Dear Mom and Dad,
While the rest of the class was working on math last week, your son was taken to a
private room and asked to step on a scale so the state could figure out if he’s carrying around a little bit too much weight. Guess what? He is. So please do something about it or one of our helpful and concerned state officials might just see to it that you get a visit from a child welfare investigator.
Sincerely,
has in mind in proposing Read the rest of this entry »
Winthrop-University Hospital’s Institute for Heart Care will hold its third annual Women’s Heart Health Symposium on Thursday, February 5, 2009. The program will be held from 6:00PM to 9:00PM at Winthrop’s Community Outreach Center, 101 Mineola Boulevard, at the corner of Second Street in Mineola.
This year’s symposium will feature a multicultural indoor street festival hosted by healthcare professionals from Winthrop’s Institute for Heart Care. Read the rest of this entry »
, a local employer-based health care organization, will sponsor one of the discussions of community health care issues suggested by President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team Tuesday at the Truman Library.
Having made health care a priority of the new administration, Obama and Sen. Tom Daschle, secretary-designate for
Health and Human Services,
have encouraged communities to hold discussions of health care issues and to forward summaries Read the rest of this entry »
ScienceDaily (Feb. 5, 2009)
— Nearly 70 percent of minority women agree that health-care organizations sometimes deceive or mislead patients, one of the key findings of a Michigan State University study that researchers say can prevent women from getting breast cancer screenings.
The study of 341 Arab-American, African-American and Latina women was created to examine levels of medical mistrust and assess the impact on whether the participants Read the rest of this entry »
BayView Entertainment is proud to announce the first-time retail availability of two new DVDs from New York Times best-selling health and fitness author Joyce Vedral. The DVDs are scheduled to hit the street on December 2, 2008 from BayView Entertainment, one of America’s leading providers of fitness programming. These two new DVDs from one of the most admired and identifiable fitness personalities promise to expand her fanbase and join her Read the rest of this entry »
Gold medals and marijuana pipes usually aren’t held by the same set of human hands.
That’s why the picture of Michael Phelps in a British tabloid last week partying it up came as such a surprise and disappointment.
After doing his country proud in Beijing, he followed that record-setting performance the same way he did in 2004:
by breaking the law.
Phelps does deserve the benefit of the doubt after admitting wrongdoing and accepting his Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 — Democrats are planning a new initiative to give the FDA the power to regulate tobacco.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) , chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said today he will introduce the legislation next month to give the agency regulatory control over tobacco.
following a Families USA briefing on healthcare issues facing the new congress.
A bill authorizing the FDA to regulate labeling, marketing, transport, Read the rest of this entry »
Re “Inhaling Fear” (Op-Ed, Dec. 12):
Martin Lindstrom alleges that a “key component of the Food and Drug Administration’s approach to smoking prevention is to warn about health dangers.”
The Bush administration has had absolutely no commitment to smoking prevention, and actively opposed legislation to restore regulatory authority over tobacco products to the F.D.A. There was neither an F.D.A. “approach” Read the rest of this entry »
The shocking arrests of Bayside Middle School students were nothing new for police departments across southeastern Wisconsin who have over the past several years noticed a steep increase in the number of cases involving children stealing their parents prescription and over-the-counter medications to either get high off of or sell.
“We talk about it all the time,” said Bayside Police spokesperson Jennifer Mioduszewski. “Parents need to be locking Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON — Despite calls for the incoming Obama administration to bolster the embattled Food and Drug Administration, the agency is unlikely to see major reform soon as bigger problems with higher profiles shoulder aside food safety in the competition for resources.
Some leading champions of rebuilding the FDA and the food-safety system acknowledge that the faltering economy, healthcare, global warming and other issues will make it tough Read the rest of this entry »