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County has shortage of physicians
According to a study done by the American Medical Association Physician Characteristics and Distribution in the U.S. (2006 Edition), an area with a population of 80,000 should have at least 241 physicians. But a study done by Memorial Health System of East Texas about six months ago showed Angelina County had 128 physicians. That's a shortage of 113 physicians. Almost all of these physicians serve Memorial Hospital as well as Woodland Heights Medical Center. In the next 12 months, Memorial Hospital is looking to add at least 30 physicians for two campuses — Lufkin and Livingston. "(The study) is only one measurement, only meant as a guideline ...," said Bryant Krenek, chief executive officer of Memorial Hospital. "There are other guidelines — the economics, the population you serve ..." If there was a government subsidized or free health care system — universal health care — then perhaps the guidelines given by the study could have been used, he said.
Pinochet's doctors say illness not exaggerated
Doctors treating Chile's former military ruler, General Augusto Pinochet, have rejected claims he has exaggerated his illness to avoid prosecution on human rights and tax fraud charges. One of the doctors has said General Pinochet is making a good recovery from his recent heart attack, because it was diagnosed and treated in time. The General's son, Marco Antonio Pinochet, has also rejected the claims. "Due to his health condition he has a permanent nurse and an ambulance at his disposal," he said. "He is able to be in the hospital in seven minutes. "While he was going to hospital doctors were ready prepared to see him and luckily there was a cardio specialist on duty. "So the condition's there for him to live. "If he'd got there five minutes later he would have died." - BBC .
Water Workouts A Hit With Younger Crowd
(CBS4) Every New Year many of us resolve to get to the gym and start exercising. But water workouts may be the perfect way for people of all ages, to get into shape.When you think of water aerobics, you probably picture a workout geared for the senior set. But aqua fitness is now making a huge splash with the younger crowd. More than one million people did aqua aerobics more than 100 times in 2005, and 56% were under age 45.Instructor John Tarmaggiore said 20, 30 and 40 somethings are discovering water workouts are just as rigorous as exercising on land without the body stress."They can still get the same calorie expenditure, fat loss, health benefits.""A good workout that lasts for 40 to 50 minutes is likely to burn about 400-to-500 calories, which is pretty close to what you would burn when walking fast or jogging," said physiologist Kerry Stewart of Johns Hopkins University.Stewart says the water provides resistance, so participants get both cardio and strength training benefits.
All he needs is love
To mark the date, Pomes and his Mostly Moptop band play a memorial concert at Five Towns College, one of a handful of commemorations in the area.
"I wanted to celebrate what he gave us," says Pomes, who by day is marketing director for Square One Publishers in Garden City Park. A self-proclaimed "Lennonologist," Pomes serves on the advisory counsel for Five Towns' John Lennon Center for Music & Technology on the Dix Hills campus. The center, brainchild of a Five Towns vice president, Martin Cohen, was dedicated in 2005 by Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, who embraced Cohen's proposal for an academic center focusing on Lennon's canon as a way to inspire student creativity.
Tonight's John Lennon Memorial Ceremony and Tribute Concert, at the Dix Hills Center for the Performing Arts, begins at 7 with readings by former Suffolk County poet laureate George Wallace and others, including Pomes.
Health Briefs
MICHIGAN CITY -- LaPorte Regional Health System VNA has added walk-in hours for flu and pneumonia shots at the Michigan City office, 901 S. Woodland, in conjunction with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Influenza Vaccination Week.
Walk-in hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. CST Monday through Friday as long as supplies last (even after national flu vaccination week). The cost of a flu shot is $25 and a pneumonia shot is $40.
A community clinic is also slated for 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. CST Thursday at Al's, 1002 N. Karwick Road, Michigan City.
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For fitness chain, business is boomers
KATHY LEON of Burlingame, 44, slides onto the seat of the rotary machine and grabs the two waist-level handles. In one fluid motion, she twists to the right, then the left — an exercise that will boost her golf game and help keep her in shape. It's all in a day's work at San Carlos-based Boomer Fitness, http://www.boomerfitnessclubs.com. "We've created circuits, or groups, of weight-lifting machines that tone muscles for specific sports, such as golf and tennis, to help (baby) boomers continue to be able to play these sports as they age," said Arleen Cauchi, the club's owner and founder. Boomer Fitness opened Dec. 2, and Cauchi plans to eventually open more clubs in the East Bay and throughout the area. Baby boomers — those born between 1946 and 1964 — make up about one-fourth of the U.S.
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