Pregnant African American Women Face Barriers To Health Care, Oklahoma State Department Of Health Report
A study by the Oklahoma State Department of Health (OSDH) Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) shows although rates of prenatal care are generally the same for African American and white women in Oklahoma, one in five African American women face significant barriers beginning prenatal care. These include transportation problems, Read the rest of this entry »

The PlanSmartChoice
health plan selection tools have been available to federal employees
since 1998. In the past, federal agencies purchased access to the site
for their employees. Given federal employee demand for these tools,
Asparity is making PlanSmartChoice free to all federal employees at a
publicly available, easy-to-find Web portal. The site goes live on
November 10, 2008, at the start of the Read the rest of this entry »

Posted: Dec. 27, 2008 8:06 p.m.
After roughly 25 years as the top executive, Jon Vice will step down as president and chief executive of Children’s Hospital and Health System at the end of next month.
Vice oversaw Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin’s transformation from a small, struggling hospital in what is now a dorm at Marquette University into one of the country’s largest children’s hospitals. The hospital and its affiliates in Kenosha and Read the rest of this entry »

Amgen Inc.’s
(AMGN)
blockbuster drug Enbrel in a J&J-funded patient study.
J&J,
New Brunswick, N.J.
, already has applied for U.S. Food and Drug
Administration approval to market ustekinumab, supported by previous studies in
which the drug was shown to be superior to a fake drug in treating psoriasis.
The newest study is unlikely to play a major role in the FDA’s impending
decision.
The FDA is expected to decide on ustekinumab by December, Read the rest of this entry »

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MARGARETTA TOWNSHIP — A Clyde man is in stable condition at a Toledo hospital following a rollover accident Friday morning, according to the Sandusky Post of the Ohio State Highway Patrol.
Michael J. McLachlan, 29, of 5269 E. Ohio 101, was transported by the Margaretta Fire Department to the Bellevue Hospital. He was then taken by Life Flight medical helicopter to the University of Toledo Medical Center, a report from the patrol shows.
Ohio 101 Read the rest of this entry »

Take the case of the hospital in Tennessee where I work as a consulting physician. Over the past eight years, several small outlying hospitals have had no overnight on-call surgeon in their emergency departments, and they started funneling their patients — some of whom were uninsured — to us. Three or four years ago, the general surgeons began demanding payment for the extra on-call responsibility. The hospital refused: If general surgeons got on-call Read the rest of this entry »

CULLOWHEE Western Carolina University will offer “Aqua Fitness” from 5:30- 6:15 p.m. Monday through Thursday through Dec. 4 in the Reid Gym Pool on campus.
Participants will engage in a variety of aqua exercises designed to increase cardiovascular endurance.
“Water aerobics allow a person to exercise every muscle and every joint in the body all at the same time,” said Susan Fouts, director of continuing education at WCU. “The most important Read the rest of this entry »

February 16, 2009 15:05:00
February 16, 2009 15:04:00
A health worker from central Australia wants the Federal Government to take action on recommendations made at an Aboriginal men’s health summit last year.
In August, about 100 Aboriginal men from all over Australia made a collective apology to women for violence and abuse.
They also drew up a list of suggestions on how to improve health and welfare in Aboriginal communities.
John Liddle Read the rest of this entry »

Nine members of a drugs gang who were involved in the illegal supply of amphetamine across the west of Scotland have been jailed for nearly 50 years.
The High Court in Edinburgh heard how the gang were caught after a six-month undercover operation.
Former Strathclyde policeman, Michael Norden, 36, and James Miller, 51, were each jailed for eight years.
It was claimed they were major players in the supply of amphetamine in Renfrewshire, Ayrshire Read the rest of this entry »