Health care advocates plan to unveil today an ambitious $15.5 billion proposal for universal health care in Maryland that would increase payroll taxes to pay for coverage for low-income residents and create a quasi-governmental insurance pool.
The Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative, with health policy experts from the
and the University of Maryland, crafted the proposal. The groups plan to build a coalition of labor unions, faith groups and Read the rest of this entry »
The Super Cup is a match-up between the winners of the previous year’s CAF Champions League and their Confederation Cup counterparts.
Aboutrika, who netted a last-gasp goal to deny Sfaxien the 2006 Champions League trophy, has been nursing a knee injury and officials disclosed the forward will face a fitness test later Wednesday.
However, Sfaxien, who last year lost the Super Cup to fellow Tunisian club Etoile du Sahel, said they are not bothered Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK – The city’s Department of Health and Mental
Hygiene is launching a study of New York City’s air quality.
The New York City Community Air Survey will use air pollution
monitors throughout the five boroughs to measure pollutants.
The data will be collected over the next year from 150
locations, each of which will be monitored for two-week periods.
The department said the locations are mixed in terms of building
density, traffic patterns, Read the rest of this entry »
LOS ANGELES—A convicted rapist was allowed to work with female patients unsupervised at Los Angeles County hospitals for 10 years, even though managers knew about his criminal record.
The Los Angeles Times, citing records and interviews, reported Friday that Gariner Beasley raped a woman in 1991 while on duty as a Los Angeles police officer, but he was still hired at County-USC Medical Center as an X-ray technician after he got out of prison. Read the rest of this entry »
Losing weight seems to always be the number one New Year’s resolution. But we found out that resolution isn’t just for adults anymore.
Many kids are starting to get in on the workout action and they even have their own gym to work out in.
My Gym Children’s Fitness Center, at
is seeing more kids getting interested in working out.
Gym employees say their goal is to try and instill a sense of fun with working out so kids will keep good habits. Read the rest of this entry »
Eyeing a prime vacant site in Royal Oak, one developer proposed a convention center, another suggested a hotel topped by condos, still another saw a car dealership under an office tower, and one even wanted to build an aquarium linked by a skywalk to the Detroit Zoo.
Yet, after three decades of on-again, off-again proposals, the vacant lot at one of metro Detroit’s most visible sites is back on the block.
The 4.4-acre parcel — at I-696 between Read the rest of this entry »
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Red Cedar Medical Center-Mayo Health System welcomed more than 180 women to its signature annual event, Wake Up to Wellness, on Saturday, Feb. 7, at UW-Stout’s Memorial Student Union in Menomonie.
“We were delighted this year to have such a vast variety of health screenings, several breakout sessions and a keynote speaker that focused on cancer,” said Jan Pejsa, community education specialist. Read the rest of this entry »
Its Diabetes Awareness Month, and I think this year we should focus on the simple, cost-conscious dietary and lifestyle choices that can help the nearly 24 million children and adults in the U.S. who cope with this life-threatening disease.
Most peoiple with Type 2 diabetes take several different medications to control cholesterol and blood sugar, and even more patients are getting multipler prescriptions as new drugs come on the market. But as Read the rest of this entry »
former Boston woman who has been charged with selling her infertility drugs on the Internet plans to plead guilty, authorities have learned.
The change of plea is the latest twist in the long-running case of Heidi Benham, a 43-year-old woman who reportedly made $125,000 by selling coveted fertility medicine on the black market.
Benham was indicted in April 2008 by a U.S. District Court grand jury on eight counts of mail fraud and seven counts Read the rest of this entry »
Many homeowners are falling behind in their mortgage payments because of a loan they couldn’t afford or a job that they lost. But others, like one metro family, are in crisis because of an unforseen health problem.
The Guzman family lives in a modest three-bedroom home in the Northland. Michelle Guzman grew up in the house, and though her parents died in an auto accident in 1979, she fought for the Read the rest of this entry »