Women’s Hall of Fame applications bEING ACCEPTED: Alameda County is accepting nominations for 2009 inductees into its Women’s Hall of Fame.
The Board of Supervisors and the Commission on the Status of Women will host the 16th annual luncheon and awards ceremony, set for April 25 at Hs Lordships restaurant in Berkeley. The event will raise money for local charities that address issues affecting women’s health.
Nominations are being accepted for Read the rest of this entry »
Boy is 23rd child abandoned at Neb. hospital
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A 17-year-old boy was confirmed Wednesday as the 23rd child abandoned under the state’s unique safe-haven law, as the governor prepared to address changes in the law.
State officials said the boy’s stepfather and mother took him to BryanLGH Medical Center West in Lincoln late Tuesday and that the boy was in state care.
Lincoln Police Capt. Jim Thoms said the parents told Read the rest of this entry »
star and Miss Worcester second runner-up Dennis Leary may have rankled some with his book’s assessment of autism sufferers as being “dumb-arse kids,” “junior morons,” and “dumb, lazy, or both” (“Totally out of my book’s contest!”
), one true believer in the disorderâan outspoken activist, in factâis Jenny McCarthy. Where she veers from her fellow crusaders is in her theory on its cause: She blames the Measles, Mumps, and Rubella Read the rest of this entry »
Commentary
Fix Federal Health Costs Now!
10.15.08,
12:01 AM ET
This year, 2008, health care expenditures and tax preferences are costing the federal budget over
one trillion dollars.
In rounded billions: Medicare, $460; federal Medicaid, $200; other health care, $140; tax revenue lost because employer payments for employee health benefits are excluded from taxable incomes–”the exclusion”–over $200; health benefits for federal civilian Read the rest of this entry »
Vaccines Not to Blame for Autism, Court Rules
in three children, according to long-awaited
from a special federal court yesterday, Nancy Shute reports. The families had filed claims arguing that the measles-mumps-rubella shot, which contained the mercury-based preservative thimerosal, was responsible for their children’s autism and other neurological problems.
The cases have been intensely watched in the hugely contentious battle over whether Read the rest of this entry »
States, Groups File Suit To Stop Rule Protecting Doctors Who Refuse To Perform Abortions
January 19, 2009 7:21 a.m. EST
Washington, DC (AHN) – Seven states and two organizations are suing the Bush administration for enacting a rule that protects health care workers from discrimination if they refuse to perform abortions.
Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal filed the lawsuit last week on behalf of his state, California, Illinois, Read the rest of this entry »
THURSDAY, Feb. 12 (HealthDay News) — Teenagers who fiendishly text their friends apparently are more than just obsessive, compulsive, annoying and just plain incomprehensible to older generations.
In certain situations — after fainting or panicking, for instance — texting can be a medical indication that the patient is recovering.
shows that the patient has recovered from the faint or panic attack,” said Dr. Mike Sinclair, pit crew coordinator Read the rest of this entry »
The government is today, on World Aids Day, accused of double standards for permitting the deportation of people diagnosed in the UK with HIV to countries where they may not get the drugs they need to stay alive.
The UK has strongly supported the G8 pledge to get treatment to all people who need it in poor countries, and yet it is sending back people who have discovered they have HIV and been put on drugs while in the UK, to places where they have Read the rest of this entry »
In the universe of global diseases, polio would seem to be a minor problem. Fewer than 2,000 people in the world were stricken last year. AIDS and malaria, by contrast, killed more than three million people. In a list of the world’s most threatening infectious diseases, polio would rank pretty far down—past measles, meningitis, influenza and drug-resistant tuberculosis, to name a few. Which raises the question: why did
release $255 million of Read the rest of this entry »
A simple idea really: health has no concern about the ability to pay for it.
The new baby is coming even if the mother has no money. Illness doesn’t ask for an insurance card before it appears.
Inner Center Health Center is an option, somewhere between a free clinic and the emergency room, a place for medical treatment, reassurance and consideration.
“We’re a patient-centered health care home,” said Pam Krotchko, director of resource development. Read the rest of this entry »