Bangkok Mediplex has signed an official agreement with major healthcare and medical tenants which reinforces its position as a world-class medical mall and underlines Thailand’s status as Asia’s medical hub. Bangkok Mediplex is on schedule to open its doors by the end of the year.
Mr. Niwat Kittichaiwong, managing director of Bangkok Mediplex Co., Ltd. said, “Through this tie-up with world-renowned doctors and Thailand’s top specialists in medical Read the rest of this entry »
Rosemarie B. Greco, who has spearheaded Gov. Rendell’s health-care initiatives from easing doctors’ soaring medical-malpractice premiums to expanding coverage to the uninsured, will leave the administration at the end of the year.
Her six-year tenure was a busy and contentious period for health-care policy that is likely to continue.
Rendell’s first act after being sworn in as governor in 2003 was to establish the Office of Health Care Reform Read the rest of this entry »
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Feb. 3
magazine’s 6th Annual Red Dress Awards will commemorate American Heart Month by honoring three outstanding individuals who have made significant contributions to the fight against heart disease, the number one killer of women today.
Wednesday, February 11th
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will emcee the event, along with segment host
Dancing with the Stars.
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One of the Award’s sponsors,
to help raise funds and awareness for the American Heart Association’s Read the rest of this entry »
HEALTH CARE PREMIUMS ROSE
5.7 TIMES FASTER
Alaska-Specific Report Finds
that Premiums Rose by 73.6 Percent
October 04, 2008
(SitNews) Family health care premiums rose an estimated
5.7 times faster than earnings for Alaska’s workers from 2000
to 2007, according to a report issued Wednesday by the consumer
health organization Families USA. In that eight-year period,
family health care premiums rose by 73.6 Read the rest of this entry »
08:01 PM CDT on Saturday, November 1, 2008
Seniors may see their Social Security increases next year trimmed back by higher prescription costs unless they shop for a Medicare drug plan this fall that better fits their budget.
Social Security beneficiaries will get an average of $63 more each month, but part of that increase may be claimed by higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs in their drug coverage.
“Seniors Read the rest of this entry »
Delphi request would end benefits for 15,000
— Delphi Corp. is asking a federal bankruptcy judge today for permission to cancel its salaried retiree health care and life insurance — a move that would end benefits for 15,000 people and save the Troy-based auto supplier more than $70 million annually.
Delphi, which sought bankruptcy protection in October 2005, has struggled to obtain financing to emerge. In the face of a sharply lower auto market, Read the rest of this entry »
But the profit won’t be enough to pay off money borrowed from Grant County to stay afloat — a situation that brought the hospital another finding in a state audit report released last week.
The audit, from January 2007 to December 2007, found the hospital does not have enough cash to meet daily operating expenses. It’s the fourth time the state has cited a cash-flow problem for the hospital district, which includes a nursing home and clinic, Read the rest of this entry »
A NSW Fire Brigades spokesman said multiple triple-O calls were received around 11pm (AEST) yesterday to report the blaze in Bennelong Road at Homebush Bay.
The fire is believed to have started on a stove top in the top-level unit of the eight-storey building, the spokesman said.
Nearly 50 firefighters attended the blaze, which spread to an adjacent unit and forced the evacuation of the building.
When emergency crews reached the unit where the Read the rest of this entry »
I am 76 years old, and I take Centrum Silver vitamins, calcium, low-dose aspirin, Crestor for cholesterol, lisinopril for blood pressure, Coenzyme Q10 and Osteo Bi-Flex for arthritis. My doctor has approved all this medication.
My problem: I have had gray hair since I was 35, and through the years it has turned white. Now I have black hair growing from the roots, and it seems to grow every day. I am very unhappy about this, as I have never had black Read the rest of this entry »
London (ANI): California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has said that there’s no place for drugs in sports these days. Appearing on CNN’s State of the Union programme, the former action film star said that top athletes are role models for young people and those trying to stay fit, reports the Daily Express.
Schwarzenegger has admitted that competition leads athletes to use drugs, but suggests that they should, “Come out, be clean and say, Read the rest of this entry »