SUNDAY, Sept. 14 (HealthDay News) — Children who play school sports need to wear proper safety gear to reduce their risk of injuries, emphasizes the director of sports medicine at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.
Dr. Jon Divine recommends the following equipment for young athletes:
Mouth guards protect the mouth, teeth, cheeks and tongue by cushioning blows that cause lost or broken teeth, concussions or jaw fractures. Mouth guards Read the rest of this entry »
- NASCAR Driver Kyle Petty Urges Men to Take “Kyle Petty’s Prostate Inspection Pledge” -
BRIDGEWATER, N.J., Sept. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — NASCAR great Kyle Petty is headed toward the finish line during Prostate Cancer Awareness Week, having ably steered the STAY ON TRACK for Better Prostate Health prostate cancer awareness program sponsored by the Prostate Cancer Education Council (PCEC) and sanofi-aventis. Read the rest of this entry »
Aetna is one of the nation’s leading
diversified health care benefits companies, serving approximately 37.2
million people with information and resources to help them make better
informed decisions about their health care. Aetna offers a broad range
of traditional and consumer-directed health insurance products and
related services, including medical, pharmacy, dental, behavioral
health, group life and Read the rest of this entry »
DURING A discussion on health care in last week’s presidential debate, Sen. Barack Obama described health insurance as a “right” while Sen. John McCain called it a “responsibility.”
And the philosophical differences between the candidates don’t end there.
Obama and McCain’s proposals reveal starkly different perspectives on how best to provide health insurance in a country where roughly 47 million people – or 17 percent of the population – lack Read the rest of this entry »
(FOCA) – legislation that would simply codify that which the Roe v. Wade decision affords
- legal abortion access for women. The Family Research Council says they want to reduce the number of abortions in this country but attempt to block government from instituting laws, like FOCA, that will actually protect women’s health and lives.
If enacted, FOCA, as a federal bill, would override all
state legislative abortion restrictions – which is
important Read the rest of this entry »
A Mahnomen County sheriff’s deputy remains in critical condition in a North Dakota hospital this morning after being shot in the head and stomach while answering a “shots fired” call at a mobile home near the county courthouse.
Christopher Dewey, 26, a four-year veteran of the northwestern Minnesota department, underwent 4 1/2 hours of surgery Wednesday at Fargo’s MeritCare Hospital. Dewey was shot shortly after 7 a.m. Wednesday as he went to a Read the rest of this entry »
It was not a sudden outbreak of swollen heads or back acne that ignited the era of speculation about steroids in baseball. What prompted fans and sportswriters to obsess over suspected juicers in the national pastime — while they were unfazed by similar accusations in football — were numbers.
, then
sullied the game’s hallowed home run records with the suspected aid of performance-enhancing drugs. Now the anointed heir apparent Read the rest of this entry »
The statements in this press release that are not historical facts are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such statements. In particular, clinical trial data are subject to differing interpretations, and the views of regulatory agencies, medical and scientific experts and others may differ from ours. There can be no assurance Read the rest of this entry »
January 20, 2009
Mississippi Commissioner of Insurance Mike Chaney has delivered two checks totaling over half a million dollars to two Gulf Coast hospitals.
The funds, delivered to the chief executive officers of Singing River Hospital and Gulfport Memorial Hospital, are part of assets recovered in the liquidation of Family Health Care Plus, Inc., a Mississippi-domiciled HMO, which a court rule insolvent in October, 2004.
Gulfport Memorial Read the rest of this entry »
– Six in ten respondents (58%) say health care is “the major
issue” or “one of the major issues” influencing their
voting decision this November, including two-thirds (62%) of women and
more than half (54%) of men.
— One quarter of respondents (26%), and more than one in four women (28%),
rank health care (including Medicare) as one of their top two “most
important” issues in the election. Read the rest of this entry »