WATSONVILLE – For the greater part of 2008, Dr. Chris O’Grady closed his doors to new Medicare patients.
He was already caring for so many elderly patients in his Watsonville-based family practice that he was often going home at 10 p.m.
Medicare paid him far less than he considered fair – and now the government was threatening to cut the rates again.
Many of the county’s primary care doctors have struggled before reaching the same conclusion.
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One man was critically injured by gunfire and two others were treated for bullet wounds after an argument near Larimer Square moved to a car chase on Interstate 25 Sunday morning.
Denver police said an unknown number of people got into a confrontation near 14th and Larimer streets around 1 a.m. They divided into two groups that got into cars and headed toward northbound I-25.
Around 38th Avenue, someone in one of the cars fired a gun into the Read the rest of this entry »

A historic Atlanta hospital, citing the credit crunch, announced Friday that it would close, the third time it has shut down in the past four years.
Southwest Atlanta Hospital had already shuttered its emergency room and had been operating only an urgent-care center since the fall. The closing was scheduled for Friday evening.
The hospital’s current owner, Georgia Medical Provider Financial Corp., said in a statement that it was unable Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — A second peanut processing plant owned by the company at the heart of a nationwide outbreak of salmonella illness has been shut down after the bacteria were discovered in peanut products there.
Peanut Corporation of America shuttered its Plainview plant Monday night at the request of state health officials, said Doug McBride, a spokesman for the Texas Department of State Health Services. The action came after laboratory results Read the rest of this entry »

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Four hospital wards in Hull have been shut because of an outbreak of the winter vomiting bug.
Wards 8, 80 and 100 at Hull Royal Infirmary and ward 1 at the city’s Castle Hill hospital are affected.
Managers at the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitals Trust urged people who have had diarrhoea or vomiting to stay away from hospital.
Consultant microbiologist Dr Rolf Meigh said spreading the Norovirus infection could cause “significant disruption”.
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A Sig-alert has been canceled and all lanes of Interstate Highway 680 in Danville have been cleared following a major-injury crash earlier today that involved at least three vehicles, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The crash, which happened shortly after noon on southbound I-680 just south of Greenbrook Drive, appears to have involved a tow truck, a flatbed truck, a car and possibly a fourth vehicle, according to initial reports.
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FDA shuts down Good Flow Juice Co.
Keeping it fresh has forced one Austin juice company to shut down, at least for now.
The Food and Drug Administration would not grant Good Flow Juice Co. an exemption from pasteurization requirements.
A judge Friday ordered the company to stop production immediately.
Some local restaurateurs said they’ve used Good Flow as their supplier, because its juice is local and fresh-squeezed daily.
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People suffering from a winter vomiting bug should stay at home until they have recovered, health experts said. Cases of norovirus, which causes sickness and diarrhoea and is highly contagious, have closed hospital wards across the country.
Although the number of reported cases is lower than in the same period last year, the Health Protection Agency (HPA) said people suffering from the bug should stay at home until the symptoms have passed. Since Read the rest of this entry »