| Pair of Pike County clinics join Quincy Medical Group
The Pike County Family Practice and Winchester Family Practice will become branch clinics of Quincy Medical Group Feb. 1. Both clinics will continue in their present locations, and Dr. Ronald Johnson, Dr. Warren Barrow and physician assistant Danita Ray will continue to see patients at those locations. "We welcome Dr. Johnson and his colleagues to Quincy Medical Group, and we look forward to continue delivering quality health-care services in Pittsfield and the surrounding communities in Pike County," said Aric Sharp, QMG's chief executive officer. "Dr. Johnson, Dr. Barrow and Ms. Ray are respected by our QMG providers and have served Pike County for many years, and we believe the partnership will help provide that same level of service and added technology to the region for the future," Sharp said.
Texas high school steroid tests might not find many offenders
Texas is launching the nation's most ambitious high school testing program for steroids in the coming months, but few expect the effort to catch many offenders. The $6 million, two-year experiment will reach less than 3 percent of the state's 750,000 high school athletes each year – all in a search for the estimated 2 percent of Texas students believed to use steroids. The short history of steroid testing in public schools has yielded little, if anything. In the handful of local school districts that already test for steroids, no positive test has been reported. The same is true for limited state programs in Florida and New Jersey. "It's like looking for a needle in a haystack," said Lloyd Johnston, a noted researcher at the University of Michigan. "My guess is that the payoff relative to the cost won't be high." Some critics also question the state's policy decision to go after steroids when the illegal use of other drugs, including marijuana, heroin and prescription drugs, is far more common among teenagers.
Despite collaborative research environment, local biotechs face ...
Research advancements in cancer therapy are beautiful music to the ears of lung cancer patients everywhere. One-time La Jolla Symphony violinist Ruth Gjerset is striking an important chord, recently receiving an award of $100,000 from the Joan Scarangello Foundation to Conquer Lung Cancer. Gjerset's work using gene therapy as a way of suppressing the growth of tumors is currently under way at the Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center. .
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