Dr. Kevin M. Sherin, director of the Orange County Health Department, has been elected president of the
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He will serve two years as president of the statewide group that represents all county health departments across the state. The association works to influence public health policy and assist with training and education for county health departments to promote health and prevent disease.
Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He became director Read the rest of this entry »

has long been dismissed. But now scientists are taking another look.
In recent years, studies have shown that what matters may not be sugar itself but a food’s glycemic index, or the speed and extent to which it raises blood glucose levels. Foods that have a high glycemic index — and as a result raise glucose levels rapidly — cause the body to release a flood of insulin and other hormones, which some scientists suspect can stimulate Read the rest of this entry »

“Keep it simple, keep it consistent, keep it as close to nature as possible.” This is my wellness philosophy. Feel free to borrow from it, or adopt it outright. A few people have asked me why I include “as close to nature” Short answer: good common sense.
Good common sense tells me that all the scientific and medical miracles in the world can’t replace a life lived vibrantly. Modern medicine can help you fix problems once the ole’ body starts to Read the rest of this entry »

Freetown — Executive director of the country’s drugs law enforcement agency Kandeh Bangura has welcomed collaboration but said it was news that Colombia wanted to make Sierra Leone its West African headquarters for anti-narcotics.
It could be recalled that on the 7 of January the Los Angeles Times published an interview with the Colombian National Police Cmdr. Gen. Oscar Naranjo saying he will soon station 10 anti-narcotics police in nine Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday named a North Dakota nurse and expert on rural health to run the government’s community clinics program.
Mary Wakefield, who started out as a nurse and became a health policy expert, now directs the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota. She will lead the Health Resources and Services Administration, a small agency with an important public health mission.
Known as HRSA, Read the rest of this entry »

Jan 11, 2009
Kawther Salam: “Israel sowed horror, terror and death and will harvest a generation of Palestinian resistance”.
families of Palestinian politicians and resistance in Gaza. According to the cabinet of the criminal Ehud Olmert, Ehud Barak, and the chief of the Israeli intelligence, Yuval Diskin, the military Operation “Cast Lead” must put an end to some political activists, Palestinian resistance and their families as the only solution Read the rest of this entry »

A year later “Stormy” was a hit, and “Traces of Love” made it to No. 2 in 1969. That same year, the group had a top 20 hit with “Everyday With You Girl.”
Buddy Buie, co-writer of the group’s songs with guitarist J.R. Cobb, said: “Dennis had an incredible voice — just a great voice for love songs.”
The group eventually changed its name to “Dennis Yost and the Classics IV.”
Although the group’s lineup changed, Yost continued to perform with the Read the rest of this entry »

Executive Vice President Dave Josserand will lead the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
Josserand will serve as designate chairman of the council, which will meet twice a year and advise the president through the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Other appointees to the council, all of whom will serve the remainder of two-year terms that expire in May 2010, include New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning, figure skater Read the rest of this entry »

People who eat wild game killed with lead bullets tend to have higher levels of lead in their blood than people who don’t, according to a first-of-its-kind study of 738 North Dakotans.
“People who ate a lot of wild game tended to have higher lead levels than those who ate little or none,” Dr. Stephen Pickard, epidemiologist for the North Dakota Department of Health, said Wednesday.
The study also showed that the more recent the consumption of Read the rest of this entry »

announced Friday that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has accepted to review a new drug application for its anti-inflammatory nasal spray.
The Menlo Park's company's lead candidate, ROX-888, is designed to provide patients in the emergency room, leaving the ER or post surgery with fast-acting relief — taking effect in about 20 minutes —without the risk of addiction or other negative effects of narcotics.
The company said Read the rest of this entry »