe threat on diabetes unit
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Siobhán Beatty, with her daughter, Emma, who has been attending the Paediatric Diabetes Unit at Mullingar Regional Hospital since she was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes last year );
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There has been widespread public concern among parents over what one local mother referred to as a “lack of true commitment and due care” by the HSE to children with diabetes at Mullingar Regional Hospital.
Earlier this month, the parents of 130 children of the hospital’s Paediatric Diabetes Unit received a letter from Paediatric Consultant, Professor Michael O’Grady, regretfully informing them that “due to ongoing, unsafe staffing levels”, all paediatric diabetes clinic appointments would be cancelled “with immediate effect”.
The message that coronavirus does very little harm to children ‘might now be weaker’, a leading paediatrician has said, as new research suggests higher numbers than expected may be experiencing long term effects. Office of National Statistics (ONS) data found 13% of children aged between two and 11 across the UK were still experiencing symptoms including headaches, a cough or fatigue at five weeks and this rose to 15% in 12 to 16-year-olds. While attention has mainly focused on their ability to transmit the virus to adults, Debby Bogaert, a Professor of Paediactric Infectious Diseases at Edinburgh University, said the data showed there was a need to look more closely at the impact on children themselves.