DAYTON — The Cincinnati Reds brought a little sunshine and smiles to kids at Children’s Medical Center on this cold winter morning.
Reds coach Dusty Baker, outfielder Chris Dickerson and broadcasters George Grande and Jeff Brantley joined Rosie Red at the Dayton hospital Sunday, Jan. 25, to visit with the kids and hand out signed baseball hats as part of the annual Reds Winter Caravan.
Dayton was on the final day on the Western leg of the Read the rest of this entry »
Women’s Health USA is a leading provider of business services to
physicians in the Northeast, with a focus on providers in the women’s
health field. Among its clients are Physicians for Women’s Health, a
160-physician Ob/Gyn based group practice in Connecticut which is the
largest such group in the country, Women’s Health Professionals in Long
Island, Planned Parenthood of Connecticut, and the University of Read the rest of this entry »
TriWest Healthcare Alliance partners with the Department of Defense
to do “Whatever It Takes” to support the health care needs of 2.7
million members of America’s military family. A Phoenix-based
corporation, TriWest is URAC accredited, without deficiencies, in
Networks, Utilization Management, Disease Management, and Case
Management. TriWest provides access to cost-effective, high-quality
health care Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON — The Labor Department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect
, that would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job.
The rule, which has strong support from business groups, says that in assessing the risk from a particular substance, federal agencies should gather and analyze “industry-by-industry Read the rest of this entry »
NASHVILLE — Although the number of uninsured and the cost of coverage have ballooned under his watch, President Bush leaves office with a health care legacy in bricks and mortar: he has doubled federal financing for community health centers, enabling the creation or expansion of 1,297 clinics in medically underserved areas.
For those in poor urban neighborhoods and isolated rural areas, including Indian reservations, the clinics are often the Read the rest of this entry »
Genentech, Inc. (NYSE:DNA) and Biogen Idec (Nasdaq:BIIB) today announced
that a global Phase III study of Rituxan
(rituximab) in combination with fludarabine and cyclophosphamide
chemotherapy met its primary endpoint of improving progression-free
survival (PFS), as assessed by investigators, in patients with
previously treated CD20-positive chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL)
compared to chemotherapy alone. There were no new or unexpected safety
signals Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON — A growing number of workers in 2009 will pay more for health benefits — and in some cases receive less coverage — as their employers grapple with the financial fallout of rising medical expenses and diminished revenue and profits, recent surveys of human resource officials show.
The Corporate Executive Board found in its survey that a quarter of officials from 350 large corporations said they had increased deductibles Read the rest of this entry »
Kids and teens need to move more and sit less, but finding ways to keep them physically active continues to be puzzling.
School-based programs have had some success, however, according to a new study that examined previous research on interventions offering education and exercise. But the programs aren’t the total solution, since they fall short in some areas, including increasing leisure time activity, and decreasing body mass index.
examined Read the rest of this entry »
The Dutch Labour Party and the democratic D66 are not in favour of scrapping tolerant soft drug policies. Responding to the view of Christian Democrat chairman Peter van Geel that the time has come to end the soft drugs policy, they say they fear an increase in crime if the tolerant regime ends.
Mr van Geel says the romantic image of people smoking home-grown joints is a thing of the past. According to him soft drugs are produced by hardened criminals. Read the rest of this entry »
For more than two years, Jody Uslan had been taking the drug tamoxifen in hopes of preventing a recurrence of
. Then a new test suggested that because of her genetic makeup, the drug was not doing her any good.
“I was devastated,” said Ms. Uslan, 52, who stopped taking tamoxifen and is now evaluating alternative treatments. “You find out you’ve been taking this medication for all of this time, and find out you are not getting Read the rest of this entry »