The local represents some 150,000 health care workers in Northern California, including 65,000 long-term-care workers. The parent union for several years has planned to consolidate into one local those workers with long-term-care workers in two other California locals, 521 in San Jose and 6434 in Los Angeles. On Friday, SEIU’s executive board voted to create the single union, with 240,000 members.
Ninety minutes after that announcement was made, Read the rest of this entry »
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Environmentalists are welcoming a report by an independent panel of scientific advisers which found flaws in the government’s assurance that a controversial chemical is safe for use in food containers.
The chemical is known as bisphenol (BIS’-phen-ol) A. It is used to make plastic for food packaging, baby bottles and other consumer and medical products. Consumer groups wanted the Environmental Protection Administration to Read the rest of this entry »
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, a developer of medical event reporting systems, have announced a joint venture to develop software that is designed to improve hospital patient safety with more disciplined process improvement.
The new system, known as the Medical Event Reporting System, or MERS, will be deployed by GE Healthcare specialists to drive process and cultural changes that could help to prevent adverse medical events.
in Nashville.
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The county is aging, the unemployment and therefore uninsurance rate is rising, competition for paying patients is fierce, the state is in financial turmoil, hospital admissions are at a budget-busting low and the community, well, lets just say public and physician relations could stand a boost.
Thats the outlook for Lee Memorial Health System, and those are among the challenges 10 residents would face if elected to its board of directors. Read the rest of this entry »
that should be read in full, arguing for serious engagement by voters on the issue of supporting contraception. Citing declining abortion rates, and the need for reality-based approaches, she writes:
The flip side of the news about declining abortion rates is this:
Nearly half of all pregnancies to American women are still unintended,
and about 40 percent of those pregnancies will end in abortions, the
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WHITTIER – The Whittier A.M. International Y’s Men’s Club begins its campaign to raise funds for the RollBack Malaria project with a parade entry in the Whittier Christmas Parade at 10 a.m. Saturday in Uptown Whittier.
The entry will feature four costumed malaria mosquitoes (Ralph Anaya, Don Jenkins, Bob Henke and Chris Hardeman, all Whittier residents and club members) flitting about children who are protected by insecticide infused netting. Read the rest of this entry »
In a significant victory for Hemet Valley patients and RNs, the Hemet Valley Medical Center has reversed course and declared it will keep open its obstetrics unit.
The hospital reversed itself after finding physicians who would agree to the on-call requirements for an OB unit. This reverses an earlier announcement from HVMNC that it would be suspending maternity services effective Oct. 14, 2008 to be in compliance with state law which requires Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Major drug makers want their voices heard as U.S. Democrats, traditionally critics of the industry, start crafting plans to expand health insurance coverage and cut the escalating costs of care.
Companies are promoting the success of Medicare’s prescription drug coverage and potential for pharmaceuticals to save money in the long term.
“We need first a seat at the table,” Schering Plough Corp Chief Executive Fred Hassan told Read the rest of this entry »
Eleven percent, including Remicade (infliximab), used to treat Crohn’s disease and rheumatoid arthritis, and Avastin (bevacizumab), used to treat cancer, have been issued a “black box” warning.
The findings, from Dutch scientists, are published in the Oct. 22/29 issue of theJournal of the American Medical Association, a themed issue on the Health of the Nation.
“This suggests the need for more in-depth investigation before approval and highlights Read the rest of this entry »