Medical school is hard to get into and hard to afford.
A new medical school wants to change that — especially for
people born and raised in Pennsylvania.
The Commonwealth Medical College, the nation’s first
new medical school in years, will accept its first class of
60 students in August.
The first classes will be held at Lackawanna College, a
community college in Scranton. The school plans to open its
own facility in Scranton in 2010.
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MADISON – As part of the YMCA initiative to “build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities,” YMCAs across America are taking steps towards increasing public awareness of the nation’s growing health crisis.
Through a program known as “Activate America,” YMCAs have begun to focus their efforts on better engaging “health seekers” – defined as “all children, teens, adults, and families whose Read the rest of this entry »

When you head to the gym, you're likely just trying to reach some personal fitness goals, but for these airmen, they not only have to be fit, they have to be fit to fight.
It's important for us to be physically fit for everything that we do, when you're gonna turn around and go work 12, 16, 18, 20 hour days you gotta be in good shape in order to be able to do that.”
The Air Force has a physical fitness score chart airmen have to follow, Read the rest of this entry »

A survey released by the American Diabetes Association shows that men are ‘really uncomfortable talking about these issues with their physician’ — yet are hungry for more information.
“Depression is twice as common in diabetes – 1 in 3 people
will have it; erectile dysfunction — two to five times as
common; sleep apnea — twice as common; low testosterone —
twice as common,” Bergenstal noted. “All of these issues people
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If you or someone you love had one of the 26 million colonoscopies performed last year, the recent news from Canada had to be disconcerting. A study of 10,000 patients found that the procedure, considered the gold-standard for detecting colorectal cancer, just isn’t what it’s cracked up to be.
Rather than helping reduce the risk of death by 90 percent, as once thought, the colonoscopy’s success rate was closer to 60 percent, the study found.
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funding after regulators found it violated conditions for participating in Medicare.
The hospital, saying the move would force it to shut down, on Wednesday sought and obtained a temporary restraining order barring the government from acting until a hearing could be held later this month.
If Two Rivers’ Medicare certification is terminated, the hospital stated in a complaint it filed in federal court Tuesday, its Medicare and Medicaid patients, Read the rest of this entry »

Officials at the helm of a new campaign to reduce teen pregnancy in Cumberland County hope to provide health care and counseling services to the county’s public high schools by early next year.
Michele Torchia, a gynecologist and director of women’s health services for Community Health Care Inc., said she is meeting with the Vineland, Millville and Cumberland Regional school districts and hopes to implement sex education and primary health care Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Men with type 2 diabetes know
the basics about the disease and its main complications – heart
disease, blindness, kidney failure – but they seem to know very
little about the issues that affect their quality of life, like
depression and sexual dysfunction, according to results of a
survey released today by the American Diabetes Association.
The survey also shows that men are “really uncomfortable
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ONTARIO – Attention gang members and drug pushers – you have been put on notice.
More than 150 community members attended the inaugural meeting of the West End Gang & Drug Task Force at the Ontario Police Department. And they are ready to take back the streets.
“This is a call to action,” said keynote speaker, San Bernardino County Supervisor Gary Ovitt. “It doesn’t make a difference if we just meet, we need to implement what we’ve learned works. Read the rest of this entry »

The US monthly on fitness to hit the stands this summer.
Fitness enthusiasts will soon have help at hand. All those body-building tips they yearn for will be available in a monthly package. Muscle & Fitness, a US monthly magazine on body building and fitness, is set to hit the stands this summer. Its publisher, American Media Inc, has secured the magazine’s title rights from a local publisher who had been printing the magazine without permission.
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