has been selected to participate in a statewide initiative to develop new models of care to improve health-care quality and delivery.
The organization will receive $597,750 from the
to launch a project to improve the care of chronically ill Medicaid patients. The state has awarded a total of $7 million to health-care providers across the state to operate as regional demonstration projects.
The goal of the projects is to establish innovative, Read the rest of this entry »
Many people believe that going to religious services may be good for the afterlife. But researchers have found that it may not be so bad in the here and now.
A new study, which followed the health of more than 90,000 women over an average of more than seven years each, found that those who attended services were one-fifth less likely to die than those who did not.
The subject has been controversial, and the authors of the study, which appears Read the rest of this entry »
ScienceDaily (Nov. 9, 2008)
— Scientists have thought that one way to foil a tumor from generating blood vessels to feed its growth – a process called angiogenesis – was by creating drugs aimed at stopping a key vessel growth-promoting protein. But now the opposite seems to be true.
Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in La Jolla have found evidence that blocking that protein Read the rest of this entry »
The concept of Value Based Benefits is to utilize evidence-based health strategies and health improvement programs to allow employers to better manage their health care costs by delivering high-quality care to improve employee health outcomes. Medical costs are a significant portion of the total health and productivity-related expenditures faced by employers. Promoting employee health to increase productivity and reduce unnecessary health care utilization Read the rest of this entry »
As if the people of Zimbabwe did not already have their fill of suffering in late 2008, a year in which hoped-for electoral change was frustrated and millions felt the pangs of hunger, the country has been swept in recent months by a particularly deadly cholera epidemic.
Cholera first took hold in Harare’s high-density suburbs where effluent from burst sewage pipes seeped into streets where children played and boreholes dug by residents unable Read the rest of this entry »
Keiko Akai is very annoyed. The attractive 21-year-old university student has been planning to do a banana diet for some time now, but she can’t get started — and not for lack of trying. “I keep going to OK Store, my local supermarket every single day,” she says. “In fact, I’ve just been there. There are no bananas on the shelves, and it’s been like that for a month.”
Akai has never weighed more than 100 pounds, and is so slim that her waist Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee intends to push Congress to overhaul the nation’s health care system during the first six months of next year.
Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said “now is the time” for Congress to move on health care. On Wednesday, he made public his own plan for addressing what ails the health care system. It includes several features of President-elect Obama’s plan, such as guaranteed insurance Read the rest of this entry »
By Salvatore Landolina, Special to SI.com,
Corinthians striker Ronaldo was put through his paces by the Brazilian club, but those who wanted to see some speed were left bitterly disappointed.
The former Milan and Real Madrid striker offered no encouraging signs during Saturday’s fitness session as he struggled, and came last out of the 28 squad members during resistance and speed work exercises.
Ronaldo has been trying hard though, but there Read the rest of this entry »
(SOS) will hold a support group meeting at 7:30 p. m. today in the Center for Inquiry, 1310 Sweet Home Road, Amherst. No fee for the meeting. For information, call 636-4869, Ext. 318.
classes — six weekly 2z-hour sessions that teach stress reduction, improving self-confidence, how to better communicate feelings and locate helpful resources — from 6 to 8:30 p. m. on Wednesdays (Oct. 15 to Nov. 19) in the in-service room, Erie County Home, Read the rest of this entry »
Dr. Fred W. Frick (”
,” Letters, Jan. 6) asks why it’s OK for a health-insurance executive to deny coverage, but not for a Washington committee. The consumer has choices and options in dealing with the private sector, but not with government. She can switch to the competition at renewal time. She can obtain legal recourse and make the insurance company honor its contract. Fear of the latter, by itself, should be a motivating factor for the private Read the rest of this entry »