LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is considering hiring an independent inspector to monitor the county’s troubled hospitals and clinics.
Supervisor Gloria Molina, who submitted the proposal Tuesday, said the board needs a way to get reliable information from the Department of Health Services about the state of county-run hospitals.
She said the department did not properly inform the board about problems at the county-run Read the rest of this entry »
Are you one of millions of Americans about to make a New Year’s resolution to lose weight? If so, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to warn you about weight loss pills that could cause more harm than good.
FDA analyses found that many of the over-the-counter weight loss products, often marketed as “dietary supplements” and promoted as “natural” or containing only “herbal” ingredients, have active pharmaceutical ingredients Read the rest of this entry »
Connecticut health care regulators are imposing an $8,000 fine on
for infractions inspectors found during unannounced visits.
The state Department of Public Health says nurses and other caregivers failed to check patients for bed sores, administered wrong dosages of medicine and held a patient against her will, among other violations.
Health officials made the unannounced visits from August 2007 to March of this year.
The hospital has signed Read the rest of this entry »
TORRANCE, Calif., Oct 22, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
The founder and president of
YogaFit Training Systems Worldwide, Inc. will release her second book titled
“Beth Shaw’s YogaFit-2nd Edition,” which is expected by the publisher to be a
best seller. Whether you are a fitness guru searching for a new challenge or a
yoga enthusiast looking to supplement your exercise routine, “Beth Shaw’s
YogaFit-2nd Edition” will help you reach your ultimate Read the rest of this entry »
11:11 PM PDT on Monday, October 6, 2008
SEATTLE – People usually associate drug overdoses with cocaine or heroin users, but there’s another kind of overdose that can happen to anyone. It’s when people accidentally overdose on prescription drugs and it’s being called an epidemic here in Washington state.
It happened to 32-year-old Angie Burrell of Renton in February. Her mother, Sara Taylor, is still trying Read the rest of this entry »
Ignoring the poor economy would be an important first step when launching a business these days. So believes Keri Ruffell, owner of Oro Valley’s fitness center 1-2-3 Fit, which opened in July 2008 with a bang. Since then, while some established businesses are closing their doors around her, Ruffell continues to find success in her new enterprise.
The Denver-based fitness franchise started three years ago and currently has approximately 25 Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON — The urgency of Friday’s vote — one of the last of his House career — wasn’t lost on veteran U.S. Rep. Jim Ramstad.
After he and others had spent more than 12 years trying to get a federal law requiring insurers to cover mental health in the same way as physical health, the measure was going before the House again, this time as part of the massive, controversial financial rescue bill.
A week earlier, the House and Senate had passed Read the rest of this entry »
Kenny Hulshof’s health-care plan makes ambitious claims about making health insurance available to 700,000 uninsured Missourians.
But a close look at the plan suggests that such a goal may be overly optimistic. Such a result would reduce the ranks of the uninsured by 96 percent. Similar proposals in other states have come nowhere near persuading that many uninsured residents to buy health insurance.
Hulshof spokesman Scott Baker said the Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON—The Food and Drug Administration has recently hired more than 1,300 professional staffers in a move that officials hope will help it better protect the public health amid rapid technological and scientific change.
“Every pay period, we have had more than 100 people walking through our doors,” said Kimberly Holden, the senior manager directing the recruitment initiative. “We have had some people who left to go into industry and ended Read the rest of this entry »
Sally C. Pipes
By Sally C. Pipes
President-elect Barack Obama has promised sweeping changes during his first few months in office. Perhaps the most far-reaching – and troubling – of his proposals is his plan for healthcare reform.
Obama has tapped former Sen. Tom Daschle to serve as both the Secretary of Health and Human Services and the director of the newly created White House Office for Health Reform.
Since being ousted from the U.S. Senate Read the rest of this entry »