Health and Medicine

Chesapeake Regional Medical Center names CEO

elizabeth.simpson — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:56:12 -0400

Chesapeake Regional Medical Center has named Wynn Dixon its CEO, the third in the independent hospital's history.

Dixon, 63, has been interim CEO since Christopher Mosley stepped down abruptly from the position in January. Mosley had been in the position for five years, following longtime leader Donald Buckley, who held the position since the center was founded in 1976.

New $1.4 million medical center opens on Tangier Island

Cindy.Clayton — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:24:34 -0400

TANGIER ISLAND Tangier Island residents have dedicated a new $1.4 million medical center.

The ribbon-cutting Sunday marked the opening of the David B. Nichols Health Center, which is named for the 525-person island's longtime primary doctor and replaces a clinic that was more than 50 years old.

New Virginia mental health hospital almost ready

Cindy.Clayton — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:59:11 -0400

JAMES CITY Eastern State Hospital is preparing for the first patients at its new $59.7 million Adult Mental Health Treatment Center.

Assistant director Marty Kline says the new center will provide modern treatment, while the current cinderblock building represents 1950s-era treatment for people with mental health problems.

Keep kids off playing field after concussion, panel urges

anthony.trowbridge — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:00:00 -0400

It wasn't just the dizzying pain that worried Sarah Cottrell when she got whacked in the head with a lacrosse stick during an April game. She already had suffered two concussions playing lacrosse, and a doctor had advised her to drop the sport if she sustained a third. "I knew if I got hit again, I'd be out for good," said Cottrell, 17, a Norfolk Academy athlete.

S. Carolina law gives glimpse of new abortion clinic rules

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:12:17 -0400

RICHMOND Virginia's continuing debate over abortion has turned to the south - as in South Carolina. When Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued a legal opinion this month that the state can regulate first-trimester abortion providers, he invoked a federal court ruling that upheld a South Carolina law requiring abortion clinics to meet hospital-like standards.

Va., U.S. birthrates downsized along with economy

Chris.Dinsmore — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:04:03 -0400

Is the economic downturn causing women to have fewer babies? Possibly. Economists figure the recession began near the end of 2007, the same year statisticians recorded the largest-ever number of U.S. births. Over the next two years, births dropped by an estimated 4 percent both nationally and in Virginia, according to data released Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

$1.95M awarded in Beach cosmetic surgery death

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:34:27 -0400

VIRGINIA BEACH A Circuit Court jury awarded $1.95 million in damages Thursday to the family of a woman who died within 40 hours of receiving a "mommy makeover" operation. Circuit Judge Edward W. Hanson Jr. reserved entering the judgment, however, allowing both sides to file motions, including one to set aside the verdict, defense attorney Edward McNelis said.

Suffolk mosquitoes, chickens have West Nile, EEE

lauren.king — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:21:42 -0400

SUFFOLK

Mosquitoes and chickens in the city have tested positive for West Nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis.

N.C. research center to study firefighters' diseases

Cindy.Clayton — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:07:49 -0400

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. A research center in North Carolina will study why firefighters are more likely than the general population to develop some types of cancer and coronary heart disease.

The Salisbury Post reported that Duke University's Murdock Study at the N.C. Research Campus in Kannapolis will enroll 45 firefighters in the study this week.

Sentara Leigh Hospital applies for $130.5 million upgrade

Andrew.Tran — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:45:00 -0400

NORFOLK Sentara Leigh Hospital has applied for state approval of a $130.6 million renovation to bring the 33-year-old facility into the 21st century. The project would increase the hospital's size by more than 40 percent to 506,000 square feet. It calls for replacing two bed towers with one taller tower, enlarging patient rooms and other areas and adding parking, possibly in a garage.