Simple majority vote needed for Lincoln County to allow medical cannabis Published 4:00 pm Wednesday, August 24, 2022 Absentee voting is open for the Medical Cannabis Special Election in Lincoln County. Voting is open 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. each day this week, Monday-Friday, and Saturday 8 a.m. until noon in the Circuit Clerk’s Office.…
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Dr. Anthony Fauci will leave as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and as chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden in December, Fauci announced Monday. “While I am moving on from my current positions, I am not retiring,” Fauci said in a statement. “After more than 50 years of government…
A University of Iowa search committee has announced the first finalist for the next vice president for medical affairs and dean of the Carver College of Medicine. Sandra L. Wong Sandra L. Wong is the William N and Bessie Allyn Professor of Surgery and chair of the Department of Surgery at the Geisel School of Medicine…
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of hospitals’ abilities to evaluate and care for an increased volume of patients exceeding normal operating capacity, known as medical surge. All eight hospitals in a Government Accountability Office (GAO) review reported multiple challenges related to staff, supplies, space, or information. These are critical components for an effective…
This is one of a collection of stories that are like “Final Destination” meets “The Monkey’s Paw” (W. W. Jacobs, 1902). As such, they are tragedies more than either mysteries or horror, and would appeal most to readers who enjoy the inexorable pull of a story arc that leads to doom. In each story, a protagonist…
In announcing its newest foray into the healthcare field last month — the $3.9-billion acquisition of the primary care firm One Medical — Amazon explained its interest in the industry this way: “We think health care is high on the list of experiences that need reinvention.” There are two ways to think about that statement.…
Covid-19 turned hospitals into battlefields. Wards burst at the seams, caregivers died in the thousands, staff burnout and compassion fatigue spiked as clinicians cared for critically ill patients — many of whom had declined vaccination. To one of us (A.D.), who has worked as a physician during the AIDS epidemic, in Nicaraguan war zones, at…
Colby, a 31-year-old who lives west of Asheville, could have been one of those moms. When she discovered she was pregnant in 2018, her sister helped enroll her in Project CARA, MAHEC’s perinatal substance use treatment center. About 90 percent of the center’s patients are on Medicaid, and the most common addiction they treat is…
Though the United States Department of Veterans Affairs runs some interesting technology programs, it’s not known for being a flexible and nimble organization. And when it comes to electronic medical records management, the VA has had a slow but high-stakes drama playing out for years. The department’s records platform, VistA, first instituted in the late…
Alex Cho, MD, MBA, assistant professor of medicine, in the division of general internal medicine, was recently named the new Medical Director of the Duke Outpatient Clinic (DOC), effective August 1, 2022. Dr. Cho transitioned into the new role following his predecessor, Lynn Bowlby, MD, associate professor of medicine, who has led the DOC since…