Employers in the Dayton area will be shifting the cost of health care benefits to employees to save on costs next year, according to a new study.
Nearly 11 percent of Dayton employers responding to a survey said they would shift health benefit costs to employees next year by raising deductibles, co-pays, co-insurance or out-of-pocket maximums.
In addition, 42 percent of respondents will increase employees’ share of the premium contribution, Read the rest of this entry »
If the money the BBC has spent on dispatching their cuddly allrounder to Beijing was somehow clawed back and diverted towards our plucky bunch of scruffs in the national football team, maybe we terrestrial fans could get ‘Flower Of Scotland’ piped fr
Hampden into our parlours.Then I thought this: if the BBC recalled
whichever of their spiky-haired children’s favourites has been selected for “wacky” reports on the non-possibility of chicken feet Read the rest of this entry »
Try a tango for fun, fitness or romance
Whether it’s for fun, fitness, or friendship or due to the dance shows on TV, people are stepping out onto the dance floor. And one of the dances catching on is Argentine Tango.
Gina Gorski, owner of the Gina G, a women’s clothing shop in Wilmette, was bitten by the Argentine Tango bug when she saw the dance in New York some years back. “I was so incredibly moved by the music and the dance I said, ‘One Read the rest of this entry »
While a hospital complex at Stony Hill Road and Route 332 would cost Lower Makefield more in services provided than it would bring in taxes and other revenue, the overall economic benefit to the township and surrounding area would be significant, a consultant’s report said.
Frankford Health Care Systems is proposing a 375,000 square-foot hospital, 40,000 square-foot ambulatory surgery center and 40,000 square-foot medical office building for a 41-acre Read the rest of this entry »
MANILA, Philippines -
Airport officials on Thursday arrested a Japanese national caught carrying illegal drugs and a number of bullets that were stuffed inside a wooden ashtray shaped like the male genital.
Chief Superintendent Atillano Morada, director of the National Polices Aviation Security Group, identified the arrested Japanese national as 42-year-old Hayashi Reuchiro, a native of Kanagawa, Japan.
Morada said Reuchiro was supposed to Read the rest of this entry »
The health care equipment & supplies market consists of manufacturers of
health care equipment and supplies. Market value refers to the revenues
generated through the sale of disposable equipment such as syringes,
catheters, electrodes, sutures, bandages, implantable prostheses and
orthotics and prosthetics; technical aids such as hearing aids and
wheelchairs; ophthalmic equipment such as eye glasses, contact Read the rest of this entry »
The search for anti-obesity drugs got a setback with Merck’s announcement Thursday that the company has ended obesity research on its experimental drug taranabant. According to a statement from the company, though phase three results showed it did help people lose weight, it also had too many side effects. Here’s
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Taranabant is a chemical that blocks a receptor in the brain that is activated by THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. Read the rest of this entry »
January 2, 2009 |
On the eve of the last night of 2008, and 22 days before Barack Obama assumes office, some 64 people crowded into the social hall at Sonoma’s Trinity Episcopal Church to respond to the President-elect’s invitation to communities, extended by the Obama-Biden Transition Project, to express their views and offer their ideas, stories and “collective wisdom and experience” regarding an issue vital to all – health care.
Hosted Read the rest of this entry »
Only about 5 percent of patients with evidence of serious illness are being routinely tested in hospital emergency rooms for the virus that causes AIDS, said Veronica Miller, director of the Forum for Collaborative HIV Research, an independent public-private partnership based at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services.
“HIV is a life-threatening disease that is so grossly underdiagnosed and undertreated in this Read the rest of this entry »
In most foods, melamine traces won’t harm, FDA says
WASHINGTON | Tiny traces of melamine, the chemical that has set off a global food-safety scare, are not harmful in most foods, except baby formula, government experts said Friday.
The Food and Drug Administration said its safety experts have concluded that eating a minuscule amount of melamine — 2.5 parts per million — would not raise health concerns, even if a person ate food Read the rest of this entry »