That promise was a centerpiece of Obama’s health care pitch to voters. But a closer look at his plan shows that he will have a very difficult, if not impossible time, making good on that vow.
The $2,500 figure comes from an estimate by unpaid Harvard University advisers to Obama’s campaign. They calculated that if you inject more information technology (IT) into health care, manage diseases better and cut extraneous paperwork, you could save about Read the rest of this entry »

Emerson White is a girl’s girl. She chooses her own dresses, gets her hair done, her nails painted.
And she does it from a hospital bed where she’s spent the better part of her two years.
“Eme,” as her family calls her, is unaware of the struggle her family has gone through to get insurance coverage for one multiple-organ transplant and a possible second to come.
“She’s very happy,” mom Erika White told ABCNews.com. “She’s the happiest baby.”
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Austin, TX (
) January 14, 2009 — MindBites, the web marketplace and publishing platform for video instructional content, today announced a new partnership with celebrity trainer Derek Duke Noble, who hosts and produces a show called Urban Fitness on Fit TV. Under the terms of a newly signed partnership, Urban Fitness TV Online will make much of its extensive library of more than 100 professionally-created video tutorials available for sale in Read the rest of this entry »

The unspoken corollary of the old adage, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it..” is:
“If it is broke, we better fix it..”
Broken and broke. That’s how a growing number of people–including President Obama–see the current health care system and what it does to ordinary citizens. When illness strikes unannounced, it wreaks both health and economic havoc.
“Each year, 1.5 million Americans lose their homes due to health care costs,” President Obama Read the rest of this entry »

Raleigh, N.C. —
Surveyors on behalf of the agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid programs will suggest that Central Regional Hospital keep its certification to participate in federal insurance programs.
The state psychiatric hospital was at risk of losing $1.2 million a month in federal reimbursements because of issues concerning its patient fall-prevention policy and allegations of patient assaults by employees and patients.
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has received a $3.18 million first-year government contract, with an option to increase to $10.4 million over the next three years, to investigate a “post-radiation pill” in the event of an accident or act of terrorism with nuclear or radiological devices.
Rochester researchers will test eltrombopag for its ability to replenish blood platelets following injury from radiation. Because eltrombopag is available in tablet form rather than as an injection, Read the rest of this entry »

The meeting kicks off Sunday, Oct. 26, with a presentation by Sir Michael Marmot, MBBS, MPH, PhD, FRCP, FFPHM, FMedSci, director of the International Institute for Society and Health. A panel of former surgeons general, Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS; David Satcher, MD, PhD; and M. Joycelyn Elders, MD, will speak at the Closing Session on Wednesday, Oct. 29. In between, more than 900 scientific sessions will provide the most up-to-date public health Read the rest of this entry »

A study has concluded that one dose of chemotherapy is the best way to cure testicular cancer in many patients.
Doctors already offer either carboplatin or radiotherapy, but scientists needed long-term trial results to see which was the best.
The Medical Research Council project found that the drug offered a similar relapse rate – but far fewer side effects.
A leading expert said it could one day reduce the need for testicle removal.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama has increased his employment goal with the nation’s economic outlook worsening, seeking to create or save 3 million jobs in the next two years instead of the 2.5 million he proposed last month.
Obama set the more ambitious target earlier this week after meeting with top economic advisers who cautioned that the nation’s unemployment rate could exceed 9 percent given the current pace of job losses, Read the rest of this entry »

COLOMBO, Feb 3 (Reuters) – Sri Lankan civilians fled a packed hospital in the war zone after artillery shells hit it for the fourth time in two days, killing at least three people and wounding 10, the Red Cross said on Tuesday.
That brings the death toll in the two days of shelling at the hospital in the northern area of Puthikudiyiruppu to 12, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
Puthukudiyiruppu is inside the small Read the rest of this entry »