Adequate medical program needed
By Anita Doberman: Cannon Connections I wish that I had something good to say about my experience with Tricare and military medicine, but today I don’t. While I am fully aware that there are plenty of...
View ArticleDoctor back at work after arrest
By Thomas Garcia, Freedom New Mexico A Portales doctor is back to practicing medicine following Thursday’s narcotics trafficking arrest in Belen. Patricia Green, 54, was working Tuesday at the Sparrow...
View ArticleHospital board briefed on swine flu preparations
By Clarence Plank: PNT staff writer The Roosevelt General Hospital Board heard about receiving medicine to treat the H1N1 flu virus, also known as swine flu and Influenza A, during their regular...
View ArticleBusiness feature: Funeral director switched career path from medicine
Freedom New Mexico Scott Reeves planned to be a doctor but feels he answered a higher calling. Reeves owns Wheeler Mortuary. The business has been around since 1924 and has been helping families...
View ArticleTime to welcome foreign large animal vets
By Baxter Black: PNT columnist Typically smaller, more rural communities have no veterinarian, or at least none that will take a calving call or a horse colic emergency. Veterinary schools, veterinary...
View ArticlePortales past: Feb. 25, 1941
Feb. 25, 1941: Portales Daily News: Tiny twin boys who were born early yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Jack L . Smith of Portales are reported as doing nicely. The babies were fed with a medicine dropper by...
View ArticleChildren’s sickness wears down mom, too
Watching my little guys suffer with sickness is brutal mental torture. I do everything I possibly can, yet I still just have to sit aside and wait for medicine to take its course and assist those poor...
View ArticleTheir view: Research facility not place for chimpanzees
Dr. Hope Ferdowsian is director of the Research Policy Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine: The post Their view: Research facility not place for chimpanzees appeared first on Portales...
View ArticleTheir view: Obamacare must be stopped in 2012
Richard E. Ralston, executive director of Americans for Free Choice in Medicine, offers his view on President Barack Obama’s national health care package. The post Their view: Obamacare must be stopped...
View ArticleTheir view: School lunch guidelines won’t make much difference
Susan Levin director of nutrition education for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, shares her view on new guidelines for school lunches: The post Their view: School lunch guidelines...
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