Agile and upbeat, fitness fanatic Jack LaLanne is still tossing lifelines to those he says are “exceeding the feed limit.”
His advice has outlived diet and exercise fads promoted long before America was declared an obese nation.
Remember, he’s the guy who, at age 60, swam from Alcatraz Island to Fisherman’s Wharf towing a 1,000-pound boat. Ten years later, he wore handcuffs while pulling 70 boats with 70 people in them Read the rest of this entry »

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The Free Press today hosted a Web chat for the 100,000 General Motors salaried retirees and their dependents making the transition to buying their own health benefits. It was held the first day of open enrollment for GM salaried retirees. Each retiree will receive a $300 pension contribution per month that can be used to buy health insurance.
Our experts answered dozens of your questions.
• Julie Monahan, manager, health care training, General Read the rest of this entry »

It’s time to go on a debt diet.
Carrying around a few thousand dollars in credit-card balances may have seemed perfectly acceptable a few months ago. But in this financial crisis, it can be downright dangerous to your financial health. Credit-card companies are jacking up rates and fees, making it easier to fall deeper in the hole. And during a recession, when the possibility of layoffs looms larger and most of us feel increasingly vulnerable, Read the rest of this entry »

When Grady Memorial Hospital hired PricewaterhouseCoopers to stanch financial losses last year, officials said the consultant’s multimillion-dollar fee would be tied to the amount it saved the hospital.
Yet PricewaterhouseCoo-pers reached a separate agreement with Grady as well, records show.
Under that, the consultant would collect about $2.8 million more with no savings requirement, for tasks such as helping staff offices, improving Read the rest of this entry »

A medical device company hits some snags as it seeks FDA approval of an imaging device for breast cancer. A congressman puts in a call to the FDA. Bam! Product approved.
That’s the drift of internal documents that some FDA scientists are bringing to light in their complaints over what they say is too much lenience in the FDA’s approvals of medical devices, according to a
in this morning’s New York Times.
The congressman was Read the rest of this entry »

The deadly salmonella outbreak traced to a Georgia peanut company is having an unexpected effect: It’s forcing lawmakers — finally, critics say — to improve food-safety regulations that in some cases haven’t been updated in a century.
Georgia legislators last week introduced bills that would enable county health officials to inspect local food-processing plants and also require food processors to report inspection results Read the rest of this entry »

The new pavilion will span a two-block area on East 57th Street, just north of the Comer Children’s Hospital and the Duchossois Center for Advanced Medicine in the Hyde Park neighborhood.
Once the pavilion opens in 2012, the main adult hospital building, known as Bernard Mitchell, will convert to all private rooms. Included in the new pavilion’s features are 80 private patient rooms and 24 intensive-care beds on each of the top three floors. The Read the rest of this entry »

05:36 PM CST on Friday, November 14, 2008
TEXAS CITY, Texas—Ever since
damaged UTMB in Galveston, traffic has picked up at the Mainland Medical Center in Texas City.
In fact, it’s the only fully-operational hospital in all of Galveston County.
for the more critical patients.
“The majority of us are coming an hour or two earlier than we’re used to, and a lot of us are working into the night,” Read the rest of this entry »

After opposing higher taxes for months as counterproductive, Gov. David Paterson will seek to increase several taxes from gasoline to clothing as well as make changes in the income tax that will make New Yorkers pay more to fix state government’s fiscal crisis.
Although Paterson won’t seek to raise the rates of income taxes, a “broad based tax,” he will raise revenue by eliminating legal exemptions in the income tax that he considers “loop holes” Read the rest of this entry »