State Rep. Andy X. Vargas, journalist Dan Kennedy and health advocates will discuss the problems posed by lead during a panel discussion next week in Haverhill organized by nonprofit Lead Free MA. Lead Free Founder Andrea Watson, one of the speakers, left Flint, Mich. for Massachusetts after the 2016 water crisis. The city’s drinking water […] The post Officials, Advocates to Discuss Lead Poisoning at April 24 Panel Discussion in Haverhill first appeared on WHAV.
100 students from area high schools experienced a “day in the life” of trauma staff at Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, which is Lake County’s only Level 1 trauma center. Advocate Condell Medical Center hosted 100 students from 10 area high schools for its annual Trauma Day 2024 on Friday. The students were from Carmel […]
Fifty of the presenters Tuesday were either CAMC residents or fellows and 15 were medical students.
No longer considered a public good where ideas and important social issues are nurtured, debated. and interrogated, institutions of higher education are being transformed into indoctrination centers where critical ideas and imagined futures are held in contempt, transformed into apparatuses of censorship and hopelessness. Derided as a haven for critically informed social criticism, the far-right wants to reduce teaching and learning to what might be called cloning pedagogies, designed to clone...
RIVERTON, Kan. — A Southeast Kansas town is getting some extra T.L.C. today - thanks to hundreds of volunteers pitching in to help. "You know, tourists come through Route 66 all the time. To be able to see this house and be like, Oh, this is like a nice neighborhood," said Dillon Leggett, Riverton Senior. []
Madison City Schools says the student who was taken to the hospital Tuesday after a medical emergency has died.
Students share their concerns about the medication shortage ahead of GCSEs.
Health officials are warning the public of a Vietnamese hemorrhoid ointment that contains a dangerous amount of lead after a California woman died from using the product.
"I'm gonna murder you," shouted the trans-identifying student at Pennbrook Middle School as the 13-year-old blindsided a 12-year-old girl last week and bashed her skull repeatedly with a Stanley cup. The victim had to be hospitalized, her scalp stapled back together, and she had to go through a concussion protocol, according to police.
Alex Munro turned his theater background into a unique role guiding actors who perform as patients, including difficult conversations and emotions.
DOTHAN, Ala (WDHN) -- Medical students in the Wiregrass will soon benefit from a $2.3 million donation to the University of Alabama at Birmingham. According to a release from UAB, the donation was made by Dothan-based Ophthalmologist Marnix E. Heersink, M.D., and his wife, Mary Heersink. It will establish three endowed scholarships to support health []
Access to medical marijuana remains on hold in Alabama and the legislature, lawyers for would-be providers and regulators are still struggling to find a way forward.