Meanwhile, Kevin Lembo, the state health care advocate, told The Day of New London on Wednesday that he intends to seek a court order to halt Rell’s plan to move HUSKY clients to new insurers. He said his office is determining the proper venue to file its claims.
“We’re past, ‘Is this the right thing to do?”‘ said Lembo, a Rell appointee recommended by legislators.
Letters were expected to go out Friday informing HUSKY clients of the change in Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (AP) — That day in July was one that Tammy Morse won’t soon forget. Five months earlier, her husband lost his job as a recruiter for the financial services industry. Once the family savings were gone, the mother of two from Stratford, Conn., saw no way to get health insurance coverage for her family other than to apply for Medicaid.
“It was humbling,” she said of her visit to the state’s Department of Social Services office. “For Read the rest of this entry »

Thursday, December 25th 2008, 11:57 AM
girl lost her battle to live Thursday after plummeting from a fifth-story window on Christmas Eve, a hospital spokesman confirmed.
spent the night clinging to life after falling from her parent’s apartment on Grandview Place Wednesday night.
Weill Cornell Medical Center, where the child was taken, confirmed her death.
The wheelchair-bound little girl suffered from autism, was blind in one eye and was Read the rest of this entry »

And some of those germs may be resistant to many antibiotics, researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health have discovered. The scientists found increased levels of pathogenic bacteria on surfaces and on the air inside cars traveling behind trucks carrying broiler chickens. Typically, broiler chickens — scientifically called “intensively raised poultry” — are transported in open crates on the back of flatbed trucks. These Read the rest of this entry »

11:51 PM CDT on Sunday, October 19, 2008
Pamela Edwards waited on a park bench outside Parkland Memorial Hospital with dozens of other patients who had spilled out of the busy pharmacy department.
She had brought her lunch, knowing it would take hours to get her monthly prescriptions filled.
“I need to take my medication with a little food, so I just bring it along with me,” the 57-year-old Garland woman said last Read the rest of this entry »

SAN ANTONIO DEC 11, 2008 (Reuters Health) – Researchers at the Moores Cancer
Center at the University of California, San Diego Cancer Center are recommending that the cancer family history of breast cancer survivors be periodically updated.
The recommendation was made at the 2008 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (2008) following a study that found that the prevalence of high-risk cancer family histories increased by 70% in a cohort of breast Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) How many times have you heard the saying, “You are what you eat” and, on hearing it, asked yourself this simple question, “What exactly does that mean”? In our current world of information overload, maybe even info-glut, we receive so much dietary advice that its easy to become confused. Increasingly, nutrition is being viewed as a science and in many ways it is a science. But we don’t need to be rocket scientists to get it right and Read the rest of this entry »

Aid agencies are battling to meet the urgent needs of tens and thousands of displaced, homeless and injured people in Gaza, as well as to get damaged water, power and sewage infrastructure back even to their ailing pre-war levels.
That stage alone will cost “hundreds of millions” of dollars, while long term reconstruction will run into “billions,” the UN has said.
Two separate Palestinian surveys have put the cost of the damage just under $2bn.
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Wednesday, October 29, 2008
PRESCOTT – For the past eight years, Heritage Middle School in Chino Valley has led the state in the Presidential Physical Fitness Award for Division III for schools with enrollments of more than 500 students, and has placed consistently in the top 10 in the nation.
Physical Education Department head Sue Clark said students must qualify in five areas and do it at one age level. If students have a birthday during the Read the rest of this entry »

It took more than a dozen years, and the business sector and insurers were dragged kicking and screaming to the table, but the U.S. now has a mental-health parity bill, requiring equal insurance coverage of mental and physical illnesses. Coverage is expected to improve for an estimated 113 million people. In a great irony – given the widespread anxiety about the economy – the bill was contained in the $700 billion economic recovery bill passed last Read the rest of this entry »