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MultiCare gets $1 million gift to fund holistic care in South Sound

Published December 23rd, 2011 - 8:18PM

A $1 million donation from the former co-owners of a longtime Tacoma scrap metal business will help fund holistic care at MultiCare Regional Cancer Center locations in the South Sound, the health care provider announced this week.

State might allow medical marijuana for people with attention deficit

Published December 22nd, 2011 - 7:04AM

State officials will consider a request to allow medical marijuana for people with attention deficit disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.

Franciscan opening East Side Tacoma kidney dialysis center

Published December 21st, 2011 - 1:57PM

Tacoma’s Franciscan Health System is broadening its reach for kidney dialysis patients with the opening of its fourth dialysis center in Pierce County in mid-January.

Tie between vitamin D, depression not certain

Published December 18th, 2011 - 6:43AM

Dear Dr. H: I just learned of a study that showed lower vitamin D levels in people who are depressed. Do you think that taking vitamin D helps with depression? – P.N., Philadelphia

Big chill could be lifesaver for some

Published November 15th, 2011 - 12:05AM

WASHINGTON – Suspended animation might not be just for sci-fi movies anymore: Trauma surgeons soon will try plunging some critically injured people into a deep chill – cooling their body temperatures as low as 50 degrees – in hopes of saving their lives.

Americans don’t take free medication either

Published November 15th, 2011 - 12:05AM

ORLANDO, Fla. – Give people free prescription drugs and many of them still won’t bother to take their medicine.

Geriatrics specialty runs into shortfall

Published November 5th, 2011 - 11:05PM

PALATKA, Fla. – In this sleepy, riverside town in northeast Florida, 86-year-old Betty Wills sees the advertisements of obstetricians and gynecologists on the main road’s billboards and has found specialists ranging from cardiologists to surgeons in the phone book.

Obama moves to counter drug shortages

Published November 1st, 2011 - 12:05AM

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama on Monday pushed drugmakers and federal regulators to do more to address dangerous shortages of critical medicines, sidestepping a deadlocked Congress that has not moved legislation to help patients suffering from deadly illnesses.

Federal panel OKs kids’ anthrax test

Published October 29th, 2011 - 12:05AM

WASHINGTON– A key panel of government advisers Friday recommended that the federal government sponsor a controversial study to test the anthrax vaccine in children to see whether the inoculation would protect young Americans against a bioterrorist’s attack.

IQ not fixed in teenagers’ brains, scan study shows

Published October 23rd, 2011 - 12:05AM

A new study confirms what parents have long suspected: Adolescence can do a number on kids’ brains. Researchers have found that IQ can rise or fall during the teen years and that the brain’s structure reflects this uptick or decline. The result offers the first direct evidence that intelligence can change after early childhood and provides new hope for boosting the brain’s abilities.

Medicare pay may spur hospital trips

Published October 3rd, 2011 - 12:05AM

One-fifth of Medicare nursing home patients with advanced Alzheimer’s or other dementias were sent to hospitals or other nursing homes for questionable reasons in their final months, often enduring tube feeding and intensive care that prolonged their demise, a new study found.

State decides what’s not an emergency

Published September 26th, 2011 - 12:05AM

State government is about to start refusing to pay for repeat visitors to emergency rooms whose conditions don’t truly rise to the level of emergencies.

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