Like Edwards, I blame everything wrong in the world on Ann Coulter's mean comments. Hopefully, if Edwards is elected, to anything, Al Qaeda and anyone who disagrees with him will refrain from saying mean things, too.

Visits to Nassau's community health centers up

An effort to provide more medical care for those in need resulted in an upsurge in visits to Nassau's community health centers last year.

Outpatient visits from low-income and uninsured residents to Nassau's health centers in Elmont, Freeport, Roosevelt, Hempstead, Inwood and New Cassel-Westbury jumped from 65,415 in 2006 to 69,128 in 2007. The centers have a $14.5-million budget.

The health centers, run by the Nassau Health Care Corp., provide adult and pediatric care for people struggling to pay for medical care. Services range from immunizations to obstetrics-gynecology care to tuberculosis chest screenings.

The Secret Room Celebrity Gifting Suite to Go On Despite Cancellation ...

LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- The Writer's Guild strike won't be affecting the SWAG given out this year for the Golden Globe Awards, if there even is one. Stars and top media will be attending one of the most new and exclusive celebrity gift suites, The Secret Room, owned and run by Rita Branch and Amy Boatwright.

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Private sources essential for intervention

The program developed satellites in communities and with youth groups.

Later this month, members of the Tulare County Gang Prevention Task Force and the Visalia Multi-Agency Gang Prevention Task Force will meet to present recommendations for programs on how Tulare County can establish additional effective gang prevention and intervention.

We say additional because we know there are already many in existence. For a list of many of them, visit our Web site, www.VisaliaTimesDelta.com and select "Gang Wars" from the list of special projects.

Despite the existence of those many programs such as HEART, Streetwise Partners, Partners for Youth Vision, Police Activities League, Boys and Girls Clubs, UCYC, Reaching Youth, YMCA young people continue to become trapped in gang involvement.

LASIK Expert Dr. James Salz Interviewed on National Public Radio ...

LASIK expert Dr. James Salz (www.drsalz.com) was interviewed by National Public Radio (NPR) segment entitled "Dr. Slava Fyodorov's 'Beautiful Eyes'," a Russian doctor who invented the radial keratotomy procedure, which was the precursor to laser vision eye surgery. In the segment Dr. Salz described the radial keratotomy procedure as well as his visit to Cuba's eye clinic. Later, Dr. Salz answered emails sent to NPR from its listeners about laser eye surgery.

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 24, 2006 -- LASIK expert Dr. James Salz (www.drsalz.com) was interviewed by National Public Radio (NPR) segment entitled "Dr. Slava Fyodorov's 'Beautiful Eyes'," a Russian doctor who invented the radial keratotomy procedure, which was the precursor to laser vision eye surgery. In the segment Dr.

New doctor brings retinal surgery into focus at Gailey clinic

“We had the front of the eye covered," said Dr. Robert Lee, referring to corneal transplants and other treatments for the front of the eye. “Now we have the back of the eye covered as well."Gailey added Dr. Sumit Bhatia as McLean County's first retinal surgeon in September. Officially, he is called a vitreoretinal specialist.Gailey had referred patients who needed retinal surgery to specialists in Peoria and Champaign-Urbana and retains a good relationship with those specialists, said Lee, president of the board of directors at Gailey, 1008 N. Main St., Bloomington.“Retinal procedures have become so specialized that you have to send patients to a specialist," Lee said.As the population ages and as the Bloomington-Normal area continues to grow, more patients need retinal surgery and Gailey decided it was time for the community to have a full-time retinal specialist, Lee said.

Colleges rely on part-timers

College students are getting a raw deal, a recent New York report asserted. The problem is they're taking too many classes from part-time, or adjunct, professors.But that same report unwittingly revealed something about how higher education is more culpable than it likes to admit when it comes to creating the problem. The issue is a huge one in higher education far beyond New York, with about half of the nation's college faculty now on part-time contracts. Adjuncts are cheaper for colleges, but they often lack the time and resources for focused teaching, and research shows students' performance suffers if they are taught by part-timers too often.In its report last month, a 30-member commission called for New York's state (SUNY) and city (CUNY) systems to alleviate the over reliance on adjuncts by hiring 2,000 more full-time faculty for their 87 campuses.

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Dr B.S. Chavan, head of the department of psychiatry, GMCH-32, discussed disabilities and their prevention and facilities like pension, loan and transport to the mentally challenged.

Dr Vijay Nagpal, reader in the department of laws, Panjab University, stressed on the need awareness on disabilities in rural areas. C.B. Pahuja also spoke.