Jan. 28 (Bloomberg) –
, the largest U.S.
health insurer by enrollment, missed estimates for fourth-quarter
earnings and gave no profit forecast as bad investments, computer
errors and a shrinking job market sapped income.
Net income fell 61 percent from a year earlier to $331.4
million, or 65 cents a share, the Indianapolis-based company said
today in a statement. Profit excluding investment losses and
other items missed by 2 cents the $1.36 Read the rest of this entry »
Feb 17 (Reuters) – At least $150 billion of the U.S.
economic stimulus bill to be signed by President Barack Obama
on Tuesday involves health-related spending, including money
for medical research and assistance to states in providing
health insurance for the poor.
Here are some of the measure’s health-related provisions.
– $87 billion to boost the federal contribution to states
to pay for health insurance through the Medicaid program for
the Read the rest of this entry »
Southcoast Blood Bank: Off the main lobby in St. Luke’s Hospital. Walk-ins accepted 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Wednesdays and 8 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturdays. Donors should be in good health, at least 18 years old, weigh at least 110 pounds, have not recently taken drugs or alcohol, and have doctor’s permission if over 70 years old. For an appointment, call (508) 961-5320 or visit www.southcoast.org/bloodbank/. 101 Page St., New Bedford. Read the rest of this entry »
Just about this time every year, friends of mine who fear they may have missed their chance to load up on Thin Mints, Trefoils, or other favorite Girl Scout cookies, callto seeif I can get them boxes (or even cartons) of their favorite treat. Why? For more than a decade,I was a Girl Scout Cookie Mom. Theythink — they hope –I still have connections.
Long gone are the days when my two-car garage was filled from top to bottom with cartons of every Read the rest of this entry »
Last updated February 16, 2009 10:51 a.m. PT
Blaine chiropractor’s license lifted, drugs cited
BLAINE, Wash. — A Blaine chiropractor’s license has been suspended after he reportedly admitted having problems with heroin and alcohol.
According to state Health Department documents, Nicolas Jean J. Constantin was suspended Jan. 15. He is barred from working as a chiropractor in Washington pending a hearing before the stat Chiropractic Quality Read the rest of this entry »
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Here we go again. The start of a new year inevitably brings with it a multitude of resolutions, many of them health and weight related.
If shedding pounds is on the top of your to-do list for 2009, you’re far from alone. Millions of Americans put themselves on diets of all shapes and sizes each year, yet according to the National Weight Control Registry, 90-95 percent of dieters re-gain the weight they lost, or more, Read the rest of this entry »
Police said they expect soon to get a warrant for the arrest of a West Bloomfield man who, while working for a fitness center, tried to use his camera phone to film women taking showers.
The man, a former employee at Lifetime Fitness in Commerce Township, was seen holding the phone under a shower curtain and trying to film a woman about to take a shower with her two-year-old daughter, said Lt. Clay Jansson of the Oakland County Sheriffs Office. Read the rest of this entry »
According to a new research a few minutes of intense exercise a week has just as beneficial an effect if not more as half an hour a day of moderate activity has to reduce a person’s risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
Dr. James A. Timmons of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, one of the researchers on the study, told Reuters Health, “It is possible to gain significant health benefits from only 7.5 minutes of exercise each week — if that is all Read the rest of this entry »
Dr. Francisco Cigarroa, president of the
, says he plans to step down from his position next September.
Cigarroa, 50, was appointed eight years ago by the UT System Board of Regents. He became the first Hispanic chief executive of a comprehensive health sciences university in the continental United States. He has also continued to practice his medical specialty of transplant surgery part time during his tenure as president.
“It has been Read the rest of this entry »
Politicians are people, too
Nobody, including presidential candidates, is perfect. Though voters should carefully ponder the relevant flaws of those who seek the nation’s highest office, they shouldn’t disqualify anybody who’s failed — so far — in an effort to quit smoking.
That includes Barack Obama, who in the November issue of Men’s Health, persuasively cites the stress of running for president as a major obstacle blocking him from Read the rest of this entry »