New York Islanders defenceman Chris Lee was released from a Florida hospital yesterday and was cleared to rejoin the team. Lee spent Monday night in hospital after suffering a head injury in the Islanders’ 6-0 preseason loss to the Florida Panthers. The Islanders announced in a statement that Lee had a series of tests, which came back negative, and was cleared to fly back to New York. The Islanders also announced yesterday that Lee, 28, was one of Read the rest of this entry »

In medical jargon it’s called a fetal omphalocele, and it wasn’t the only defect to complicate the birth of Cyler Nelson on April 7 of last year.
Those complications, worrisome as they were, also overwhelmed Nelson and her husband, Terry Nelson, financially, draining their savings and prompting an appeal to The Ledger’s Newspaper with a Heart program.
For 40 years the Heart program has assisted people in financial turmoil through no fault of their Read the rest of this entry »

Days before Christmas, dozens of women with small children visited the Ernst J. Bever Community Health Center in Hamilton. Among them was Shonda Ertel, 25, and her 6-month-old daughter.
Ertel said that before her daughter was born, she didn’t have a primary-care physician. But she needed a place other than the emergency room or an urgent-care center for her child’s regular checkups.
“I was worried because I didn’t know where to go, and there weren’t Read the rest of this entry »

Cogent Healthcare is a leading provider of hospitalist programs. Its
focus is to relentlessly improve the care and efficiency of hospitalized
patients by reducing variations in care, establishing best practices,
identifying and removing barriers to efficient care and measuring
outcomes. To this end, the company provides a comprehensive System of
Care to its hospital partners that supports its hospitalists in Read the rest of this entry »

10:58 PM PST on Friday, November 28, 2008
An overnight two-alarm fire that leveled a portion of a fitness center that is a fixture in the tiny Riverside County community of Canyon Lake could have been much worse.
A thick masonry wall that partitioned the fire-damaged area from the rest of the gym and some help from the weather enabled fire crews Friday to prevent nearly $3 million in damage to the Canyon Fitness Center.
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Media Misinterpreted Study On Teen Virginity Pledges, WSJ Opinion Piece Says
of a Johns Hopkins University study on the sexual behavior of teenagers who take virginity pledges was followed by “a chain reaction” in the media, whose interpretation of the
“just isn’t true,”
columnist William McGurn writes in a opinion piece. McGurn writes, “Typical was the lead for the CBS News story: ‘Teenagers who take virginity pledges are no less sexually active Read the rest of this entry »

Late in October, just before his 65th birthday, Robert Marks got a phone call: Stop the pills. For more than a decade, the retired Lutheran minister from Grapeville, Pa., had been among more than 35,000 men enrolled in SELECT, a clinical trial designed to see whether taking selenium and
. But as a letter following up the call explained, not only was the answer “no,” but vitamin E apparently
the chance of prostate cancer, if very slightly, and Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius has emerged as President Barack Obama’s top choice for health secretary, a key post in helping to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing Obama advisers.
Obama’s first pick for the job of secretary of health and human services, former Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, withdrew because of personal tax issues in a setback for the administration.
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Highlights News Coverage of Prospects for FDA, Rule Changes on Health Care Issues in New Administration
[Nov 07, 2008]
Summaries of several recent developments related to prospects for FDA and rule changes on health care issues in the new administration of President-elect Barack Obama appear below.
: Obama could seek to increase FDA oversight of imported foods and medications and expand the authority of the agency to regulate additional products, Read the rest of this entry »