Snacking on shrimp and carrot sticks, doctors and nurses gathered at
Langone Medical Center to celebrate the opening of a new research center called the Center for Healthful Behavior Change.
They were tapping into the spirit of the times, and now Gov.
has done so as well, turning the familiar call for political change into an appeal for healthful living as he promotes a number of anti-
measures, from a sugar tax on soft drinks to posting calorie Read the rest of this entry »
The cost of paying for continuing family health insurance consumes most unemployment insurance payments for those laid off, according to a new report.
Continuing family health insurance coverage after being laid off consumes 84 percent of employment benefits nationally, according to a new report by Families USA, a health care think-tank.
In Wisconsin and 40 other states, paying for such health insurance coverage consumes 84 percent of unemployment Read the rest of this entry »
There have been lots of rumors about Jennifer Aniston,
Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt and John Mayer and their relationships in the last
few days.
But I’d like to know something about the diet Aniston
follows.
After all, she has been in
great shape and no wonder she was once picked by a magazine as one of the most
beautiful women in the world.
There is not much reported about Aniston’s diet, unfortunately.
But it seems this beautiful movie start Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Tenet Healthcare Corp.
,
,
said Tuesday it has signed an agreement to sell USC University Hospital and its Kenneth Norris Jr. Cancer Hospital to the University of Southern California $275 million cash. The Dallas-based health-care company said $30 million of the sale price will be deferred and placed in an escrow account for up to four years. Tenet’s subsidiaries will retain substantially all of the hospitals’ working Read the rest of this entry »
The worst thing that could have happened during Saturday’s practice patient move at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh was for nothing to go wrong during the transfer from the Oakland hospital to the new one in Lawrenceville.
“I want a problem of some kind because I want all my bases covered,” said Jennifer Iagnemma, a registered nurse at Children’s who will direct the actual move on May 2.
Nearly 100 emergency medical technicians and nurses participated Read the rest of this entry »
The first morning the alarm clock went off at 4:15 a.m, I admit I was enthused -— the kind of excitement you feel when you have to get up early to catch a plane to go on vacation. It was my first day of Fitness Boot Camp, a six week, five-day-a-week, 5 to 6 a.m. exercise program at a fitness studio in Plainville, Conn..
By 5:15 a.m. I was sure I had lost my mind.
“What was I thinking?” I cursed to myself as what appeared to be a relatively Read the rest of this entry »
is being sued by the Department of Justice for allegedly refusing to promptly re-employ returning military personnel.
The justice department, which filed suit Tuesday in the U.S. District Court in Montgomery, said the mental health department is in violation of the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act of 1994.
The suit outlines a reported failure of the mental health department to re-employ Roy Hamilton upon his return from Read the rest of this entry »
Convenient-care clinics — those primary-care health centers tucked inside pharmacies, supermarkets and other retail outlets — have come a long way in a short time.
The first retail-based health centers appeared in 2000. They’ve increased from about 180 clinics in 2006 to 1,200 by the end of 2008.
The Philadelphia region has about two dozen convenient-care clinics, operated by industry leaders MinuteClinic, which is owned by Read the rest of this entry »
The fate of the country's children's health camps is now in the hands of an independent financial review, and a decision could be a month away.
Te Puna Whaiora, The New Zealand Foundation for Child and Family Health and Development, has asked the Government to clarify funding before deciding whether to close one or more of their seven camps.
The camps' board met in Wellington this week saying it would be forced to close its camp at Read the rest of this entry »
A recent missive from the Family Research Council bore the headline, “The Gloves Come Off.” What major moral values issue were they referring to, I wondered. Was the Obama administration planning an aggressive effort to promote abortion or gay marriage?
Actually, the Family Research Council issued a call to arms over Obama’s plan to push expanded health care early in the administration. “Among other things, Obama’s plan would increase Medicaid Read the rest of this entry »