Motivation will be the key factor, but also helping them with resources that we dont normally get in our Office Setting right now. For patient, mary james, motivation is exactly why she is so excited to start the program. It is time to lose weight and get in a healthy regimen again and just, you know, be for healthy living. Dr. Wolfe hopes that by working with patients they can find what will work best in the long run. Were not looking at making people skinny, thats not the approach of this. This is a Lifestyle Health change. Christina other states receiving the combined 10 Million Dollar grant include kansas, nebraska and wisconsin. Reporting live in studio Christina Grijalva abc9 news jenna a new study done by the Environmental Working Group claims that voluntary conservation practices to protect iowas water supply simply dont work. The study looked watersheds over the course of three years. Specifically the group watched two key farm conservation practices. Buffer strips are pieces
Grant is funding a study to find ways to best treat the issue of obesity. And one clinic in iowa is helping out. Abc9 News Reporter Christina Gri hallva has more in rural communities, like akron, iowa, nearly 20percent of the population live at a higher risk of obesity and obesity related illness. A new grant is allowing the akron Mercy Medical clinic to study the issue to help find a solution. Partly its gonnas be coaching, partly it is being counseling. So its gonna be a little bit of everything put together. We call it a pragmatic study. Its going to be looking at the way things really are in your life. 40 patients from the clinic have been chosen based on certain criteria. For the next 36 months theyll be following a plan set up by two of the clinics nurses. Well give them kind of the basic structure for each patient, but then well work from there depending on the patients goals and what they want because this is basically their program that their formulating for themselves. Even t
Caused a 3floor evacuation at the pyramid tower in the luxor, this afternoon. Our 8 news now crew was first on the scene. Reporter Brittany Edney now joins us with the latest. Brittany. What did the hazmat teams find . Denise. Investigators spent several hours looking into this possible threat but they have determined that the suspicious items. Specifica lly a liquid, are non hazardous. Now. They wouldnt give us any more details on what it was because its an ongoing investigation. O nly that there is no threat. In this video from earlier. You can see city and county Fire Departments were on scene with metro. Investigators tell us at around 11 this morning, a room service attednent found several suspicious items and thats when police got involved. Floors 27 through 29 were evacauted and no injuries have been reported. Investigators say they are still looking into who left those items and if theres any possibility of criminal charges. But overall, metro says theyre jesse roybal, Public I
You can find more information on our website las vegas now dot com Kirsten Joyce Somerset Academy is responding. After a former teacher was arrested for allegedly having inappropriate contact with 12 year old girls. North Las Vegas Police arrested former music Teacher William crawford this week. They accuse him of harming 2 girls while teaching at Somerset Academy. Somerset issued a Statement Last night. They say he worked for them less than three months back in 2012, and didnt know about any claims against him when his employment ended. If you have any information regarding this case. Youre asked to call crime stoppers. Kirsten Joyce and overnight. An officer was sent to the hospital after police say he was kicked by a suspect. It happened just before 1 this morning near buffalo and summerlin parkway. They say a teenager was naked, jumping on a vehicle and acting aggressive toward police. They say he kicked an officer after he was taken into custody. Both the suspect and officer went
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