Getting ready for the Fox Firecracker 5K in Kaukauna. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WLUK FOX 11 Green Bay]
It's an annual campaign that helps raise money for cancer support groups. Mercy Medical Center kicked off its "gift of light" campaign tonight with a special tree lighting. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WWLP NBC 22 Springfield M]
If you experience back pain, getting rid of it can be tough. Low back pain can be caused by a number of things. If you were in an accident or suffered a sports-related injury, area physical therapists say three components can help get you back to normal without surgery. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WUPW FOX Toledo, OH]
You might want to re-think buying over the counter medications... Holyoke medical center's Dr. Garry Bombardier told 22News none of them is proven to fight airborne illnesses [www.clipsyndicate.com | WWLP NBC 22 Springfield M]
Albuquerque’s first mass H1N1 flu vaccination clinic will be held Saturday with about 4,000 doses available, but the city’s health department is asking the media to not say where it is at. Instead, you’ll have to call the city’s new H1N1 vaccine hotline to make an appointment – and only if you are in a high-risk category. The phones are already ringing practically non-stop at the new hotline. Albuquerque firefighters are staffing the lines. As of noon Monday they had set up appointments for about 1,400 people. “It’s a clinic that people need to call into and get scheduled for to attend this clinic,” said Greg Sanchez, the city’s emergency manager. The city’s health department is worried about a rush of people. So it is not disclosing the location of the clinic. If you want to attend, you’ll have to call the hotline at (505) 833-6360 to make your appointment. The hotline is open weekdays from 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. “We’re trying to schedule those so there’s enough time for people to get in, to park, to walk through, sign the appropriate paperwork, to be evaluated and then receive their vaccination,” said EMS division commander Tige Watson. The hotline is averaging 200 calls a day from people wanting to get scheduled for the December 12th shot clinic. The clinic hopes to vaccinate 625 people an hour. “This is kind of going to help us on the front end to make sure that those impacted groups, those groups that we’re concerned about the most, that they actually receive that vaccination so that we’re not responding to them in an emergency situation,” said Watson. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KOB Albuquerque]
A family of five escaped a deadly situation at their Southwest Albuquerque home Monday morning. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRQE CBS 13 Albuquerque]
New campaign urges people to get H1N1 vaccine [www.clipsyndicate.com | WAVY NBC 10 Norfolk]
Western New Yorkers will have another chance to arm themselves against the swine flu. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WIVB CBS 4 Buffalo]
There was a time in the recent past when hormone therapy for aging women was in widespread use. but that has changed... and now doctors are noticing the benefits of that change. John Fauber reports. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WTMJ Milwaukee, WI]
There is a dragon helping doctors at Trinity Hospital get their work done... Dragon Speak to be more precise. It is a new method of dictation that doctors are using that speeds up the process letting doctors see more patients. Perry Olson shows us what it is in this week's Eye on Health. (Dr. Scott Knutson - Trinity Health) "In essence it replaces a keyboard completely." It is what Dr. Scott Knutson is talking into this computer with new software called 'Dragon Speak' Notes that previously had to be typed are spoken into the mic and put down as words in the proper form they need... (Dr. Scott Knutson - Trinity Health) "It is always an effort in every hospital to get good documentation that is efficient and doesn't take away from patient time and needs to be easy to implement so you can move on to the next patient." I got a chance to see just how easy it works and it is amazing. This voice recognition technology has been around for a few decades but recently has been upgraded so that it works very well...making few mistakes... (Dr. Scott Knutson - Trinity Health) "If you said Dr. Write will write you prescription right now it will pick up all of that and put it in the right context. It allows for clear language flow." And it does so for pretty much everyone knowing the medical terms that you and I might never say but doctors do all the time... (Dr. Scott Knutson - Trinity Health) "We have many doctors who have accents and it has no difficulty picking them up. Irish, Indian...any background. It is amazing in its recognition potential." (Perry Olson - KX News) "This system has been used at Trinity in the ER since September and the doctors say they love it." Notice it picked that sentence up word-for-word. It should be expanded into other parts of the hospital to doctors who want to give it a try soon. With your Eye on Health, Perry Olson, KX News. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KXMC CBS Bismarck North ]
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The holiday season is here, and for many, this is not the best time of year for them. The American Psychological Association has some tips to avoid the holiday blues and avoid feeling overwhelmed by the mad rush of the holidays. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KXAN NBC 36 Austin]
The flu is not causing too many problems around the area, but viral upper-respiratory infections are a problem. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KXAN NBC 36 Austin]
People looking to get either the normal seasonal flu shot or the H1N1flu shot have the chance to do that Monday in Round Rock. Round Rock ISD will have almost 4,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine available and about 600 doses of the seasonal vaccine, open to all RRISD students and their siblings from 2- to 18 years old. Those shots are on a first-come, first-serve basis at 4 p.m. at the district's performing arts center on McNeil Road. People can start lining up at 3 p.m. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KXAN NBC 36 Austin]
Centers for Disease Control experts said for the fifth week in a row, H1N1 cases have dropped significantly. Flu activity remains higher than normal for this time of the year, but the number of state reporting widespread activity went down from 32 to 25. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KXAN NBC 36 Austin]
A vote is expected Monday in the Senate on one of the most divided issues in the health care reform debate: Abortion. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KXAN NBC 36 Austin]
The Senate debate over health care reform continued over the weekend as lawmakers met to discuss a new plan. FOX’s Julie Kirtz is in Washington where President Obama and Vice President Biden met with Democrats. [www.clipsyndicate.com | KRIV FOX 7 Houston, TX]
The senate continues to debate health care reform. An abortion amendment for the bill will be a key topic, Monday. [www.clipsyndicate.com | WIVB CBS 4 Buffalo]
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