The big threat to growth in the next decade is not oil or food prices, but the rising cost of health care. The doubling of health insurance premiums since 2000 makes employers choose between cutting benefits and hiring fewer workers.
Rising health costs push total employment costs up and wages and benefits down. The result is lost profits and lost wages, in addition to pointless risk, insecurity and a flood of personal bankruptcies.
Sustained Read the rest of this entry »
PARIS: Scientists have figured out how
tuberculosis tricks the immune system, a discovery that could lead to new
anti-TB drugs, according to a recent study.
In experiments with
mice, they identified a key mechanism whereby TB bacteria provoke a form of
death in host cells that enables the infection to spread through the lungs, they
reported.
Tuberculosis infects more than nine million people every
year, and in 2006 claimed nearly 1.7 million Read the rest of this entry »
Arthrosurface, Inc. (
), the developer of less-invasive joint resurfacing systems, announced that it has received approval from the U.S. FDA to begin its pivotal investigation for its line of focal knee resurfacing implants. The FDA stated that “there are no outstanding safety concerns” with the device and granted Phase III initiation.
Arthrosurface has been evaluating the safety and efficacy of its HemiCAP(R) implants for focal femoral condyle Read the rest of this entry »
Biden blasts McCain campaign, GOP plan to tax health care benefits
MEHLVILLE, Mo. | Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, campaigning in Missouri, on Tuesday repeatedly accused the Republican ticket of waging a campaign of deception.
“We need a little bit of honesty in this campaign,” he said, asserting that the GOP is failing to tell voters that they would do little to change the nation’s economic policy.
Instead, Read the rest of this entry »
STAFF REPORTER, WITH CNA AND AFP
Saturday, Oct 04, 2008, Page 1
A press conference at the legislature yesterday on behalf of bakeries that have suffered losses in the wake of the melamine food scare turned into a clash between blue and green lawmakers, ending with the health minister checking into a hospital.
Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lawmakers accused each other of grabbing Yeh Ching-chuan (葉金川), Read the rest of this entry »
The budding idea of two women has blossomed into a cheerful store for mothers and children.
Peek-a-bootique, which is run by the Baxter Regional Medical Center Auxiliary, opens today on the Mountain Home square and offers gently used children’s and maternity clothes, furniture and equipment. All proceeds benefit the BRMC Women’s Health Education Center.
Robin Robinson and Amy Ponder, now auxiliary volunteers, came up with the idea this summer Read the rest of this entry »
BPA is used in lightweight, durable plastics. Products include some baby bottles, sippy cups and reusable food and drink containers, such as reusable sports water bottles and Tupperware, compact discs, DVDs, eyeglass lenses and sports safety goggles and helmets.
Recyclable, soft plastic bottles made for soft drinks and bottled water don’t contain BPA.
Some manufacturers are phasing out BPA in some products and Tupperware’s website says it does Read the rest of this entry »