– After a recent potluck dinner, 18 local residents sat down to help the president-elect in what will likely be one of the biggest challenges of his upcoming term.
The small group spent close to two hours discussing health care at Suzannah Tebbe Davis’ home in East Asheville, coming up with ways the new administration could make health care more affordable and easier to access.
The meeting, where members of the group talked about everything Read the rest of this entry »
label. Word of the latest
(FDA) review comes just days after a non-profit drug research group released a report that found, in the first quarter of 2008, the FDA received more serious side effect reports for Chantix than for any other medication.
According to the report issued Tuesday by the Institute for Safe Medicine Practices, the FDA received 1001 reports of serious adverse events associated with Chantix in the first three months of this Read the rest of this entry »
According to department records, mental health staff responded to 10,003 calls this year, down 20% from 12,722 calls last year. The increased police response to mental health emergencies was first reported this month in the
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Critics of the current emergency response system for the mentally ill, including law enforcement officers, said Southard’s response Tuesday amounted to a continuation of the status quo. They faulted county supervisors for Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Health and Human Services Department should audit the Food and Drug Administration’s oversight of state inspection contracts after the salmonella outbreak involving peanuts, a Democratic lawmaker said on Friday.
The salmonella outbreak traced to the Peanut Corporation of America’s plant in Blakely, Georgia, has forced one of the biggest food recalls in U.S. history, sickened 636 people, may have killed nine and brought Read the rest of this entry »
TORONTO, Jan. 31 /CNW/ – South East Local Health Integration Network (SE
LHIN) will be hosting a technical briefing on the Ontario government’s plan to
improve access to family health care and emergency room performance and new
initiatives.
Participating in the technical briefing will be Paul Huras, South East
LHIN CEO, and Dr. Michael O’Connor, Emergency Department (ED) LHIN Lead.
If Gov. Kathleen Sebelius becomes President Barack Obama’s secretary of health and human services, she’ll be running into the toughest thicket of American politics — national health-care reform.
Is she tough enough to break through?
Her record in Kansas suggests that despite several attempts to broaden health insurance coverage, especially for children, she fell short primarily because of Republican opposition.
Members of Congress Read the rest of this entry »
While the recession has forced many retailers to take extreme measures, Life Time’s member discount “begs the question of whether the lower dues are here to stay and what that means for the long-term economics of the model,” Lejuez wrote. And, because January is the peak sign-up month for health clubs, “we must also ask what if January is as good as it gets for Life Time, and attrition heads higher.”
Others are less concerned.
“It’s a consumer Read the rest of this entry »
A survey released by the American Diabetes Association shows that men are ‘really uncomfortable talking about these issues with their physician’ — yet are hungry for more information.
“Depression is twice as common in diabetes – 1 in 3 people
will have it; erectile dysfunction — two to five times as
common; sleep apnea — twice as common; low testosterone —
twice as common,” Bergenstal noted. “All of these issues people
don’t always put together Read the rest of this entry »
Denver Health Medical Center in 2008 provided about $315 million in care for the uninsured, a record for the city’s primary “safety-net” hospital for the poor.
The amount is 14 percent more than the $276 million provided in 2007.
The surge comes as the increasing numbers of unemployed and uninsured people turn to hospitals because emergency rooms are legally required to see all patients who enter their doors, regardless of their ability to pay. Read the rest of this entry »
Ali is a highly trained German shepherd that spent eight years on narcotics patrol with the New Jersey police force, hunting down drug smugglers at airports and drug dealers on inner-city streets. Post-retirement, he’s working in the private sector, sniffing teenagers’ bedrooms.
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The company, which also conducts business in Ohio, rents drug-sniffing canines to parents for $200 an hour. It was started this year by Debra Stone, who says her five Read the rest of this entry »