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Seven leading hospitals in the Philippines have been promoted as medical tourism sites for American patients.
The Department of Tourism said the seven hospitals participated in the recent World Tourism and Global Health Congress held in San Francisco, California.
These local hospitals include St. Francis Cabrini Medical Center, University of Santo Tomas, Capitol Medical Center, Makati Medical Center, Medical City, Manila Doctors Read the rest of this entry »
Family Rejection Of Lesbian, Gay And Bisexual Children Linked To Poor Health In Early Childhood
For the first time, researchers have established a clear link between family rejection of lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) adolescents and negative health outcomes in early adulthood. The findings will be published in the January issue of
, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, in a peer-reviewed article entitled “Family Rejection as a Predictor Read the rest of this entry »
Media sources recently reported on reproductive health-related bills introduced in Utah, South Dakota and North Dakota. Summaries appear below.
~ Utah: The House Health and Human Services Committee recently approved two bills that would impose new restrictions on accessing abortion in the state, the
reports. The committee voted 6-1 to approve
, which would make it a second-degree felony to perform an abortion after 20 weeks’ gestation, except Read the rest of this entry »
TIJUANA – Gunmen shot and killed a patient receiving treatment at a private hospital early Saturday, the Baja California Attorney General’s Office reported, just hours after a night club attack left five dead.
The hospital incident took place about 12:30 a.m. inside the intensive care unit of Hospital del Prado, a small but highly regarded facility a few miles from downtown.
Details were sketchy Saturday, though some Tijuana news organizations Read the rest of this entry »
From the time Mr. Hubbard came to New York from his native Indianapolis in 1958, he was hailed as a trumpet virtuoso of almost unparalleled gifts. He appeared with many leading jazz figures, including John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Sonny Rollins, Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter, and released a string of well-regarded recordings throughout the 1960s.
He had a series of popular albums in the 1970s, including “Red Clay” and the Grammy-winning “First Read the rest of this entry »
CHICAGO, Dec. 10 /PRNewswire/ — Dr. Ian Smith’s 50 Million Pound
Challenge, the free national health initiative launched April 2007 to rally
Americans to come together to ‘Give up the pounds, not the fight,’ is on track
to top the 3 million pounds lost milestone this month. To celebrate the
progress of so many individuals towards their weight-loss goals and motivate
people to renew their commitment to improving their health, the campaign Read the rest of this entry »
Adventure Boot Camp brings their women's only outdoor fitness program to the North Raleigh area. This nationally recognized program offers the benefits of a personal trainer in an environment of camaraderie with others who share similar goals.
Raleigh, NC (
) November 11, 2008 — Nationally renowned fitness program Adventure Boot Camp opens its first Triangle location on November 17, 2008. Triangle Adventure Boot Camp fuses personal training Read the rest of this entry »
Last September, Kansas University senior Jennifer Kongs took a class project to the extreme when she decided to test the 100-mile diet.
For one month, Kongs restricted her diet to food that was grown or raised within a 100-mile radius of Lawrence. For her efforts, the Topeka senior was introduced to some lesser-known vegetables. She also tracked down an older gentleman in North Lawrence who sold popcorn out of his garage — and she earned an A-plus Read the rest of this entry »
More than 800 West Virginia women have admitted using illegal drugs while they were pregnant during the past year. That is about 5 percent of the total number of women who had babies in our state during that period.
We confess we have no idea of what can be done about the problem. Law enforcement agencies have trouble enough cracking down on use of illegal drugs in general.
But something needs to be done. Women who use illegal drugs during pregnancy Read the rest of this entry »
After about eight months of construction, the
has completed a $12 million project that added 36 beds for the treatment of neurological disorders.
In a release Tuesday, the hospital said that more than a third of the beds are in an expanded neuroscience intensive-care unit.
The beds are in two units on the sixth floor, and the hospital plans to continue expanding to meet patient demand, Tammy Peterman, the hospital’s COO and chief nursing Read the rest of this entry »