of Kirkwood/SSM St. Clare Health Center.
Brobst has been with SSM St. Joseph Hospital for the past six years, joining as the clinical director for The Family Birthplace, and then launching the St. Clare Pilot Unit, a nursing unit where new patient care processes are trialed and refined.
On March 30, 2009, St. Joseph Hospital will move six miles to southwest St. Louis County and become St. Clare Health Center,
SSM St. Joseph Hospital of Kirkwood Read the rest of this entry »
Despite their advantages, peritoneal dialysis and home hemodialysis remain unpopular modalities
By the end of 2006, approximately 355,000 individuals were undergoing dialysis in the United States. Only 8.2% of them were on peritoneal dialysis (PD). The rest were on hemodialysis (HD), according to a 2008 U.S. Renal Data System (USRDS) report. After a high of 9,407 new patients in 1995, the number of new PD users every year has fallen to 6,725 and Read the rest of this entry »
Health, fitness expo to be part of 2008 Marathon of the Palm Beaches
Sunday, November 02, 2008
The 2008 Publix Health & Fitness Expo is set for Dec. 5-6 at the Harriet Himmel Theater in CityPlace.
The expo, part of the 2008 Marathon of the Palm Beaches, will showcase health and fitness services and products. During expo hours, from noon to 7 p.m. Dec. 5 and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Dec. 6, runners can register for the marathon competitions Read the rest of this entry »
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Six years ago, the American Heart Association launched Go Red For Women and changed the way women — and men — see heart disease. They now see it more clearly, and for what it is: the nation’s leading killer of women.
For years, heart disease was considered a man’s disease, which it is. But heart disease is also a disease of women. In fact, more women die from heart disease than men. What wasn’t well understood was Read the rest of this entry »
Communities Overcoming Meth Abuse will host an all-day event about meth and meth labs featuring speaker Caoimhin Connell on Tuesday, at Mountain West Insurance, 100 W. Victory Way, in Craig.
Connell is an industrial hygienist with forensic applications. His areas of expertise include: signs of meth labs, clean-up and state statutes.
• The session from 8 to 10 a.m. is catered toward Realtors;
• From 1 to 3 p.m., the session is catered toward Read the rest of this entry »
SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge plans to unseal hundreds of pages of court documents at the heart of the government’s case against home run king Barry Bonds, who’s accused of lying to a grand jury about using performance-enhancing drugs.
Among the documents to be released today is a transcript of a recorded conversation between Bonds’ personal trainer Greg Anderson and Bonds’ former business partner Steve Hoskins, as well as positive drug test Read the rest of this entry »
As a City Council committee was hearing testimony for and against a proposal by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to have the Council increase term limits for city elected officials from the current two four-year terms to three, Gary Hylton was sitting in his wheelchair across from City Hall.
“I challenge Mayor Bloomberg, since he wants his third term, to explain why we should do it and what he’s going to do for us,” he said on October 17.
Hylton and Read the rest of this entry »
For the women in her neighborhood, Nazanin Gohari has become a savior of minds.
A few years back, the part-time hairdresser-turned-community activist transformed her shabby apartment into a library for women, collecting secondhand books to fill the makeshift shelves in her living room.
First she stocked them with trashy novels, poetry and how-to and self-help titles. But the demand for cookbooks and sewing patterns eventually gave way to requests Read the rest of this entry »
TARZANA – Like many physicians at Tarzana Medical Center, Dr. Brian Fenmore was excited when he heard Providence Health System planned to buy his struggling hospital.
The system had a good reputation in the community and already ran two other hospitals in the San Fernando Valley.
But when the sale became final last month, Fenmore, an obstetrician-gynecologist, got word that he could no longer perform surgical procedures that prevent pregnancy, Read the rest of this entry »
TRENTON, N.J. – Parents of toddlers in
have a
few extra weeks to comply with a new state law requiring they get
their preschoolers vaccinated.
The New Jersey Dept. of Health and Senior Service is giving
people a grace period beyond Wednesday’s original deadline.
Parents now have until mid-January to get their children the
shots or show a note proving they have a vaccination appointment by
the end of the month.
New Jersey is the first state Read the rest of this entry »