By: Susan J. Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.A.*
Health care is a top issue that American women want their next President to address. Currently, women comprise 51% of the population in the United States, 61% of the population over the age of 65, and 70% of the population over age 85. Yet, despite these facts, women’s health is a cause that was, until fairly recently, neglected at the research bench, in the halls of public policy, and in clinical settings. Read the rest of this entry »
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The State Health Department has promised a loan to a community hospital in Brooklyn’s Cobble Hill neighborhood to help it keep its obstetric and pediatric services operating, but hospital officials said Tuesday that more money would be needed to keep the services running beyond the end of the year.
In a letter sent late Monday to Long Island College Hospital, the state said it would prevent the services from closing because other hospitals Read the rest of this entry »
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CMFHP has a development staff of nine coding in RPG and .NET on a varietyof applications ranging from Claims Filing to Case Management to MedicaidReporting to Check Tracking; and all need constant updating. Withoutformalized processes and project visibility, CMFHP found code changes couldeasily be erased or development efforts duplicated. That is no longer thecase with the ALM solution in place.
“With Aldon, we now have a full multi-tier inventory Read the rest of this entry »
Clayton County’s only hospital has lost money for two years and is depending on the county government to help offset a decline in patients and rising costs to treat the uninsured.
But an ongoing political feud and concerns about the struggling economy have delayed that help.
“It’s pretty tough for a hospital to be in a county where 29 percent of the residents are on Medicaid,” Edward Bonn, Southern Regional Health System’s Read the rest of this entry »
Massachusetts Proposes Weighing, Measuring Students
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Massachusetts is expanding anti-obesity efforts by requiring major restaurant chains to prominently post calorie counts for their fare either at the counter or on the menu.
The Patrick administration plan also includes height and weight measurements for all public school first-, fourth-, seventh-, and 10th-graders, to determine whether they are overweight. Results Read the rest of this entry »
Tulare students’ physical fitness performance was higher than their peers in statewide tests, according to the California Physical Fitness Report.
Fifth-, seventh- and ninth-graders have to take the California Physical Fitness Test annually.
Students are tested on their aerobic capacity, body composition, abdominal strength, trunk exterior strength, upper body strength and flexibility.
The report released Nov. 25 states that 29.1 percent of Read the rest of this entry »
Newswise — As a risk factor for high blood pressure, low levels of potassium in the diet may be as important as high levels of sodium—especially among African Americans, according to research being presented at the American Society of Nephrology’s 41st Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
“There has been a lot of publicity about lowering salt or sodium in the diet in order to lower blood pressure, but not Read the rest of this entry »
The Tidewater Blanching plant in Suffolk, Va., is a subsidiary of Peanut Corp. of America. Its Georgia plant is linked to the outbreak that’s sickened 575 people.
At Tidewater, peanuts are blanched to remove red skins before they’re shipped to PCA’s Georgia plant or to other customers for roasting and further processing, says plant manager Cathy Mullins. Tidewater is not involved in the current outbreak.
Roasting is considered the step during Read the rest of this entry »