RECALL: Toy Barbeque Grills Due to Laceration Hazard

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Description: This recall involves the Play Wonder Barbeque Grill. The grill is metal and has an orange metal base and top, along with stainless steel legs and a removable circular ash tray. The grill set also includes tongs and a spatula. The “Play Wonder” logo is located on the lower right corner of the packaging.

Sold at: Target Stores nationwide from December 2006 to February 2007 for about $20.

Manufactured in: China

Remedy: Consumers should immediately take the toy grills away from children and return them to Target for a full refund.

Consumer Contact: For more information, consumers can contact Target at (800) 440-0680 between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or log on to the firm’s Web site www.target.com

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Julia and Henry

Julia Roberts and new baby Henry were out yesterday enjoying the nice weather in L.A.

Henry was born weighing a healthy 8½ lbs just 12 days ago and by the looks of things Julia has already started to work off her pregnancy weight.

Just Jared Has More Photos.

Like Mother, Like Daughter

US Magazine ran a neat piece this week that showed a few celebrities as babies and compared them to their own children.

The two that stuck out were Angelina Jolie and Shiloh and Jennifer Garner and Violet. It is unbelievable how much these two babies resemble their famous moms.

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Indian doctors suspended for refusing to deliver baby of HIV-positive woman

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I reported yesterday that a father was forced to deliver his newborn because the doctors on call refused to care for his wife after learning she was HIV positive.

It was not only appaling to myself, but The Medical Council of India. They have set up a panel to investigate the case, and if the doctors are found guilty they will be stripped of their licenses.

Both doctors have currently been suspended with further action pending.

In tradition-bound India, AIDS is a subject of taboo and shame, and infected people face tremendous discrimination.

Urmila Kalra and Abhilasha Gupta refused to help Sunita Abbas, 28, when she came to the hospital Wednesday to deliver her fourth child, her husband Raees Abbas said.

“I pleaded to the doctors to come and help me and my wife. They refused, saying that my wife Sunita is HIV positive,” he said.

Raees, a painter, said doctors sent him and his wife to a filthy room with a soiled mattress and torn sheets.

The doctors explained how to deliver the baby, and after the boy was born asked him to collect the waste and burn it behind the hospital, he said.

Raees and their four children are not HIV-positive, according to Dr. Deepti Bisht, acting director of the medical college. It is unclear how the mother was infected, Bisht said.

There have been reports in the past of infected people being forced out of their homes, losing jobs, and even being thrown out of school.

India has the highest number of HIV infections in the world, with 5.7 million, according to data released by UNAIDS last year. However, some AIDS experts dispute that number and believe the infection rate could be far lower.

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Army Private Saves Afghan Newborn’s Life

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This just goes to show that the troops are making a difference overseas in many ways!!

A U.S. Soldier potentially saved the life of an Afghan newborn June 24 in Kunar Province.

Army Pfc. Theodore Batdorf, a platoon medic assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Troop, 1st Squadron, 91st Cavalry Regiment (Airborne) was credited with saving the baby’s life after performing CPR on the child.

At about 10:30 a.m. near Tsunel, a small village in Ghaziabad District, the U.S. patrol came upon an ambulance stopped in the road. A woman in the ambulance had just given birth to a boy while en route to the hospital. The baby was not breathing, the Patrol Leader on the scene ordered Batdorf to assist.

Batdorf quickly examined the child and realized the newborn was in critical condition. He assessed the child’s breathing was restricted due to fluid in his respiratory tract and that the child’s circulation was poor.

Batdorf informed the Platoon Leader the baby needed to be evacuated to Forward Operating Base Naray for medical treatment.

During the more than 40 minute drive over extremely rough roads, Batdorf stabilized the baby by administering CPR, maintaining an open airway, and stimulating circulation.

Upon arrival at FOB Naray, Batdorf took the infant for treatment by the doctors at the Forward Surgical Team. The baby was treated for more than five hours by doctors there before clearance was given for the baby and his uncle to be evacuated to medical facilities at Bagram Airfield.

Army Col. Craig Shriver, a Surgeon with the FTS at FOB Naray, credited Batdorf with saving the baby’s life.

“The baby clearly would have died had (Batdorf) not taken the measures that he did,” said Shriver.

The baby and his parents were reunited at Bagram Airfield, where he continues to receive care.

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