WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Cancer is on pace to supplant heart disease as the No. 1 cause of death worldwide in 2010, with a growing burden in poor countries thanks to more cigarette smoking and other factors, global health experts said on Tuesday.
Globally, an estimated 12.4 million people will be diagnosed with some form of cancer this year and 7.6 million people will die, the U.N. World Health Organization’s International Agency for Research on Cancer Read the rest of this entry »
2. Calvert Pines Senior Center, 450 W. Dares Beach Rd., Prince Frederick, 410-535-4606 or 301-855-1170.
3. Calvert Memorial Hospital, 100 Hospital Rd., Prince Frederick, 410-535-8233 or 301-855-1012, Ext. 8233.
4. Calvert Memorial Hospital Annex, 120 Hospital Rd., Prince Frederick, 410-535-8233 or 301-855-1012, Ext. 8233.
5. Civista Medical Center, 5 Garrett Ave., La Plata, 888-332-4847.
6. Civista Women’s Health Center, Ambulatory Care Pavilion, Read the rest of this entry »
National statistics provided by the American Association of Suicidology show an average of 1 person every 16.1 minutes died by means of suicide in 2005. Suicide attempts were reported to occur, on average, every 39 seconds across the nation.
Attempted suicide and death by suicide presents itself as a force to be reckoned with in Lake Havasu City. Depression can strike any time of year and can reach any person, regardless of age, race, gender, occupation, Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
By Cindy V. Culp
The first time Allen Patterson attended a conference about oral health care for the poor, his ears were burning.
The dentists in attendance made joke after joke about how much the money managers at their community health centers cringed at their ambition to provide oral health care to the masses. Patterson — a certified public accountant who works for McLennan County’s Family Health Center Read the rest of this entry »
The federation has suggested a number of simple, inexpensive solutions that the Charest government should examine with a view to implementing them.
At the level of medical schools, the federation suggests that first-year students have two mandatory month-long internships in family medicine before choosing a residency. Many students don’t know what is involved in family medicine, said federation president Dr. Louis Godin.
The government also needs Read the rest of this entry »
12:00 AM CST on Saturday, December 27, 2008
Six months after the death of a Dallas County jail inmate, sheriff’s investigators are still looking into the circumstances behind a violent encounter the man had with several jail guards shortly before his death.
Corey Bailey, 31, died June 27 after guards attempted to move him from the Decker jail to a different jail facility for a mental health evaluation. The Dallas man had been suffering from paranoid Read the rest of this entry »
This communication contains “forward-looking statements” which represent the current expectations and beliefs of management of Barr Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (the “Company”) concerning the proposed merger of the Company (the “merger”) with Boron Acquisition Corp., a wholly-owned subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (the “Teva”) and other future events and their potential effects on the Company. The statements, analyses, and other information Read the rest of this entry »
OLYMPIA, Wash. —
Washington middle and high school students are sharing information about their health this week in a statewide survey.
Kids in grades six, eight, 10 and 12 will answer questions about smoking, drugs and alcohol, exercise, nutrition and other health issues. The anonymous survey is given every two years. In 2006, 198,000 students participated across the state.
Local results will be sent to school districts next March. They Read the rest of this entry »
Actress Jenny McCarthy claims she helped her six-year-old son Evan overcome autism by feeding him a strict diet containing no wheat or dairy.
Jenny McCarthy claims she helped her son overcome autism.
The actress – who believes six-year-old Evan became autistic after having an MMR (measles, mumps and rubella) injection aged 19 months – says a strict diet free from wheat and dairy cured Evan, adding she has now made “a deal with God” to spread Read the rest of this entry »
A 73-YEAR-OLD man is in a serious condition after being bashed with a baseball bat at his Brahma Lodge home.
Two men dressed in balaclavas stormed the Cross Keys Rd home about 3pm today, bashing the elderly man and stealing two mobile phones and a purse.
They then fled on foot.
A subsequent police search of the home uncovered seven cannabis plants growing hydroponically in a back shed.
The bashed man was rushed to hospital in a serious but Read the rest of this entry »