As U.S. auto makers
with new plans to make their companies viable, the cost of retiree health insurance is once again in the spotlight.
GM is at the center of the negotiations with the United Auto Workers over health care. The New York Times
: GM lost more than $20 billion last year. It pays $5 billion a year in medical bills and its future obligations for retiree health care are estimated at $47 billion.
with the UAW in 2007. As
, the company Read the rest of this entry »
SEOUL (AFP) — North Korea Monday released more pictures of leader Kim Jong-Il, including one showing him clapping in an apparent attempt to dispel rumours that a stroke left him partially paralysed.
State television said the 16 still pictures were of Kim inspecting Air Force Unit 1016 at an unspecified date. One showed the 66-year-old in a thick winter coat, clapping his gloved hands at head height.
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MINNEAPOLIS – Family physicians and internists, when confronted with patients who are stressed out and showing signs of heart problems, are more likely to chalk up the symptoms to anxiety if the sufferer is female, according to a study.
When the patients didn’t complain of a specific and recent source of stress in their lives, there was no difference in the way men and women were diagnosed for heart disease or referred to a cardiologist.
The Read the rest of this entry »
Health Highlights: Nov. 9, 2008
11.08.08,
8:00 PM ET
Here are some of the latest health and medical news
developments, compiled by editors of
The Bush administration is tightening up on some outpatient
Medicaid payments to hospitals, seemingly in conflict with
post-election goals of President-elect Barack Obama, the
reports.
Included in the services scheduled for reduction in Medicaid
payments are some types of outpatient care, such Read the rest of this entry »
CEBU CITY, Philippines -
The Cebu City Medical Center (CCMC) will ask the city government for a minimal increase in hospital fees and charges, and to bill services that are being offered for free.
Dr. Myrna Go, acting CCMC chief, has said the additional income they can get from the rate adjustments will help them cope with the increasing cost of hospital supplies and medicines, and allow them to defray cost of services given to indigents.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 12 (HealthDay News) — Doctors have long known that the creation of a “mini heart attack” — by cutting off and then restoring blood flow to arteries — can actually reduce the damage from a subsequent major heart attack.
Now they may know how that protective effect occurs, according to research from the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC), in New York.
The method, called “ischemic preconditioning” (IPC), somehow shields Read the rest of this entry »
HARARE (Reuters) – The U.N. children’s fund UNICEF said on Saturday it had set up a $5 million fund to provide salaries for workers in Zimbabwe’s ailing health sector.
Health workers in the southern African country — where many public hospitals have been forced to close due to a shortage of staff, drugs and equipment — have been refusing to turn up for work, demanding salaries in foreign currency.
They recently rejected a government offer of Read the rest of this entry »
Highlights from Dr. Sanjay Gupta’s tenure as CNN chief medical correspondent:
Reports from Charity Hospital in 2005, 2006
Reporting from New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Gupta went into the city’s Charity Hospital by boat and broke the news that 200 patients and staff members were trapped in the flooded building that officials said had been evacuated, according to CNN. “It’s gruesome,” Gupta told viewers. “I guess that is the best Read the rest of this entry »
The patient arrived at New England Sinai Hospital at 150 York St. complaining of chest pain and shortness of breath.
“I don’t feel well,” said Pat, as Dr. Lawrence S. Hotes, chief medical officer at Sinai, and several nurses loaded him onto a hospital gurney.
“Clearly, he’s having a lot of difficulty breathing. Let’s see what his oxygen stats look like. We need blood pressure as well,” Hotes said while Read the rest of this entry »