BLOOD DRIVE: Donor hours 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Wednesday. BloodSource, 555 Rio Lindo Ave., Chico. 893-5433. Weekly.
PATERNITY WORKSHOP: Order to show cause, establish paternity, child support custody and orders, visitation. 532-7004. Service of Butte County Superior Court. Weekly.
TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER CLINICS: 9 a.m. Paradise; 1:30 p.m. Oroville. Free. For victims of domestic violence. Sponsored by Catalyst Domestic Violence Services. 800-895-8476 Read the rest of this entry »

Nigeria’s President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua re-appeared in public for the first time Monday since his weekend return from a controversial trip to Saudi Arabia amid questions over his health.
Yar’Adua left for what was officially billed as a religious pilgrimage on August 20 only to end up in a Saudi hospital for an undisclosed ailment.
He came back on Saturday without the usual official reception formalities expected of heads of states at the airport.
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An online personal health record system that allowed people with diabetes to check their lab results and get guidance about medication proved to be of only limited use in improving their health outcomes, researchers found.
The patients who used the system did not do a better job of getting their diabetes under control after one year compared to a second group who used a simpler online health program. However, the news wasn’t all bad, said Richard Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s settlement, in part, resolves suits filed on behalf of the government in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York by two individuals. Dr. Miguel Tirado, a former SIUH Director of Chemical Dependency Services, who filed suit under the federal False Claims Act and the New York State False Claims Act, alleged that the hospital had fraudulently billed Medicaid and Medicare for inpatient alcohol and substance abuse Read the rest of this entry »

HAYWARD — The downtown Hayward BART station is closed after two people were shot near the station’s entrance at about 12:40 p.m. today, authorities said. Both victims were transported to Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley.
A teenager was shot in the abdomen and is in critical condition. The other victim — believed to be a bystander — was shot in the “lower left flank” and is expected to survive, said Hayward Fire Capt. Eric Vollmer.
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LEBANON – The Lebanon Rescue Mission is hoping to have its
free medical clinic for the homeless open in January, the
mission’s director said.
That’s later than the fall timeline originally
planned, but formal agreements are being developed for the
operation of the medical clinic as a satellite of the Water
Street Medical-Dental Clinic in Lancaster, said the Rev.
Chris Smith, director of Lebanon Rescue Mission.
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RALEIGH, N.C. – Patty Briguglio, president of MMI Associates, Inc. (www.mmimarketing.com), a Raleigh-based public relations and marketing firm, has announced that the firm will sponsor the 2008 Speaking of Women’s Health conference, an event designed to influence women in making informed decisions about their health, well-being and personal safety. As a sponsor, MMI will support the organization in its planning
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MONDAY, Oct. 6 (HealthDay News) — Simple changes to hospital procedures can significantly reduce the side effects children suffer while on opiates to relieve pain, a new study reveals.
The study, a yearlong collaboration between 14 U.S. children’s hospitals, documented a 67 percent decrease in “harmful events” caused by the pain relievers under these new procedures.
The side effects of opiates in the morphine family — which are widely used to Read the rest of this entry »

If we’ve learned anything watching our 401(k)s go down the toilet and the stock market take a pistol-whipping, it’s that too-lax regulation and the nowhere-to-hide nature of the global economy leave us vulnerable to all sorts of shenanigans.
Need more proof? Three words: China. Food. Melamine.
On Tuesday, the Chinese government ordered all liquid and powdered milk manufactured before Sept. 14 to be removed from store shelves for testing. At issue Read the rest of this entry »