EmblemHealth Inc. is the parent company of Group Health Incorporated
(GHI) and HIP Health Plan of New York (HIP). GHI and HIP deliver
quality, affordable health insurance to millions of members and provide
employers and individuals with a range of plan choices and attractive
benefit options designed to meet the individual needs of today’s
healthcare consumers. GHI and HIP members have a choice of networks, Read the rest of this entry »
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LABOUR’S finance spokesman Andy Kerr laced up his trainers at the Palace of Art to help launch the UK’s only dedicated men’s 10K in Glasgow.
Runners from across Scotland are being challenged to sign up for this year’s Men’s Health Forum Scotland 10K in June.
Last year more than 3000 men aged from 15 to 80 signed up for the event and this year organisers are hoping to attract thousands more.
The race, which is the fourth in the city, is taking Read the rest of this entry »
LUFKIN, Texas
— A man who had been escorted out of a hospital office building was arrested after authorities say he came back and rammed his pickup truck through a plate glass window next to the Memorial Health System of East Texas emergency room.
Thirty-year-old Juan Pablo Perez was being held in the Angelina County Jail Monday night on a charge of felony criminal mischief. A jail spokeswoman did not know if he had an attorney.
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The last thing struggling businesses need in this weak economy is a mandate from the federal government requiring them to provide health insurance to their employees.
That's the message business groups are sending as Congress prepares to tackle comprehensive health care reform next year. Both President-elect Barack Obama's health care plan and the vision for reform outlined by Sen. Max Baucus, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee, require Read the rest of this entry »
For Ingelisa Keeling, a Houston mother of three children with multiple
, mealtime was a struggle. Nuts, eggs, wheat, beef, peas and rice were all off limits — banned by the children’s allergist.
But recently, Mrs. Keeling learned that her family’s
need not be so restrictive. Although her children do have real allergies — to peanuts, milk and eggs, among other foods — extensive testing at a major allergy center showed Read the rest of this entry »
A northeast Arizona man has contracted bubonic plague and health agencies are urging Four Corners residents to help prevent the spread of the disease.
The Apache County, Ariz., man who contracted the disease began showing symptoms in late September, the Navajo Nation said, including a 103-degree fever, chills, diarrhea and groin tenderness.
The man was responding to treatment and doing well Monday afternoon, said Jenny Notah, a Read the rest of this entry »
LABOR’S plans to create Australia’s first ambassadors for men’s health are in chaos after it was forced to quiz two of them over allegedly homophobic and sexist views a day after their appointment.
Health Minister Nicola Roxon now faces calls to dump Lone Fathers Association president Barry Williams and Fatherhood Foundation president Warwick Marsh from the list of six men she named as new advocates for the neglected area of men’s health.
On Tuesday, Read the rest of this entry »
HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN)
— Zimbabwe’s health system, once the envy of many African nations, is “in a state of collapse” — with many hospitals either completely shut down or unable to admit new patients, a leading doctors’ group said Thursday.
The failure of medical services has forced doctors to turn away pregnant women and the sick. And with a cholera epidemic sweeping through the capital city of Harare and surrounding areas, medical officials Read the rest of this entry »
, the crippling disease is still stubbornly endemic in four countries:
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On Wednesday, the
, Rotary International and the British and German governments announced the injection of $630 million to help keep the cause of polio eradication alive for another few years, with the hope of finally bringing the disease under control in its last four bastions and other countries to which it has spread.
In 1988, public health officials and volunteers Read the rest of this entry »