Saturday, January 6, 2007

Medical terminology - Allegheny County Wants Medical Alert System

The Allegheny County Health Department hopes to have a public medical alert system in place sometime this year.
Radical medical treatment given to an American nine year old to keep her in a child-like state has angered disabled rights advocates in New Zealand.
A retired Marin County podiatrist whose drug arrest made headlines a decade ago when he argued that the marijuana on his property was actually medicine was arraigned today on charges of sexually molesting a 7-year-old boy. Alan Lawrence Ager, 59, was...
FSU medical students Molly and Tessa McKenna were devastated at what they saw on a recent trip to Haiti. "One day, we were distributing food and a woman was walking through the food line getting rice and beans for her family. She had on one shoe and she was pregnant.
The Aloha Medical Mission, a nonprofit organization that treats patients in poor countries, is recycling used and broken cell phones as a fundraiser this month.
Medistem Laboratories, Inc. (Frankfurt: S2U), committed to the ethical development of next-generation medical therapies from non-controversial adult stem cell sources, announced that it has executed a technology licensing and royalty agreement with the Rio Valley Medical Clinic, an international stem cell therapy clinic.
A Fort Collins couple who say they were growing marijuana for medical use pleaded not guilty this afternoon on felony cultivation and distribution charges.
Alameda County Supervisor Alice Lai-Bitker is probing accusations that severe understaffing of medical personnel at two Alameda County jails is endangering their safety and inmates' health.