13 May 2018 | Local television station 9NEWS reported that Denver-based Porter Adventist Hospital had aborted a spine surgery partway through the procedure after the discovery of a contaminant on some instruments. John Kraswoski, 61, went to Porter on April 4 for Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion, an intensive 4-5 hour procedure. After awakening from anesthesia […]
Reviewed by S.M. Chen | 13 May 2018 | It seems a truism that society often does not recognize the truly gifted: the revolutionaries, the visionaries, the geniuses. It is only after they are gone that they are appreciated. So it was with Vincent van Gogh who, during his relatively short life, sold only 1 […]
News reports from Battle Creek, Michigan; Oakwood University; Brighton, Colorado; Washington, D.C.; Malawi; Lakeland, Florida; Andrews University; and Loma Linda University Newsweek included Dr. John Kellogg, the first Adventist doctor from the early days of the denomination, in a list of the most important inventors for his creation of dry breakfast cereal. With his brother […]
10 May 2018 | According to court documents, Karsten Randolph, the current interim Chief Executive Officer of Shawnee Mission Health, was afraid he would face incarceration for an alleged kickback scheme run at his former hospital. The Kansas City Star reported that the suspected unlawful activity involved 20 Adventist Health System hospitals including Park Ridge […]
10 May 2018 | A historic meeting for the revitalization of the Medical Cadet Corps (MCC) program took place from April 30 to May 2 in Levittown, Puerto Rico. The purpose of the meeting was to provide training for MCC officers who are currently involved in the program, and to initiate other leaders who are […]
9 May 2018 | CBS Denver reported today that a former employee at Parker Adventist Hospital in Parker, Colorado is under investigation by the Food and Drug Administration, Colorado Health Department and federal and local law enforcement after being suspected of diverting drugs meant for patients. CBS Denver said that it was unclear if patients […]
A new book looks carefully at the scholarship and discussion on the traditional Adventist teaching of an investigative judgment in heaven beginning in 1844. The author, Roy Ingram, is a loyal Seventh-day Adventist who believes that God raised up the Adventist movement to take the everlasting gospel to all the world. The book summarizes the […]
8 April 2018 | A Loma Linda University Health neurosurgeon traveled with a team of physicians to Manila for a week-long effort aimed at enhancing the expertise of healthcare professionals performing endoscopic skull base surgery in the Philippines. Kenneth De Los Reyes, MD, MSc, assistant professor at Loma Linda University and co-director of skull base […]
8 May 2018 | Dr. V. Bailey Gillespie, the widely influential professor of youth ministry at La Sierra University (LSU), passed to his rest yesterday at City of Hope medical center in Duarte, California. He had been battling cancer since early 2017. Gillespie was widely known for his tireless efforts to help the Adventist denomination […]
7 May 2018 | An Adventist congregation in Nashville, Tennessee is mourning the loss of one of its teen deacons that was gunned down on Monday, April 30. Local TV station WSMV reported that 17-year-old Yudjy Cherubin of Nashville First Seventh-day Adventist Church was killed when he responded to an ad for an iPhone sale […]
7 May 2018 | Pastors, lay leaders and institutional representatives from major metropolitan areas in North America will participate in the Urban Mission and Ministry Congress on the campus of Andrews University during the first week of September. Anyone interested is invited to attend, but pre-registration is required. Pastor Dan Jackson, the president of the […]
6 May 2018 | Billy Leveille, 51, who was pastor of Bethel French Seventh-day Adventist Church in Oak Ridge, Florida, has been charged with having sex with a 17-year-old member of his congregation. Local ABC television affiliate WFTV9 reported that Leveille was fired after the allegations of underage sex surfaced and was, according to a police […]