The only way to put it right is to get in the finals again and win a match

“The only way to put it right is to get in the finals again and win a match.”
Henman, who has risen to eighth in the Champions Race rankings and is seeded 11th for this week’s Champions Cup event in California, added: “If I can put my serve right, I’ll be tough to beat I’m going to Indian Wells with renewed confidence. If I can keep on making the kind of improvements that I have made over the past few months, then I’m very optimistic.”Greg Rusedski falls one place to 42nd in the rankings after his first-round defeat by Pete Sampras while Hewitt, who was securing his third title of the year after victories in Adelaide and Sydney, moves into fourth spot behind Andre Agassi, Yevgeny Kafelnikov, and Magnus Norman.In Bogota, the unseeded Mariano Puerta of Argentina defeated Younes El Aynaoui of Morocco, the second seed 6-4, 7-6 to win the Cerveza Club tournament. Puerta had beaten Gustavo Kuerten of Brazil, the top seed, on Saturday.At Indian Wells, Nathalie Dechy of France upset Russia’s Anna Kournikova, the eighth seed, in the third round of the Champions Cup, but Lindsay Davenport, the second seed, had another easy day.Kournikova was beaten 7-5, 5-7, 7-6 against the 23rd-ranked Dechy while Davenport, the 1997 Indian Wells champion, cruised to a 6-4, 6-2 win over Natasha Zvereva of Belarus.. A man for whom a standard kidney replacement was not possible because he is a Jehovah’s Witness has become the first person to undergo a bloodless transplant from an unrelated donor. A man for whom a standard kidney replacement was not possible because he is a Jehovah’s Witness has become the first person to undergo a bloodless transplant from an unrelated donor.
Marie Hoyle, 49, of Bradford, West Yorkshire, gave her husband, Alf, 51, one of her kidneys after discovering last month – on their 30th wedding anniversary – that they were compatible.A spokesman for St James’s Hospital, Leeds, where the surgery was carried out on Friday, said that the bloodless transplant was unique because it involved two Jehovah’s Witnesses – whose religion does not allow blood transfusions – who were husband and wife and not related by birth.The technique, which has been pioneered in Leeds, has been made possible partly as a result of hi-tech monitoring techniques and procedures – five or six pints can be needed during standard surgery. The benefits of not using another person’s blood include less risk of mismatching of blood types, infection or allergic reaction.Mr Hoyle had been waiting for the transplant for more than nine years.

He said: “I can’t express what a loving thing, what a tremendous thing my wife has done in giving me a kidney.”. A government aid worker was in a critical condition in a hospital isolation unit yesterday after returning from West Africa with suspected Lassa fever. A government aid worker was in a critical condition in a hospital isolation unit yesterday after returning from West Africa with suspected Lassa fever.
The married man, who is in his fifties and lives in Kent, was returned by air ambulance from Sierra Leone a week ago. He had been working for the Department for International Development in a remote rural area, helping former soldiers return to civilian life after the country’s civil war.The diagnosis, which has not yet been confirmed, has raised concerns for the safety of the 90 medical staff who have had contact with him. All are now being monitored.Doctors who admitted him to the Hospital for Tropical Diseases in central London on 6 March suspected malaria or typhoid but when he showed signs of Lassa fever he was transferred to Coppetts Wood isolation hospital in Muswell Hill, north London. Doctors, who are treating him with an anti-viral drug, said he had improved at first but on Sunday his lungs began to fail and he was placed on a ventilator.Lassa fever is a viral haemorrhagic fever similar to that caused by the Ebola virus.

It is spread by rats but can also be transmitted by direct contact with bodily fluids. There have been 12 cases of Lassa fever imported to Europe and North America since 1970, with none resulting in further infection of other medical staff or patients. The disease carries a death rate of 15-20 per cent among those taken to hospital.William Weir, a consultant in infectious and tropical disease, who is treating the man, said: “He is critically ill. I spoke to his wife yesterday and she is understandably upset. In situations like this we have to be completely truthful with relatives and tell them exactly what the patient’s future contains.”The hospital said there was no danger of the virus spreading to the public but doctors, nurses, porters and ambulance staff were being interviewed about their contact with the patient and some would be kept under surveillance for signs of the disease so treatment could be started immediately if they became ill.A spokeswoman for the Royal Free NHS Trust, which runs Coppetts Wood, said: “His status [as a carrier of an infectious tropical disease] was not clear when he came in.

Having said that, there has never been a case of onward transmission of Lassa fever since it was identified in 1969.”Patients at the Hospital for Tropical Diseases were in “minimal” danger of being infected, she said, because the patient had been kept in an isolation room. “This unit regularly deals with very sick patients, and so the hygiene and infection control regimens are very strict. The likelihood of anyone at the hospital being exposed to the infection is minimal.”Lassa fever’s incubation period is between three and 21 days and typical symptoms are soaring temperature (up to 41C or 106F) headache, lethargy and muscular pains. There is also often a rash caused by bleeding into the skin and mucous membranes. In the latest case, the man developed a nose bleed which, with the results of blood tests, caused doctors to suspect Lassa fever..

Let no-one accuse the National Health Service of failing in its attempts to revive flagging morale among its staff. As of next month, they are to be taught the ancient art of custard pie throwing at a seminar designed to boost confidence and build team spirit. Let no-one accuse the National Health Service of failing in its attempts to revive flagging morale among its staff. As of next month, they are to be taught the ancient art of custard pie throwing at a seminar designed to boost confidence and build team spirit.
The Institute of Health Care Management, which represents 10,000 NHS professionals, has searched far and wide to find a way of improving the skills of its workers and has turned to the circus.Enter Bosco, a freelance clown, who has passed on his expert knowledge to stressed industry executives. He will be properly attired in baggy trousers and the requisite red nose, and will teach his pupils, for the modest sum of £200 each, how to spin plates, walk tightropes and hurl trifle.Andrew Corbett-Nolan, a former NHS worker who is extracting his revenge by organising the seminars, said the skills of the Big Top could be usefully adapted to the medical profession.