Edge of Life: Dallas hospital team helps families, doctors with dying
11:50 AM CST on Sunday, December 14, 2008
Min Patel huddled in a fourth-floor hallway with Dr. Edward Taylor near an intensive care unit, where the trauma surgeon’s patient lay tethered to a ventilator. Seven intravenous pumps pushed a cocktail of chemicals into his body to fight infection and keep his heart pumping. The stakes didn’t get any higher Read the rest of this entry »

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama has opened up about his roles as both a father and a son in the latest issue of Men’s Health.
The Huffington Post prints excerpts from the senator’s interview, in which he explains that coming to terms with his late father’s absence has contributed to his
and made him a “pretty good dad.”
When Obama was two years old, his father left the family and returned to his native Kenya. The two would meet Read the rest of this entry »

By John F. White III, MD
Sunday, January 11, 2009
I am writing as a concerned physician who has practiced in several regions of our great state regarding a tragedy that has befallen a Texas institution, namely The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). I am sure that you are aware, but I am not sure that your readers are, of the dramatic downsizing of John Sealy hospital/UTMB in Galveston and the requisite firing of more than 3,000 employees Read the rest of this entry »

by Phil Blanche, Western Mail
LEE BYRNE believes he will be fit for Six Nations duty.
The Wales full-back – who has been acclaimed as the best in the world over the last year – damaged his right ankle during the Ospreys’ 17-15 Heineken Cup defeat in Perpignan on Saturday.
Byrne winced with pain after colliding with team-mate Mike Phillips in the 37th minute and had to be helped off the field, leaving the Stade Aime Giral on Read the rest of this entry »

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States would receive federal funds to open Medicaid health programs to the unemployed. And workers laid off between Sept. 1, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2009, could qualify for help paying 65% of the cost of keeping coverage under their former employers’ insurance.
Under current law, many workers who lose their jobs can stay on their employers’ health insurance for 18 months — if they can afford to pay the full tab plus a 2% administrative charge ..
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An Iraqi journalist who hurled his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush in a fit of outrage was hit in the head with a rifle butt and had an arm broken in chaotic scenes when he was leapt on by Iraqi security officers, his brother saidTuesday.
TV reporter Muntazer al-Zaidi, who called Bush a “dog” at a news conference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday, was in a hospital in the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, his brother Read the rest of this entry »

Tuesday, February 24th 2009, 4:00 AM
psychiatrist who touted sex as a way to reduce stress has been stripped of his medical license for trysting with two patients, the Daily News has learned.
, 62, last week after a hearing committee concluded he had sex with two women under his care in the early 1990s.
Moskowitz is even said to have paid for one of the patients to have an abortion after she became pregnant with his baby.
The doctor also Read the rest of this entry »

Since 1990, La Maestra has been providing quality healthcare and community services to more than 68,000 ethnically diverse clients in San Diego. La Maestra, the largest employer in City Heights, San Diego’s most culturally diverse neighborhood, has a staff of more than 147 doctors, dentists, mental-health providers, nurses, counselors, social workers and staff who speak 19 different languages and dialects. Clients of La Maestra can receive a full Read the rest of this entry »

Carnegie Mellon is encouraging the campus to “Take the Challenge! Restore Balance.”
In an effort to promote health and fitness awareness on campus, the objective of the 2009 Fitness Challenge is to exercise at least 20 minutes a day, three times a week, and to make two smart choices a week.
The program lasts for six weeks, and participants are encouraged with a daily e-mail from someone on the Carnegie Mellon Fitness Challenge team.
Jessica Read the rest of this entry »