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NSM provides custom wheelchairs, independence for clients
National Seating and Mobility in Girard helps clients in need of custom wheelchairs.
Jameson Hospital cuts back on services
The hospital's south campus will transition from a 24/7 facility to a weekday daytime operation.
HIGH FIVE HOPE
By Jeff Strickler Star Tribune (Minneapolis) MINNEAPOLIS As 8-year-old Molly Vergin was
Can you overdose on ginger?
Q. I weaned myself off Nexium very gradually. It took four months, but it was successful. I found
Annual walk set
Annual walk set BOARDMAN The Neurofibromatosis (NF) Network is having its third annual Great
New department open
New department open AKRON Akron Children’s Hospital’s new Emergency Department, at 177 W.
Help is available to kick addictions, recovering addicts say
Detox by itself — taking someone off the street, making them go through withdrawal, giving them a brief period to be clean, then putting them back on the street — fails about 93 percent of the time, one medical expert said.
After addiction ends, stigma often lingers
The stigma of drug addiction can be as powerful as addiction itself.
Dying was her only way out, one addict thought
Several people who have struggled with drug addiction spoke only on the condition of anonymity despite their passionate desire to share their stories. That condition is based partly on fear that attaching their names and faces to addiction will impact their personal lives and families. Some Valley families who recently lost loved ones to addiction, however, are speaking up.
Awareness walk
Awareness walk WARREN The eighth annual Survivors of Suicide Awareness Walk in memory of loved
Great Steps4NF Walk
Great Steps4NF Walk BOARDMAN The Neurofibromatosis Network is having its third annual Great
Garlic keeps bladder infections at bay
Q. I have been using odorless garlic supplements to prevent and fight bladder infections (UTIs). I
Trumbull 4-year-old needs liver; Campbell son saves dad
Jamie, 4, of Trumbull County, who has been in the custody of the county’s Children Services since a few months after birth, is in critical condition with biliary atresia in a Pittsburgh hospital, waiting for a desperately needed live liver donor. April is National Donate Life Month when local, regional and national activities occur to encourage Americans to register as organ, eye and tissue donors and to celebrate those who have saved lives or been saved through the gift of organ donation.
Boardman couple paint tragic portrait of son's addiction
Sitting beside each other at Lorie’s Gertrude Avenue home, Donald and Lorie LoGiudice replay the night of April 1 again and again in their minds, agonizing over the what-ifs.
Boardman mom recalls daughter's deadly transformation
Jennifer West Roupe of Boardman embraces a teddy bear and plays with Charlie, her daughter Cassie’s dog, in her Boardman home. The stuffed animal was Cassie’s last gift to her mother. The 19-year-old committed suicide with her boyfriend in a Boardman motel April 6 after a battle with drug addiction. In her final note to her mother, she wrote: 'I’m tired of drugs. They won.'