Monday, April 1, 2013
Heather Whipple-Simard was just 19 and a freshman at Plymouth State when her mom, Nan, lost her battle with breast cancer at age 44. And while it happened more than 23 years ago, the fight against breast cancer …
Monday, April 1, 2013
I am a brain aneurysm survivor. I like to tell people that I literally blew my mind. I was stricken while in Colorado in February 2008. Becoming violently sick and disoriented immediately sent us to a hospital, and …
Monday, April 1, 2013
Parents of boys: What did you learn from the Steubenville rape case? Did you pay attention or did you think, “How awful, but oh well”. Last summer, two teen football players got a 16-year-old girl beyond drunk, carried …
Monday, April 1, 2013
A local Jaffrey school is joining Rally Against Cancer SM to support Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Jimmy Fund. Team Jaffrey-Rindge Middle School, led by Lisa Wilkinson, is rallying to win a visit from one of this year’s rally spokesplayers, Boston Red Sox third baseman Will Middlebrooks or …
Monday, March 25, 2013
Douglass R. Weiss, MD, FAAOS of Peterborough was inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons on March 22 during ceremonies at the Academy’s 2013 Annual Meeting in Chicago, Ill. Weiss was one of 585 new members inducted. The AAOS has more than 37,000 members …
Monday, March 25, 2013
The Monadnock ServiceLink Resource Center is taking reservations for Powerful Tools for Caregivers, a free, six-week course designed to help family caregivers reduce personal stress; effectively communicate their own needs so that they can remain healthy; and better …
Monday, March 18, 2013
Crotched Mountain Foundation has added the following new staff members: Billie Anderson, APRN, is a nurse practitioner certified through the American Nurses Credentialing Center. She brings a wide range of nursing experience to her patients at Crotched Mountain …
Monday, March 11, 2013
You may be wondering why I am writing an article about how digestion works. We all digest our food, don’t we? It’s like breathing; it’s something we do without thinking about it. Well, hopefully by the time you finish reading, you will have a better grasp of what …
Monday, March 11, 2013
March 10-16 is Groundwater Awareness Week and the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services is urging everyone to test the well water they drink. Anyone with a private well supplying water to their home is responsible for their own water testing, according to Sarah Pillsbury, administrator of NHDES’s …
Monday, March 4, 2013
Seven surgeries. Six weeks of chemotherapy. Six weeks of radiation. Nineteen months cancer-free. For Matthew Johnson, 4, of Jaffrey, who was diagnosed with a cancerous brain tumor at the age of two, every three month medical checkup is …