Hospital: some patients overexposed to radiation - Southeast Missourian
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Half of the patients who received a specific cancer treatment in the last five years from CoxHealth were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation, the hospital confirmed Wednesday. Hospital officials say they can’t yet
Rubén Rosario: Inmate drug-addiction study has a chilling message - Pioneer Press
Some people read thrillers. I don’t have time for such stuff. I mostly read nonfiction reports, for work as well as for pleasure. One caught my eye this week. It deals with the country that incarcerates the most folks in the world and that consumes
Sheriff’s Office picks architects for complex - Baton Rouge Advocate
Lafayette Parish Correctional Center Director Rob Reardon said the Sheriff complex to house a work-release facility, laundry facility, minimum security inmates and possibly a drug treatment facility. The master plan will outline what the needs
Health Care Summit Transcript: Part 3 (FULL TEXT) - Huffingtonpost.com
REPRESENTATIVE BOEHNER: Mr. President, I’d like to yield to Dr. Boustany to continue this conversation about insurance reform. REPRESENTATIVE BOUSTANY: Thank you, Leader Boehner, and thank you, Mr. President. I come at this as a physician, a
Ways Vanderbilt researchers are using $87.2 million in grants - Nashville Tennessean
A hospital patient’s life is saved because of an alert from an ER nurse to the doctor, warning about a serious infection. That’s just one example of how Vanderbilt University researchers are using stimulus money to develop solutions for medical
Genetic testing may yield personalized treatments - KXTV News10Net
Heart disease patient Terence Gooding and breast cancer survivor Kathy Negro live 2,000 miles apart, but they stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the burgeoning field of personalized medicine. They are among a small but growing number of American patients
Pittsburgh’s lobbying rule adds transparency to process - PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Jennifer Leigh Meccariello Layman gets paid to chat up the city’s most powerful politicians. Layman, 31, met last year with City Council members and Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s administration to discuss transportation initiatives, voice Carnegie Mellon
Charlie Sheen enters rehab - San Francisco Chronicle
troubled star, who has a history of drug abuse, is taking time out of filming his hit TV show “Two and a Half Men” to turn to medical professionals as a “preventative measure,” although further details about his treatment recuperation center
New CASA* Report Finds: 65 Percent of All U.S. Inmates Meet Medical - YAHOO!
The new 144-page report released today by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University also reveals that alcohol and other drugs are significant factors in all crime. In 2006, alcohol and other drugs were
Hospital: some patients overexposed to radiation - Southeast Missourian
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Half of the patients who received a specific cancer treatment in the last five years from CoxHealth were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation, the hospital confirmed Wednesday. Hospital officials say they can’t yet
Rubén Rosario: Inmate drug-addiction study has a chilling message - Pioneer Press
Some people read thrillers. I don’t have time for such stuff. I mostly read nonfiction reports, for work as well as for pleasure. One caught my eye this week. It deals with the country that incarcerates the most folks in the world and that consumes
Sheriff’s Office picks architects for complex - Baton Rouge Advocate
Lafayette Parish Correctional Center Director Rob Reardon said the Sheriff complex to house a work-release facility, laundry facility, minimum security inmates and possibly a drug treatment facility. The master plan will outline what the needs
Health Care Summit Transcript: Part 3 (FULL TEXT) - Huffingtonpost.com
REPRESENTATIVE BOEHNER: Mr. President, I’d like to yield to Dr. Boustany to continue this conversation about insurance reform. REPRESENTATIVE BOUSTANY: Thank you, Leader Boehner, and thank you, Mr. President. I come at this as a physician, a
Ways Vanderbilt researchers are using $87.2 million in grants - Nashville Tennessean
A hospital patient’s life is saved because of an alert from an ER nurse to the doctor, warning about a serious infection. That’s just one example of how Vanderbilt University researchers are using stimulus money to develop solutions for medical
Genetic testing may yield personalized treatments - KXTV News10Net
Heart disease patient Terence Gooding and breast cancer survivor Kathy Negro live 2,000 miles apart, but they stand shoulder-to-shoulder in the burgeoning field of personalized medicine. They are among a small but growing number of American patients
Pittsburgh’s lobbying rule adds transparency to process - PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Jennifer Leigh Meccariello Layman gets paid to chat up the city’s most powerful politicians. Layman, 31, met last year with City Council members and Mayor Luke Ravenstahl’s administration to discuss transportation initiatives, voice Carnegie Mellon
Charlie Sheen enters rehab - San Francisco Chronicle
troubled star, who has a history of drug abuse, is taking time out of filming his hit TV show “Two and a Half Men” to turn to medical professionals as a “preventative measure,” although further details about his treatment recuperation center
New CASA* Report Finds: 65 Percent of All U.S. Inmates Meet Medical - YAHOO!
The new 144-page report released today by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University also reveals that alcohol and other drugs are significant factors in all crime. In 2006, alcohol and other drugs were