Family budgets are being stretched further as healthcare costs continue to rise.
Over the last eight years, family health care premiums have risen more than five times faster than earnings for Montana workers.
A new report out Wednesday by Families USA shows family health care premiums rose by 88.8 percent, while median earnings in Montana rose by only 16.2 percent.
The report also said the increases in insurance premiums occurred despite coverage Read the rest of this entry »
12:00 AM CDT on Saturday, October 25, 2008
After years of mystery, someone will finally pay the price for the brutal sexual assault on Frances Cook, a 51-year-old developmentally disabled woman who died under suspicious circumstances after lingering in a hospital for more than two months.
On Thursday, Francisco Berber, a man who claimed that she was his girlfriend, received a life sentence after pleading guilty to aggravated sexual assault of Read the rest of this entry »
Whether they live in a Birmingham high-rise, Glasgow tenement or Surrey semi,
Britain’s pre-fives would happily swap it for a toybox-coloured cottage in
that Brigadoon for babies: Balamory. Life here doesn’t get much more
exciting than the post going missing or watching the big ferry come in,
thanks to the vigilance of PC Plum. When you’re only three, you like things
that way: simple, gentle and predictable.
But the story in real-life Read the rest of this entry »
NEW BRITAIN — One day Rick Rogan of Plainville caught a glimpse of himself in a floor-length mirror. He shook his head.
“That’s it,” the 44-year-old network engineer told his wife, Michelle. “I want to feel better, look better and be healthier.”
He also wanted to lose weight and build muscle, and he wanted to do it in three months.
“Rick is typical of a lot of people who come to us,” says Big Sky Read the rest of this entry »
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Wednesday, Corona, California-based Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (WPI:
), announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA has approved its new alpha-blocker drug RAPAFLO, for the treatment of the signs and symptoms of Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia, or BPH. The company expects to launch RAPAFLO in early 2009.
RAPAFLO, originally developed by Kissei Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. in Japan and Read the rest of this entry »
TEL HASHOMER,
— Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish is a Gazan and a doctor who has devoted his life to medicine and reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians.
But on Saturday, the day after three of his daughters and a niece were killed by Israeli fire in
, Dr. Abuelaish, 53, struggled to hold on to the humane philosophy that has guided his life and work.
As he sat in a waiting room of the Israeli hospital where he works part time, he asked Read the rest of this entry »
Fire causes $120,000 damage to two apartments
Fire damaged two one-bedroom apartment units Friday morning in a complex at 744 Gillette Ave., Aurora Fire Department officials said. About $120,000 worth of damage to the building and another $20,000 to contents was done by unattended cooking in the first floor unit, Batallion Chief Ken Shannon said. No one was injured, and two people were displaced from the two apartments.
Anibal Arroyo, 51, Read the rest of this entry »
The Piedmont Heart Institute (PHI) is the first integrated
cardiovascular healthcare delivery program affiliated with a community
health system in greater Atlanta and is headquartered on the campus of
Piedmont Hospital, a 481-bed tertiary care facility offering all major
medical, surgical and diagnostic services. Offering a continuum of
patient care, including primary and secondary prevention, outpatient and Read the rest of this entry »
THE bookkeeper for a major drugs-trafficking syndicate was Tony Mokbel’s “left-hand man”, a court heard yesterday.
Bartholomew Rizzo, 30, was a principal organiser among the drugs group, and helped coin the term “The Company” to describe their activities, the court was told.
The Supreme Court heard Rizzo acted as Mokbel’s “left-hand man” in the preparation and distribution of drugs and money laundering.
Rizzo took personal calls from the fugitive Read the rest of this entry »