WASHINGTON (AP) — Few governors know the pitfalls of soaring health costs better than Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen, which helps explain why President Barack Obama is reportedly considering the Democrat for health secretary.
In 2005, Bredesen cut 170,000 adults from Tennessee’s Medicaid program, called TennCare. He reduced benefits for thousands more.
Critics describe Bredesen’s actions as the biggest cuts in public health insurance in the Read the rest of this entry »
In the face of sharp criticism from international media and some medical ethicists, friends and like-minded moms are stepping forward to defend a
last week to octuplets.
Nadya Suleman, who is reportedly unmarried, is “an awesome parent” and a ”wonderful mother,” according to Jessica Zepeda, a neighbor and friend. Zepeda’s children are friends and schoolmates of the six Suleman kids.
“She misses those other six kids,” Zepeda, who recently Read the rest of this entry »
Hill Holliday, owned by the Interpublic Group of Companies and
headquartered in Boston with offices in New York, Miami and Greenville,
S.C., is one of the top communication agencies in the nation. Hill
Holliday has won every major award for advertising excellence and
effectiveness and has among its roster of clients leading national and
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Jenna Bergen remembers the day her “make my butt look good” jeans were too tight. It was just minutes before a date with her boyfriend when she turned to the side to find an irritating lump on her stomach.
She had gained weight – something she could attribute to dating and her boyfriend’s eating habits, she wrote in the first chapter of her new book “Your Big Fat Boyfriend: How to Stay Thin when Dating a Diet Disaster.”
“When I started dating, Read the rest of this entry »
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LOS ANGELES — A school spokesman says a 22-year-old research assistant severely burned in a chemical fire at a science classroom at the University of California, Los Angeles last month has died.
Spokesman Phil Hampton says the woman died Friday at Grossman Burn Center in Sherman Oaks, where she was transferred after getting initial treatment at UCLA Medical Center.
The woman, whose name has not been released, was working in a room in the Read the rest of this entry »
Phoenix Children’s Hospital has decided that the best way raise money and awareness of the work done there is to hold a raffle that will hand out big-screen TVs, fancy cars and possibly millions in cash.
The hospital is billing the fundraiser as “the raffle with a heart.” Various drawings will take place during the next few months, with the first occurring in December.
On Monday, the hospital launched the raffle, and introduced two people who Read the rest of this entry »
Chattanooga, Tenn. – Tennessee is one of 42 states that has experienced an outbreak of salmonella, but the cause is unknown, state health officials said.
Officials have identified nine salmonella cases in Tennessee that are connected with the nationwide outbreak. Two of those occurred in the Chattanooga-Hamilton County region, the only one out of the state’s 13 regions that had more than one case, said Andrea Turner, state health department spokeswoman. Read the rest of this entry »
President Mohamed Nasheed on Monday unveiled new policy initiatives in next year’s budget including a Rf 2000 (US$156) pension for the elderly and medical insurance for one third of the country’s population.
Import duty on diesel, essential food stuffs and medical supplies will be eliminated, costing the state Rf 500 million (US $ 39 million) in income.
The removal of import duty, pledged during campaigns, is designed to reduce the cost Read the rest of this entry »
Documents showing that pharmaceutical giant Wyeth paid ghostwriters to produce medical journal articles favorable to the company’s Prempro hormone replacement therapy have become public.
One such article in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology was published even after a federal study, called the Women’s Health Initiative, linked Prempro to breast caner.
At the height of hormone therapy in 2001, more than 126 million U.S. prescriptions Read the rest of this entry »