Health
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10.01.08,
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Americans are giving up on diets.
While weight-loss programs and products are still an estimated $58 billion industry, the number of people dieting is dropping, according to market-research firm NPD Group. Among a group of 5,000 consumers, in 1990 39% of the women and 29% of the men claimed to be on a diet; today, the numbers are 26% and 16%, respectively.
Instead, these people appear more interested in Read the rest of this entry »
— A Naples man faces DUI charges after a three-car crash on CR 951 sent one deputy and one driver to Physician’s Regional Medical Center for minor injuries Friday night.
According to a Florida Highway Patrol report, Artemio Godinez Sanchez, 30, of Naples, was traveling southbound on CR 951 toward Manatee Road. A Collier County Sheriff’s officer was conducting a traffic stop on another vehicle on the southbound shoulder just north Read the rest of this entry »
Instead of contacting her — “Um, Katie, I’ve been meaning to tell you something” — he chose
!
Also, after grilling bank robber barons, Congress warns it is not done with
. (When will the feds drop their fetish over our national pastime and concentrate on our national meltdown?)
Last but not least, Bud Selig says he’s “saddened” about A-Roid. Selig is saddened? What about us? But to repeat, look at the upside. You can’t beat fun Read the rest of this entry »
Adena Health System is an independent, not-for-profit and locally
controlled organization serving the needs of 10 counties in south
central Ohio and employing more than 2,000 people. Adena’s vision is to
be the best healthcare system in the nation through innovation and a
customer centered philosophy. The system’s family of facilities includes
Adena Regional Medical Center, Greenfield Area Medical Center, and Read the rest of this entry »
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — An e-mail in which Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III allegedly talks about a drug binge can be used as evidence during his criminal trial, a federal judge ruled.
Lawyers for Nicholas, an Orange County and Silicon Valley billionaire, had argued that the 2002 message to his estranged wife was privileged because it was a personal communication.
However, U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney noted the e-mail Read the rest of this entry »
being able to go Monday night are beginning to look a little bleak.
Winslow (questionable) has missed practice all week with an undislcosed illness, but it was widely expected that he would be able to play Monday. However, that was if he was practicing on Friday, which he did not.
After checking in to the hospital on Friday, Winslow has yet to be released, which isn’t a good sign.
Owners should be concerned that it hasn’t yet been confirmed Read the rest of this entry »
Cigna Corp.
(CI) didn’t keep pace with competition this
year in offering employers less costly, “lean” fully insured health plans and
expects to catch up in 2009, company officials said Friday.
Competitors, notably
Aetna Inc.
(AET), made benefit design changes that
allowed employers to “lean up,” or reduce the level of coverage with fully
insured plans that cost less, Cigna President and Chief Operating Officer
investor day.
“We didn’t Read the rest of this entry »
Salk Scientist Fred H. Gage To Receive The Keio Medical Science Prize
Salk researcher Dr. Fred H. Gage, professor in the Laboratory of Genetics, has been awarded the Keio Medical Science Prize for his discovery of the physiological role of adult neurogenesis in mammalian brains. He will officially receive the award during a ceremony at Keio University’s School of Medicine in Japan on Nov. 21.
Dr. Gage’s laboratory concentrates on the adult central Read the rest of this entry »
Learn to Live publications for parents and child care providers can be ordered from the Learn to Live Line, 410-222-7979, or downloaded from the Raising Healthy Kids Resource Center, aahealth.org/ltl_healthykids.asp. The Learn to Live program helps residents reduce their risk of developing serious illnesses by making healthy choices.
Anne Arundel Medical Center is offering a support group for men affected by prostate cancer. Man to Man, founded Read the rest of this entry »
A potentially groundbreaking new development in cardiac care has the top doctors in the field genuinely excited and hopeful that it could change the lives of more than 120,000 heart patients.
Sister Thomas Duggan recently underwent the experimental procedure at New York’s Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, where a team of doctors are leading a clinical trial to replace valves in a new, less invasive way.
Sister Thomas spent a lifetime teaching Read the rest of this entry »