Dan Frith

Most people have heard of a “coronary angioplasty”, or just angioplasty for short. Maybe you or someone in your family or a neighbor has submitted to the procedure. An angioplasty is a medical procedure used to open blocked or narrowed coronary (heart) arteries, to to improve blood flow to the…

In my city we have two hospitals: Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital and Lewis Gale Medical Center, a HCA facility.Lewis Gale Medical Center (LGMC) has purchased bill boards (that’s right bill boards along the side of the road) which tells motorists the “wait time” at their hospital emergency department. I guess…

No…it is not a list of the most popular adult beverages.In 1991, a panel of doctors and clinicians with expertise in geriatrics researched the effects of different drugs on senior citizens. Their research resulted in the creation of the Beers List. A list of medications that are generally considered inappropriate…

My question is “why?”According to the findings of a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association(JAMA), elderly African Americans face a greater risk of suffering bedsores or pressure ulcers as a result of nursing home neglect.The researchers, from the University of Iowa, found that from 2003…

U.S. News and World Report has just published its list of the best hospitals in America.A place on the Best Hospitals Honor Roll is reserved for medical centers that demonstrate unusually high expertise across multiple specialties, scoring at or near the top in at least six of 16 specialties. Just…

The DailyPress.Com reports a felony abuse charge leveled at a Gloucester man accused of failing to care for his ailing aunt was dismissed Tuesday in Glouster, Virginia. Following nearly seven hours of testimony and argument, the trial judge dismissed a charge of abuse involving the incapacitation of an adult causing…