SAN DIEGO
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The Peckham family of philanthropists has given $10 million to support cancer and blood-disorder programs at Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego.
The late Peter Peckham, a real estate executive and co-owner of the San Diego Padres, started making donations to the hospital in the late 1960s with his wife, Nancy.
Their son Michael and his wife, Lisa, also have given to the facility. The couple have a son who was treated Read the rest of this entry »
SACRAMENTO, Calif.
,
Oct. 22
, Sutter Health announced today that
it will give more than
$2.5 million to 26
medical and dental centers serving
low-income, uninsured and underinsured patients.
The Community Clinic Access to Care Grant program is a commitment by the
Sutter Health network of physicians, not-for-profit hospitals and other health
care service providers to improve access to needed health care services — in
the communities we Read the rest of this entry »
It’s also much more agreeable to get castrated, for both doctor and patient. Service is speedy, and dogs are no longer obliged to share the same waiting room as those vexing creatures known as cats.
And feral cats bound for life-altering surgery need no longer be carried up 18 steps on a stretcher. They get their very own elevator and ride to the operating room in style.
“We call it a cat-a-vator,” said Jan McHugh-Smith, president of the San Francisco Read the rest of this entry »
A health study of 5,000 Michigan children from birth to age 21 won a $57-million grant from the National Institutes of Health.
As part of the National Children’s Study, local researchers will select women in July 2010 who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant. They will follow subsequent children for both genetic and environmental factors that contribute to a range of issues, including asthma, autism, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Read the rest of this entry »
Pfizer Inc.
, the world’s top drugmaker by sales, spent nearly $3.1 million lobbying the federal government in the third quarter on drug pricing, international trade and other issues, according to a recent disclosure form.
The company lobbied Congress and a wide range of federal agencies on free trade agreements, patent laws and market access issues in a host of foreign countries, from Colombia to Korea.
), which makes cholesterol fighter Lipitor, Read the rest of this entry »
But Dr. Terry Mason, Daley’s health commissioner, said Hoffman’s assertions about missing medicine and poor record-keeping were “not quite true.”
“It’s not my belief that anything has been stolen,” Mason said. “Every dose of vaccine, we know where it went, so none of that was wasted.”The city last year lost its license to handle powerful drugs that are regulated by the federal government, such as the generic equivalent of Valium, in part because Read the rest of this entry »
PRINCETON, NJ — The Charles Evans Foundation has pledged $1 million toward the construction of University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro, the new, state-of-the-art hospital to replace the downtown Princeton facility that has been home to University Medical Center at Princeton since 1919.
The contribution, announced today by hospital-parent Princeton HealthCare System, brings to $82 million the total in philanthropic gifts and pledges Read the rest of this entry »
Such specialized centers are part of a growing trend of concentrating medical services for women, said Stephen Grobmyer, an assistant professor of surgical oncology at the
College of Medicine.
Construction on both Broward women’s health centers is scheduled to begin next year, with openings expected sometime in 2010.
The 7,500-square-foot addition at Broward General Medical Center, 1600 S. Andrews Ave., will be named the Lillian S. Wells Foundation Read the rest of this entry »
Dr. Ian Smith is a medical contributor to
. He has an impressive resume which culminates with an M.D from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. He is the author of five health related books.
The 50 Million Pound Challenge is sponsored by State Farm (The insurance people.) I do understand their wanting to have us healthy; however, when I registered I was offered a challenge kit which includes
and a find an agent link in order Read the rest of this entry »
is moving forward with a $24 million forensic hospital that will replace the aging facility on the same site.
Grand Island, N.Y.-based
, which is opening a Phoenix office, is in the preliminary stages of designing the 70,000-square-foot, 80-bed replacement hospital for criminals who are sentenced to be confined for mental health treatment.
The hospital, at 25th and Van Buren streets, is run by the Arizona Department of Health Services. The secure Read the rest of this entry »