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Adding Chesley and Durham physicians to the already established Brockton and Area Family Health Team would not only allow for the hiring of more allied health care professionals in the area, it would also make history.
Chesley and Durham doctors were invited earlier this year to be part of the Brockton Family Health Team. A business [...]

This is the message Marie Larose, executive director of the organization, outlined when she spoke to members of the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital board on Tuesday.
The group is comprised of 16 health care professionals including specialists, nurses and registered nurses.
In the last year the group has started nine different programs including cardiac care, nutrition, [...]

Nick Martinson’s boyhood dream was to be a race car driver.
But after serving in the Marine Corps and experiencing other places, he returned to his family’s Suttons Bay funeral home to represent the business’ fourth generation.
The decision pleased his father, Bob Martinson, who, like Nick, followed his father into the profession.
“There’s a vast difference between [...]

An average family doctor is seeing up to two female patients a week who have suffered domestic violence.
But a conference of GPs has been told a woman may endure 35 violent attacks before telling the gardai.
The revelations emerged as the first guide for family doctors on how to deal with patients suffering domestic violence was [...]

An average family doctor is seeing up to two female patients a week who have suffered domestic violence.
But a conference of GPs has been told a woman may endure 35 violent attacks before telling the gardai.
The revelations emerged as the first guide for family doctors on how to deal with patients suffering domestic violence was [...]

IT was a family affair when members of Cleobury Concert Brass Band held their open evening at Cleobury Mortimer Parish Hall as part of Adult Learners’ Week, with visitors doubling the number of regular band members and a few new recruits signed up.
Highlight of the evening was the handing over of a cheque for ï¿¡200 [...]

While Peterborough is doing better than some other areas, 15,000 people in the city and county still don’t have a family doctor.
“We still have patients that we need to find room in a family practice for. The challenges that we’ve had in terms of finding appropriate space (for family health teams) are beginning to be [...]

For most women, there are few more terrifying words to hear than: “You have breast cancer.” Unless, of course, it’s being told the recommended treatment is having both breasts lopped off, followed by round after round of chemotherapy.
But seven years after Myrtle Lewis had a double-mastectomy and 11 lymph nodes removed, followed by six months [...]

The spectacular success of 52-year-old Fiona “Steel Magnolia” Shackleton as Britain’s most celebrated family lawyer — charging her rich and famous clients ￡500 an hour for her services Family Holidays — seems to suggest that you do not need a good or even passable law degree in order to get to the top of some [...]

Megan’s parents were puttering at home on a frigid February evening when they got the call. They were told to come immediately and pick up their 16-year-old. She had been caught stealing cash from the store where she worked part-time. Police were involved. It had been clear Megan was lurching out of control. Once [...]