Day: January 14, 2017

Ruth Montgomery Knowles Doxzen

Mrs. Ruth Montgomery Knowles Doxzen, age 92, passed away peacefully Wednesday morning, January 11, 2017 at The FountainA view Center for Alzheimer’s Disease in Atlanta after a long battle with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Pennar student’s marathon hopes to help mental health charity

Danielle Rowe, who is raising funds for the DPJ Foundation, is pictured with friend David Clark, just before the Cardiff half Marathon A PENNAR university student is running a marathon in Southampton this April, in memory of her late uncle, to raise funds for a Pembrokeshire mental health charity and highlight the issue of depression. Danielle Rowe, 20, from Cross Park, Pennar, currently in her third year studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Southampton, is running the April 23 ABP Southampton Marathon in aid of the DPJ Foundation, which aims to support people in rural Pembrokeshire with mental health problems.

Pennar student’s marathon hopes to help mental health charity

Danielle Rowe, who is raising funds for the DPJ Foundation, is pictured with friend David Clark, just before the Cardiff half Marathon A PENNAR university student is running a marathon in Southampton this April, in memory of her late uncle, to raise funds for a Pembrokeshire mental health charity and highlight the issue of depression. Danielle Rowe, 20, from Cross Park, Pennar, currently in her third year studying aeronautical engineering at the University of Southampton, is running the April 23 ABP Southampton Marathon in aid of the DPJ Foundation, which aims to support people in rural Pembrokeshire with mental health problems.

Obamacare is a hard act to follow

… for all Americans that could garner broad support won’t work. Plans that would work can’t garner broad support. Health care in the United States is extremely costly, the issue of how coverage ought to be paid for is divisive, and attempts like …

Obamacare is a hard act to follow

… for all Americans that could garner broad support won’t work. Plans that would work can’t garner broad support. Health care in the United States is extremely costly, the issue of how coverage ought to be paid for is divisive, and attempts like …

Wrongful death case may be settled

A wrongful death lawsuit against Trinity Hospital and emergency room Dr. Jeffrey Sather is in the process of being settled. Melissa Ann Mandan, who lives in Mountrail County, sued the hospital and Dr. Sather after her mother, 49-year-old Jennifer Fyten, was found dead in her home on Dec. 25, 2013.

Thundera s annual fundraiser is today

The Thunder, which hosts Greendale at 7 p.m. at the IcePlex in Pleasant Prairie, will holds its annual fundraiser with Beyond the Blue Line Club. This is the sixth fundraiser put on by the team, and the last three have helped an individual family.

No cost for cervical cancer screening for uninsured

During January, Cervical Health Awareness Month, the Chautauqua County Department of Health and Human Services is spreading the word that cervical cancer is preventable and highly treatable if found early. Being screened for cervical cancer with a Pap test is the key to prevention and survival.

James Edgar Davis, East Troy, WI

James Edgar Davis, age 86 of East Troy, passed away after a brief fight with cancer on January 11, 2017, at Agrace Hospice in Janesville. He was born on September 20, 1930, in Edgerton, WI, the only son to Stanley Davis and Katherine Davis Buske.

Back pain: A common problem with serious challenges

This subject was discussed in this column in the Independent in the May 14, 2016, issue titled a multispecialty approach to educated and evidence-based medical treatment as pertinent to pain therapy. A recently discussed condition and treatment in a non-medical magazine presents the Primary Care evaluation and treatment and documents the opioid problem even before it was widely appreciated.

Scarlett Johansson helps Wisconsin Rapids girl fight cancer

“I’m thinking of you and sending you lots of love and support from New York, and wishing you a speedy recovery,” Johansson , a film actress who starred in the “Avengers” series among other movies, said in a video she sent to the Wisconsin Rapids girl’s family. “Everybody in New York City is thinking of you, including me.”

Conscription conflicts in WWI well detailed in new book

The Conscription Conflict & the Great War Edited by Robin Archer, Joy Damousi, Murray Goot & Sean Scalmer Monash University Publishing, 2016 Paperback, $29.95. The First World War was to take the lives of eleven million soldiers on both sides, seven million civilians, and, as a further consequence, the loss of some 50-100 million lives worldwide from the Spanish Flu pandemic which began in the troop staging camps and hospitals in A A war on such a scale was not conducted without much anguish, debate, and conflict on conscription issues within the affected democracies.

Please save Medicare benefits

… benefits the way we know them. Currently, Medicare is a “defined benefit” program that guarantees a certain level of health coverage for all beneficiaries. It pays for about 80 percent of doctor and hospital visits. Many in the U.S. House and Senate …

Battle over Medicaid intensifies

… Cooper, a Democrat, is a native of Nash County, which would benefit greatly from the expansion, according to local health and hospital officials. Nash UNC Health Care is loosing $2 million annually in the Emergency Room alone, hospital CEO Larry …

Nigeria: Bird Flu – Kano to Disinfect Markets, Poultry Farms

The Kano State government said it would soon begin disinfection of all poultry farms and markets as part of measures to curb the spread of the recent outbreak of bird flu in the state. The Director, Veterinary services of the state Ministry of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Dr. Shehu Bawa, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria yesterday in Kano.