The state now pays retirees’ health costs as they are due each year, but that is the most expensive option for state lawmakers, who just finished a protracted battle to erase a $41 billion budget deficit in the cash-strapped state.
Instead, Controller John Chiang wants the state to nearly double what it spends on the benefits – to $2.7 billion a year – and invest that money. Earnings would pay some of the future health costs and save the state $17 Read the rest of this entry »
1. Lewin projects that by 2010, there will be 48.9 million people without
health insurance under current law. The McCain health plan would reduce
the number of uninsured by 21.1 million people while the Obama plan would
reduce the number of uninsured by 26.6 million people.
2. Both plans result in large, new public costs for the federal government.
The McCain plan would cost $2.05 trillion over the 2010 through Read the rest of this entry »
The country’s current cholera outbreak is just one sign of the disintegration of a once-admired health care structure that essentially ceased to function in late 2008, denying Zimbabweans their human right to health, according to U.S.-based Physicians for Human Rights.
“Cholera is not the issue,” said Frank Donaghue, chief executive officer of the group, which presented the report at a news conference here in
. “Cholera is a symptom of a grossly Read the rest of this entry »
Our health-care system is failing with skyrocketing insurance premiums and an unacceptably high uninsured rate of about 15 percent nationwide.
The Hoosier situation is very disturbing. Indiana ranks the highest nationally for medically bankrupt families and second highest in the percentage drop of workers receiving employer-sponsored health insurance. The number of uninsured is more than 800,000, increasing by more than 200,000 in the past four Read the rest of this entry »
KUALA LUMPUR: Three in five urban Malaysian men aged 40 and above suffer from erectile dysfunction (ED).
This was the finding derived from a study carried out by the Malaysian Society of Andrology and the Study of the Aging Male (MSASAM) in 2006 on 1,046 males aged 40 and above from Kelana Jaya and Subang.
The study also revealed that ED occurred in one in five men aged between 50 and 59, two in five men aged between 60 to 69 and three in Read the rest of this entry »
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the independent body that advises the government about which treatments should be available through the NHS. It has issued guidance to doctors about the drugs used to treat ADHD.
NICE says that three drugs can be used for ADHD. These are methylphenidate, atomoxetine and dexamfetamine. A specialist doctor should be the one to decide if a child needs to take drugs for ADHD. But once Read the rest of this entry »
“If we can stabilize the bottom line, we have the potential to become one of the great academic hospitals in the country,” UConn President Michael Hogan said. “The research dollars we can garner will grow exponentially…The potential for this to be a real economic driver is enormous.”
Without the deal, UConn’s future is grim.
The 224-bed John Dempsey Hospital is too old and too small to survive without cooperation from its neighbors. The hospital Read the rest of this entry »
Police in London are searching for a convicted murderer who escaped from a secure mental hospital in Tooting, south London.
Paul Caesar was held under a hospital order at Springfield Hospital following his 1996 murder conviction, police said
Caesar, 37, is described as a light-skinned black man, 5ft 9in with cropped, receding hair.
Police said he was last seen wearing a grey cap, trainers, a black zip-up jacket and blue tracksuit bottoms. Read the rest of this entry »
WALNUT CREEK — A fatal medical condition caused a 71-year-old man to lose control of his car and crash into a telephone pole Tuesday afternoon, police said.
The Walnut Creek resident was driving east near the 1700 block of Geary Road about 2:10 p.m when he slumped over the wheel, causing the vehicle to jump the center divider, cross into opposing lanes and strike the pole.
Emergency personnel arriving at the scene tried to revive the driver Read the rest of this entry »
said it plans to introduce a molecular test for C. difficile, a common cause of hospital-based infections, in the second half of its 2009 fiscal year.
Ltd. in 2006. The test will be simple to administer, provide results in less than an hour, and will not require expensive equipment, according to a news release.
. It will begin clinical trials in January, and submit its FDA application 90 to 120 days afterward.
C. difficile, a common bacteria Read the rest of this entry »