Posted By CHELSEY ROMAIN, THE DAILY PRESS
Members of the Timmins Chamber of Commerce had a look at a different kind of business during Monday’s Lunch N Learn, taking a deeper look into the workings of the Timmins Family Health Team.
Timmins Family Health Team (FHT) executive director Joy Galloway made the presentation to a dozen or so chamber members, giving insight into the team’s current services and future goals.
Galloway said the primary Read the rest of this entry »

SAN JOSE, Calif., Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Coalition for Pulmonary Fibrosis (CPF) is calling this a historic time in the research and treatment of PF, as a pivotal Phase III clinical trial is completed for Pirfenidone and data released. The positive data could pave the way for the first FDA-approved therapy to treat PF – a relentlessly progressive and ultimately fatal lung disease affecting more than 128,000 people and claiming 40,000 Read the rest of this entry »

Debate: Obama, McCain Talk Health Care
Oct. 8, 2008 (Nashville, Tenn.) — The economy and foreign policy may have dominated, but last night’s second presidential debate also included a substantive face-to-face discussion of health care policy between Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.
Both candidates vowed to make health care reform a top priority in their first year in office.
McCain called health care “one of the major challenges America Read the rest of this entry »

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An 11-year-old Rhode Island girl has died from injuries caused when she crashed through a glass coffee table in her home.
Police say Christiana Sarty was home alone Thursday with her 8-year-old sister when she either fell or jumped through the table in their apartment in Providence.
The glass punctured her leg and Christiana collapsed after the two girls ran out looking for help. A neighbor called emergency rescuers.
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“While we can test the device in the lab, the lab isn’t its
intended setting.”
Royal Oak-based Beaumont Hospitals last year launched the
commercialization center to help medical device manufacturers and
inventors draw on the experience of physicians and staff to bring
their ideas to market.
Beaumont offers services from prototype development and
real-world testing to regulatory approval preparation. Unlike
similar efforts usually on a university Read the rest of this entry »

Firelands Regional Medical Center will be offering a 14-hour Medical Terminology course.
This 14-hour course, conducted in eight class sessions and one final exam session, is designed for total learning retention featuring the Dean Vaughn system.
This instructional system teaches students to easily remember, pronounce and apply medical terms.
For employees and students in a hospital setting; education or health-care business, the program will Read the rest of this entry »

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 20 (Bernama) — A high-level delegation from Pakistan’s Population Welfare Ministry will arrive here on Sunday, to observe success stories in reproductive health and family planning.
Ministry secretary Nayyar Agha heads the six-member delegation.
In a statement today, the Pakistan High Commission said that during the three-day visit, the delegation would hold meetings with women, family and community development ministry secretary-general, Read the rest of this entry »

A Maryland universal health care proposal was unveiled by coalition of citizen and business groups, calling for a statewide insurance pool and a requirement for all residents to buy health insurance.
The proposal released Wednesday from the Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative, the nonprofit arm of the Health Care For All! coalition, aims to make it easier to get affordable health care, said initiative president Vincent DeMarco.
“In these economic Read the rest of this entry »

When Phillies reliever J.C. Romero ventured into a Cherry Hill Vitamin Shoppe last July, he got more than he bargained for: The 6-OXO Extreme supplement he bought apparently led him to test positive for a testosterone-boosting substance banned by Major League Baseball.
Romero says he believed, based on assurances from the MLB Players Association that were later retracted, that anything bought at a U.S. retail store should be safe. Baseball officials Read the rest of this entry »

Philadelphia Police want to know what happened to the woman who lived on the 7200 block of North 20th Street in West Oak Lane.
She was taken to Einstein Medical Center Sunday covered, in what a police source tells NBC 10, were maggots and feces. They also said she had Spina Bifida.
Her condition so concerned hospital members, they called in Philadelphia Police.
“The female was 49 years of age, was in critical condition. It appeared she suffered Read the rest of this entry »