Opened in 1997 at Walt Disney World Resort, Disney’s
Wide World of Sports Complex is a leading sports and entertainment venue
for amateur and professional sports in the United States. The sprawling
220-acre state-of-the-art complex features The Milk House, a
165,000-square-foot field house which seats 5,500 for basketball; the
9,500-seat Champion Stadium ballpark; Hess Sports Fields, which
include multiple Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON, Nov 25, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) will present its
Conference on Health Disparities on January 30-31, 2009 at Morehouse
School of Medicine in Atlanta. This conference is part of the NABJ Media
Institute’s professional development program to better train our
journalists on the increasing number of health disparities in the black
community and to Read the rest of this entry »

When you head to the gym, you're likely just trying to reach some personal fitness goals, but for these airmen, they not only have to be fit, they have to be fit to fight.
It's important for us to be physically fit for everything that we do, when you're gonna turn around and go work 12, 16, 18, 20 hour days you gotta be in good shape in order to be able to do that.”
The Air Force has a physical fitness score chart airmen have to follow, Read the rest of this entry »

BEIJING — More than 200 families of children sickened by tainted milk have filed a lawsuit against milk producers in China’s highest court, escalating the backlash over China’s biggest product-safety scandal in recent history.
The 213 families filed their suit with the Supreme People’s Court by mail late last week, said Xu Zhiyong, a Beijing-based attorney who is one of the lawyers representing the families. The court hasn’t said whether it will Read the rest of this entry »

Park Nicollet also will cut the number of sites at which it offers specialty services. Many specialists such as cardiologists currently travel to see patients at primary care clinics once a week or so. It also is exploring options for its wellness consulting arm, Park Nicollet HealthSource, including a possible sale.
“We had to make these difficult changes to adjust to the national economic downturn and lower demand for health care services, which Read the rest of this entry »

Tempe & Scottsdale Fitness Equipment Dealer, Fitness 4 Home Superstore, Offers No Interest, No Payments Until 2010 Financing Option to Help Consumers Stay Fit in Down Economy
Fitness 4 Home Superstore, Arizona's premier supplier of home and commercial fitness equipment, is extending special financing options to consumers in a time of economic uncertainty.
Phoenix, AZ (
) November 26, 2008 — In a time of economic uncertainty, it's Read the rest of this entry »

Kaiser Permanente is one of the nation’s leading integrated health
plans. Founded in 1945, it is a nonprofit, group practice prepayment
program with Southern California headquarters in Pasadena, California.
Kaiser Permanente serves the health care needs of 3.3 million members in
Southern California. Today it encompasses the nonprofit Kaiser
Foundation Health Plan, Inc., Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and their Read the rest of this entry »

CHANHASSEN, Minn.–(
)–Life Time Fitness, Inc. (NYSE: LTM) today announced that the Company is
scheduled to release its Third Quarter 2008 fiscal results on Thursday,
October 23, 2008. A conference call to discuss the results will be held
at 10:00 a.m. ET.
Bahram Akradi, chairman and chief executive officer, Michael Robinson,
executive vice president and chief financial officer, and Kenneth
Cooper, vice president Read the rest of this entry »

IN the past decade, baseball has experienced a data-driven information revolution. Numbers-crunchers now routinely use statistics to put better teams on the field for less money. Our overpriced, underperforming health care system needs a similar revolution.
Data-driven baseball has produced surprising results. Michael Lewis writes in “Moneyball” that the Oakland A’s have won games and division titles at one-sixth the cost of the Read the rest of this entry »

TOKYO (AP) — Japan has acknowledged that Allied prisoners of war were put to work in a coal mine owned by Prime Minister Taro Aso’s family, reversing previous denials after newly found documents provided proof.
The Health and Welfare Ministry said Friday that the wartime documents showed that 300 British, Dutch and Australian prisoners worked at the Aso family mine in Fukuoka, southern Japan, from April 1945 through Japan’s surrender four Read the rest of this entry »