MARTIN COUNTY — A sheriff’s sergeant resigned after a worker’s compensation claim showed his blood alcohol content was over the legal limit when he crashed his law enforcement vehicle on the job earlier this year, records of an Sheriff’s Office internal investigation show. Sgt. James Foster Jr. was driving his SUV and, according to the […]
Despite challenges due to COVID-19 and inflation, the $170 million expansion of the Cardiovascular Institute (CVI) pavilion at the Glenbrook Hospital campus in Glenview in nearing the final stages of construction and should be completed on time and on budget, official said. “We are beginning now to move equipment into the shell space, surgical, operating […]
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 1, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Prominently featured in The Inner Circle, Randi Leigh Sessoms Lassiter is acknowledged as a Distinguished Healthcare Provider for her contributions to the field of Pediatric Surgery. Dr. Lassiter prepared for her vocation attending the College of William and Mary where she earned a Bachelor’s degree. She then attended Duke […]
Estimated number of COVID infections soared to more than 60,000 per day on March 19, which was six times higher and three weeks earlier than shown by the state’s testing data. The timing of the state’s earliest COVID-19 fatality, initially thought to be on March 14, has also shifted. NY’s first pandemic death actually came […]
COVID-19 cases in Maine and across much of the nation have surged in recent weeks, just as children and college students return to classrooms. But better tools to combat the virus mean there’s no indication of a return to pandemic-era restrictions such as mask requirements and limits on gatherings. Maine’s case counts have increased from […]
Without platelets, we would die pretty easily. The microscopic plate-shaped structures in our bloodstream rush to the site of an injury, forming clots that stop blood loss and help stimulate the growth of new cells. Platelets mean a healthy person won’t bleed to death from a minor cut. Without them, surgery would be impossible. For […]
Deriving its new name from words meaning “sun” and “life,” the previously named Community Blood Center and Community Tissue Center is being rebranded as Solvita. “We have been impacting lives for decades, but under dual identities,” Solvita CEO Christopher Graham said during a Friday event. “We now have one name that uniquely represents our purpose, […]
Here’s our weekly round-up of what illnesses are spreading the most in Metro Detroit communities, according to our local doctors and hospitals. Wayne County – COVID, asthma flare-ups, seasonal allergies, mononucleosis, ear infections, bug bites and stings Dr. Kevin Dazy — Pediatrician at Children’s Hospital of Michigan “I don’t want to alarm people, but we’re […]
Kevin Rodriguez Ortiz / Flickr cc More than half of US dog owners surveyed mistrust routine vaccines for their pets, according to a new study in Vaccine. Researchers from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Colorado conducted the survey of 2,200 US adults from March 30 to April 10, 2023, in partnership with sampling firm YouGov. They found […]
UMC Utrecht will lead an international consortium that will try to answer a key question that’s in the mind of many pediatricians, infectiologists, pulmonologists and other health professionals: “Why are children that had an RSV infection in early childhood at increased risk of developing asthma later in life?” The project – which will run for […]