TUCKAHOE, N.Y. (AP) — Who? Who? Who left an owl outside a suburban New York animal hospital? Technician Joe Marchionni got a surprise when he arrived at the Tuckahoe Animal Hospital: an injured owl was huddled in the doorway.
Says Marchionni: “I didn’t think it was real, then it turned its head, blinked and looked at me.”
Employees say they have no idea how the bird ended up there.
With help from Greenburgh Nature Center curator Travis Read the rest of this entry »
06:51 PM CDT on Monday, September 15, 2008
By DAN X. McGRAW / The Dallas Morning News
A man was shot several times this afternoon after getting into a fight outside of a Dallas apartment complex, authorities said.
The man, who has not yet been identified, was shot about 4:30 p.m. today in the 1100 block of N. Masters Drive in Pleasant Grove, said Sgt. Gil Cerda, a Dallas police spokesman.
He was taken to Baylor University Read the rest of this entry »
After Geneva Grimpo fell and broke her hand and arm, doctors put the tiny, fragile-looking woman on drugs to strengthen her bones.
Three years into her drug therapy, trouble began.
Her lower jawbone poked out through sores on the left side of her mouth where her gums had decayed. The visible bone was dead, and she used her fingers to fish out tiny bits as they broke off.
“Now my right jaw hurts,” said Grimpo, 85. X-rays show that Read the rest of this entry »
Local author, educator advocates nutritious diet
NEWBERRY A Newberry resident has published a book about her transformation from a sickly childhood to her discovery of natural foods and the struggles and discrimination she faced raising her children on a natural, vegetarian diet.
Claire Power Murphy, now in her 60s, wrote Preserved to Serve, which highlights Murphys struggles with the medical community in regards to what she fed her family. Read the rest of this entry »
A recent article by Reuters pointed to the growing use of
“brain-boosting drugs” in the workplace. Long a trend at colleges and
universities, where students need help to cram for exams, older
Americans are now turning to natural stimulants to help increase their
mental capabilities and maintain their focus. And according to many
physicians and psychologists, there’s nothing wrong with that. In fact, Read the rest of this entry »
The closely watched annual health spending figures released today by the federal government were published, fittingly enough, in the January/February issue of the journal
Health Affairs.
Fittingly, because this month’s issue is devoted to chronic illness, and about 75 percent of the $2.2 trillion the United States spends on healthcare goes toward treating chronic conditions like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. That $2.2 trillion works out Read the rest of this entry »
emergency, which has claimed nearly a thousand lives, is overshadowing the Aids crisis, which is killing as many people every three days.
The rising death toll from cholera, brought on by collapsed sewerage systems infecting drinking water, has become the most visible sign of Zimbabwe’s extraordinary implosion and the indifference of its leaders. As the disease spread across the border into South Africa, alarmed foreign governments promised to pour Read the rest of this entry »
Even in this slow economy, many people consider fitness-center memberships to be a necessity instead of a luxury.
And that is helping the Tempe-based Mountainside Fitness chain expand.
Over the past 17 years, Mountainside Fitness, owned by the Hatten Group, has grown from one location to eight in Arizona and Colorado and become Arizona’s largest locally owned health-club chain. It plans to move its headquarters to a new building northeast of Val Read the rest of this entry »
If you could help save the life of your child someday, would you be willing to pull them back from a speeding car or push them out of the path of a speeding bullet?
Many African American parents have the opportunity to protect their children’s health and life in significant and meaningful ways, but too often they overlook the easiest and least expensive steps.
Family medical histories can help doctors predict the risk factors children have Read the rest of this entry »
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CHICAGO — Many women recoil at the thought of baring their arms in sleeveless dresses or blouses, but not Michelle Obama — half of the fabulously fit new first couple.
Both President-elect Barack Obama and the future first lady have exercise routines that would put most people to shame. Michelle Obama used to join a friend for 4:30 a.m. workouts, and Barack Obama usually starts his day Read the rest of this entry »