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Posted onAugust is National Immunization Awareness Month. With vaccines in the news a lot these days, we want to focus on the many benefits of vaccines, which go beyond infection prevention. Elizabeth Graves, NP, Family Nurse Practitioner at West Tennessee Medical Group Thomsen Farms “Vaccines are most known as a tool for preventing illness,” says Elizabeth…
McLeod Health Welcomes These New Physicians
Posted on11 AUGUST 2025 McLeod Health welcomes Chidinma Ejikeme, MD, and Kristen Herring, MD, to the medical staff. Dr. Ejikeme, a board certified pulmonologist and internist, joins the McLeod Pulmonary and Critical Care Seacoast team that includes Dr. Melissa Miara, Dr. Kevin Dineen, Dr. Abhijit Mahalingashetty, and Sara Lara, FNP-C, in providing comprehensive pulmonary and critical…
Public to be asked who should pay for social care as part of major review
Posted onThe public will be asked who should receive social care and how it should be paid for as part of a review into the system. Baroness Louise Casey, who is leading a commission into adult social care in England, described the system to the BBC’s Radio Four Today programme as “impossible” to navigate and called…
Air quality health advisory set for Pitkin County
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Fort Bend County health survey reveals gains — and persistent gaps
Posted onFort Bend County’s population has grown in size and diversity over the last 50 years. By UTHealth Houston staffSpecial to Rice News Over the last half-century, Fort Bend County has grown from around 50,000 residents in 1970 to nearly 1 million in 2024. Despite increases in population, diversity and prosperity, however, many individuals and families…
