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Milledgeville mental hospital told to stop admitting patients (Rome News-Tribune)
Fri Nov 20 21:17:26 PST 2009
A state official says Georgia’s largest mental hospital will stop admitting new patients. The Telegraph newspaper in Macon reports that Thomas Wilson, spokesman for the Department of Behavioral He...
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Bridgeway to take over mental health services (The Township Journal)
Wed Nov 18 23:41:49 PST 2009
NEWTON As the lights at Sussex House a place where adults with psychiatric disabilities were able to go for skill building and rehabilitation are about to be turned off, an agency called Bridgeway Rehabilitation Services is coming to the county to help area residents recover from mental illness...
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Equi-Kids open house to offer preview of Wings for Warriors Pilot Program (The Langley Air Force Base Fighter)
Fri Nov 20 00:29:00 PST 2009
Equi-Kids Therapeutic Riding Program, a non-profit organization that offers riding instruction to young people who have mental, physical, emotional or learning disabilities, will hold an open house Nov. 14 from 10 a.m. to noon to offer information about their Wings for Warriors Veteran and Family...
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Mental Hospital Stops Admitting Patients (WSB-TV 2 Atlanta)
Fri Nov 20 06:41:45 PST 2009
MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. -- A state official said Georgia's largest mental hospital will stop admitting new patients.
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Mental hospital stops admitting patients (Thomasville Times-Enterprise)
Fri Nov 20 09:31:52 PST 2009
MILLEDGEVILLE (AP) — A state official says Georgia’s largest mental hospital will stop admitting new patients.
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Central State Diverting Patients (Georgia Public Broadcasting)
Fri Nov 20 12:24:12 PST 2009
One of the state's seven psychiatric hospitals is no longer accepting new patients. Following a week long visit by the United States Department of Justice state officials made the decision to quit taking new patients at Central State Hospital in Milledgeville until they can make some changes....
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AgrAbility Farm breaks new ground (Tifton Gazette)
Thu Nov 19 19:18:09 PST 2009
TIFTON — Farmers with physical disabilities are often a little too self- reliant to ask for help or don't know where to find it. But help is out there. Soon, they’ll have an entire farm dedicated to equipment and training designed to help them get back to farming more comfortably.
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Researchers at Signature Genomics Diagnose Rare Syndrome in Children with Unexplained Mental Retardation and Birth ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Tue Nov 17 14:05:00 PST 2009
SPOKANE, Wash.----Researchers at Signature Genomic Laboratories, which performs diagnostic genetic testing of chromosome abnormalities in individuals with unexplained physical and developmental disabilities, recently showed that microarray analysis can identify small DNA alterations in individuals...
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Los Angeles gets tough on medical marijuana shops (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Fri Nov 20 18:29:36 PST 2009
Past the security man and his pit bull and through a haze of eye-watering smoke, two youths load up a pipe next to a row of shiny glass jars with two dozen varieties of marijuana bud displayed like candy.
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Speaking out: Joe's Clubs aid seniors in need (Florida Today)
Sat Nov 21 10:03:19 PST 2009
The elder population of Brevard County is growing at a rapid rate.
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