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After a year as the Ennis Regional Medical Centers CEO, Dave Anderson has started to get a sense of routine now, but with the constant improvements the hospital is making, new physicians added and changes to procedures there is no time for him to relax as the focus remains on gaining the trust and loyalty of the community and providing the highest quality of service possible.
Its been great getting here to town and getting to know everyone, Read the rest of this entry »
Q: I have peripheral neuropathy, but I don’t have diabetes. I would like to know more about this condition, which has left me with numbness in my left leg and hands.
There are more than 100 different types of peripheral neuropathy, which is nerve damage that can lead to burning pain as well as muscle weakness, tingling and numbness, according to the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
Some people inherit the problem while Read the rest of this entry »
CONCORD — A man was tied up and pistol-whipped over the weekend by a group of home invaders who may have been looking for drugs, police said.
Police were called to John Muir Medical Center in Concord about 10 p.m. Friday by a woman reporting that her 20-year-old cousin had been beaten by men who had broken into his apartment, said Concord police Cpl. Kerry Cerletti.
Police interviewed the woman and victim, who was slipping in and out of Read the rest of this entry »
Oh, beautiful for spacious thighs, for amply weighed fat grams.
.” Topping the list is the Baskin-Robbins Large Chocolate Oreo Shake, which could fulfill a full day’s caloric needs with its count at 2,600. Add to that its 135 grams of fat and you’ve got the equivalent of about four-and-a-half Big Macs. What a snack!
equaling 35 Chicken McNuggets.
, these examples give good reasoning to those who’d like this information printed on menus. Of course, Read the rest of this entry »
Joette Gulbis knows the importance of physical fitness. She integrates it into her social studies classroom at West Ottawa’s Macatawa Bay Middle School and at the Saugatuck Public Schools weight and aerobic room at Saugatuck Middle/High School.
Gulbis works with community members at the Saugatuck fitness center three days a week, helping them set up workout routines and properly use equipment.
“Health has always been a passion of mine,” Read the rest of this entry »
(November 26, 2008)
INGLESIDE–In San Patricio County, a 77-year-old man gets busted for dealing prescription drugs to high school students. Authorities got a tip he was selling drugs in his neighborhood. After a three-month undercover operation, they caught him in the act.
In this plush Ingleside neighborhood, 77-year-old Dave Lassiter looks like a nice old man, who is very ill, but investigators said his looks are deceiving. They said he was Read the rest of this entry »
BINH THUAN Binh Thuan
Province faces a dire shortage of medical practitioners since most young doctors
do not want to return to the central coastal province to work, health officials
said.
Figures from the local
department of health show that all 32 hospitals and medical centres at the
district level lack doctors. Only slightly more than half of the 127 commune
health centres have one.
The shortage at the
communal level means hospitals Read the rest of this entry »
The architects hired to design a new hospital spent two days in Jamestown last week in the first of what will be a series of visits and discussions over the next several months.
Designing a new hospital is not just sitting down and drawing a building. Architect Rick Dahl, of the St. Paul, Minn., firm of BWBR Architects, said a hospital has to be uniquely designed to fit not only the staff and patient needs, but the site, the community and future Read the rest of this entry »
More men are popping erection drugs after prostate cancer treatment as an increasing number of younger patients are diagnosed with the disease.
Prostate cancer specialists say demand is rising for “sexual rehabilitation” following radiotherapy or surgery to remove cancerous tumours that damage the ability of men to get an erection.
“It’s the changing face of prostate cancer,” said Dr Michael Lowy from Sydney Men’s Health, who will address a cancer Read the rest of this entry »
LAS VEGAS—Police and fire officials are investigating the cause of an explosion in the garage of a northwest Las Vegas condominium that left a man with what authorities called “severe traumatic injuries.”
Las Vegas fire spokesman Tim Szymanski (zim-ANN’-skee) says neighbors reported hearing two blasts shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday at a complex near Washington Avenue and Cimarron Road.
Firefighters found the man inside a two-story townhouse-style Read the rest of this entry »