POMEROY – Preliminary results of a study of combined Federally-Qualified Health Care centers and 24-hour emergency rooms have been delayed until sometime in the fall.
Earlier this year, Meigs County received a $6,000 grant to study models of combined Federally-Qualified Health Care family clinics, like Family Health Care in Pomeroy, and emergency room facilities, to determine if such a combined facility would be feasible here, and to determine if Read the rest of this entry »

SUMMIT, N.J.–(
)–Launching to coincide with the back-to-school season,
,
the first enterprise of its kind in the
country, offers a confidential drug detection service for parents and
others who may be concerned about the possession of drugs by children or
employees in the home or commercial premises. Founded by a Union County
woman,
including marijuana, cocaine, heroin, methadone, xanax and ecstasy
as a private Read the rest of this entry »

Scientists are suggesting that common painkillers such as aspirin and ibuprofen could possibly lower a man’s risk of developing prostate cancer.
It appears that the painkillers lower the PSA level in the blood – PSA levels are biomarker widely used by doctors to determine whether a man is at risk of prostate cancer.
The researchers however do warn men to not jump the gun and start taking such painkillers in an effort to avoid prostate cancer.
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