Reading food ads that promote unhealthy diets are now found to affect the way people eat. The new study, from Newcastle University researchers, analyzed the type of food ads found in UK magazines, finding that foods promoted were laden with sugar and salt in direct opposition to the health message delivered in the articles.
Lead study author, Dr Jean Adams, lecturer in public health at Newcastle University says, “Nearly every magazine contains advice Read the rest of this entry »
With Tom Daschle’s tax flame-out, President Obama does not have someone to shepherd a healthcare overhaul yet.
But today, he did name someone to focus on getting care to the uninsured and underserved.
Mary Wakefield, director of the Center for Rural Health at the University of North Dakota and described by the White House as one of the nation’s top rural healthcare professionals, will be administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration. Read the rest of this entry »
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Carolina Panthers owner Jerry Richardson cleared another hurdle in his recovery from a heart transplant Thursday when he was released from the hospital, 12 days after the surgery.
Richardson left Carolinas Medical Center and was resting at home after doctors determined his body was accepting the new heart. A team spokesman said Richardson has responded well to treatment and will continue to be monitored by doctors. Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)–House Democrats unveiled the details of a $20 billion health information technology plan as part of their larger stimulus package on Friday, an approach that could allow them to avoid the objections that have stalled similar legislation in recent years.
The draft legislation, released by the House Ways and Means Committee Friday, will create incentives for doctors who adopt electronic health record technology. There is broad Read the rest of this entry »
I don’t know about y’all, but it’s been an interesting week in NASCAR, if’n you keep up with that stuff and you should, ya know.
Nothing earth-shaking (I refuse to count Elliott Sadler’s wedding to that cute, young, and prob’ly slightly more attractive than moi as earth-shaking cuz he’s gonna miss me now that I’m almost gone), but lotsa entertaining stuff.
It’s Home Depot’s loss but Burger King’s gain — and maybe Tony Stewart’s gain, too. Read the rest of this entry »
09:46 AM CDT on Monday, September 8, 2008
A 19-year-old is dead after his pickup crashed through a wooden fence and landed upside down in a backyard swimming pool in Coppell.
The incident happened about 11:20 p.m. Sunday in the 800 block of Leslie Lane, Coppell police said.
Adam Christopher Hartwick of Coppell was transported to Lewisville Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said today. He was the Read the rest of this entry »
For Jesse Shirley, having health insurance can mean the difference between life and death.
The 69-year-old Sandy man has arthritis, high blood pressure and diabetes, for which he is being treated at the Stephen D. Ratcliffe Community Center.
Shirley is lucky – he has Medicare. But as he considers who he will vote for in November’s presidential election, he worries that not all of his friends and family members have access Read the rest of this entry »
A deadly diet of cake, curry and chocolates combined with a lack of exercise is harming South African pets.
That’s according to pet health experts who say that human habits, like eating too much and exercising too little, are contributing to an epidemic of animal obesity in the country.
Owners urgently need to put their portly pooches and fat felines on diets and exercise programmes, they say.
“Animals can also Read the rest of this entry »
An Atlanta hospital that has closed twice in the past four years has shut its emergency room over financial losses, replacing it with an urgent-care center.
Southwest Atlanta Hospital shuttered its emergency room because more than 95 percent of its emergency patients had minor injuries and illnesses, said Sandra Crayton, Southwest’s interim CEO.
“It’s very expensive to take care of relatively minor injuries with a full-service Read the rest of this entry »
By Liz Kowalczyk, Globe Staff
to compare the cost and quality of care at different hospitals, part of an ambitious state plan to help control health care costs by giving consumers more information.
site gives consumers access to previously confidential information about how much insurers pay individual hospitals for surgical procedures such as knee and hip replacements, and for treating illnesses such as pneumonia. It also allows comparisons of Read the rest of this entry »