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QIGONG WORKSHOP: Learn a series of slow, gentle movements designed to cultivate and store energy. Instruction, followed by practice. 4 p.m. Thursday, Kaplan Auditorium, Henderson County Library, 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville. Free. 697-4725.
HOLISTIC PERSONAL TRAINING SERVICES: Learn what functional fitness Read the rest of this entry »
Sales of Lads mags Zoo, Nuts and Loaded all dived in the second half of 2008.
However men’s monthly Maxim appears to have put the brakes on its circulation slide.
Although the Dennis monthly was down 41.4 per cent year on year with a circulation of 45,951 – it was slightly up compared with the first half of 2008, when it was selling 43,542 copies a month.
Editor Michael Donlevy left the title in November when Ben Raworth, new product development Read the rest of this entry »
SAN FRANCISCO – For most newly unemployed workers, maintaining family health coverage through an extension of workplace benefits is a prohibitively expensive proposition, a recent study suggests.
With unemployment hitting a 16-year high in December, measures such as federal subsidies to help jobless people afford coverage are all the more urgent, argues Families USA, a national advocacy organization for health care consumers in Washington.
COBRA Read the rest of this entry »
Western New York’s three big health insurers all use a controversial UnitedHealth Group database to set their out-of-network reimbursement rates, but say the allegations of fraud against it and efforts to replace it would affect just a small percentage of their claims.
Officials at HealthNow New York’s BlueCross BlueShield of Western New York, Independent Health Association and Univera Healthcare said only a small number of the medical Read the rest of this entry »
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is a perfectly healthy 40-year-old woman. So it’s surprising to learn she has oncologists, breast surgeons, radiologists and nurse practitioners watching over her like an army of cancer-killers, ready to pounce at the first sign of breast cancer.
identified Elizabeth at “high risk” because she carries a mutation of the BRCA gene, which predisposes her to the disease.
“So many doctors’ appointments remind me of the thing that frightens Read the rest of this entry »
HOLLYWOOD, Fla. (AP) — Barack Obama may have a “funny name,” as he once said — but it might just catch on among the nation’s newborns.
A Florida couple became among the country’s first to bestow it on their child, even before most news outlets had declared the Illinois senator the president-elect.
Sanjae Obama Fisher was born at 8 p.m. EST at Hollywood’s Memorial Regional Hospital to Patrick and Sasha Hall Fisher.
A hospital spokeswoman Read the rest of this entry »
Kelvin Jordan of Sharpsville has dropped more than 140 pounds in less than one year.
FARRELL, Pa. — Think of the most inspirational weight-loss icons of our time.
Richard Simmons. Billy Blanks. Dean Ornish. Robert Atkins. God.
All of them have their loyal followers, but that last one surely is the ultimate in physical fitness guidance — and Kelvin Jordan’s got him.
He wants you to have him, too.
Without God, Jordan believes, Read the rest of this entry »
Bill and Sharon Base are doing their homework again this year to find Medicare prescription drug plans for themselves and her 89-year-old dad.
With costs going up — sometimes nearly doubling — for monthly premiums for Michigan’s 51 plans, and many other changes, the Bases of Troy for the second consecutive year turned to Medicare specialists with the Area Agency on Aging 1B.
The Southfield office is part of a statewide network with volunteers Read the rest of this entry »
Crich residents could soon see proposals for long-awaited GP facilities at the back of the Glebe Field Centre.
If a planning application, set to be submitted later this month, is approved work is expected to start early next year.
mprovement Finance Trust (LIFT), which develops modern health care consultation buildings and centres, is leading the project.
A spokesman for LIFT said the new building would be two storey and will house the village’s Read the rest of this entry »
has been appointed secretary of the Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law Section of the Utah State Bar for 2008-2009. A director and shareholder at the law firm of Clyde Snow Sessions & Swenson, Crowther concentrates on the areas of water and environmental law and eminent domain. Her education includes a degree from the University of Utah.
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Don L. Reese
have joined the Granger Medical family of clinics. Read the rest of this entry »