Last updated Thursday, February 12, 2009 7:42 PM CST in News
Pritchard struggled with his decision but couldn’t support a major tax increase during a recession, he said.
“I was obviously torn, and thought we could find other ways to fund trauma centers and the medical school,” he said. “I was especially disappointed that there was nothing in this proposal for substance abuse treatment and drug courts was left out, but perhaps we can divert money Read the rest of this entry »
Australia Health Plan to Double Cost of Dentistry, Herald Says
Feb. 17 (Bloomberg) — The cost of Australian dental care
may double to A$11 billion ($7.1 billion) a year under a plan to
overhaul the health system, the Sydney Morning Herald said.
The plan to have free universal dental care was among
proposals made to the government by the National Health and
Hospitals Reform Commission, the newspaper said. The plan will be
funded by a 0.75 percent Read the rest of this entry »
Attenborough stable, says hospital
Richard Attenborough’s condition remains no better or worse after he suffered a fall at his home, a hospital spokesman said.
The 85-year-old actor and director has been in a stable condition at St George’s Hospital in Tooting, south west London, after the accident last week.
The hospital spokesman said: “There is no change at this stage.”
Lord “Dickie” Attenborough had been due to honour Brief Encounter star Read the rest of this entry »
– The House is expected to meet Wednesday and pass a bill that will expand healthcare to an estimated 4 million additional children.
The State Childrens Health Insurance Program has already passed the Senate.
Lawmakers in the House have said they too will approve the bill and send it to President Obama for his signature.
Obama has made clear that he wants to sign the bill quickly, calling it a bipartisan legislative success, at a time Read the rest of this entry »
Winston-Salem, NC– A Forsyth County Sheriff?s Office School Resource Officer charged a student for having gun and drugs on campus.
Investigators say 18 year old Decorace Ryan Hopkins had a a .22 caliber loaded pistol, a pruning saw and marijuana while at R.J. Reynolds High School Tuesday.
The SRO observed illegal drugs inside a vehicle parked on the campus of R.J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem. He checked the registration and confirmed Read the rest of this entry »
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Two Jeffersonville officers continue their recovery at University Hospital as their families are expected to talk about the shooting that put them in the hospital on Monday.
Cpl. Dan Lawhorn and Patrolman Keith Broady’s conditions have been upgraded from serious but stable to stable condition.
However, they still have a long and risky road to recovery ahead of them.
“Their lives will never be the same,” former Officer Eric Read the rest of this entry »
A Kenyan half brother of U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday he was
briefly arrested at his home in a slum on suspicion of drugs’ possession.
“I think it was a misunderstanding. I do not
do drugs,“ George Hussein Obama, 27, told Reuters from Nairobi’s Huruma
slum, where he was picked up for a few hours on Saturday.
“They released me with no charge.“
Local media quoted police saying Obama, who works as Read the rest of this entry »
The hospital has hired Jensen + Partners, a downtown project management firm, to oversee two dozen urban planners, architects, geologists, traffic analysts, civil engineers, historians and others who have begun piecing together preliminary ideas for the site.
Sarah Jensen, the president and founding partner of Jensen + Partners, said when she started, she attempted to find what are known in the world of real estate as “comps” — comparable properties Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON – Health-care advocates are actively campaigning to persuade Barack Obama to cross a leading candidate off his short-list for secretary of Health and Human Services: Tennessee Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen. And, in an unusual move for an official under consideration, the governor is fighting back publicly.
“Anybody who’s got some real scars and experience is going to have their detractors,” the governor said Monday in an interview Read the rest of this entry »
A month after employees went to the media with concerns over planned layoffs,
said it has cut 39 employees and 28 vacant positions.
The reductions represent 3 percent of the nonprofit hospital’s workforce.
“Our management team worked diligently to minimize the number of individuals that have been affected,” said BRCH President and CEO Jerry Fedele, who told the
in November that layoffs were not planned at that time. “A Read the rest of this entry »