More than 40 states have incorporated the PCMH as part of their Medicaid or State Children’s Health Insurance Programs. At the same time, the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees have incorporated primary care and the PCMH into their respective health care reform proposals, clearly demonstrating that support for the medical home transcends party lines.
Meanwhile, a new
, conducted on behalf of the PCPCC and released during the stakeholders’ Read the rest of this entry »
A 26-year-old San Jose man died early today after he was zapped with a Taser by a Campbell police officer who was helping quell a disturbance at Valley Medical Center.
Santa Clara County Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Don Morrissey did not identify the man, saying that the coroner had not yet given permission because his next of kin had not been properly notified.
Morrissey said about 11:20 p.m. Thursday a woman called 911 from Valley Medical Center Read the rest of this entry »
03:44 PM CST on Monday, November 10, 2008
Kids come home from school ready to snack.
Too often, that means they’ll start grabbing chips, soda or cookies – the kind of high-fat, high-sugar foods that can start them on the road to childhood obesity, high cholesterol and diabetes.
And that’s why it’s so important to get them in the habit of making healthy choices, experts say. With that goal in mind, high school Read the rest of this entry »
Regents to discuss fees, gymnastics center project
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — University of Oklahoma regents will consider a slew of proposed fee increases and could award a contract for renovating the school’s gymnastics center when they meet on Wednesday.
The meeting, originally scheduled to begin Tuesday at Cameron University in Lawton, was rescheduled to Wednesday and moved to OU’s Health Sciences Center campus in Oklahoma City.
According to Read the rest of this entry »
Dual trends toward obesity and sedentary lifestyles are increasingly proving risky for Tennessee and its Southern neighbors.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the rate of new diabetes cases across the U.S. nearly doubled over the past 10 years. More than 23 million Americans, or about 13 percent, are known to have diabetes. Southern states, including Tennessee, led the way in the increase (the Volunteer State ranked No. Read the rest of this entry »
ScienceDaily (Feb. 22, 2009)
— Small is promising when it comes to illuminating tiny tumors or precisely delivering drugs, but many worry about the safety of nano-scale materials. Now a team of scientists has created miniscule flakes of silicon that glow brightly, last long enough to slowly release cancer drugs, then break down into harmless by-products.
“It is the first luminescent nanoparticle that was purposely designed to minimize toxic Read the rest of this entry »
), an industry leading, East Tennessee based international fitness equipment manufacturer and Competitive Edge Sports (“CES”) (
), a worldwide leader in elite level sports performance training with a history of training more than 1,000 professional athlete clients, today announced a strategic partnership.
) January 25, 2009 — Legend Fitness (
), an industry leading, East Tennessee based international fitness equipment manufacturer and Competitive Read the rest of this entry »
Toumaz CEO to Speak at Digital Fitness, Nutrition and Wellness Conference
Toumaz Technology announces that Toumaz CEO Keith Errey will present key digital fitness applications of the Sensium system for intelligent wireless body monitoring at Club Industry 2008 (McCormick Place, Chicago, Illinois, October 15th – 18th 2008). The presentation will be made on Wednesday 15th October at 4:00pm (Session D12) at the Digital Fitness, Nutrition and Wellness Read the rest of this entry »
NeuroMetrix, Inc. (Nasdaq: NURO) announced that it has received 510(k) clearance for its UNIVERSAL Electrodes from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This regulatory determination by the FDA gives NeuroMetrix clearance to market the UNIVERSAL Electrodes in the U.S. These electrodes are intended to be used with the NeuroMetrix ADVANCE(TM) NCS/EMG System for performance of nerve conduction studies.
NeuroMetrix obtained regulatory clearance Read the rest of this entry »
Those costs are a major problem for the plan, which covers roughly 660,000 state employees and their dependents. The plan is free for employees; insuring a family costs $489 a month.
The plan is relatively expensive, and therefore unattractive, for healthy families, but a bargain for the ill. That, and the relatively old state work force, means that the chronically or catastrophically ill compose half the membership; the plan spends nearly 90 percent Read the rest of this entry »