Posted: Monday, February 23, 2009 9:20 AM by Mark Murray
From Chuck Todd, Mark Murray, and Domenico Montanaro
: After spending its first month in office convincing the American public to feast on an all-you-can-eat stimulus plan, the Obama administration is now turning its sights to the diet and exercise that lies ahead. (One of your authors who just got back from a weekend vacation in Memphis knows this drill all too well.) Today, beginning Read the rest of this entry »
Just in time for New Years resolutions that are sure to include a desire for better health, The Friday Flyer welcomes new columnist, Dustin Graham, a Canyon Lake resident and fitness director for Menifee Valley Athletic Club, who will be writing a new column on health and fitness.
Dustin has been involved with the fitness industry for about 10 years, the first five as an athlete and fitness enthusiast and the last five as a fitness professional. Read the rest of this entry »
Disputing such underpayments is impractical and costly, physicians say, so they bill patients for the balance, hoping the patients’ complaints will prompt the HMO to pay in full.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger praised the ruling because it “reaffirms that patients should not be put in the middle of billing disputes between providers and health plans.”
Two years ago, Schwarzenegger directed his Department of Managed Health Care to adopt regulations Read the rest of this entry »
The rising number of uninsured has many calling for greater access to health care — but what that would look like and how it would play out in Jackson remains unclear.
Dr. Jane Grover, director of the Center for Family Health dental office, thinks a universal health-care policy, providing every American with coverage, would be a good move.
“People are concerned when the government gets involved about what they’re allowed to do,” Grover said, Read the rest of this entry »
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Feb. 5
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The Pew Environment Group recently acquired documents from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) revealing that three Chilean salmon farming companies, including the two largest producers of farmed salmon, used a number of drugs not approved by the U.S. government. These chemicals include the antibiotics flumequine and oxolinic acid and the pesticide emamectin benzoate. The documents further show that Read the rest of this entry »
Even in this slow economy, many people consider fitness-center memberships to be a necessity instead of a luxury.
And that is helping the Tempe-based Mountainside Fitness chain expand.
Over the past 17 years, Mountainside Fitness, owned by the Hatten Group, has grown from one location to eight in Arizona and Colorado and become Arizona’s largest locally owned health-club chain. It plans to move its headquarters to a new building northeast of Val Read the rest of this entry »
Certainly we are all sad to see the inequities in health care: Some sick people visit doctors with ease while others who can’t afford medical care suffer. Nonetheless, I see three reasons that Mr. Pearlstein’s condemnation of our health-care system as “immoral” was unjust.
First, Mr. Pearlstein presumed that one of the fundamental rights of Americans is to receive medical care, which is false. While healing the sick is an act of the greatest compassion, Read the rest of this entry »
Posted on: Friday, 3 October 2008, 21:00 CDT
By Henry L. Davis
A Buffalo-area advocacy group released a report card Thursday grading state leaders on their efforts to accomplish health care reform.
“We need the will and a plan to get it done,” said Terri Schelter, chairwoman of Western New York Health Care Campaign.
The organization is a coalition of groups — including the American Cancer Society, Communication Workers of America, and Citizen Read the rest of this entry »
MARINA, Calif. – A man who escaped police custody at a hospital was arrested during a traffic stop Monday, Marina police said.
James Pryor, 42, was seen by officers in the back seat of a vehicle traveling on Del Monte Boulevard at about 5:03 p.m.
The vehicle had a female driver and a young child in the passenger seat.
Officers surrounded the vehicle because they were concerned about the safety of the passengers, officials said.
After the vehicle Read the rest of this entry »
Now, because of the recession, the plug is being pulled on 80-year-old, money-losing Shands AGH. Next fall, its eight-hospital not-for-profit parent company will shut the 220-bed hospital and shift staff and patients to a newer, bigger teaching hospital nearby as part of an effort to save $65 million over three years across the system.
Like many U.S. hospitals, Shands is being squeezed by tight credit, higher borrowing costs, investment losses and Read the rest of this entry »