MEN’S HEALTH FAIR: Washington Hospital will hold its first Men’s Health Fair on Saturday. The event will focus on how men can improve their health and incorporate exercise into their busy schedules.
Booths will offer information on cardiac rehabilitation, prevention of strokes and heart attacks, diabetes, exercise and stretching, erectile dysfunction, prostate health and other topics.
The free event will feature appearances by former Oakland A’s Read the rest of this entry »
HIGH POINT, N.C.
Dr. William Jack Hunt, 90, a resident of River Landing at Sandy Ridge, died Wednesday morning, Nov. 26, 2008, at the Presbyterian Home. Dr. Hunt was born Sept. 13, 1918, in High Point, a son of Vilas Lee Hunt and Norah Lena Koontz Hunt.
He was preceded in death by his parents; an infant son, William John Hunt; and his sister, Virginia McKinney.
He graduated from High Point High School and took his undergraduate degree from Read the rest of this entry »
. Every weekday this month, you’ll get help getting fiscally fit as we work toward our goal of saving $2,000 to invest in three stocks!
. Today’s Fiscal Fitness ‘09 task will be a breeze in comparison: Get ready to make a phone call that could shave as much as $500 on your car insurance premiums.
Scoring better rates on car insurance is simply a matter of asking the right questions and being willing to take on a bit of the insurer’s risk.
, Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
A traffic stop on Interstate 17 just north of Camp Verde on Sunday netted Yavapai County Sheriff’s deputies an AK-47 rifle and several fully loaded magazines along with methamphetamine and marijuana.
Deputies arrested Kevin Hollenbeck, 41, of Phoenix, on charges of weapons misconduct and possession of marijuana and drug paraphernalia, said Dwight D’Evelyn, YCSO spokesman in a press release.
Deputies later added charges Read the rest of this entry »
Published: January 19, 2009
Don’t eat any commercially prepared peanut butter products, that’s the new warning from the Food and Drug Administration as they investigate the Salmonella outbreak.
474 people in 43 states have been sickened.
Kathy Bryant, manager of infection control, with Spartanburg Regional Medical Center says it could be just a matter of time before we see it here.
She says, “We’ve Read the rest of this entry »
VALHALLA – Westchester Medical Center will close its nursing home and lay off about 400 staff members hospital-wide to help offset a $70 million gap left by proposed state health care cuts.
About 100 residents of the Taylor Care Center nursing home will have to find another place to live by April 1, when the home will close. Twenty of those residents depend on ventilators.
“We do this with a heavy heart,” said John Heimerdinger, chairman of the Read the rest of this entry »
ZURICH, Dec 10 (Reuters) – New data shows that three drugs
made by Roche Holding AG (ROG.VX:
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cancer live longer or remain disease-free for longer, the Swiss
drugmaker said on Wednesday.
Roche, the world’s largest maker of cancer drugs, is
presenting new data at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium
which show that its Herceptin, Xeloda and Avastin drugs can help
patients with early and advanced breast Read the rest of this entry »
About 6,600 Mexicans were killed in fighting involving drug gangs last year, and alarms are going off in this country. The U.S. Joint Forces Command, former drug czar Barry R. McCaffrey, former CIA director Michael V. Hayden, former House speaker Newt Gingrich and any number of analysts have speculated that Mexico is crumbling under pressure from drug gangs.
But “failed state” is the sort of shorthand that Washington has a way of turning into its Read the rest of this entry »
At the close of a hearing in San Francisco, U.S. District Judge Thelton Henderson promised a ruling later this week, and left little doubt about its contents: an order requiring state prison officials to turn over $250 million to a court-appointed overseer to begin construction in February on the first of eight planned new medical facilities for about 10,000 prisoners.
Henderson removed the $1.1 billion prison medical system from state control more Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration will establish its first office in China before the end of the year as part of a broader plan to assure the safety of imports from the developing world.
FDA Commissioner Andrew von Eschenbach on Thursday laid out a plan to place more than 60 food and drug regulators worldwide over the next year, with a particular focus on India, Latin America and the Middle East.
The plan for permanent Read the rest of this entry »