At the Hospitals: Feb. 7, 2016
Local Hospitals Release Community Health Needs Assessment Access to mental health care and affordable health insurance, prescription drugs prices, heroin and the misuse of pain medications are among the Upper Valley ’s most pressing health concerns, according to a report by local hospitals. The 2015 Community Health Needs Assessment is based on focus groups and surveys conducted over a five-month period last year by...
Disease Causes Florida Orange Crop to Shrink
Florida’s orange growers keep getting squeezed. After the state’s crop fell to the lowest in almost five decades, production will probably will drop further in the season starting Oct. 1 as a citrus-greening disease continues to wreak havoc for the U.S.’s biggest producer. Shrinking plantings come at a time of diminished consumption. Farmers will probably collect about 90.75 million boxes in the coming year, according to the average...
Trade Groups, Farmers Spar Over Beef Ban
Washington — Bob Wilts was 10 years old when the Big Lake, Minn., farm where he grew up got its first beef cow. Fast forward 45 years to today, and Wilts still lives in Big Lake, about 35 miles northwest of Minneapolis. He still raises cattle. Wilts and his wife, Judy, manage about 30 steers that they sell to individual families and stockyards annually. But Wilts and other ranchers worry about something that they say could threaten...
