The allegations are serious and would have to be addressed by either the hospital’s owner, for-profit chain Merit Health Systems, before a sale or by the new owner should a buyer emerge and want to maintain Lincoln Park Hospital as a health care facility, officials said. The hospital discharged its last patient Thursday night, the state Health Department said, adding that the closure plan was proceeding.
Merit Health earlier this month put the hospital Read the rest of this entry »

* Audit report says Naseer Khan used four official vehicles, three illegally, between July 2005 and June 2007
* Says departments concerned bore their repair, maintenance and fuel expenditures
ISLAMABAD: Though entitled to one official vehicle, former federal health minister Nasir Khan kept four vehicles, three of the ministry’s attached departments, for over two years in violation of the rules, reveals the Auditor General of Pakistan (AGP) report Read the rest of this entry »

A wreckВ early Saturday involving two cars leftВ both drivers dead and a passenger in critically injured.
The Florida Highway Patrol said a man, 32,В was driving on the wrong side ofВ State Road 50В around midnight Saturday, when he collided head-on with another car, driven by Heather Rogers, 19,В just east of Max Hooks Road.
Rogers and the other driver were pronounced dead at the scene.
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — A 48-year-old New Yorker who survived almost two days bobbing in the choppy waters of a vast South American river said she was kept alive by a plastic bucket and the desire to see her daughter again.
Sherry Haynes, a resident of Brooklyn who was born in Guyana, was riding across Guyana’s Corentyne River in a water taxi on Oct. 24 when the speedboat apparently snagged on a fishing net and capsized.
Only Haynes and Read the rest of this entry »

Amid the classic sounds of folk mariachi, colorful artwork by Greenfield residents and a buffet of traditional Mexican foods, Monterey County Latinos and their supporters gathered Friday to kick off Binational Health Week.
Held at the National Steinbeck Center in downtown Salinas, the night featured presentations by local medical experts about farm- worker health, diabetes and nutrition, and HIV/AIDS in the Latino community.
Latinos make up the Read the rest of this entry »

Dublin – Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/9da1a9/the_medical_device) has announced the addition of the “The Medical Device Market: Slovakia” report to their offering.
Slovakia represents one of the smaller Central and Eastern European medical device markets, but is the fifth largest in per capita terms. While Slovakia remains less wealthy than its former partner, the Czech Republic, it is now very much a Western-facing Read the rest of this entry »

The Birmingham City Council gave committee approval today to a $55 million incentive package to assist Trinity Medical Center in relocating to U.S. 280.
The council will vote on the package at its regular meeting on Tuesday.
Trinity had planned to move to Irondale, but decided last month to consider a facility on U.S. 280 that was to be used as a HealthSouth medical facility.
Officials said that relocating to partially constructed facility on Read the rest of this entry »

Their finding “greatly strengthens the foundation of the argument for air-quality management,” wrote environmental health scientist Daniel Krewski of the University of Ottawa in an editorial accompanying the report.
The particulates in question are called fine particulates because they are smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter, allowing them to burrow deep into the small air passages of the lung. They have repeatedly been shown to produce cardiovascular Read the rest of this entry »

It’s one small effort toward solving a very large problem. An estimated 374,000 Minnesotans, or 7.2 percent of the state’s population, lack health insurance, according to the Minnesota Department of Health. In 2006, Minnesota hospitals spent $441 million on uncompensated care.
“This is a different model,” said Portico president Debra Holmgren. “Uncompensated care had become enough of an issue that hospitals were willing to look at other options.”
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Suddenly flushed, sweating and agitated, Jan Lefler of Roswell re-read the drug information pamphlet Walgreens sent home with her prescription for a new osteoporosis drug.
The pamphlet made no mention of the symptoms as a potential side effect of the drug —- although they are. Had she picked up her prescription from Rite Aid instead, that store’s pamphlet would have at least alerted her that the drug could cause “flushing of the Read the rest of this entry »