Redwood Memorial Hospital’s Eel River Valley Family Health and Resource Fair, Fortuna’s biggest community-wide health event of the year, will take place on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Rohner Park Fireman’s Pavilion.
The health fair, which coincides with Fortuna’s Apple Harvest Festival, will feature low-cost medical testing, including blood draws and blood pressure, cholesterol, anemia, glucose and bone density tests. Wellness information Read the rest of this entry »

PETER CAVE: A Melbourne academic fears that the Close the Gap campaign, aimed at minimising the differences between mortality rates in Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, is already running out of puff.
Associate Professor Jane Freemantle from VicHealth’s Koori Health Unit, says there needs to be more personnel and money put into health data collection programs in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
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“We think we are giving good care as we serve all 21 of our [assisted-living] facilities in the Twin Cities, plus maybe 150 people in the community,” she said. “But most of our scores don’t reflect that, and we don’t know why.”
Conway said she trains her home health staff to improve care, not to improve the scores — “but I don’t know anyplace that coaches workers to twist patient assessments so their scores will look good.”
New tool to help consumers?
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BEIJING (AP) — China is launching a four-month food safety campaign Wednesday that will include inspections of food makers to weed out illegal or excessive chemicals in food, in the country’s latest move to restore trust hurt by a tainted milk scandal.
The drive will be jointly conducted by nine central government departments and will target food and additive producers across the country, the Health Ministry said in a statement.
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Some 800 teens from five local school districts converged at the Granite Technical Institute in South Salt Lake last week to participate in a hands-on Healthcare Career Day.
This was no ordinary career day. Instead of listening to adults give monologues about their jobs, medical professionals offered students a behind-the-scenes look at their various fields.
The kids — most are enrolled in health and anatomy classes at their schools — witnessed Read the rest of this entry »

TOWN OF OSCEOLA — An elderly man found outside of his County Trunk F home this morning has died at St. Agnes Hospital.
The man was found at 9:45 a.m. and was still breathing, said Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Department Lt. Rick Olig. He was transported to St. Agnes Hospital where he later died.
“He may have been outside all night,” Olig said Sunday. Authorities don’t know if the man slipped and fell or why he was outside.
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Daschle called health care reform “one of the greatest challenges of our time,” in words echoed by Democrats and Republicans on the committee, including chairman
, D-Mass., who presided over the hearing after returning from treatment for a malignant brain tumor.
Few lawmakers appeared eager to jump into what are expected to become contentious debates about how millions more people will get coverage and who will pay for it.
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“I think it’s fair to say that we have a major initiative investigation ongoing into this type of product,” Michael Levy, director of the division of new drugs and labeling compliance at the FDA, said in an interview. “We are buying these products, and we are testing them, and we are considering what our options are. There is definitely the possibility that there could be criminal charges.”
The pills, using undeclared drugs that may put health at Read the rest of this entry »

MONDAY, Oct. 20 (HealthDay News) — It’s been a mystery for medical researchers: How does the AIDS virus bring itself back to life after powerful drugs allow infected people to eliminate all signs of the disease in their blood?
Now, new research suggests HIV can hibernate inside a small number of cells — or even a single cell — until re-emerging to wreak havoc.
Study co-author Huldrych Gunthard, a researcher at University Hospital Zurich, in Read the rest of this entry »

Despite an abundance of tributes to the heroism and patriotism of wounded veterans, Congress might leave town to campaign before acting on key bills to help them.
Some of the delays are due to politics, which angers veterans advocates.
“It’s still surprising to me the extent to which you have to fight when everyone in Congress would say they support the troops and they want to help veterans,” said Vanessa Williamson, the policy director for Iraq Read the rest of this entry »