Singer Natalie Cole has been released from a New York hospital after being admitted on September 12.
The singer, who revealed in July that she suffers from Hepatitis C, is now back at home in Los Angeles, according to her publicist Maureen O’Connor.
Ms O’Connor says Cole, 58, is “feeling a lot better”. She said Cole was on kidney dialysis, but that treatment is not related to her struggle with Hepatitis C.
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“We also have profound reservations about the wisdom of involuntarily placing these enrollees, which including significant numbers of our most vulnerable children, in substantially inferior plans,” Blumenthal wrote in a letter to Rell. “As I am sure you have been advised, federal law mandates that services must be made available to Medicaid enrollees ‘at least to the extent that such care and services are available to the general public.’ ”
Rell Read the rest of this entry »

Blogs Comment On HHS ‘Conscience’ Rule, Faith And Voting, ‘Pro-Life Feminists’
The following summarizes recent women’s health-related blog entries.
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Inimai Chettiar, RH Reality Check
that would allow health care providers who receive federal grants to deny medical services they object to on moral grounds shows that the proposed rule relies on “bad economics,” Inimai Chettiar writes in a blog. According to an analysis by New York University Read the rest of this entry »

NEW YORK, Oct 27, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
Laird Hamilton has been hailed as the
world’s greatest big-wave surfer. His first book, Force of Nature: Mind,
Body, Soul and, of Course, Surfing allows readers a rare glimpse inside the
unique philosophy that has created his circumstances, and not the other way
around. After all, this is a man whose biological father abandoned him
shortly after he was born; whose first job was working on a pig Read the rest of this entry »

Published:Monday, October 27, 2008
he mental health board’s five-year, 0.85-mill property tax levy is up for renewal on the Nov. 4 general election ballot. The board’s contract agencies, and the services they provide:
Burdman Group: Residential treatment, supportive housing, counseling, case management, employment and job retention, vocational rehabilitation, domestic violence.
Catholic Charities Regional Agency: Counseling for individuals Read the rest of this entry »

Imagine being a teenager, taken by your family to another state and dropped off at a hospital — so someone else would take responsibility for you.
It’s happened twice over the last week in Nebraska.
In one case, a 13 year old Michigan boy got in a car with his mom, who drove over 700 miles to Omaha to leave him at a medical center in the middle of the night.
In another case, a 15 year old Iowa girl was deposited by her grandparents at Omaha’s Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON — John McCain’s health care tax credit plan would save the average household an estimated $1,241 next year. But critics charge that many people — especially those in poor health — could have a difficult time getting coverage with it.
The centerpiece of McCain’s health care program is a refundable tax credit of $2,500 for individuals and $5,000 for households. The credit would go to insurers, though participants could Read the rest of this entry »

County clerks across California are up in arms about the state’s recent decision to rush through a change allowing couples to once again mark “bride” and “groom” on marriage licenses instead of “Party A” and “Party B.”
The clerks say they’re angry because state officials made the change without their advice after some heterosexual couples complained about having to use the gender-neutral terms on California’s new marriage license — necessitated Read the rest of this entry »

New Zealand men are being urged to treat their health more like their car in a new Cancer Society campaign.
The Men's Health Challenge, launched to coincide with Father's Day on Sunday, aims to encourage men to invest in their health.
Cancer Society chief executive Dalton Kelly said men were more likely to die from preventable diseases than women and he hoped the campaign would promote regular health check ups.
“Most men take their car Read the rest of this entry »

Shawn Andreasen, registered nurse and assistant nurse manager of the Emergency Department at Lake Regional Health System in Osage Beach, has received the Missouri Emergency Nurse Educator of the Year award from the Missouri State Council Emergency Nurses Association.
Dr. Rudolph Fajardo has joined Springfield Inpatient Physicians as a hospitalist. He will see patients hospitalized at CoxHealth. Fajardo completed his undergraduate education at Xavier Read the rest of this entry »