A medical clinic housing more than a dozen physicians is proposed for the former National Grocers building along Memorial Avenue.
The Couchiching Family Health Team hopes to operate a community health clinic with office space for at least 15 medical professionals in the first phase of development.
Rooms for minor operations, x-ray facilities and a pharmacy are envisioned for the second stage of development.
“It is a great use for an underutilized Read the rest of this entry »

It had all the glow of a future blockbuster.
When Byetta hit the market four years ago, diabetes patients raved over the drug’s ability to help them control blood sugar while curbing their appetite and allowing them to lose weight.
For a while, Byetta was so popular that Eli Lilly and Co. ran short of the cartridges that hold the drug and pleaded with doctors not to write prescriptions for a few weeks.
The Washington Post called it one of Lilly’s Read the rest of this entry »

GARDEN GROVE, Calif.—Medical marijuana dispensaries won’t be allowed in the northern Orange County city of Garden Grove.
The City Council voted 4-1 Tuesday night to ban the pot stores. The ordinance takes effect in 30 days.
Councilman Mark Rosen cast the lone dissenting vote, saying the ban is “mired in mid-20th-century thinking.”
He noted the Unit-D dispensary, which has a conditional-use permit, has been operating for seven months without Read the rest of this entry »

Trinity Health completed a $492-million municipal bond deal late Tuesday that allows it to refinance costlier debt and expand projects at its Michigan and Idaho hospitals.
The Novi-based health system is watching the market in hopes of moving ahead Nov. 12 with the rest of a bond issue for debt refinancing and projects at its Michigan and Indiana hospitals, said Ed Chadwick, Trinity’s chief financial officer.
In all, the health system wants to Read the rest of this entry »

Nov. 17 (Bloomberg) — Top managers with the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration “corrupted and interfered with'' scientific
reviews of medical devices, agency scientists said in a
that is sparking a congressional investigation.
will review
“compelling evidence'' that devices were approved in violation
of laws to ensure their safety, said Representatives
, the panel's chairman, and
, a member, in a
today.
The FDA has Read the rest of this entry »

More than 10 years ago, Barbara J. Smarr stepped in to raise her four grandchildren (ages 6, 7, 15 and 16) when their drug-addicted mother could no longer care for them.
“At that time, I didn’t have insurance for them and I didn’t know anything about legal aid,” Smarr said.
A co-worker had read about Project Healthy Grandparents, a Georgia State University program that provides support to low-income grandparents who Read the rest of this entry »

A man who died after being struck by a Caltrain on Friday morning has been identified by the Santa Clara County medical examiner’s office as a 30-year-old Mountain View resident.
The man was crossing the tracks south of the Mountain View station, near a state Highway 85 overpass, when he was hit by a northbound train around 5:15 a.m.
He was taken to Stanford Hospital where he died around 9:30 a.m.
There is no legal crossing at the spot where Read the rest of this entry »

ADAMS — Officials at the Berkshire Arts & Technology Charter Public School found out recently that they will soon have a bit more money to spend, $120,000 total, to enhance the fitness program for students over the coming three years.
And they don’t even have a gymnasium to spend it on.
But whatever they end up doing with the money might be used to enhance fitness programs at other schools around the country that also function without gyms.
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North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System is delaying the construction of a $132-million pavilion at Schneider Children’s Hospital. It lost $180 million to $200 million in investments last year, and the pavilion’s major donor, the Blumenfeld family of Old Westbury, was burned by
’s alleged financial scam. Catholic Health Services lost $44 million in investments.
Nassau Healthcare Corp., facing $22 million in state cuts, is postponing a $55-million Read the rest of this entry »

As your letter mentions, the Ontario Medical Association is wholeheartedly committed to ensuring the “highest standard of health care services across the province.” This is why we have advocated for the expansion of collaborative care groups such as the Family Health Team in Fenelon Falls.
Nurse practitioners play a vital role in the delivery of health care and Ontario’s doctors want to continue to build on the integral relationship Read the rest of this entry »