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Expanded VA outpatient clinic in Beaufort to open
An expanded veterans' outpatient clinic at the Naval Hospital in Beaufort is ready to accept patients. The center, operated with the Ralph Johnson VA Medical Center in Charleston, opens on Wednesday. The new center will be able to serve about 1,200 more veterans. It includes a new primary care team ...
Fort Jackson commander facing adultery charges
The Army says the commanding general of Fort Jackson, S.C., has been suspended in connection with charges of adultery and involvement in a physical altercation. The Army says Brig. Gen. Bryan Roberts reportedly was in an altercation with another woman, not his wife. Roberts was suspended from his job by ...
3 have hepatitis B after injections at SC clinic
State health officials say three patients have developed hepatitis B after receiving medical injections at a North Charleston clinic. The Department of Health and Environmental Control says all three people received spinal injections with common medications on the same dates in February. The agency says health officials are notifying 23 ...
Maley recommends ways to combat painkiller abuse
Prescription painkiller abuse is rampant in South Carolina, but there's no statewide effort to combat it, the state inspector general said Monday. Inspector General Patrick Maley recommended that legislators, state officials and the medical community work together to rein in the escalating epidemic — with doctors taking the lead. "The ...
Maley recommends ways to combat painkiller abuse
Prescription painkiller abuse is rampant in South Carolina, but there's no statewide effort to combat it, the state inspector general said Monday. Inspector General Patrick Maley recommended that legislators, state officials and the medical community work together to rein in the escalating epidemic — with doctors taking the lead. It's ...
Study: Most shipwrecks a minor US pollution threat
Shipwrecks lying deep off America's coasts are more often historical artifacts than present-day threats from leaking old oil tanks, a new federal report says. While 87 of the ships — most sunk during World War II by German submarines — have the potential to leak tens of millions of gallons ...
Maley recommends ways to combat painkiller abuse
Prescription painkiller abuse is rampant in South Carolina, but there's no statewide effort to combat it, the state inspector general said Monday. Inspector General Patrick Maley recommended that legislators, state officials and the medical community work together to rein in the escalating epidemic — with doctors taking the lead. It's ...
United restarts 787 flights after grounding
United Airlines put its 787 back in the air on Monday, with both the airline and Boeing hoping to put the plane's four-month grounding behind them. The flight from Houston to Chicago was just the kind of 787 flight that airlines are hoping for: uneventful. Smoldering batteries on two 787s ...
GE Healthcare investing $17M in new Florence plant
GE Healthcare is investing $17 million in a Florence plant that will turn helium gas into supercool liquid needed for medical imaging. The company announced Monday it's building a 5,000-square-foot facility next to its existing magnetic resonance plant. GE expects 10 of the 50 jobs created to be permanent. The ...
Small Fla. city wonders who won Powerball jackpot
Some lucky person walked into a Publix supermarket in suburban Florida over the past few days and bought a ticket now worth an estimated $590.5 million — the highest Powerball jackpot in history. But it wasn't Matthew Bogel. On Sunday, he loaded groceries into his car after shopping at the ...
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