A:Yes, we met separately with the chair, the executive and the full board of KGH on several occasions. In the end, we seemed to be getting nowhere. Finally, Georgina Thompson and I went to see the minister of health and long-term care [to seek a resolution to the crisis]. As a result, Graham Scott was named investigator and asked to prepare a report on KGH.
We arrived at an impasse and the health-care system can’t be allowed to suffer. It’s not Read the rest of this entry »
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia Eagles defensive coordinator Jim Johnson has had a recurrence of skin cancer, this time in his spine, team officials say.
Eagles trainer Rick Burkholder told The Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News on Thursday that Johnson was diagnosed with melanoma skin cancer on Monday at Pennsylvania Hospital. Burkholder said Johnson has begun radiation treatments at Bryn Mawr Hospital.
Burkholder said Johnson has a Read the rest of this entry »
DALLAS
— A woman who killed her 10-month-old daughter by cutting off her arms with a kitchen knife is being released from the state mental hospital where she’d been sent after being found not guilty by reason of insanity, authorities said Friday.
Dena Schlosser, 39, will be released within the next month into outpatient treatment because her doctors believe she’s mentally stable, Collin County prosecutor Curtis Howard said. A court order Read the rest of this entry »
Eight percent of Silicon Valley’s 1.7 million residents don’t have health insurance, according to a study released this week. Is that bad news or good news?
“Well, it’s both,” says Todd Hansen, chief operating officer of the Health Trust, a charitable foundation. “It’s good news in that we’re better off than most other counties in California. We’ve done a great job with kids. But when you look at adults, there are problems.”
Since starting about Read the rest of this entry »
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THE New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, a leader in promoting public health, has embarked on a campaign to persuade the makers of processed food to reduce its salt content by more than 40 percent over the next 10 years. The goal is commendable: to prevent strokes and heart attacks. And the premise is logical: if people eat less salt, they’ll have lower blood pressure, and this could translate into better cardiovascular health. Read the rest of this entry »
GALVESTON, Texas (Reuters) – Texas officials warned on Monday of a possible health crisis and urged thousands to leave the island city of Galveston, where relief supplies were scarce after the onslaught of Hurricane Ike.
CNN reported on its Web site that 27 people were killed by Ike and its remnants in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri and Ohio.
In Houston, millions of people had to cope without power as the U.S. energy hub and fourth-largest Read the rest of this entry »
– At the federal level, Congress should enact the long-overdue legislation
granting the FDA authority over tobacco products. The U.S. House of
Representatives on July 30 voted 326 to 102 to approve this legislation,
and it currently has 60 sponsors in the Senate, including
President-elect Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. This
legislation presents the incoming Administration and Congress Read the rest of this entry »
“Let us recognize that there can be no health without mental health.” Those were the profound words of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on October 10, a day earmarked since 1992 as World Mental Health Day. In his message, he also emphasized that mental health is paramount to a person’s “well-being, family relationships and an individual’s ability to contribute to society.” But on a grave note, he reminded us that Read the rest of this entry »
MURRAY — A Salt Lake County Jail inmate is accused of attacking a corrections officer last Sunday during a hospital visit.
Corrections officers took the 20-year-old West Jordan man to Intermountain Medical Center so he could receive treatment for self-inflicted wounds, according to charges filed Tuesday in 3rd District Court.
An officer said he felt tugging at his belt when he closed a privacy curtain, charges state. As the officer turned Read the rest of this entry »