Drugs may be an issue in schools across the country, but the Huber Heights City school district is not going to wait around for the problem to present itself. Instead, the district has taken a proactive approach in hopes of preventing the problem.
Such an approach has been realized in the use of drug sniffing dogs, which do random sweeps of Wayne High School throughout each school year. And after the latest sweep was completed on Nov. 16, the school Read the rest of this entry »
BANGOR — The Rev. Kevin Loring, head of the Temple of Advanced Enlightenment, proposed Monday night that his church join with Bangor police and city officials to develop a plan to distribute medical marijuana to residents who have prescriptions for cannabis.
Maine allows marijuana to be used for medicinal purposes if prescribed by a physician. As part of its community outreach work, church members would like to be able to distribute marijuana Read the rest of this entry »
February 21, 2009
While a salmonella outbreak connected to peanut products continues to have the nation in a frenzy, representatives from the peanut industry say caution, not panic, is the best path.
The integrity of the peanut has never been called into question, said Don Self, who serves on the National Peanut Board.
Salmonella cannot grow or live on a raw peanut. It is only when peanuts are processed into paste or other products can Read the rest of this entry »
(NOTE: This is part 4 of a six-part series looking at child welfare issues in Hale County and across the state.)
Quality mental health care can prevent a child from entering adulthood with untreated or undiagnosed mental health challenges, says a report recently released by Texans Care for Children.
However, Texas ranks the 49th in the United States for children’s mental health care. Only 18 percent of eligible children, the report says, received Read the rest of this entry »
The report spelled out the committee’s rationale for including $1.1 billion for something called “comparative effectiveness research” in the massive economic stimulus bill. For those of not steeped in the argot of health policy, that’s research done by doctors and statisticians who troll through large number of patient records to determine, for any particular disease, which treatments work best.
“By knowing what works best and presenting this information Read the rest of this entry »
Published: February 2, 2009
Perfect Body Fitness Center’s latest expansion is just about done and will include a full basketball court — which also can be used for roller-skating, volleyball and soccer — surrounded by a walking/running track.
The basketball court, track and the first of two planned racquetball courts will be ready by Friday.
Tammy Wiles, who owns and operates Perfect Body with her family, has set schedules Read the rest of this entry »
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the first in a three-part series entitled Collision in Care about the shortage of primary care doctors in Santa Cruz County. Coming Saturday: Santa Cruz County’s inability to provide primary care to new Medicare patients is hard on everyone: Clinics and doctors, relatives and, especially, the elderly.
SANTA CRUZ — Eighty-three-year-old Gladys Man steered her cherry red electric scooter into the Planned Parenthood clinic in Read the rest of this entry »
Prosecutors must turn over all pertinent evidence to the defense. That requirement is a fundamental for a fair trial. It’s also the law.
The Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office’s failure, over nearly two decades, to provide defense attorneys with hundreds, if not thousands, of tapes of medical examinations of child sexual-assault victims is a violation of legal procedure and possibly prosecutorial misconduct. Its action may lead to overturned Read the rest of this entry »
With hospitals feeling the financial strain of the economic slowdown, a local company is working on a compound designed to help medical professionals more accurately identify cancerous cells without investing millions of dollars in new radiology equipment.
Based in Centennial,
in Houston to test a cancer-imaging agent called Tc-EC-Glucosamine (EC-G).
EC-G was developed at M.D. Anderson, regarded as one of the country’s leading institutions Read the rest of this entry »
2/12/2009 8:54:25 AM(RTTNews) Nothing is generally more resilient than ambulance and emergency medical services in a recession. Bearing testimony to the fact, Emergency Medical Services Corp. (EMS) posted 55.6% increase in fourth-quarter profit, and guided 2009 earnings above Street estimates.
Net income for the quarter rose to $20.9 million, or $0.48 per share from year-ago $13.4 million, or $0.31 per share. Analysts were looking for 47 cents Read the rest of this entry »