A Lockport nursing home is expanding with a new adult day health-care program.
received approval from the state Health Department in December to certify and build the day program, which will have a capacity of 25 clients.
The certificate-of-need application calls for renovating a portion of the existing site on Lincoln Avenue at a cost of about $420,000. Using some off-site storage will open up internal space for offices and conference rooms. Read the rest of this entry »
CHARLOTTE, N.C., Oct 03, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
USHIFU, LLC, a privately held
healthcare development company and the exclusive distributor of the minimally
invasive Sonablate(R) 500 for prostate cancer treatment in North and South
America, the Caribbean and India, announced today the hiring of Dr. Ian
Millett on September 8, 2008, as Director of Regulatory Affairs of Focus
Surgery, Inc. (FSI). FSI is the designer and manufacturer of Read the rest of this entry »
Availability Of EC For Teens Declines At NYC Health Clinics, Report Says
The number of teen health clinics in New York City offering same-day pick up of emergency contraception dropped by 13% from 2007 to 2008, according to a
released Monday by New York City Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum, the
reports. The report surveyed the 38 teen health clinics in the city in June and found that 10 of them had EC available, compared with 15 clinics in a 2007 Read the rest of this entry »
PROVO — A sexually explicit Internet chat relationship involving a
teenage “girl” ended Thursday when police arrested a medical school
student.
The conversation had been ongoing for two years with undercover agents
from the Utah County Sex Crimes Task Force posing as a 13-year-old girl,
according to an affidavit filed in 4th District Court.
The man, 29, requested sex and sexual favors and tried to arrange to
meet several times, but was unable Read the rest of this entry »
Oct 13, 2008 (M2 EQUITYBITES via COMTEX) –
) said on 10 October that the company has
received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for
once-daily SEROQUEL XR (quetiapine fumarate) Extended-Release Tablets
for the acute treatment of the depressive episodes associated with
bipolar disorder, the manic and mixed episodes associated with bipolar
I disorder and the maintenance treatment of bipolar I disorder as
adjunctive therapy Read the rest of this entry »
The physicians and staff at Palo Alto County Health System welcome Amy Frields, ARNP, to the Family Practice Clinic in Emmetsburg. Amy specializes in family health and wellness, with special interests in emergency care, womenâs health, breast feeding education, and pediatrics and teen wellness.
Amy is not new to PACHS. Before completing her Advance Nurse Practitioner Degree, Amy was employed at Palo Alto County Hospital as an Obstetrics, Read the rest of this entry »
Published on December 22, 2008
Military Health System officials have started evaluating the pilot launch of the MiCare personal health record system and have found that early adopters are interested in better managing their own and their family’s health care.
MiCare allows MHS beneficiaries to choose between the Microsoft HealthVault and Google Health PHR systems. The PHRs will receive updates on prescriptions, allergies, lab and radiology results, Read the rest of this entry »
Few people in Vermont remember Dr. Robert W. Hyde, but one of his former patients cant forget him. The doctor was involved in one of the nations darkest chapters in medical science: In the 1950s, Hyde conducted drug and psychological experiments at a Boston hospital through funding that apparently originated with the CIA. Later, he became director of research at the Vermont State Hospital.
The patient, Karen Wetmore, is convinced that Hyde and Read the rest of this entry »
Vowing to keep away from “sex” and “drugs”, France’s most talked-about woman Carla Bruni is portraying in a film her life with President Nicolas Sarkozy, her career as a supermodel and her passion for
.
“No more sex, no more drugs, only rock’n'roll!” the French First Lady was quoted as saying by
which cited an exclusive preview of the 80-minute documentary ‘Somebody Told Me About… Carla Bruni’.
In the film, Bruni relates how she told Sarkozy Read the rest of this entry »
Participants from the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS) cohort, who were apparently healthy at baseline and followed for the occurrence of coronary heart disease and stroke events, comprised the study population. Women with a history of diabetes or CVD at baseline were excluded. An alternative Mediterranean Diet Score based on self-reported dietary information was created. Points were counted if women reported consumption higher than the median for vegetables, Read the rest of this entry »