– Three new physicians have joined the medical staff of WestCare Health System, working with WNC Hospitalists at Harris Regional Hospital.
Dr. Maureen McLaughlin-Grant received her medical degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine. She completed an internship in family practice at St. Vincents Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla., and a residency in internal medicine at the University of Florida.
Dr. Tracée Putnam Ray is Read the rest of this entry »
Byline: Donna Young, Washington Editor
Shares of Introgen Therapeutics Inc. plummeted 38.7 percent Tuesday after the firm said the FDA refused to accept the biologics license application for its gene therapy Advexin as a treatment of recurrent, refractory head and neck cancer.
The Austin, Texas-based company’s stock (NASDAQ:INGN) lost 36 cents, to close at 57 cents.
Drug regulators told the firm that the application, filed June 30, was not sufficiently Read the rest of this entry »
on 11.25.08 @ 10:52AM
Barack Obama said earlier this year that Tom Daschle’s idea of
creating a Federal Health Board (modeled after the Federal
Reserve) to manage the nation’s medical system showed “great
promise.”
“The American health care system is in crisis, and workable
solutions have been blocked for years by deeply entrenched
ideological divisions,” Obama wrote in a blurb on the back of
Daschle’s book,
. “Sen. Daschle brings Read the rest of this entry »
The public can access an array of services at the Sudbury and District Health Unit's state-of-the-art clinic, conveniently located in the Rainbow Centre in the heart of downtown Sudbury.
Guy Lafleche was one of several guests welcomed at an open house on Thursday.
Lafleche has a family doctor whose office is a fair hike away. The downtown resident said he'll come back to the clinic to learn more about safe sex and sexually transmitted Read the rest of this entry »
West Palm V.A. medical malpractice lawyer-Alaska National Guard Crisis
Dedicated South Florida V.A. malpractice attorney, Susan Ramsey, with Gary Roberts and Associates, expresses concern with veteran’s health care. Lawyer comments our troops need prompt care.
Strong medical negligence litigator Susan Ramsey finds preliminary report by the Veterans for America (VFA) alarming. October 1, 2008, the VFA released findings regarding the current state Read the rest of this entry »
Welsh pop star Duffy will star in a series of television advertisements for Diet Coke.
She recently signed a six-figure deal for the campaign, to be launched in Britain next year.
“We’re delighted Duffy’s on board. She’s ideal to reach our target audience in the teen and twenties age ranges,” a source from the Coca-Cola company said.
Physical education was a relatively new concept to Margaret Beuter growing up on a farm near Holbrook.
Years later, however, she discovered the virtues of physical education and in her 30th year of teaching, she was named the elementary teacher of the year by the Iowa Health, Physical Education, Recrea-tion and Dance Association at its convention Nov. 1 and 2 in Iowa City.
Beuter, the P.E. teacher at Longfellow Elementary who splits time at Wood Read the rest of this entry »