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PARKERSBURG — The Mid-Ohio Valley Health Department is marking National Preparedness Month in September with classes available to the public. “This year our theme is ‘A Healthy Community is a Prepared Community,’” said Malcolm Lanham, community health director. “The best thing you can do to be prepared for any emergency is to be …

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Joe Biden rattled off policy proposals in this year’s State of the Union address, he hit an emotional note when talking about veterans who suffer from cancer after serving on military bases where toxic smoke billowed from burning trash. “One of those soldiers was my son Maj. Beau Biden,” he …

DOH Leon Marks World Sickle Cell Day  June 15, 2022  DOH Leon Recognizes World Sickle Cell Day  Tallahassee, Fla. – Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) is the most common genetic disease worldwide and is estimated to affect 8,000 people in Florida and some 100,000 people nationwide. The Florida Department of Health in Leon County (DOH Leon) …

When Chief Executive Officer Robert Vissers began working at Boulder Community Health just under a decade ago, he was tasked with guiding a transition. The medical center at Broadway Street and Alpine Avenue, just north of Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, had long been considered the main hospital within the now century-old community hospital system. …

A Ukrainian priest blesses believers as they collect traditional cakes and painted eggs prepared for an Easter celebration in the in Lviv, Ukraine, Saturday, April 23, 2022. Mykola Tys/AP hide caption toggle caption Mykola Tys/AP A Ukrainian priest blesses believers as they collect traditional cakes and painted eggs prepared for an Easter celebration in the …

Dave Golowenski  |  Special to The Columbus Dispatch Earth Day, established worldwide in 1970 and coming up Friday, was intended to raise awareness about the consequences of ceaseless human efforts to command and control nature. Arguably it’s done that, although heightened awareness hasn’t altered the general direction. Take the spotted lanternfly, for instance. An insect first …

Members of the First United Methodist Church in Santa Rosa welcomed each other to worship on Sunday with palm leaves raised high above their heads in commemoration of Jesus’ celebratory procession into Jerusalem. Palm Sunday, as the day is called in the Christian church, marks the first day of Holy Week, which ends next Sunday …

Nathaniel Berlin: Where did I go? What tangent did I come off of?  Gretchen Case: This was just talking about the early days of Cancer Control.  NB: Yes, right. That didn’t last very long. Rauscher went out, and I think he got [John] Bailar to develop the Control Program. Bailar didn’t last long at it. …

Posted: Apr 23, 2021 / 10:23 PM EDT / Updated: Apr 23, 2021 / 10:23 PM EDT FILE JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — One of the nation’s leading credit rating agencies today offered rave reviews for Ballad Health’s financial status. S&P Global Ratings today affirmed Ballad’s credit rating as A- with a stable outlook. Ballad …

FROM STAFF REPORTS / Editorial  It has been nine months. Nine months of agony, pain and disruption in our daily lives. When the first cases of COVID-19 appeared in Alabama earlier this year in March, I’m not sure anybody could foresee what was to come. But it quickly went from something we thought might be …