Cardiovascular Disease

'A Time to Remember' benefits local Alzheimer's programming (02/23/10)
Jerry and Audrey Scholten, of Le Mars, will serve as honorary chairpersons for the upcoming Wine & Roses event in Le Mars, "A Time to Remember." The event benefits the Alzheimer's Association. The Scholtens encourage everyone to generously donate to help provide optimal care and services to the persons and their families confronting this disease...

County free of hepatitis A cases (09/21/09)
While an annual report from the Iowa Department of Public Health indicates a significant increase in cases of hepatitis A in Iowa in 2008, no cases were reported in Plymouth County. That's according to Deb Steffen, community health manager at Floyd Valley Hospital in Le Mars...

Le Mars Students find positive side of H1N1 in Costa Rica (06/30/09)
Who would have thought that anything good could come from H1N1? The influenza outbreak closed one door in front of 11 Le Mars Community High School students and their Spanish teacher, but it opened another. Those students and teacher Gale Horan were set to visit Mexico with two other travelers for an educational trip in June, but all that changed in mid-May...

Officials ready for emergency after training (06/29/09)
How would local health officials respond to a statewide outbreak of meat contamination? A training exercise covering that hypothetic scenario indicated Floyd Valley Hospital along with Plymouth County community health and emergency management would do well...

'A Time to Remember' features West Coast winemakers (03/30/09)
Six winemakers will be represented at the Le Mars Wine and Roses event, "A Time to Remember," this Thursday evening at the Willow Creek Country Club in Le Mars. "A Time to Remember" will benefit Alzheimer's Association programming in Plymouth County and features wine tasting with prestigious winemakers from across the United States...

'A Time to Remember' names honorary chairs (02/20/09)
A Le Mars couple, Jeff and Teresa Peters, will serve as honorary chairman and chairwoman for the upcoming Wine and Roses event in Le Mars, "A Time to Remember," benefiting the Alzheimer's Association. "Each of us has been close to someone suffering from Alzheimer's disease," said Jeff Peters, who runs the Williams & Company, CPA, Le Mars office...

Untreated sleep apnea could be life threatening (12/05/08)
Does your snoring wake you up at night? Do you get nightly jabs from your bed partner for interrupting his or her sleep? Do you fall asleep driving? If you answered yes to any or all of those questions, you may be 1 of 15 million Americans that suffer from obstructive sleep apnea...

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