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Doctor wanted: Small town offers big perks to attract a physician20:34 This is a MedPage Today story. HAVANA, Fla. -- For a rural community, this town of 1,750 people has been more fortunate than most. A family doctor has practiced here for the last 30 years. But that ended in December when Mark Newberry, MD, retired. To attract a new doctor, Havana leaders took out want ads in local newspapers, posted notices on social media, and sweetened the pot with a rent-free medical office equipped with an x-ray, an ultrasound machine, and a bone density scanner -- all owne… Mark Cruz to lead Indian Health Service amid staffing and infrastructure challenges3:29 Senior Health and Human Services adviser Mark Cruz will now lead the U.S. agency that provides healthcare to some 2.8 million Native Americans A 2-year-old at the center of a Texas brain-death dispute is taken off life support and dies7.srpna A 2-year-old girl whose parents sued a Texas hospital to prevent it from testing if she was brain-dead after she drowned in a hotel pool on Memorial Day has been removed from life support and died Police describe a father's horror as he realizes then-wife Lindsay Clancy killed their 3 kids7.srpna First responders have given jurors firsthand accounts of what they found after Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy killed her three children and tried to take her own life One man works to slow the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history, and he's doing it unpaid7.srpna Wiza Bondele works at an Ebola treatment hospital in eastern Congo, risking his life without pay since the outbreak began in May Iran war renews concerns about the lasting toll of traumatic brain injuries to US troops6.srpna Military officials say the majority of American troops wounded in the Iran war have suffered traumatic brain injuries WHO chief says Ebola outbreak is outpacing response as aid workers strike over pay6.srpna The world’s fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in Congo is still spreading faster than efforts to track it, according to the head of the World Health Organization US moves to shut a Kentucky organ donation group, citing safety failures6.srpna The federal government is taking steps to shut down a Kentucky organ donation group accused of continuing plans for organ retrieval from some patients who unexpectedly showed signs of life Nanny says Lindsay Clancy appeared to be a loving mother before killings5.srpna Months before Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children, the family's former nanny said she saw her deal with significant weight loss, insomnia, and postpregnancy mental health issues Fauci's decision to invoke the Fifth Amendment tees up legal debate and contempt vote5.srpna Dr. Anthony Fauci’s decision to invoke the Fifth Amendment before Congress will be put to the test this week Ebola has killed 1,700 in eastern Congo as the fastest-growing outbreak surges4.srpna Ebola has killed over 1,700 people in eastern Congo, marking the fastest-growing outbreak of the disease |