WEST BLOOMFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. – Folks at the
Health System know going to the hospital isn’t much fun.
But they’re trying to make it more bearable for patients at
their new 300-bed hospital in Oakland County.
Hospital officials opened the doors to their newest facility for
a special media preview on Wednesday.
Among the perks for patients are private bedrooms with wireless
Internet access and feng shui designs; tasty cuisine cooked up by Read the rest of this entry »

Doctors are supposed to be nosy. It’s not just that they examine your naked body inside and out and record all its imperfections. Physicians are trained to peer into your life, past and present, and ask all sorts of sensitive, if not uncomfortable, questions. Have you ever used marijuana or cocaine? How about steroids? How many sexual partners? Ever had a sexually transmitted disease? An abortion? Had sex with the same sex? How much do you smoke or Read the rest of this entry »

$87 billion added to Medicaid funding over the next two years; $24.7 billion to subsidize unemployed workers by 60 percent for up to nine months to stay on their employers’ health plan; $19 billion to modernize health information technology systems; $10 billion for health research and construction of National Institutes of Health facilities; $1.1 billion to determine which treatments work better than others and $1 billion in wellness and prevention Read the rest of this entry »

Hospital: Calif. octuplets doing 'amazingly well'
BELLFLOWER, Calif. (AP) — The nation’s second set of live-born octuplets were all breathing on their own Wednesday, 48 hours after a woman gave birth to the surprising bunch in Southern California.
Two of the babies were still receiving supplemental oxygen but were inhaling and exhaling on their own.
“They’re doing amazingly well,” said Socorro Serrano, spokeswoman for Kaiser Permanente’s Read the rest of this entry »

December 30, 2008 11:17 p.m. EST
Washington, DC (AHN) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a new drug that treats advanced prostate cancer offering an additional option for treating the disease mostly afflicting men.
The federal agency said Monday the injectable degarelix of Parsippany, New Jersey-based Ferring Pharmaceuticals Inc. slows the growth and progression of prostate cancer by suppressing testosterone hormones. Read the rest of this entry »

– Sen. Barack Obama, campaigning Saturday in the battleground state of Virginia, lashed out at his presidential rival’s plan to tackle health care reform.
In a Saturday morning radio address, Sen. John McCain said his administration would give every family a $5,000 tax credit to buy their own health insurance or keep their current plan. “And we will open up the national health care market to expand choices and improve quality,” he said.
Obama, Read the rest of this entry »

A vote to pave the way for future hospitals in Hoover was delayed by the state committee responsible for making regulatory changes due to a lack of a quorum on Thursday.
The Statewide Health Coordinating Council heard arguments at the Hoover Library in favor of giving a city with more than 60,000 residents and no hospital the ability to apply for state approval to build one.
Brookwood Medical Center and Baptist Health System initially submitted Read the rest of this entry »

. Every page, including ads, is displayed, and the table of contents is hyperlinked.
But the collection of mags on Google is still tiny, and Google doesn’t provide a list of its magazines, which makes trying to find anything on the site a frustrating exercise. So far no Time, Newsweek, US News, the Economist, etc.
For mags we could find, the inventory was all over the place. Men’s Health has a relatively fresh Oct 2008 issue already up on Google, Read the rest of this entry »

Associated Press – December 30, 2008 9:05 AM ET
LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – New Mexico State University is home to the new Hispanic Family Violence Institute.
NMSU’s health and social services school used a 1-year $250,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to create the institute.
Officials are hoping to secure funding to operate the institute for at least three years.
The institute will address domestic violence among Read the rest of this entry »

— A child remains in serious condition in Sick Kids hospital Friday night, the worst of 209 suspected E.Coli cases related to a single Harvey’s restaurant in North Bay.
As the number of cases inched higher again Friday, the first reports of a class-action lawsuit against Harvey’s surfaced, and the local health unit continued to fight off allegations that it waited too long in telling the public which restaurant was connected to the outbreak.
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