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Drug Needle Exchanges Gain Ground After Indiana HIV Outbreak

...  needle exchanges gain ground after Indiana HIV outbreak A pilot exchange program is due to begin in West Virginia in September. And Southern Ohio has opened exchanges in two cities since 2012. "Some of the most … Deaths from heroin overdoses jumped 286 percent nationwide from 2002 to 2013, according to … Read more on Reuters Buffalo, New York: Opioid overdosing reaches epidemic proportions Across the United States, there is a high incidence of prescription drug abuse, particularly in economically depressed states such as West Virginia. Buffalo is in many ways a microcosm of the so-called Rust Belt region … Buffalo's manufacturing … Read more on World Socialist Web Site Read ...

VA Outpatient Clinic Closes Again Due to Air Quality Issues

VA outpatient clinic closes again due to air quality issues (WVVA) – Beckley VA Medical Center Director Karin L. McGraw announced today that the services offered to Veterans through the Greenbrier County Community Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC), Maxwelton, WV, will be relocated to the Beckley VA Medical … Read more on WVVA TV (registration) O'Reilly Auto Parts NHRA Springnationals report: Don Schumacher enjoys his … Schumacher, the owner of Don Schumacher Racing, is just glad to be out and about after spending six weeks in Houston from early January through late February at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where he received radiation treatment for throat cancer … Read more on Chron.com Read more... ...

Elmwood Park Residents Face Off for Cook County Board 9th District Seat

Elmwood Park residents face off for Cook County Board 9th District seat “If we sent some of the drug offenders to rehab centers, that would empty out the jail,” he said. “Use the boot camp, use the electronic monitoring to make … Silvestri is single and has one son, Christian. Accountably is something McPartlin believes … Read more on Glenview Announcements Atheist Jailed For Denying 'Higher Power' In Calif. Drug Rehab Gets M When he arrived at the Empire Recovery Center in Redding, Calif., the atheist was told that the center's 12-step program, which was modeled on Alcoholics Anonymous, involved submitting to a “higher power” through prayer, the San Francisco Chronicle … Read more on Mintpress News (registration) (blog) Read more... ...

Preventive Screening: A Triple Win

  Preventive Screening: A Triple Win – Screening for depression and alcohol abuse is a triple win: It can dramatically increase your patient’s health, it generates extra revenue for your practice,…   by Truus, Bob & Jan too! Times West Virginian editorial: No one should suffer from depression in … But as the Associated Press reported in the hours after his death, even though Williams was often the funniest guy in the room, he suffered for years from periodic bouts of substance abuse and depression. His press representative confirmed that … Read more on Charleston Daily Mail Read more... ...

'Designing for Universal Access: How to Reach All Kids?' Roundtable Summary

'Designing for Universal Access: How to Reach All Kids?' Roundtable Summary There is a lot of research out of North Carolina (see Mike Edwards at NC State ) showing that intramural sports at the junior high and high school level offers more variety, has remarkable participation rates, and because students are involved in the … Read more on Insurance News Net (press release) Southwest Virginia Ballet students sign apprenticeship contracts with Arts … Most recently, the three had leads in the December 2013 Nutcracker performance at the Roanoke Civic Center. … Dr. Joseph Ralph Beesley, Sr., 90, of Pinehurst, N.C. passed away on Wednesday, April 2, 2014 at Pinehurst Health & Rehab in Pinehurst. Read more on Roanoke Times Read more... ...

Climbing the Ladder of Opportunity (Part 1)

...  the Ladder of Opportunity (Part 1) Palmetto's findings for MS-DRG 460 (spine fusions) in North Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia exposed high error rates regarding lack of medical necessity documentation, no doubt causing a panic among spine surgeons and hospitals when this … A … Read more on Dynamic Chiropractic Nursing Homes: Where Safety is an Afterthought (See some of our prior posts here, here.) Another case in point: the death of Dorothy Douglas, who was killed when West Virginia's Heartland of Charleston nursing home “failed to feed and care for” her causing her death from dehydration. A jury awarded … Read more on ThePopTort Read ...

Elizabeth Hurley, Bill Clinton Affair Was a Tom Sizemore Hallucination

Elizabeth Hurley, Bill Clinton affair was a Tom Sizemore hallucination Selena Gomez left rehab without medical clearance so she could attend the Sundance Film Festival in Utah last month, TMZ.com reported. The Slow Down singer voluntarily went into an Arizona center to deal with emotional issues but stayed for only two … Read more on Columbus Dispatch National Poll Shows Public Divided on Genetic Testing to Predict Cancer Risk The University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) is one of the world's top academic research and cancer treatment centers. HCI manages the Utah Population Database – the largest genetic database in the world, with more than 16 million records … Read more on Sacramento Bee Read more... ...