LONDON, England (CNN)
— If you’re finding difficulty keeping your New Year’s fitness resolutions, don’t fret.
The move toward healthier living has given rise to gadgets that make approaching exercising easier than ever before.
Aimed at the so-called Wii generation, these devices are all about the personal, featuring biometric trackers and other ways to monitor performance.
“Increasingly applications are about measuring yourself,” says Read the rest of this entry »
And they didn’t like what they found.
They said vague language in the ban allowed restaurants to create separate ventilated rooms for smokers but didn’t define the standards for such a room. And they said the fine for ignoring the ban was tiny — $25 for a violation. The advocates realized, said Cathleen S. Grzesiek, director of government relations for the American Heart Association, that they were very far from their goal of banning smoking in Read the rest of this entry »
ARLINGTON, Texas — An annual rite of the offseason in the Texas Rangers organization is something called the Winter Development Camp.
But don’t let the fancy name take away from what the weeklong workouts truly are: a mini-camp. More specifically, it’s a mini-camp for pitchers ranging from guys expected to be on the big-league roster to those who are expected to be someday soon.
Count Kasey Kiker, the club’s 2006 first-round Read the rest of this entry »
BILOXI, MS (WLOX) – Many of the people who fill the examination beds have little money and no health insurance. They are the people Dr. Jonette Scott says she's dedicated her career to helping.
“I feel like they're family,” said Dr. Scott. “They treat me like family sometimes. We cry together. We rejoice in their accomplishments. And it just makes you feel like you are an extension of them.”
Coastal Family Health's director says he Read the rest of this entry »
programs fail to re-enroll on time, losing coverage even though they remain eligible, because of daunting paperwork and other obstacles, according to a new study.
The study by the New York State Health Foundation, a nonprofit organization that aims to improve public health through education and expanding access to high-quality care, said many people were deterred by Medicaid’s annual recertification process and that the resulting churning, Read the rest of this entry »
Federal prosecutors have taken the next step in their perjury investigation of Roger Clemens and have convened a grand jury in Washington, according to people briefed on the matter.
FRESNO, Calif.—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is seeking a court order to block a Kerman dairy from shipping raw-milk products outside California.
The federal agency filed a civil lawsuit Thursday alleging that Organic Pastures has been illegally selling its products to consumers in other states by falsely labeling its shipments as intended for animal consumption only.
While enthusiasts claim the bacteria in non-pasteurized milk carry Read the rest of this entry »
compelling?
Sweeping health reform seems to have lost its mojo in the presidential race, with the world economy tottering and the U.S. government having just committed more than $700 billion of taxpayers’ money to a bailout.
over the weekend that the economic upheaval actually makes health reform “more pressing.” And it makes “comprehensive reform — change in the way health care is paid for an how care is organized Read the rest of this entry »
is launching a new pharmacy, health and wellness program aimed at reducing health care and prescription costs for U.S. employers.
, a Walgreens subsidiary providing worksite health and wellness centers and in-store convenient care clinics nationwide, according to a Walgreens release.
The program includes a discount prescription drug offering available to a company’s employees, dependents and retirees, no matter where they work or live. In Read the rest of this entry »
has gone to court to get the state to resume funding of the Mcare abatement program that covers all or part of physicians’ state-mandated malpractice insurance coverage.
Doctors in Pennsylvania are required to carry $500,000 in malpractice insurance from private carriers and another $500,000 in coverage through the state’s Mcare fund.
From 2003 to 2007, in response to escalating malpractice premiums, the state used part of the proceeds Read the rest of this entry »