, Senator
, the chairman of the Finance Committee, will unveil a detailed blueprint on Wednesday to guarantee health insurance for all Americans by facilitating sales of private insurance, expanding
, and requiring most employers to provide or pay for health benefits.
Aides to Mr. Obama said they welcomed the Congressional efforts, had encouraged Congress to take the lead and still considered health care a top priority, despite the urgent need Read the rest of this entry »
care in the United States. Now each party is interpreting the package differently.
Congress passed the stimulus package on February 13, 2009, with only the support of three Republicans and a majority of Democrats. To be spent is:
$1.1 billion on research comparing which treatment work best for a particular disease.
$1 billion for a “preventive and wellness fund.”
$300 million for additional immunizations.
$17 billion in higher Medicare and Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON — More than one-third of all Americans will soon receive better insurance coverage for mental health treatments because of a new law that, for the first time, requires equal coverage of mental and physical illnesses.
The requirement, included in the economic bailout bill that President Bush signed on Friday, is the result of 12 years of passionate advocacy by friends and relatives of people with mental illness and addiction disorders. Read the rest of this entry »
A group that explores meditation techniques will meet Mondays from 7-9 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Vero Beach, 1590 27th Ave. Vero Beach. The group — Breath, Body, Mind, Spirit Meditation Experience — is free, ongoing group and open to anyone interested in exploring meditation techniques. Beginners are welcome. For information, call (772) 778-5880.
(BP) 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Corey’s Pharmacy, 2912 Ocean Drive, Vero Read the rest of this entry »
NEW DELHI (AFP) — Tibetan leader the Dalai Lama is in a stable condition after surgery in India to remove gallstones and is likely to be discharged early next week, hospital officials and an aide said Saturday.
The Buddhist leader, 73, had the keyhole procedure in New Delhi on Friday, a day after he was hospitalised for medical tests after suffering abdominal pain.
A similar episode in August had forced the Nobel Laureate to cancel his Read the rest of this entry »
MARTINSBURG – The American Red Cross has announced its blood drives. To be eligible to donate, you must be 17 years of age, at least 110 pounds and in reasonably good health. Donors can give every 56 days. All blood types are needed, but especially O negative and O positive.
Today: from 2 to 7 p.m. at the Charles Town Lions Center in Ranson
Wednesday: from 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the VA Medical Center
Sept. 15: from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Read the rest of this entry »
Deaths from heart attacks and strokes have declined by about 30 percent since 1999, perhaps because of more aggressive treatment with cholesterol and blood-pressure drugs and healthier diets.
With a growing incidence of obesity and type II diabetes, however, doctors say they worry that the rates are poised to climb.
The decline — 30.7 percent for heart attack deaths and 29.2 percent for stroke deaths — represents about 190,000 fewer Read the rest of this entry »
Texas child welfare officials in a report today defended this year’s raid on a West Texas polygamous compound as being about child abuse, not religion.
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services was criticized by leaders of the Yearning for Zion Ranch outside Eldorado as being overzealous in a raid on the compound because the group believes in polygamous marriages, and leaders held that “spiritual marriages” for underage girls were godly. Read the rest of this entry »
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is the nation’s largest drugstore chain with fiscal 2008 sales of $59
billion. The company operates 6,630 drugstores in 49 states, the
District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Walgreens provides the most
convenient access to consumer goods and cost-effective health care
services in America through its retail drugstores, Walgreens Health
Services division and Walgreens Health and Wellness division. Walgreens Read the rest of this entry »
JOHANNESBURG — A new study by Harvard researchers estimates that the South African government would have prevented the premature deaths of 365,000 people earlier this decade if it had provided antiretroviral drugs to
patients and widely administered drugs to help prevent pregnant women from infecting their babies.
’s denial of the well-established scientific consensus about the viral cause of AIDS and the essential role of antiretroviral Read the rest of this entry »