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  • HEALTH MATTERS: Preventing colon cancer

    Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in America. Nearly 150,000 new cases will be diagnosed in 2008. By Glenn L. Osias, M.D. Princeton HealthCare System If there were one simple medical screening that could dramatically reduce your risk of dying from a deadly cancer, would you have it? Would you encourage…

  • Legion dinner to help child’s medical expenses

    By Audrey Levine Staff Writer    The American Legion Post 304, on South Main Street, will host a spaghetti dinner to benefit Jake’s Fund, created to help Manville resident Jake Whitenight.    The dinner is being arranged by the Legion’s Ways and Means Committee, according to Lisa Mascola, a member of the committee who has taken charge…

  • University Medical Center at Princeton Announces $25 Million Challenge Gift

    University Medical Center at Princeton Announces $25 Million Challenge Gift

    Largest Individual Donation Ever to a New Jersey Hospital; Rendering Provides Public’s First Look at New Facility BY PHCS News Princeton, NJ  – David and Patricia Atkinson, long-time area residents, have pledged $25 million in support of the new University Medical Center at Princeton (UMCP), the acute care hospital of Princeton HealthCare System. The replacement hospital…

  • No injuries in Mansfield fire

    MANSFIELD — An early morning fire on Hemmingway Lane Monday was brought under control in a little over an hour and no injuries were reported, police said this week.     Mansfield Township Police and Fire Departments were dispatched to Hemmingway Lane at 4:36 a.m. Monday for a report of a residential fire.  Police said heavy…

  • CHS Has First Two Designated Primary Stroke Centers In Mercer County

    CHS Has First Two Designated Primary Stroke Centers In Mercer County

    Fuld and Mercer Campus Respectively Earn First and Second State Certifications BY CHS News Capital Health System (CHS) has the first (the Fuld campus) and second (the Mercer campus) hospitals in Mercer County designated as Primary Stroke Centers under a new licensure program coordinated by the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services (NJDHSS).…

  • ‘La Misma Luna’

    ‘La Misma Luna’

    Depending on where you fit in the scheme of things, you’ll either applaud the pointed messages, or tolerate them uncomfortably. By Bob Brown    This is an issue-based film, couched in a sentimental story about a Mexican boy’s desperate attempt to reach his mother, who is working in the U.S. to support him. Mexican-born director Patricia…

  • Princeton HomeCare Services Offers Hospice Volunteer Training

    BY PHCS News Princeton HomeCare Services Hospice Program is offering an eight-week volunteer training course in Princeton starting on Monday, March 31. The Hospice Program is seeking compassionate and caring people to visit Hospice patients who have chosen to die at home with peace and dignity and are being cared for by their families and…

  • University Medical Center at Princeton Announces $25 Million Challenge Gift

    University Medical Center at Princeton Announces $25 Million Challenge Gift

    The hospital is being designed so that every entrance has the significance and aesthetically pleasing quality of the southside entrance being shown in this rendering.

  • Just My Imagination

    Just My Imagination

    Can a movie you haven’t seen affect you more than most you haven’t? By Elise Nakhnikian    There’s something about the way we watch movies, all that dreaming in the dark, that gives them a pipeline to the subconscious. You never know when something — a mood, a moment, a gesture, a line — will jump…