The county is aging, the unemployment and therefore uninsurance rate is rising, competition for paying patients is fierce, money-losing Medicare is reforming, the state is in financial turmoil, hospital admissions are at a budget-busting low and the community, well, lets just say public and physician relations could stand a boost.
Thats the outlook for Lee Memorial Health System, and those are among the challenges 10 residents would face Read the rest of this entry »
A large clinical trial of almost 15,000 male doctors taking
rates, including cancer of the prostate.
The study comes on the heels of a disappointing finding regarding vitamin E reported late last month. After following 35,000 men taking selenium and vitamin E, investigators halted their trial because no benefit was seen and in some supplement users there appeared to be a slight increase in the risk of cancer or
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An author of the current study, Read the rest of this entry »
American women pay much more — sometimes hundreds of dollars per year — than men of the same age for individual health insurance, according to data from insurance companies and online brokers.
Insurers said they charge women higher premiums because women, ages 19 to 55, tend to incur more health-care costs, especially in childbearing years, than men,The New York Timesreported. Women are more likely to visit doctors, get regular checkups, to take Read the rest of this entry »
Two Roosevelt High School students were arrested Tuesday afternoon for possession of prescription drugs that did not belong to them, police spokesman Sam Clemens said.
A school officer found Valium and other pills on a 16-year-old boy and a 15-year-old boy, Clemens said. The 16-year-old apparently got the Valium from the 15-year-old, he said.
The 15-year-old was arrested for ingesting a substance to become intoxicated, possession of a controlled Read the rest of this entry »
“That should be no excuse for not taking someone with a mental health issue,” said commissioner Barry Perrou, a former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s sergeant. The department “says we’re running out of bed space — well, we’re running out of back seats. We want these patients to be somewhere they can be managed, not the back of a police car.”
The department began shifting emergency calls to police in March 2006, Shaner said, as hospital bed space Read the rest of this entry »