Prior to her election in 2007 as president and COO, Hemingway Hall served
as executive vice president of internal operations for HCSC from 2006 to 2007,
and as president of the company’s Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas plan
from 2001 to 2006. She is a member of the boards of directors for the Blue
Cross and Blue Shield Association, America’s Health Insurance Plans, Blue
Health Intelligence, MEDecision and TriServ LLC. She received a master’s
degree Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
We've all grown up with them: diet beliefs that affect how we eat, when we eat, and even if we eat. Ideas like eating at night makes you fat. That's not true.
Registered Dietitian Angela Lemond busts these diet myths every day. She said, “Really, the truth is that it's the total calories that you eat in an entire day that's going to have to do with your weight management.”
How about this one: caffeine Read the rest of this entry »
“The United States, along with the rest of the world, is facing an
unprecedented collapse of confidence in the traditional stalwarts of
capitalism that include finance, housing, energy and technology sectors. Few
places remain where one can look to find a safe place to park capital while
waiting for the predicted 12-18 month economic turnaround to occur. We believe
certain components of the $2.2 trillion health care industry, which is
predicted Read the rest of this entry »
(MRSA) have risen 33-fold during the past ten years in Washington state, yet our hospitals fail to identify or track cases in a systemic fashion (
).
The Seattle Times began a three-part investigative report today describing the rise in MRSA incidence, the consequences for patients, and the failure on the part of our hospitals to take measures to address the problem.
According to the Seattle Times, six out of seven people get MRSA infections Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will reaffirm his commitment to tackling healthcare reform this year, despite the economic crisis, in a speech to Congress on Tuesday night, an administration official said.
Obama is not expected to offer new proposals, but will reaffirm that he considers the issue critical to the country’s long-term economic health, the official said.
“This will really sort of be a scene setter,” said the official, Read the rest of this entry »
MIAMI, Florida (CNN)
— A doctor’s license was revoked Friday in the case of a teenager who planned to have an abortion but instead gave birth to a baby she says was killed when clinic staffers put it into a plastic bag and threw it in the trash.
The doctor, Pierre Jean-Jacques Renelique, also is the subject of a criminal investigation. Renelique was not present when the baby was born, but the Florida Medical Board upheld Department of Health Read the rest of this entry »
October 31, 2008
Meredith King Ledford, M.P.P.; Jeanne M. Lambrew, Ph.D.; David J. Rothman, Ph.D.; and John D. Podesta, J.D.
David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P. and Karen Davenport, M.P.A.
Thomas H. Lee, M.D., MSc. and Robert A. Berenson, M.D.
Donald Berwick, M.D., M.P.P., F.R.C.P. and Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, M.P.P.
Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D.
Judith Hibbard, Dr.P.H., M.P.H. and Katherine Hayes, J.D.
Steven A. Schroeder, M.D. and Dora L. Hughes, Read the rest of this entry »
Medicine and health are among the most popular topics for Web surfers, but an Internet entrepreneur, James Currier, says the current offerings are inadequate. He’s developed
, a free online medical encyclopedia that is going live Tuesday, to address what he views as the sector’s shortcomings.
However, unlike
,
and most social encyclopedias, Medpedia has limitations on submissions. Only trained professionals will be able to write Read the rest of this entry »
Akron, OH
Albuquerque, NM
Anaheim, CA
Anchorage, AK
Arlington, TX
Atlanta, GA
Aurora, CO
Austin, TX
Bakersfield, CA
Baltimore, MD
Baton Rouge, LA
Birmingham, AL
Boston, MA
Buffalo, NY
Chandler, AZ
Charlotte, NC
Chesapeake, VA
Chicago, IL
Chula Vista, CA
Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland, OH
Colorado Springs, CO
Columbus, OH
Corpus Christi, TX
Dallas, TX
Denver, CO
Detroit, MI
Durham, NC
El Paso, TX Read the rest of this entry »
Even children who had shown no signs of problem behaviour while they were young were more likely to go on to become addicted to drink or drugs, contract sexually transmitted diseases, and have a criminal record, if they took drugs or drank on ‘multiple occasions’ in their early teens.
The study by a team at King’s College London Institute of Psychiatry will raise concerns about the future of Britain’s children, who are amongst the heaviest drinkers Read the rest of this entry »