Unless America retools its health care system – and fast – it will lose its competitive edge in the world market.
That was the message Wednesday from former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Newt Gingrich, who warned a Salt Lake City audience that “just as we couldn’t sustain Wall Street and we couldn’t sustain housing, you cannot sustain consistently breaking the economic rules without paying a huge price.”
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Published: February 1, 2009
A proposed free medical clinic for McDowell County is getting closer to becoming a reality.
Shirley Killough, executive director of God’s Country Thrift Store & Outreach Center, said the new clinic is set to open its doors sometime later this month in a section of the McDowell County Health Department.
“It is coming along real well,” she said.
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Novo Nordisk’s Phase III study of liraglutide for patients with Type 2 diabetes yielded promising results, but the drug may face an approval delay.
Participants in the study were randomized to receive the drug or placebo for 26 weeks in addition to metformin and rosiglitazone.Data show that patients who took the combination with liraglutide, a human GLP-1 analogue, had improved blood glucose levels, weight loss, blood pressure reduction Read the rest of this entry »
Thursday, October 02, 2008
MONTERREY, Mexico — Manuel Uribe, the world’s heaviest man according to the Guinness World Records, will wed his longtime girlfriend this month.
Uribe said he would wed Claudia Solis on Oct. 26 in Monterrey, Mexico.
The two, who met in 2004, will marry in a civil ceremony at a location yet to be decided. Uribe is unable to leave his bed and any outing involves hoisting it onto the back of a truck.
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. government’s $700 billion plan to bail out Wall Street will likely take a toll on both presidential candidates’ plans to reform health care in America, Lancet Oncology reported on Tuesday.
Policy experts quoted in the report said plans proposed by Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain would need to be scaled back.
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England squad members could be among a list of 30 players who will be tested
regularly for drugs in a new clampdown. They will be tested at least five
times a year — including during the close season — in addition to random
post-match tests.
The chosen players will have to keep UK Sport officials informed of their
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reported lower profit for third quarter as the insurer faced higher medical costs, but its earnings matched analyst projections.
Profit for the Minnetonka, Minn.-based company dropped to $920 million, or 75 cents per share, from $1.2 billion, or 95 cents per share, in third quarter 2007.
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There’s no solid evidence that nutrition is helpful for menopause, said June LaValleur, a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist and associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Women’s Health at the University of Minnesota. However, LaValleur agrees that while women with intense symptoms may need hormone therapy, eating right and exercising may also reduce symptoms and is important for all women. For example, she said many Read the rest of this entry »
The University of Colorado Hospital Authority’s revenue-bond debt rating has been raised to A3 from Baa1 by Moody’s Investors Service, with a stable outlook.
The rating pertains to $549 million of the hospital authority’s revenue bond debt, Moody’s said.
“The upgrade follows 16 months of successful operations at the new Anschutz Medical Campus, with very strong operating margins, positive volume growth, and the avoidance Read the rest of this entry »
‘Get your shoes and let’s do a mile or two.”
That’s what Sheila Macomber says to her husband, Ed, sometimes. But other days it’s what he says to her.
“When one says, ‘I don’t feel like it,’ we encourage each other,” she says.
The Marstons Mills couple started running 10 years ago. Joint training has helped the Macombers, and other couples, meet their exercise goals.
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