Hamilton County – Students at Carmel High School can be proud. Their dance marathon Saturday night raised more than $159,000 for Riley Hospital, a $30,000 increase from last year.
Purdue University students also raised more than $100,000 and Ball State students raised over $10,000 for Riley at concurrent events throughout the state.
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Already, county health officials have had to open up overflow space for about 45 patients at a facility in Downey, 14 miles away.
The decision to downscale the new County-USC was made by county supervisors in 1997 amid concerns that a larger facility would be too costly to build and run.
Since then, 14 emergency rooms have shut down, including the one at long-beleaguered Martin Luther King, Jr.-Harbor Hospital in Willowbrook, south of Watts. Read the rest of this entry »
Supermodel and TV host Heidi Klum will return for a second year as the face of Diet Cokes participation in a program to raise awareness about womens heart health, timed to kick off at the start of New Yorks Fashion Week on Feb. 13. Also returning is the Just for the taste of it” tagline, which last appeared in 1995.
This year, Klum is more than the ambassador for Diet Cokes role in support of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Read the rest of this entry »
ZOLL Medical gets contract over $2 mln from Ottawa Paramedic Service to supply defibrillators for municipal, public access programs – Quick Facts
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ZOLL Medical Corp. (ZOLL:
), announced that Ottawa Paramedic Service, or OPS, has awarded ZOLL over a $2 million contract to supply defibrillators for its municipal and public access programs.
Under the terms of the agreement, OPS will purchase 113 Read the rest of this entry »
FRIDAY, Oct. 3 (HealthDay News) — With the Chinese milk products-melamine scandal generating fresh headlines, U.S. health officials on Friday unveiled what they consider acceptable levels of contamination with the industrial chemical.
The bottom line: No amount of melamine is safe in infant formula.
For all other foods, only amounts less than 2.5 parts per million are risk free, U.S. Food and Drug Administration officials said.
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America has the best health care in the world.
Let’s bury this one once and for all. The United States is No. 1 in only one sense: the amount we shell out for health care. We have the most expensive system in the world per capita, but we lag behind many developed countries on virtually every health statistic you can name. Life expectancy at birth? We rank near the bottom of countries in the
, just ahead of Cuba and way behind Japan, France, Read the rest of this entry »
Cesar Chumil, 58, has lived in a three-room suite at Western State Hospital in Staunton for 15 years because the hospital says he is too violent to live among other patients. Still, he is considered safe enough that his family takes him to Wal-Mart, the mall or a restaurant about once a month and he rarely misbehaves. Attorneys protested Chumil’s arrangements to the state oversight committee that since 1993 had signed off on him being locked in the Read the rest of this entry »
CI.N
) said on Monday it will cut 1,100 jobs, or about 4 percent of its workforce, and consolidate certain operations as it copes with the economic downturn.
As a result, the company said it expects to record after-tax restructuring charges of $30 million to $40 million in the fourth quarter of 2008.
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actor Dennis Quaid and his wife have reached a $750,000 settlement with a Los Angeles hospital over a life-threatening accidental overdose of their newborn twins with a blood thinner medication. The settlement between the Quaids and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, one of the leading U.S. hospitals, was detailed in a document filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday.
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The Anne Arundel County Department of Health offers the Prescription Discount Program to residents of any age and income through ScriptSave. Those who sign up for the program will receive a discount card that can be used locally and nationally at participating stores. Call 800-700-3957 for more information.
Laurel Regional Hospital, 7300 Van Dusen Road
/ Fellowship meets at 7 p.m. Sundays. Call 410-792-7636 or 301-497-7914.
Laurel Regional Hospital, Read the rest of this entry »