GO! St. Louis added 2,500 registration spots for the half marathon on Sunday, April 11. The original 10,000 spots sold out in record-breaking time, on Feb. 2.
The additional spots will be available online only at gostlouis.org, starting at 10…
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The struggling Forest Park and St. Alexius hospitals announced today that they would combine their management and some services, eliminating 268 full time jobs.
The two St. Louis hospitals have been owned by Success Healthcare of Boca Raton, Fla. since…
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Since my last blog, I have flown from the Pacific Ocean across the Atlantic Ocean to the Grand Hotel des Illes Borromees in Stressa on Lake Maggiore in Northern Italy. I’m here to take part in a conference on the role…
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The Journal of the American Directors Association has just accepted a report of H1N1 occuring in persons residing in a Nursing Home. These patients living in South Dakota were not only influenza A positive, but had the diagnosis confirmed by…
SELF Magazine has ranked St. Louis 95th out of 100 cities on it’s annual healthiest big cities for women in America survey.
The magazine says it used used 50 categories from 7,700 pieces of data including death and disease…
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I spent last week in Lebanon at a conference organized by Saint George Hospital and the University of Balamand. In Lebanon approximately 60% of the population are muslim and the rest christian. While I was there I had the opportunity…
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This is one that makes me shake my head everytime I see it. People who are obviously not wrestlers or boxers (trying to make weight before a match) walking in the heat in plastic sauna suits.
I saw a guy…
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Technology manufactured by Sigma-Aldrich Corp. in St. Louis has been used to generate rats with permanent heritable gene mutations paving the way for the development of new human disease models, according to a new study.
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