In case you’ve missed all those pink ribbons in store windows and magazine pages, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
A growing number of Franklin County women can call themselves cancer survivors, due in part to improved screenings locally available.
Digital mammography, now available at Summit Health’s five locations, can detect breast cancer more easily than the former analog mammograms did, said Dr. Edward Lampton Jr., a diagnostic radiologist Read the rest of this entry »
eHealth, Inc.
,
,
is the parent company of
eHealthInsurance, the nation’s leading online source of health
insurance for individuals, families and small businesses. Through the
company’s website,
, consumers can get quotes
from leading health insurance carriers, compare plans side by side,
and apply for and purchase health insurance. eHealthInsurance offers
thousands of health plans underwritten by more than 180 of the
nation’s leading Read the rest of this entry »
Three men, all UK nationals, have appeared before a special sitting of the District Court in Clonakilty charged in connection with the seizure of 1.7 tonnes of cocaine off the Cork coast.
Philip Doo, 49, and David Mufford, 40, both from Devon and 42-year-old Christopher Wiggins, with an address on Spain’s Costa del Sol were charged with possession of cocaine knowing the drug was to be imported into a country other than Ireland.
There was no application Read the rest of this entry »
The bus driver recognized Tammy’s brother from the flier she had made. Lots of homeless people ride the No. 22 bus, he told her, because the two-hour ride up and down El Camino Real gives them time to catch some sleep.
But he hadn’t seen the bearded guy in the picture lately, so Tammy kept looking.
For a week, Tammy and her father searched all the usual places in San Jose for her brilliant, schizophrenic brother. They called the jail and the hospitals. Read the rest of this entry »
Proposal 1 is flawed, but well-intentioned Vague language on medical marijuana
A proposal on the Nov. 4 Michigan ballot aims to help ease
the pain and suffering of people with some very real,
hard-to-address medical problems. Yet as it’s
constructed, the proposal is difficult to support.
Proposal 1, the medicinal marijuana initiative, seeks to
allow doctors to prescribe marijuana use for patients with
certain medical conditions without the fear Read the rest of this entry »
MENLO PARK, CA — (Marketwire) — 01/05/09 — Let’s face it: pregnancy takes its toll on
your body and not everyone is a celebrity with a personal trainer, chef and
home gym. Patrea’s new “RECHARGE IT!” fitness DVD features real moms with
real bodies and real schedules. By doing the 45-minute workout three to
five days a week, you can trim down and tone up all over, including those
postpartum abdominals.
), the “RECHARGE IT!”
DVD ($14.95) is segmented Read the rest of this entry »
Lexington lawyers William Gallion and Shirley Cunningham Jr., who are charged with bilking clients out of tens of millions of dollars in Kentucky’s fen-phen case, were permanently disbarred from practice today by the Kentucky Supreme Court.
In a statement, Linda Gosnell, the Kentucky Bar Association’s chief counsel, said the court confirmed “multiple violations of the rules of professional conduct that govern the practice of law.”
“Never again Read the rest of this entry »
Scientists at three universities in Taiwan have developed a new non-invasive diagnostic tool which combines the functions of virtual biopsy and molecular imaging and can significantly improve clinical diagnosis of skin diseases, researchers said Thursday.
Experiments conducted on laboratory animals using the new tool have been successfully completed and the results show that the tool can effectively detect indications Read the rest of this entry »
The peer-reviewed report determines the age and sophistication of
medical technologies in Canada based on data from the Canadian
Institute for Health Information’s National Survey of Selected
Medical Imaging Equipment. The report compares the age of existing
Canadian medical technology in both hospitals and free-standing
facilities to guidelines established by the European Coordination
Committee of the Radiological and Electromedical Industries Read the rest of this entry »
Glenn E. Anders
Addis Ababa, November 26 (WIC)
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID), in partnership with Pathfinder International and John Snow Inc. (JSI), yesterday launched a five-year new Integrated Family Health Program with 50 million USD.
Speaking at the launching ceremony, State Minister of Health, Dr. Kebede Worku said the new health program would help scale up the health service in Ethiopia.
Dr. Kebede said Read the rest of this entry »