Families chafe at physicians’ power to give up Life support
Nonnie Hawkins remembers standing mbers stand beside her daughter's hospital bed, steeling herself for a final goodbye. She turned to physicians at DeKalb Medical Center in Decatur, Ga., who minutes earlier had disconnected a machine that was breathing for 18-year-old Tara Bottoms-Hawkins. Hawkins thought her daughter was in a coma, as she had been for four months. Full Story
Lee Memorial Foundation announces allocations
Members disperse nearly $1.1 Million in funding for key projects
The Lee Memorial Health System Foundation announced over $1,096,000 in funding was approved and allocated by the LMHS Foundation Board as of the close of 2007. The funds will help provide excellence in medical care, treatment and technology to the Southwest Florida community. Full Story
It's hay fever season again
HOLISTIC HEALTH NOTEBOOK
Having come from the Pacific Northwest, I am accustomed to thinking of March and April as hay fever season. The flowers bloom, sending pollen flying through the air - pollen that lands on nasal passages and sends us into spasms of sneezing, itchy eyes, and other unpleasant symptoms. Full Story
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