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...ba href=/dementia/a/b.Mr Montague's family say he fell face down onto unprotected heating pipes during the night, becoming wedged between the bed and the wall.His injuries were so serious that his care is under the supervision of the special burns unit at the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead.The Gazette has been shown photographs of appalling scarring over a large part of the elderly man's face.Mr Montague's son-in-law, Brendan Clegg, said the family had not been offered a verbal or written apology or any explanation from the nursing home as to how the accident happened.He said, "The home hasn't apologised or said anything.

All we know is that it apparently happened in the middle of the night."There is supposed to be someone on duty all the time keeping an eye on the patients but there doesn't seem to have been proper supervision."He has been very shaken up by this and even though he is obviously heavily sedated, he is in a lot of pain and keeps calling out for someone to help him, almost as if he is reliving what happened."Mr Clegg said that the family was shocked and upset over Mr Montague's injuries and how the accident was allowed to happen, especially in light of a recent report which highlighted possible dangers from the pipes.The management of the home were warned by a Commission for Social Care Inspection in December that the heating pipes were dangerous and stated that 'the expectation was they should be boxed in to protect residents'.Mr Clegg said, "It isn't clear if any ...

...ba href=/dementia/a/b, type 2 diabetes, active Helicobacter pylori infection, and the common cold, the authors said.

And clinicians who have been recommending moderate drinking for its health benefits should rethink their position, Dr.

Fillmore said.

Her own physician recommended moderate drinking to her, and anecdotal evidence suggested the recommendation is common-"at least in California where we love our wine," she added.

The meta-analysis included only prospective mortality studies on the association between alcohol use and all-cause or coronary heart disease mortality published from 1974 to 2004.

Studies that also examined morbidity were excluded.

The authors cautioned that their analysis can not disprove the idea that light drinking is good for health.

Only further, properly designed studies could do that, they said.

"Future prospective studies should use far greater precision in their assessment of drinking behavior and abstinence," they concluded.

Primary source: Addiction Research and Theory Source reference: Kaye Fillmore et al.

"Moderate alcohol use and reduced mortality risk: systematic error in prospective studies." Addiction Research and Theory.

Advanced online publication March 30, 2006.

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...ba href=/dementia/a/b, and struggles with the fierce creative rivalry that long ago destroyed the family. Having hung out with the creatively talented brother of the talented director of "Winter Passing," I wondered where the story came from.

A couple of years ago, I spent a fun night bar-hopping with musician, stage and film actor Anthony Rapp ("Dazed and Confused," "Six Degrees of Separation," "Twister," "A Beautiful Mind," "Rent") as he looked for musicians to back him up in a production of "Hedwig and the Angry Inch." Rapp spoke with pride of his brother Adam Rapp, a playwright. It was logical, I thought, to ask if the creative tension and family competition that Adam wrote into the Holdin family reflected a similar creative sibling rivalry in the midwestern house of Rapp. "Not really," he says.

"My dad left when I was 4.

Mom was a prison nurse.

Anthony and I are the only creative people in our extended family _ a large Catholic family.

Mom wanted to be a writer and wrote a lot of letters, but we're the only artists in the family.

Actually, I grew up an athlete.

College basketball." He hints, however, of a competitive family dynamic far less dysfunctional than that confronting the characters he invented in "Winter Passing." "(Anthony and I) are competitive, but it's a healthy competition," says Adam.

"The more he succeeds, the more I want to succeed.

He keeps me honest.

I'm glad, actually, that we do different things.

That way, I can get competitive in creative ways.

If he were doing ...