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Groups Want More Notice About Bad Docs

Groups want more notice about bad docs The discussion seemed to be a potential turning point to Julianne D'Angelo Fellmeth, director of the Center for Public Interest Law at the University of San Diego. She has been monitoring the medical board for nearly three decades, work that included … Read more on The San Diego Union-Tribune Ramona Community Foundation gives 41K to nonprofits Programs funded ranged from Screen Your Teen with Eric Paredes Save a Life Foundation and Partner Mobile Pantry with Feeding America San Diego to Offsite and Onsite Sessions with Hearts & Hooves, Ramona Sobering Center with In His Steps Christian … Read more on The San Diego Union-Tribune Read more... ...

His 83-Year-Old Wife Jumped to Her Death From a Kaiser Clinic — Why?

...  83-year-old wife jumped to her death from a Kaiser clinic — why? Yet the 83-year-old longtime Kaiser patient was distraught: The drugs had proved ineffective for her depression, and her next psychiatric appointment was weeks away, a wait she told her family felt interminable. When she … Yet another lawsuit … Read more on Los Angeles Times Berkeley County approves purchase of former hosiery plant for rehab center The Berkeley County Council on Thursday voted 3-2 to buy the former Royce Hosiery manufacturing plant in Martinsburg for $ 250,000 with the intent of turning the building into a drug-and-alcohol rehabilitation center. Councilmen Jim Barnhart and Jim … Read more on Herald-Mail Media Read ...

The Irrationality of Alcoholics Anonymous

...  success rates is next to impossible: facilities rarely publish their data or even track their patients after … Read more on The Atlantic Through fiction, veterans present a clearer truth on US wars Here's a summer reading suggestion you probably didn't see coming: Try some of the excellent recent fiction produced about America's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, much of it by veterans. Almost 14 years of combat haven't pacified the Middle East, but … Read more on Los Angeles Times Read ...

A Balanced Fitness Regimen Includes Balance Training: Here's How to Do It

...  balanced fitness regimen includes balance training: Here's how to do it But physical stability is integral to our survival and well-being, says Robbin Howard, assistant professor of physical therapy at USC. "Balance …. Rooting down through your standing foot, lengthen through your spine to the crown of your head. Next … Read more on Los Angeles Times Autologous bone marrow cell transplantation in acute spinal cord injury—an … There is a huge base of preclinical evidence that suggests the safety and clinical efficacy of cellular therapies after spinal cord injury (SCI). Most of the human trials published so far have had major limitations due to flaws in design and … Read more on Nature.com Read ...

Robbie Amell and Carlos

...  The former easily can … Writer-director Boaz Yakin (the crowd-pleasing Remember the Titans) and co-writer Sheldon Lettich (he wrote Rambo III and way too … Read more on Flagpole Magazine Summer Sneaks 2015: The List For a young Chicago couple stuck in the throes of addiction, a life-altering setback forces them to confront the reality of their situation. With Kim Shaw and David Dastmalchian. Written by Dastmalchian. Directed by Collin Schiffli. Oscilloscope … Read more on Los Angeles Times Read ...

Drug Treatment Court Participation Down

...  drug offenders. While the judges and prosecutors may believe this is an unintended consequence, it is a benefit … Read more on Huffington Post Prop. 47's effect on jail time, drug rehabilitation is mixed so far The idea was to reduce incarceration times for nonviolent offenders and focus on rehabilitation while easing jail overcrowding. On the streets, some people who are committing Proposition 47 crimes are not being arrested, avoiding jail but also the drug … Read more on Los Angeles Times Read ...

Prop. 47 Report Finds Fewer Drug Arrests, Less Crowding in Jails

...  47 report finds fewer drug arrests, less crowding in jails Less than four months after California voters approved Proposition 47, the landmark law is already having significant effects on Los Angeles County's criminal justice system. A new report by the county chief executive office attempts to measure the … Read more on Los Angeles Times Police arrest man in stabbing in south Redding REDDING, California – Redding police say they've arrested a Pittsburg, California, man who stabbed a Redding man on S. Market Street this evening. Breun Cantrell Hernandez, 30, stabbed Trevor Ray, 27, of Redding, … An ambulance took Ray to Mercy … Read more on Redding Record Searchlight Read ...