Gerald Wallace has been released from a Los Angeles hospital after being treated for a partially collapsed lung that resulted from a flagrant foul in a game this week against the Los Angeles Lakers.
Zydrunas Ilgauskas returned to the starting lineup against the Los Angeles Clippers after missing 13 games with a broken left ankle.
Allen Iverson moved past Charles Barkley and into 16th place on the NBA’s list of all-time scorers.
Darius Read the rest of this entry »
President-elect Barack Obama is one of the 21% of Americans who smoke. The White House has a no smoking policy. According to an interview given in the November issue of Men’s Health magazine, his heaviest smoking is seven or eight cigarettes a day though more often only three a day.
Like many smokers, Mr. Obama has quit several times, restarted, used nicotine gum and patches. It is not unusual for an average smoker to try 8-10 times to quit before Read the rest of this entry »
Golf fitness exercises developing strength in the hips are a key component to improvement within the golf swing. If you recall last week’s article, we continued the development of strength and stability in the legs, knees, and hips with the Tubing Walks exercise. This week we will move forward with this process through additional golf fitness exercises for the hips.
Prior to the introduction of these exercises, it is probably best to provide some Read the rest of this entry »
Monday, February 23, 2009
It takes a village to raise a child, according to an African proverb. Tribal wisdom also plays a role in the Open Table program — being piloted in Waco at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church — which seeks a congregation to raise the homeless to self-sufficiency.
The faith-based approach assembles a mentoring team of 12 to shepherd a homeless person through the process of creating a step-by-step economic stability Read the rest of this entry »
Feb. 16, 2009 — Pass the olive oil, please. There’s more good news today
for people who eat a traditionally
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American women whose diets are high in monosaturated fat, plant proteins,
whole grains, and fish are significantly less likely to develop
and stroke, according to a study published in
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Researchers looked at data on 74,886 women who participated in the Nurses’
Health Study between 1984 and 2002. The women were between the ages of Read the rest of this entry »
What do my wife and I do on New Year’s Eve? Think up e-mails on the need for universal health coverage to send to Tom Daschle and the Obama Administration. Here’s a message I just submitted
. Mr. Daschle, pay attention!
A friend of ours told us about the hard times her sister and brother-in-law have hit. She is recovering from breast cancer and still undergoing some treatments. Her husband just received a heart transplant Christmas Eve. He has Read the rest of this entry »
Editor, The Times:
As an advocate for patients without insurance at a hospital, I was disappointed with your one-sided story about charity care ["No money, no insurance, no mercy," Times, page one, Dec. 30].
Every day, I see patients without insurance and every day, I see people approved for hundreds and thousands of dollars in charity care. The hospitals pay big money for private companies like the one I work for to screen and help patients apply Read the rest of this entry »
Holiday parties and family gatherings are notorious diet saboteurs. With all the super-rich foods tempting you to overindulge, combined with seasonally lower activity levels, you can quickly pack on those 5-7 pounds the average American gains between Thanksgiving and Christmas. But believe it or not, it is possible to party like a madwoman and not gain a pound. Here are some tips to keep you from tipping the scale:
STAY ACTIVE. With all the demands Read the rest of this entry »
The presentation explores how the media report on selected women’s health concerns. Topics include: body image and cosmetic surgery, pregnancy and childbirth, menopause, tobacco use in women, advertising of prescription and over-the-counter drugs, environmental exposures, and the risks of egg extraction procedures used in infertility clinics and for embryonic stem cell research egg donations. The talk also offers tips for finding reliable women’s Read the rest of this entry »
LITTLE ROCK — “Several” hospital employees who dug into the medical records of a television anchorwoman who was fatally beaten at her home have been fired, St. Vincent Medical Center said Wednesday.
A news release from the hospital did not specify how many employees were dismissed, or what kind of jobs they held.
“Several former employees of St. Vincent were dismissed from their jobs for inappropriately reviewing medical records of KATV Channel Read the rest of this entry »