Health: December 2008 Archives

When Chelsea Banton was born five weeks prematurely, doctors predicted she had 36 hours to live. Proving them wrong was the first miracle for Chelsea, now an Independence High School freshman. "She spent the first four months in a neonatal intensive care unit," recalls her mother, Colleen Banton of Mint Hill.

Church groups in the UK have voiced concerns over the findings in the fourth national census of the ethnicity of all patients in the NHS psychiatric hospitals. The "Count Me In" 2008 report revealed that detention rates for people from African and Caribbean communities continue to exceed that of all other ethnic groups.