His Receivership wants to spend $8 billion to build seven hospitals, each the size of 10 Wal-Marts, which would create “a holistic environment,” with “music therapy, art therapy and other recreation therapy functions,” a music room, stress reduction room, game room and “therapy kitchen,” with lots of natural light and high ceilings. A gymnasium would feature a “full-size high school playing court with basketball hoops and built-in edge seating up Read the rest of this entry »
Biotechnology company
Amgen Inc.
said Friday it asked the Food and Drug Administration for approval of its osteoporosis drug candidate denosumab.
The drug is aimed at preventing and treating the bone-deteriorating condition in postmenopausal women and for patients undergoing breast or prostate cancer treatment. Analysts consider the drug Amgen
)’s next blockbuster, and shares have been rising since the middle of the year on a steady stream Read the rest of this entry »
Medicaid is undergoing a major overhaul, but recipients often dont understand how their new plans work, and in some cases arent aware theyve been switched from the traditional program to an HMO-style one.
Policy experts from the Urban Institute, Kaiser Family Foundation and University of Florida analyzed how well residents in Broward and Duval counties two of the counties piloting the changes fared in switching from state-run to privatized Read the rest of this entry »
Fifty-nine percent of U.S. companies intend to combat rising health-care costs in 2009 by raising workers’ deductibles, copays or out-of-pocket expenses, according to a survey by the Mercer consulting firm.
The survey projects health-care costs will rise on average by 5.7 percent next year for workers and their employers. That’s equal to this year’s increase.
Mercer says 19 percent of employers plan to avoid passing along that Read the rest of this entry »
Hospital-based palliative care programs, which have a goal of helping patients with serious diseases live more comfortably, are quickly growing in popularity, according to a report released Thursday by the Oakland-based
.
More than 90 percent of California’s 111 programs surveyed by the foundation were started since 2000, with 64 percent started since 2004.
Teaching hospitals are also moving toward palliative care in their training programs Read the rest of this entry »
What can and should Japan do to contribute to the U.S.-led war on terrorism? This question should be at the forefront of the Diet debate on extending the Maritime Self-Defense Force’s mission in the Indian Ocean to refuel vessels of countries fighting terrorists in Afghanistan.
The Diet started deliberating the issue Friday.
It was exactly seven years ago, in October 2001, that U.S.-led forces launched attacks against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan Read the rest of this entry »
Nearly 200 health-care officials from across the Valley agree that the U.S. needs universal health insurance, standardized electronic medical records and a new way to structure health care costs.
They reached these conclusions after a day of speeches and panel discussions at a Mayo Clinic conference Tuesday at Arizona State University in Tempe.
The event was sponsored by Mayo, ASU and the Project for Arizona’s Future, a non-profit group whose Read the rest of this entry »
While not all cravings are metabolic in nature, many of them are. But your body won’t say, “I need calcium.” It will disguise in the form of a food – like calcium-loaded ice cream. It’s worth learning how your personal nutritional needs can be at the root of your cravings.
I used a food diary to help me figure out what nutrients I needed to take to give me more control over my eating. I wrote down everything I ate (the total of which often comes Read the rest of this entry »
Published: January 26, 2009
TAMPA – A children’s health care bill that set congressional Democrats against the Bush administration last year now appears headed for passage â but with Florida’s two senators splitting their votes.
Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson expects to vote for the State Children’s
bill â commonly called “SCHIP.” Republican Sen. Mel Martinez, according to a spokesman, hasn’t firmly decided but voted against the bill Read the rest of this entry »
NEW DELHI: India today launched a
unique collaborative programme to discover drugs for infectious diseases common
to the developing countries.
The ‘Open Source Drug Discovery’ (OSDD)
programme, launched by the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR),
aims to build a consortium of global researchers and bypass the patent regime,
which makes drugs expensive.
To begin with OSDD, a brainchild of
CSIR Director General Samir K. Brahmachari, Read the rest of this entry »