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86-year-old Bedford woman maintains full-time nursing job
Reporter/Lynchburg Bureau ChiefAt Woodhaven Nursing Home you'll find Leila White making the bed, taking part in fun activities, and occasionally sitting out front in a rocking chair. It's not unusual for an 86-year-old to be walking around a retirement home, but she's not retired....Tags: Woodhaven, Health, Nursing, Long Term Care, Alzheimer's Disease
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New safety concerns with sunscreen
Weekend Anchor/ReporterHold on, your sunscreen may not be as safe as you think. We're told to lather up before heading outdoors into the bright sun. It's really important to use sunscreen, but you'll want to check the labels carefully. The type of sunscreen you choose, the...Tags: Dermatologists, Health, Dermatology, Ultraviolet Radiation Exposure, Sunburn
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Bedford County nursing home creates giant display to help residents remember Easter
Reporter/Lynchburg Bureau ChiefIf you've driven on Route 460 in Bedford County recently, you've probably seen the giant Easter exhibit in Montvale. A 15-foot Easter basket is sitting in the driveway of Woodhaven Nursing Home. It's a homemade creation, designed and built by staff at...Tags: Woodhaven, Health, Easter, Nursing, Long Term Care
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UPDATED: Two women hurt when van drives through medical building in Danville
Two women were hurt Monday when a van drove through a medical building in Danville. The injured women were inside McKinley Chriopractic when the van drove through. One of the victims, a 51-year-old, had to be flown to Duke University Medical Center for...
Tags: Health, Prosecution, Injuries and Wounds, Chiropractic, Hospitals and Clinics
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Blacksburg nursing home installs solar panels
Weekend Anchor/ReporterA nursing home in Blacksburg is hoping to reduce costs by installing solar panels. These panels starting going up on the roof of Heritage Hall about a week ago. The system was designed to generate 61% of the facility's hot water needs. It's...Tags: Health, Nursing, Medical Specialization, Long Term Care
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Haitian girl undergoes 6 hour surgery, successfully
Weekend Anchor/ReporterShe was burned over 30 percent of her body when she fell into a fire as a child. But on Wednesday, a Haitian teenager underwent a six hour surgery at Lewis Gale Hospital at Montgomery that will change her life. It was a lengthy and delicate...Tags: Health, Nursing, Health Treatments, Hospitals and Clinics, Plastic Surgeons
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Kaine brings U.S. Senate campaign to the Roanoke Valley
ReporterEleven months out, and the candidates in Virginia's U.S. Senate race are hard at work. Tuesday, Democrat Tim Kaine brought his campaign to the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine in Roanoke. A higher education bond package that Kaine supported...Tags: Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia), George Allen, Health, Politics, Elections
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New state budget cuts health, school inflation allowance
AP Political WriterGov. Bob McDonnell's new budget ends hundreds of millions of dollars in inflation allowances for health care and non-classroom public school programs and dramatically scales back pre-kindergarten programs. The two-year spending blueprint he's presenting...Tags: Interior Policy, Health and Safety at School, Labor Markets, Inflation and Deflation, Medicaid
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UVA's top defensive player still nursing a nagging injury
News 7 Sports ReporterWe're a day away from the Chick-fil-A Bowl inside the Georgia Dome. A huge factor in how Virginia ended a string of three-straight losing seasons and made it to Atlanta is the play of the defense in 2011. But that unit could be without its top player,...Tags: Health, Auburn Tigers, Mike London, Nursing, Virginia Cavaliers
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A Roanoke college is "joining forces" to help injured vets & their families
reporterThe students at Jefferson College of Health Sciences are put through the paces everyday. But starting in the fall, these nursing students will take on the military. "It's felt that nursing school circurricula don't focus heavily on a vets as a specific...Tags: Health, Nursing, Science, Colleges and Universities, Science and Technology
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Advanced Life Support program in Rockbridge County to supplement rescue squad response
ReporterA new emergency medical program in Rockbridge County will give residents additional access to advanced life support. Volunteers with advanced life support skills will be on call from six at night until six in the morning during the week, and 24 hours a...Tags: Advanced Life Support
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OUR HEALTH: Chiropractic - for more than an aching back
Spinal manipulation existed thousands of years ago, but it wasn’t until the 1890s the term chiropractic was adopted by practitioners of this technique. The term is rooted in the Greek words “praxis” and “cheir”, aka “...Tags: Health Organizations, Immune System, Health, Chiropractic, Insurance
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