In a new agreement announced today, DESTIHL® Brewery and World Class Beer of Indiana, a division of the Monarch Beverage Company, will join forces to distribute the brewer’s acclaimed craft beer brands throughout 70 counties in the southern two-thirds of Indiana.
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To better serve patients who take prescription blood thinner medications to prevent life-threatening blood clots, Porter Regional Hospital recently opened an Anticoagulation Clinic in the Center for Cardiovascular Medicine. During a patient’s visit, Porter’s pharmacists and nurses review patients’ prescription and over-the-counter medications for potentially harmful drug interactions; perform blood tests; communicate lab results; adjust
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WEST LAFAYETTE — Purdue University continues to have the second-largest international student population among U.S. public universities and is third overall, according to a report released Monday (Nov. 11) by the Institute of International Education. The 2013 Open Doors Report on International Educational Exchange is based on the 2012-13 academic year, and it reports Purdue
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WEST LAFAYETTE — Researchers have discovered that a known neurotoxin may cause chronic pain in people who suffer from paralysis, and a drug that has been shown to remove the toxin might be used to treat the pain. The toxin, called acrolein, is produced in the body after nerve cells are injured, triggering a cascade
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HOBART — Patients waiting to hear whether or not they have lung cancer will have answers sooner thanks to a combination of minimally-invasive technologies being used at the hospitals of Community Healthcare System. Lung cancer is one of the deadliest forms of cancer for both men and women, but has an 88 percent survival rate
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St. Mary Medical Center has announced Mia Wolf, RN, as the new Director of Surgical Services. She earned her BSN, RN and Family Nurse Practitioner Certificate from Purdue University, and brings more than 32 years of nursing experience, 24 years of which she was in surgery leadership roles. Wolf comes to St. Mary Medical Center
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INDIANA — MHIN (formerly Michiana Health Information Network) proudly announces today that Beacon Health System has joined founders, Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center and The Medical Foundation (formerly South Bend Medical Foundation), as a third owner of the South Bend based healthcare IT company. Founded in the mid-1990s and incorporated in 1999, MHIN was envisioned
CROWN POINT — Franciscan St. Anthony Health-Crown Point’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit offers a new weapon to combat birth hypoxia, a relatively rare occurrence in which oxygen flow to a newborn’s brain is impaired due to a number of possible causes. The hospital recently acquired an Olympic-brand Cool Cap System, which provides selective cooling while
