Health investigators probing three Curry County cases involving an invasive bacteria have found no direct connection between the victims, according to an epidemiologist with the state health department.
Wednesday, the New Mexico Health Department announced that two Curry County residents — a 23-year-old woman and a 53-year-old man — have died and a 58-year-old man is hospitalized, suffering from an invasive bacteria known as group A Read the rest of this entry »

Published: December 15, 2008
LURAY — The medical examiner’s office in Richmond says a Virginia man hunting ginseng in the Shenandoah National Park in October died of exposure.
The body of 49-year-old Earl Funk was found Oct. 13 in the Browns Cove area of Albemarle County. More than 150 people were involved in the search.
Steve Murman, central district administrator for the medical examiner’s Richmond office, released the cause Read the rest of this entry »

WOODBURN, Ore. (AP) – A bomb exploded inside a bank here late Friday afternoon, killing a police officer who arrived to check on a suspicious object and seriously injuring two others.
A spokesman for the Oregon State Police, Lt. Gregg Hastings, said a Woodburn police officer died. He did not identify him.
He also said the blast seriously injured the Woodburn police chief and a bomb technician with the Oregon State Police.
The police chief, Scott Read the rest of this entry »

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Druid Hills Park is Baltimore’s first large municipal park. The park is known for its picturesque beauty, and the infamous Dreaded Druid Hills 10k that occurs there every year in June (this year it will be run in May). If you want to run a personal record this is not the race. Though the park is described as having ‘rolling hills’ this race, designed for runners by runners, takes full advantage of those ‘rolling hills’ and Read the rest of this entry »

Step One: Face it to fix it!
Everyone who’s gone through a 12-step program knows that the first step to recovery is acknowledging you have a problem. It’s no different with fitness. When I can’t run up a flight of stairs without feeling winded, it’s a problem. When I get tired by mid-afternoon and just can’t think straight, it’s a problem. So, even though I can still fit in one airplane seat instead of two, I Read the rest of this entry »

Where to begin when making a change for the better? Love yourself
BE a gift of love to yourself first, by getting regular check-ups and move before the doctor tells you that you are borderline diabetic, pre-hypertension, or you have high cholesterol.
To change is a mind set. Target your mind to cut down on the amount of food you eat and when you eat it. Set a cut off time for eating, nothing after 4:30pm, 5:30pm, 6:00pm, 6:30pm etc… makingsure Read the rest of this entry »

A woman’s heart: Is a first love reunion a remedy to relationship struggles?
From 13 Going on 30, The Notebook, Sweet Home Alabama, Serendipity, Just Friends, etc and with Valentine’s Day 2009 just behind us I want to examine the idea in pop psychology that one’s first love holds the key to our heart’s full healing. I myself wondered this for years until last spring in the Rockies when I too found myself back in the life of my first love Patrick. Read the rest of this entry »

Published October 29, 2008
PORT BOLIVAR — The Galveston County Medical Examiner’s Office identified a Port Bolivar man who is presumed to be a victim of Hurricane Ike after fishermen found his body on the north jetty.
John Florence, a spokesman for the medical examiner, said an autopsy revealed the man, 70, drowned, but Florence withheld the man’s name until the family, including a relative living in Galveston, could be notified.
Two fishermen, Read the rest of this entry »

Often, time moves by quicker than we would like … not only the years but the actual minutes of each day. It seems as if there are never enough when you need them. The time factor directly effects our health in plenty ways … eating habits are the most easily effected. I know from personal experience that the most easily accessible foods are usually the worst for you. There are a couple of tips I live by and snacks I look for when I need Read the rest of this entry »