Ascension Group Architects, an Arlington-based architectural firm, has finished a $13.2 million hospital project in West Texas alongside Skiles Group Construction.
The two firms completed work on a new 34,000-square-foot hospital in Kermit, Texas, 40 miles west of Odessa. The facility replaced the original Winkler County Memorial Hospital that was built in the 1940s.
Both firms, Dallas-based Skiles Group and Ascension, commented on the difficulties Read the rest of this entry »
The Write Diet – that is, recording everything you eat each day in a food diary – is not only a successful diet strategy but it can help you lose twice as much weight as you would if you did everything right except write it down.
That was the conclusion of a nationwide study of 1,685 overweight and obese people who spent six months in 2008 following a diet regimen that included 30 minutes of exercise a day and a low-fat diet rich in Read the rest of this entry »
, Times Staff Writer
Posted: Jan 09, 2009 10:40 AM
Florida was singled out in a report today as one of the roughest states on unemployed workers who are trying to cover their family’s health care needs.
Currently, many workers who lost their jobs are able to continue purchasing the same health care coverage through the COBRA program. But according to a report by Families USA, the cost for that lifeline is prohibitively high for many, especially Read the rest of this entry »
Brooklyn mom who lost limbs, sight in hospital stands tall again
Friday, December 12th 2008, 4:00 AM
Four months after losing her hands and feet, a brave
mother Thursday took her first real steps on the road to recovery.
“I can’t believe I just walked!” said
, who is suing
for malpractice.
“This is the first time. I felt great! Great! Great!”
are amazed by the woman’s determination in the face of an enormous tragedy that also left Read the rest of this entry »
Nov 14, 2008 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) –
— Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, a division of Wyeth, has announced that Premarin vaginal cream 0.5gm has been approved by the FDA for a new indication and a new less frequent twice-weekly dosing regimen to treat moderate to severe postmenopausal dyspareunia.
The approval is based on efficacy results from a multicenter clinical study that included a 12-week randomized, double-blind placebo phase followed by a Read the rest of this entry »
Aberdeen Firefighter Joe Reiter has a bit of advice for those who want to start a fitness routine.
“You don’t have to be an Olympic athletic. You just have to start somewhere,” Reiter said. “Rome wasn’t built in a day. They just went out and got started.”
While the advice is important to everyone, it likely hits home with firefighters, who face several health risks relating to the job.
According to a Harvard student published last year, firefighters Read the rest of this entry »
MILFORD – As Aerosmith’s “Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” booms in the background, 32 women, ranging in age from 16 to 71, are shaking and shimmying, and moving and grooving. They got the beat. They also got the beads of perspiration.
During this one-hour, high-energy workout at Gold’s Gym, they have punched their arms, kicked their legs and twisted their bodies every which way but loose. It’s all part of the TurboKick class Read the rest of this entry »
has approached its medical correspondent,
, to be the country’s next surgeon general.
The cable news network said yesterday that it has kept Gupta from reporting on government health-care policy since learning he was under consideration for the post.
The surgeon general typically isn’t much involved in shaping an administration’s policy, but it can be an effective bully pulpit. Past surgeons general have proved instrumental in battling tobacco Read the rest of this entry »
10:55 a.m. A medical study group needs volunteers to help find the genetic causes of diabetes and kidney disease.
The National Institute of Health and the Micronesian Institute of Prevention and Research hope to test 70,000 Pacific Islanders and Filipinos in the next two years.
Research Coordinator Tanisha Franquez said the study is intended to better understand why the conditions are so prevalent in the Pacific.
“We are looking for the particular Read the rest of this entry »
The county hospitals with significantly better than average stroke death rates in 2007 are: Citrus Valley Medical Center; Foothill Presbyterian Hospital-Johnson Memorial; Garfield Medical Center; Glendale Memorial Hospital; Kaiser hospitals in Baldwin Park, Bellflower, Panorama City and on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles; Long Beach Memorial Medical Center; Olympia Medical Center; Pacific Alliance Medical Center; USC University Hospital; and Whittier Read the rest of this entry »