Health

Floor care technician Dave Fenner scrubs the floor of a trauma room in the Monadnock Community Hospital emergency wing, using a environmentally safe cleaning product. 
(Staff photo by Dave Anderson)

Peterborough: A greener path to health care

Monday, June 3, 2013

Going green isn’t easy, but Monadnock Community Hospital is taking on the task. Unlike many organizations that focus their efforts in one or two areas, the Peterborough hospital is tackling all six of the challenges presented under the Healthier Hospitals Initiative, a free national program designed to help hospitals increase the use of sustainable products while also lowering costs. “It’s all voluntary,” said Laura Gingras, the hospital’s vice president for community relations, last week. “We are the first of the smaller critical access hospitals to get involved.” Gingras is serving as the executive champion for the hospital’s team, which is focusing on six areas — … 0

Dog Tales: Training your dog is all about finding motivation

Monday, June 3, 2013

When you touch the hot stove as a child, or as an adult, it is usually so painful, so aversive that you avoid touching it again. That is motivation enough to avoid the unpleasant feeling. If you’re like me and have gotten a $200 speeding ticket, you pay attention to your speed to … 0

Parent wise: Our culture of punishment, and why it doesn’t work

Monday, June 3, 2013

At all levels, from the individual to the collective, there has always been a strong need for those in a perceived position of power to control or at least regulate others. In order to make sense of life with all its mystery, we like to categorize and label. We decide what is good and what is bad all the way from family to … 0

Francestown mother walks to end breast cancer

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 … 0

Rindge resident recounts brain aneurysm

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 … 0

Column: Are you raising your boys to be men or misogynists?

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 … 0

Jaffrey-Rindge students rally against cancer

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 … 0

Peterborough surgeon inducted into academy

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 … 0

KEENE: Caregivers workshop to be held this spring

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 … 0

Greenfield’s Crotched Mountain adds staff

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 … 0

Column: Digestion 101

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 … 0

Well water testing recommended by state

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 … 0

Jaffrey boy’s wish comes true after battling cancer

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 … 0