Mercy Catholic Medical Center to buy lithotripter for kidney stones
Darby Borough reports preliminary approval for Mercy Catholic Medical Center Fitzgerald Division to acquire a $2.2 million lithotripter. The device uses ultrasound to break kidney stones without surgery, potentially cutting hospital stays and costs. Urologist Dr. David Raezer will lead the new service, with the machine expected to operate within a year.
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Jane Johnson Daily Times
Darby Borough
Mercy Catholic Medical Center
Fitzgerald Division
Lansdowne Avenue
Health Agency Systems of
Southeastern Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Department of Health
Plato A. Marinakos
David M. Raezer
Mercy Catholic
Federal Drug Administration
Germany
Dornier and Company
Ridley Park Lake rehab faces funding delays
Ridley Park council weighs grants for a 275 444 dollar lake rehabilitation with funds from the Federal Land and Water Fund and a private foundation still pending. Delaware County backs 60 000 from a community development block grant while a Recreation Improvement and Rehabilitation Program grant was rejected. Neely notes silt from upstream development and repairs to a desilting basin a dam and a drainage gate are needed, with project hoped to start next summer.
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Barbara Ormsby
Ridley Park
Ridley Park Lake
Borough Council
Charles B. Neely
Parks and Recreation Committee
Federal Land and Water Fund
Delaware County
Council
Neely
Little Drum Creek
Amitol weight loss pill hailed as rapid natural cure
Beverly Hills report touts Amitol as a new Konjac root based pill approved by the JMA for American distribution. It claims daily loss over a pound without dieting and offers a 30 to 60 day supply with a money back guarantee, with orders via Dyna Labs at 1-800-441-5454.
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Beverly Hills
JMA
Japanese Medical Association
United States
Japan
Dyna Labs
C.O.D
UPS
Contested plan to convert Terboro High into beauty school
Borough zoning hearings heard arguments over Richard Falcone on a variance to transform the former Terboro High School on South Avenue into a beauty school. Falcone has a $225,000 conditional sale and would merge his Sharon Hill beauty school with a Parkside business program in the closed facility.
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Glenolden
Richard Falcone
Interboro
Falcone
South Avenue
Sharon Hill
Parkside
Richard Ritacco
Interboro Concerned Citizens Association
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