Published: Sunday, December 28, 2008
MILFORD – With his arms cradling a portable oxygen device, Seth Kallman brought to the community health-care discussion his own story on how the health-care system fails people.
Kallman was among the 18 people who came to the Wadleigh Memorial Library on Saturday morning to take part in President­elect Barack Obama’s health-care transition project as a first step to changing public health-care policy.
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Catholics Voted For Obama Because Of ‘Life Issues’ Other Than Abortion, Opinion Piece Says
Pre-election polls showed that more than half of Catholics intended to vote for Barack Obama in Tuesday’s election, despite the fact that “some bishops came pretty close to” directing Roman Catholics to vote for Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) because of his opposition to abortion rights,
columnist and Roman Catholic priest Andrew Read the rest of this entry »

NATICK, Mass.
,
Dec. 15
) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has approved the Express(R) SD Renal Monorail(R)
Premounted Stent System for use as an adjunct to PTRA (percutaneous
transluminal renal angioplasty) in certain lesions of the renal arteries. The
Express SD System is the first low-profile, pre-mounted stent approved for use
in renal arteries in
. It is the only FDA-approved renal
stent designed to provide Read the rest of this entry »

“I am just sick of hearing about contaminated food, and now it hurts in the most personal way,” Jeff Almer said.
Shirley Almer was a mother of five and businesswoman who was president of the family’s bowling alley in Wadena, and later helped open another family-owned alley in Brainerd. She retired five years ago and was found to have lung cancer in 2007, and her children worried. Yet her surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical Center was Read the rest of this entry »

Think you know the latest fitness trends? Test your knowledge and see if your favorite new fitness activity made the cut as one of the
.
No. 5 Fitness Trend: Zumba and other dance inspired group classes
The latin inspired fitness dance class took sports gyms by storm in 2008. According to the official Zumba website, “Zumba Fitness was created in the mid-90’s by Colombian native Alberto “Beto” Perez, a celebrity fitness Read the rest of this entry »

Published: December 19, 2008
Clark Moore has written a nice summary (“Health District has vital role in county,” Dec. 16). However, the part about being forced into a lease agreement with Sutter Health (or any other health care system) due to changes in the Medicare and the state reimbursement systems is pure nonsense.
The change in the way health care was delivered in Del Norte County occurred not because of the changed reimbursement systems Read the rest of this entry »

MIAMI – It’s National Pancake Day and local IHOP restaurants are chipping in for a good cause.
Local IHOP restaurants across South Florida will offer guests a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m. on Tuesday in an effort to raise awareness and funds for Children’s Miracle Network at Miami Children’s Hospital on National Pancake Day.
The company said that for every short stack of pancakes served, IHOP guests will Read the rest of this entry »

This initiative, funded by a grant from the District of Columbia
Department of Health, involves sending a mobile unit to various
locations in the community. Area residents are screened and treated, and
encounters on the mobile unit are documented in an electronic medical
record system. Following treatment, patients are offered a free
NoMoreClipboard.com PHR account, branded with the Howard University
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Somaxon cautions you that statements included in this press release
that are not a description of historical facts are forward-looking
statements. For example, statements regarding the potential
approval of the NDA for Silenor and the potential commercialization of
Silenor are forward looking statements. The inclusion of
forward-looking statements should not be regarded as a representation by
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– “Sometimes you can forget about the preciousness of life,” hospital spokesman Allen Poston thumbed onto his Blackberry after peering into an operating room where a team of 15 doctors and medical staff separated conjoined twins in six hours in surgery.
“I’m standing here in the operating room looking at the exposed beating heart of Preslee Wells,” he wrote as he walked the halls at the Children’s Hospital of Oklahoma University Medical Center.
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