Stroke Survivors meeting and related care events
Stroke Survivor meeting at 2 p.m. Friday in the Integrated Health Services Dining Room at 5601 Plum Creek Drive features Lou Anne Causey of Irwin Greenhouse with the theme Bringing Spring Time Indoors. Alzheimer's Association Texas Panhandle hosts Family Discussion at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in Canyon’s Retirement Center chapel with Samantha Webster and Susie Peek. Mended Hearts Inc meets Thursday in Northwest Texas Healthcare System Tunnel Class Room No 2 at 1501 S. Coulter St. For details call 359-4423 or 372-8693.
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Integrated Health Services
Plum Creek Drive
Lou Anne Causey
Irwin Greenhouse
The
Alzheimer’s Association of the
Texas Panhandle
Chapel of Canyon’s
Mended Hearts Inc
Tunnel
Northwest Texas Healthcare System
S. Coulter St
Judy Ottensmeyer Named Director of Respiratory Services
Judy Ottensmeyer was named Director of Respiratory Services at IHS Hospital Amarillo with 25 years as a respiratory therapist. She has served in adult critical care and most recently with Northwest Texas Healthcare System. Dana Perkins Audia joined the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation to coordinate the annual Walk to Cure Diabetes fall walkathon. For more information call 356-6042 or visit the JDF at 2201 Civic Cir.
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Judy Ottensmeyer
IHS Hospital of
Amarillo
Ottensmeyer
Northwest Texas Healthcare System
Dana Perkins Audia
Juvenile Diabetes Foundation
JDF
Dialogue and Laugh It Matters at Harrington Cancer Center
The Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center offers Dialogue a weekly support group for cancer patients at noon Thursdays in the board room 1500 Wallace Blvd. Gerry Kelly will present Laugh It Matters the director of supportive care. Call 356-1905 or 800-377-4673 for details.
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Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center
Harrington Cancer Center Board Room
Wallace Blvd
Gerry Kelly
Harrington Cancer Center
Okla
South Plains
Amarillo St
Plainview
South Plains Health
Beaver County Memorial Hospital
E. Eighth St
Beaver
E. Park
Hereford
The
Cancer Center
Southpark Pharmacy Announces Diabetes Shoppe Grand Opening
Southpark Pharmacy at 5901 S Bell St announces the Diabetes Shoppe opening. Tuesday and Wednesday feature free blood glucose screening sugar free refreshments and door prizes. The public is invited.
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Southpark Pharmacy
S. Bell St
Community Breast Screening Clinics Expand Across Locations
The Women s Center of the Don And Sybil Harrington Cancer Center and Baptist St Anthony s Health System continue community breast screening clinics at multiple sites. Today Muleshoe Area Medical Center 708 S First St Muleshoe Wednesday Plains Memorial Hospital 310 W Hassell St Dim mitt Beaver County Memorial Building on the schedule for ongoing outreach and access to screening services.
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Women’s Center of the
Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center
Baptist St. Anthony's Health System
Muleshoe Area Medical Center
S. First St
Muleshoe
Plains Memorial Hospital
W. Hassell St
Dimmitt
Beaver County Memorial Hospital
E. Eighth St
Beaver
Brain Awareness Week seminar in Amarillo at Craig retirement center
The Pilot Club of Amarillo and Craig Methodist Retirement Community present Brain Awareness Week at 5 30 p m March 13 at 5500 W Ninth Ave Dr Randolph Schiffer chair of neuropsychiatry TTU Health Sciences Center will discuss migraines headaches strokes multiple sclerosis and Alzheimer's disease Call 352 1415 or 352 7244 for details.
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Pilot Club
Amarillo
Craig Methodist
Ninth Ave
Randolph Schiffer
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
Relaxation Station Grapevine Prefers Modern Relaxation Aids
Assistant manager Daniel Westbrook and employee Kathy Richburg help customers at Relaxation Station in Grapevine as the store features an oxygen bar, massages, and modern relaxation aids.
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Daniel Westbrook
Kathy Richburg
the Oxy
Gen
Grapevine
McCain backers say New York GOP uses breast cancer advocate
Long Island cancer survivor Geri Barish appears in a Bush ad charging Senator McCain with pork barreling cancer funding. Rep. Pete King calls her a pawn of the New York GOP, while Bush aides defend the spot and cite King awards to Barish.
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McCain
Ad Pawn
GOP
New York
KRT
John McCain
Pete King
R-N.y
Long Island
Geri Barish
King
Arizona
Barish
Bush
Strep outbreak in Cincinnati causes two deaths
Health officials investigate a cluster of invasive Group A strep in Greater Cincinnati with 23 cases, two deaths, and potential flesh-eating disease. CDC teams collect cultures for analysis while noting rapid onset and high mortality in toxic shock and necrotizing fasciitis cases.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Greater
Ohio Department of Health
Centers For Disease Control and Prevention
Hamilton
Malcolm Adcock
Greater Cincinnati
CDC
Adcock
Federal Health Laboratories
Randy Hertzer
U.S
Hygiene key to reducing hospital infections
Atlanta hosts a five day CDC conference on preventing health care associated infections. Dr. Richard P. Wenzel argues hand washing is cheap yet highly effective while new devices like antibiotic coated catheters show promise but costlier. He notes alcohol dispensers cut bloodstream infection rates by 40 percent in one hospital and urges role modeling by doctors.
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Atlanta
U.S
Centers For Disease Control
Richard P. Wenzel
Internal Medicine
Medical College of Virginia
Wenzel
CDC
Jarvis
Amarillo Doctor Publishes in Fertility and Sterility
Dr Dan Cas tracane a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Texas Tech School of Medicine Amarillo saw his paper appear in the latest Fertility and Sterility issue detailing research findings from his division.
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Dan Castracane
Texas Tech School of Medicine
Amarillo
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