Longmeadow begins planning for annual Town Meeting in April
LONGMEADOW - Looking ahead to the annual Town Meeting in April, the Select Board is meeting with town departments to gather updates on budgets and plans for the fiscal year.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN in line for surgeon general
Medical reporter, neurosurgeon said to be Barack Obama's pick WASHINGTON ? President-elect Barack Obama has asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be the next U.S. surgeon general, looking to a popular television personality to help provide a public face for his health-care agenda.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta of CNN in line for surgeon general
President-elect Barack Obama has asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be the next U.S. surgeon general, looking to a popular television personality to help provide a public face for his health-care agenda. Best known as a health and medical correspondent for CNN and CBS, Gupta, 39, is also a practicing neurosurgeon in Atlanta and a member of the faculty of the Emory University School of Medicine, one of ...

VA clinic set to open Monday
Decades of work are culminating in success with the opening of a Veterans Affairs clinic in Havre Monday.

Teen dental plan cops mouthful over 'waste' | health | Lismore Northern Star
Lismore dentist Dr Brendan White has slammed the Federal Government's Teen Dental Plan as a 'huge waste' of $490 million.

Volunteer Jobs
Volunteer positions at area nonprofit organizations are printed monthly. Send volunteer requests by the 25th of each month to Maureen Hanley, Valley News, P.O. Box 877, White River Junction, Vt. 05001; fax to (603) 298-0212; or call (603) 727-3303.

Who Will Be at the Table?
During the campaign, Barack Obama promised his cheering crowds that, when he rolled up his sleeves to work on health care, he would ?have insurance company representatives and drug company representatives at the table. They just won?t be able to buy every chair.?

YEMEN: Poverty, lack of education boosting HIV/AIDS - experts
Source: IRIN Maha (not her real name), 22, has been a commercial sex worker since she was 17. She told IRIN she and her sister were forced into prostitution to provide food and medical treatment for their ailing mother.

Landmark hotel in Billings to be auctioned Posted on Jan. 6
BILLINGS - The shuttered Northern Hotel here will be put up for auction Friday. Northern Hotel Holdings LLC foreclosed on the hotel on Aug. 6 after the current owner, Hassan Kangarloo of San Francisco, and his companies defaulted on loans.

Program offers free dental care to kids
Main Street Dental Clinics of Blooming Prairie, Owatonna, New Richland and Rochester will provide free dental care to less fortunate children on Saturday, Feb. 7, at the Blooming Prairie location.

Gupta likely surgeon general
WASHINGTON -- President-elect Barack Obama has asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be the next U.S. surgeon general, looking to a popular television personality to help provide a public face for his health care agenda.

Foreclosure sale on Northern Hotel set
The Northern Hotel, sitting on a prime and now unused corner of downtown Billings, will be sold Friday at a 10 a.m. foreclosure auction.

CNN's Gupta offered Surgeon General post
 President-elect Barack Obama has asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta to be the next U.S. surgeon general, looking to a popular television personality to help provide a  public face for his healthcare agenda. Best known as a health and medicine correspondent for CNN and CBS, Gupta, 39, is also a practicing neurosurgeon in Atlanta and a member of the faculty of the Emory University School of Medicine, one ...

What those recruiting gurus miss
Welcome to a real silly season. It's that time where smart marketers and scouting services figured out something very profitable about college football fans.

Gates Foundation Awards $7.5M To UCSF-Tanzania To Train African Health Workers
The University of California, San Francisco has received a $7.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to address the shortage of healthcare workers in Tanzania.

The Investigator: Dentist on probation named in toxic teeth lawsuit
CLEVELAND -- A Ravenna woman is suing Aspen Dental, accusing the dental chain of using dental work that contained toxic materials.

BIOLASE Announces First Nationally Televised Laser Root Canal Procedure To Be Broadcast January 8
BIOLASE Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: BLTI), the world's leading dental laser company, announced that the nationally syndicated TV show "The Doctors" is scheduled to broadcast a root canal procedure performed using BIOLASE's Endolase(TM) RFT Root Canal Therapy System on Thursday, January 8. The procedure, videotaped on November 10, was performed live by Dr.

Circus manager juggles job and family life
I always thought joining a circus sounded glamorous. It seemed a way to see the country, meet interesting people, be a part of something that aims to make kids happy. But I also envisioned it as a lifestyle that was in no way conducive to a family life. Until I met Mike Stuart.

Sirona launches new digital impression unit
Sirona, a manufacturer of dental equipment, has unveiled Cerec AC, an advanced digital impression unit for CAD/CAM dentistry.

Good Samaritans rebuild smiles and hope
T he day before her 37th wedding anniversary, Mary Long of Newport News read something that brought her to tears.