January 18, 2009
Rocky Hoveland of Greensboro suffers pain from spine, neck and back injuries. For a long time, he took prescription painkillers. But the drugs often left him dazed, if not null and void. Then about 10 years ago, he began using marijuana to treat the pain.
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December 28, 2008
Welcome to the 15th annual edition of Strange Days, the News & Record's roundup of the idiotic, the ironic and the just plain weird. You're probably about as sick of this year's election as we are, so this version is relatively politics free. Relative...
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December 19, 2008
Six of Guilford County’s 24 nursing homes received the lowest rating, “much below average,” in the federal government’s new five-star rating system for these homes. Statewide, more than a quarter of 419 homes received the lowest rating, one star......
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December 2, 2008
GREENSBORO - Even healers may need to be healed. Now, three UNCG professors are studying how often registered nurses have health problems and what the problems might mean for patient care. The research may improve the current medical environment. Nursing...
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November 30, 2008
In downtown Winston-Salem, researchers are using a modified Hewlett-Packard inkjet printer to "print" human cells, one layer at a time, to build tissues and organs. This unlikely process has produced tiny, two-chambered hearts within 40 minutes. When stim...
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Winston-Salem's Department of Veterans Affairs regional office is among at least 41 VA offices nationwide that improperly placed papers in bins to be shredded, records show. The papers pertained primarily to veterans' applications for benefits, according...
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GREENSBORO - At age 7, Chandler Simpson learned she had Type 1 diabetes. And at almost the same time, she learned that she was going to have a sibling who might someday help cure the disease. Researchers at Wake Forest University's Institute for Regenerat...
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November 22, 2008
People without a roof over their heads are more vulnerable to the flu than people with homes. That’s why nurses and student volunteers gathered Friday at Greensboro Urban Ministry’s Weaver House to give free flu shots to those who were homeless or wh...
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November 19, 2008
Are you taking ginkgo biloba to ward off dementia and its accompanying loss of memory? Well, forget it. The largest clinical trial ever to assess the effects of the popular supplement found that it does not appear to prevent dementia or memory-destroying...
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November 17, 2008
As seniors begin picking their Medicare prescription-drug insurance plan for 2009, they face average premium increases of 24 percent. The 10 programs covering the greatest number of Americans - a combined 60 percent of Medicare participants - will increas...
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November 14, 2008
A program that teaches people how to advocate for those with developmental disabilities is seeking applicants for its 2009 instructional sessions. The program, called Partners in Policymaking, is aimed both at adults with disabilities and parents of young...
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November 11, 2008
Twenty-five years after he lost a U.S. Senate race, could former Gov. Jim Hunt be going to Washington? Hunt is among 21 people named on the Chronicle of Higher Education’s Web site as possible candidates for secretary of education in President-elect Bar...
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November 8, 2008
GREENSBORO - Veterans, the Greensboro Historical Museum wants you. Technically, it's Jon Zachman, the curator of collections, rather than Uncle Sam, pointing at you. And he's not asking you to bear arms. He's asking you to share your experiences. The e...
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November 4, 2008
With most votes counted, all three of Guilford County's U.S. House incumbents were cruising to re-election Tuesday night in unofficial returns. In the 6th Congressional District, Republican Howard Coble was leading challenger Teresa Sue Bratton, 66 perce...
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November 2, 2008
The U.S. faces 120,000 vacant nursing positions, a number that could grow to 500,000 by 2025 . The shortage could affect patient safety and even death rates. Moses Cone Health System approaches the problem in two ways — by recruiting nurses and by retai...
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October 26, 2008
GREENSBORO — Proud parents Josh and Jennifer Smith of Randleman have brought their 4-day-old son, Wyatt, to the doctor’s office for a checkup. Dr. Chris Van Winkle, one of 10 physicians at Carolina Pediatrics of the Triad in Greensboro, examines Wyatt...
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October 16, 2008
Our kids are getting fatter, and a higher percentage of them aren’t insured. Those are two of the more disturbing findings of the 14th annual Child Health Report Card. The report was issued Wednesday by the nonprofit Action for Children North Carolina...
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October 15, 2008
North Carolina continues to do well with child immunizations, but our kids are fat and getting fatter. Those are some of the findings in the 2008 Child Health Report Card. The 14th annual report was issued today by the nonprofit groups Action for Children...
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Voters in the 13th Congressional District will face a clear choice in the election between incumbent Brad Miller, a Democrat, and his Republican challenger, former state Sen. Hugh Webster. The winner will represent a predominantly Democratic district that...
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September 29, 2008
Health officials are recommending flu shots for more people this flu season than in years past, but as flu season officially began this past week, state and local officials were confident there’s enough vaccine to go around. “There should be plenty of...
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September 25, 2008
It wasn’t that Demetria Thomas just kept putting off a state-required booster shot for her 12-year-old son, Tony. Thomas, a medical technician, had never heard of a booster shot for a 12-year-old before receiving notification from Guilford County School...
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September 24, 2008
Update: As of 5:15 p.m. Wednesday, about 2,140 sixth-graders still needed to be vaccinated, school officials said. About half of Guilford County's sixth-graders may face suspension from school later this week because they have not provided proof that they...
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September 23, 2008
If you were in an accident, would emergency workers know whom to call? If you had your cell phone with you, they would - if you had the listing ICE in your phone's address book. ICE stands for In Case of Emergency. It's an approach that appears to have be...
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September 13, 2008
When one Greensboro man became ill on an airplane in the skies over the western U.S., another Greensboro man was there to help. Jim and Jeanne Gouge were flying from a business convention in Las Vegas back to Raleigh-Durham International Airport on Aug. 1...
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September 10, 2008
September is National Pain Awareness Month, but Alice Klena has never needed a reminder. “I have always hurt,” she says. “My body has always hurt as far back as I can remember.” When she was a child, her legs hurt so badly that she cried as her fa...
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