Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 06/24/2009
(By Karen Garloch, kgarloch@charlotteobserver.com) Starting July 8, the City of Charlotte will offer free prescription drug discount cards to Mecklenburg County residents through a program sponsored by the National League of Cities. Cards that offer an average savings of 20 percent off the retail price of commonly prescribed drugs will be distributed at a kick-off press conference at...
Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
(By Karen Garloch, kgarloch@charlotteobserver.com) A second local case of H1N1 swine flu has been confirmed in a family friend of a Mecklenburg County child who became sick with the virus over Memorial Day weekend, health officials said Wednesday. Mecklenburg health officials announced the county's first case of swine flu Monday, in an elementary-school-age child who had traveled with...
Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
(By Karen Garloch, kgarloch@charlotteobserver.com) At least a dozen groups are holding meetings in the Charlotte area Saturday or in the next month as part of a grassroots effort to push for health care reform. “Our representatives need to know we want real change, not the same old system,” said Virginia Sullivan, a retired Charlotte nurse, in her online invitation at the...
Charlotte Observer: Breaking News (Free subscription) | 06/04/2009
(Karen Garloch, kgarloch@charlotteobserver.com) Kannapolis and Cabarrus County volunteers are being asked to enroll in the so-called MURDOCK study next week at two Kannapolis City Schools. The study, run by Duke University, is named for billionaire Dole Food owner David Murdock, who founded the N.C. Research Campus in Kannapolis and donated $35 million for this project. Enrollment will...
