Dientes Community Dental Care and the Santa Cruz Women’s Health Center each will receive $100,000 to expand services to low-income patients, thanks to the Santa Cruz Medical Foundation.
Dientes will start a pilot program to educate low-income children about dental care and provide screenings at elementary schools throughout Santa Cruz County. Students in grades 1-3 will receive exams, cleanings, fluoride applications and sealants at the school locations. Read the rest of this entry »

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, who was whisked out of a Tuesday luncheon with President Obama after the Massachusetts lawmaker suffered a seizure, left Washington Hospital Center yesterday morning with orders to get some rest.
Kennedy was “in good spirits,” a spokeswoman said, after a night under observation at the medical facility.
Doctors urged the lawmaker, notorious for his long workdays, to get some rest after a dramatic collapse they believe Read the rest of this entry »

RAWL — Residents of a small community in Rawl are concerned about a discharge that is appearing periodically in a stream near their homes.
According to David Miller, environmental inspector with the Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Mining and Reclamation, there is a closed coal mine at the head of the hollow. The mine is owned by Rawl Sales and Processing, a subsidiary of Massey Energy. The mine site includes a sediment Read the rest of this entry »

For the past few years, a handful of Mississippi hospitals have won a lottery – extra money from Medicaid in formulas so complex many administrators can’t explain them.
State Medicaid officials “should be ashamed and embarrassed at such poor and inequitable administration of public funds in such a way as to create these windfalls in a few hospitals while others struggle to survive week to week,” said Daryl Weaver, chief executive officer for King’s Read the rest of this entry »

is opposing a recent shareholder proposal to replace two board members and for the Rockville company to sell itself.
, which owns nearly 15 percent of Vanda’s shares, has said it plans to submit the names of its own two executives to replace two board members whose terms are set to expire this year, including Vanda Chief Executive Officer and founder Mihael Polymeropoulos and Chairman Argeris Karabelas. Tang, which has criticized Vanda’s Read the rest of this entry »

Thai players have technique but lack fitness, national coach Peter Reid said yesterday. The former England international signed a four-year contract to coach Thailand two months ago.
He has since watched several Thailand Premier League matches.
”Thai players have good basic skills. But their problem is fitness and stamina,” Reid said. ”A player must be able to run 90 minutes and not 50 minutes. We must improve it.”
Reid’s first assignment Read the rest of this entry »

(RTTNews) - 
Monday, Syneron Medical Ltd. (ELOS:
) announced its preliminary results for the third quarter. The company expects to report third-quarter net profit in the range of $3.4 million-$3.7 million or $0.11-$0.13 per share.
On average, five analysts polled by First Call/Thomson Financial currently expect the company to earn $0.27 per share for the third quarter.
Revenue for the quarter is expected in the Read the rest of this entry »

, a provider of mental health services for people of all ages, is gearing up for the second-largest expansion in the nonprofit’s 45-year history.
The organization plans to add more than 40,000 square feet with new facilities in Jeffersonville and New Albany.
Terry Stawar, president and CEO of LifeSpring, said the expansion will enable the organization to increase counseling and psychiatric treatment services in Clark and Floyd counties — Read the rest of this entry »

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Attendees at the
’s GRAS Notification Program from the program director, Paulette Gaynor, Ph.D. Gaynor explained how the program works, and how it differs from the approval of food additives.
In all cases, whether food additives or GRAS (generally recognized as safe) ingredients, the only issue is that of safety, according to Gaynor. Evaluations of an ingredient’s GRAS status are safety-based only with no balancing Read the rest of this entry »

CARBONDALE – During its May commencement ceremonies, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville will honor David M. Oates, a longtime supporter of the university who has served as president and chairman of the SIUE Foundation Board and who has served as president of his highly successful engineering firm in Collinsville.
Oates will receive SIUE’s Distinguished Service Award, as approved Thursday by the SIU Board of Trustees at its regular meeting Read the rest of this entry »