SANTA ANA, Calif. — The state medical board has put an Orange County pediatrician on probation for choking his psychiatrist.
In an order that took effect Wednesday, the board ordered seven years probation for Dr. Brendan Mull, a pediatric neurologist at Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Los Angeles. During that period, he must receive psychotherapy, submit to drug tests and abstain from drinking alchohol, along with several other provisions. Read the rest of this entry »
The following is a press release from the Cambridge Health Alliance, the parent to Somerville Hospital.
Despite warnings from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, dangerous prescription diet pills from Brazil are actively circulated in the United States. A new report analyzes their contents and suggests that the medical consequences of these imported amphetamine-based diet pills might be greater than previously recognized.
The report, issued Read the rest of this entry »
By age 7, Annalise Mulford knew she wanted to be a firefighter.
When she grew up, Mulford pursued her dream, serving as a reserve firefighter on and off for 10 years.
She became a full-time firefighter for the Los Angeles Fire Department, but her dream was short-lived. In 2003, four and a half months into her job, Mulford was injured in a training accident when a ladder fell on her back.
Last year, after attending a “mommy” fitness class with Read the rest of this entry »
Barring change, Alaska babies born today will find themselves in one of two socio-economic groups when they reach their early 20s: those struggling to make ends meet, and those who work in health care.
An exaggeration? Yes, but it dramatizes the fact that in 25 years, continuation of current trends in health care costs and income will force more than one-half of Alaska households either to do without all but the most basic medical and dental care Read the rest of this entry »
10:02 PM CST on Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Sharon Alt remembers receiving a panicked phone call from her daughter three years ago.
Her then-22-year-old daughter, uninsured and in excruciating pain from an infection, was about to receive treatment in the emergency room. Ms. Alt asked to speak to the doctor.
“My first question was, ‘Does this have to be done in the emergency room or can she go into the doctor’s office Read the rest of this entry »
They will be presenting their findings in Calgary next week.
Mansfield says the inspiration for the study came from her PhD project.
“We wanted to find out the attitudes, activities and behaviours of low economic status women,” she says. “We talked to mothers about what they would need to live a more physically active lifestyle.”
During their discussions with moms ranging in age from 20 to 35, they measured mother-specific activity levels, leisure Read the rest of this entry »
DENVER
— More people in Colorado have been sickened by tainted peanut butter, and the six new cases are linked to a shuttered Texas plant.
The Oregonian newspaper in Portland reports that the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has linked the cases to the Plainview Peanut Co. in the Texas Panhandle. The Colorado victims were between the ages of 2 and 60. One had to be hospitalized, the newspaper reported.
The peanut Read the rest of this entry »
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“You can see how this situation could fuel both under-nutrition and over-nutrition,” says Kelly Brownell, director of the Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity at
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But despite the fact that a diet could easily get derailed during these lean economic times, it doesn’t have to be that way. In a related story, we provide some simple tips to help you stay on track and eat cheaply — and healthfully.
Drewnowski has been arguing for years Read the rest of this entry »