Health – Page 15

July 07
County to Receive Funds for Zika Detection Equipment
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Riverside County, CA Riverside County supervisors are expected next week to authorize the Emergency Management Department to accept a $35,956 grant intended to cover the cost of laboratory equipment that permits health officials to identify carriers of the Zika virus. The California Department of Public Health is providing the funds, which originated from a federal […]

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July 06
Prostate Cancer Patient First in Coachella Valley to Receive New Cancer Treatment
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La Quinta, CA A local prostate cancer patient will be the first in the Coachella Valley to receive a new form of cancer treatment previously unavailable in the region. The patient, whose name was being withheld for privacy reasons, will receive his first treatment utilizing the Spectra Optia technology on Friday at LifeStream Blood Bank’s […]

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June 01
Hundreds Possibly Exposed to TB at Eisenhower
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Rancho Mirage, CA The county health director and Eisenhower Medical Center’s infection prevention specialist announced 500 staff and patients could have been exposed to active tuberculosis. "We do have additional tests that go on but at this point we have no indication that they’re linked they just, it’s a coincidence at this point the three […]

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May 24
Free Hepatitis C Testing at The DOCK Clinic in Palm Springs
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Palm Springs, CA In an effort to help stem the growth in Hepatitis C infections in Coachella Valley, The DOCK sexual wellness clinic, a service of Desert AIDS Project (D.A.P.), is hosting free Hepatitis C testing from May 19 through May 31. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has designated May as Hepatitis Awareness Month, […]

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April 15
Rod Carew’s New Heart, Kidney Came From Late NFL player
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San Juan Capistrano, CA Baseball Hall of Famer Rod Carew received a new heart and kidney from the late NFL player Konrad Reuland in what is believed to be the first such transplant involving pro athletes. Carew underwent the procedure last December and met Reuland’s family in March after mutual friends connected Reuland’s death with […]

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April 15October 26
10 Newborns Contract Super Bug at One Southern California Hospital
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A Southern California hospital has seen 10 infants in a neonatal intensive care unit become infected by a lethal bacteria over a span of eight months.

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March 30
No Health Insurance? No Problem. Free Health Clinic Offered in Indio
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Indio, CA If you’re in need of medical, dental or vision care, and don’t have the money or insurance there is a free health clinic in Indio from Friday through Sunday starting at 6:00 AM each day and you can get wristbands for the following day from 4-7:00 PM. Matt and Angelique Valk are claiming […]

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March 02
Coachella Valley Residents Rally At Eisenhower Medical Center Demanding Change
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Rancho Mirage, CA Coachella Valley residents rallied outside the Eisenhower Medical Center to demand it change its policy prohibiting nearly 500 physicians from writing prescriptions for aid-in-dying medication to terminally ill adults who request it. This end-of-life option is authorized by the End of Life Option Act that took effect last June. The two other […]

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