Here are some of the stories that will be on-line Sunday, as well as in our print editions this weekend,
stories you haven’t read in any other news source!
says crime is down, but the 2008
statistics tell a different story.
Crime is down in some categories, true, but not in murder and rape. In the wake of a tragic shooting in the quiet Hamilton Park neighborhood on Tuesday morning, a block from McNair Academic High School, downtown residents Read the rest of this entry »

In Orlando, a 38-year-old contractor suffers from erectile dysfunction, a side effect of the drug he takes for depression. The anti-ED prescription his doctor gave him doesn’t help. He seeks steroids instead.
And in a town north of Seattle, an eighth-grade boy wants steroids for school sports. If he can get his weight up to 170, he thinks he can make the football team.
Here, from the business records of a Florida wellness center that was closed Read the rest of this entry »

Appalled and frustrated come to mind upon learning that for years there have been former Hoboken city employees, classified as ineligible, receiving taxpayer funded healthcare benefits. This goes beyond mismanagement, seems that Judy Tripodi, our state fiscal monitor, has uncovered yet another one of the many unethical practices plaguing Hoboken.
What is even more troubling and should be of great concern especially with a Mayoral election this Read the rest of this entry »

MADISON (WKOW) – The UW Hospital Board will soon decide how to proceed on a proposal to offer late term abortions at its Park Street clinic.
Wednesday's hearing is the last chance for people — who passionately believe and don't believe the UW should be doing this procedure — to speak their piece.
The debate spilled into the streets of Madison over the weekend. Hundreds of people expressed either their support or disdain for a proposed Read the rest of this entry »

Massa Fahnbulleh was wary of going to the doctor, especially for obstetrics and gynecology.
It’s a cultural thing. Fahnbulleh, a refugee from Liberia, avoided or resisted medical treatment – just as many African immigrants do – because it was uncomfortable sharing intimate details about herself to someone who didn’t look or talk like her.
The reluctance is common in the tight-knit immigrant community, where most pregnant women don’t receive neonatal Read the rest of this entry »

A scathing report by the Health and Disability Commissioner says a travelling men's sexual health clinic that regularly visits Nelson came close to exploiting four men it treated.
Between February and June last year Commissioner Ron Paterson received four complaints about the New Zealand Men's Clinic, from men in various parts of the country from Whangarei to Dunedin.
The clinic, which regularly advertises in
and claims a 95 per cent Read the rest of this entry »

, Western Mail
A MOBILE health clinic in Gaza City funded by Welsh churchgoers was last night feared destroyed by Israeli missile strikes.
The Archbishop of Wales, Dr Barry Morgan, yesterday expressed his fury at the apparent bombing, and has written to the Israeli Embassy in London demanding answers.
The dental clinic van, with its Welsh red-dragon stickers, has been funded to the tune of 100,000 thanks to a 10-year appeal run by the Church Read the rest of this entry »

Kaiser’s Cleveland Clinic-only plan didn’t work out for hospital, insurer
Kaiser Permanente’s decision to send nearly all its patients needing hospitalization to the Cleveland Clinic was designed to enhance the health-maintenance organization’s reputation and boost profits by consolidating care from 11 hospitals to one.
A decade and a half later, Kaiser has gone back to using numerous community hospitals as well as its own health centers for members Read the rest of this entry »

Montgomery County United Way funding is helping things grow at Lone Star Family Health Center.
An MCUW grant enabled Lone Star to purchase “Medicaider” software to help staff members expand financial options so more services are available to the nearly 45,000 patients the center sees annually.
“We are a comprehensive family medical clinic, which means we can provide a wide array of services to all age groups,” said Jay Jezierski, Lone Read the rest of this entry »

TORONTO, ONTARIO and GAZA CITY, PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES –
KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, a partnership of 11 Canadian churches and church organizations, learned today that a community health clinic in Gaza City that is co-funded by KAIROS and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) was destroyed January 10 in an Israeli aerial bombing attack.
An Israeli telephone warning was given to the building’s owners, notifying Read the rest of this entry »