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S.C. health insurance costs far outpace increases in wages
Health insurance costs for families in South Carolina have risen 76.1 percent while wages rose just 13.4 percent during a seven-year period, according to a study by Families USA, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit health careconsumer group.
Those cost increases are as much of a problem in southern Beaufort County as for the state Read the rest of this entry »

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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A dozen defendants who allegedly swindled the military’s health care program out of hundreds of thousands of dollars in the Philippines won’t face justice or pay any restitution after authorities failed to arrest them.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Madison, Wis., has dismissed indictments against the suspects — Philippine doctors, spouses of military retirees and one Navy veteran — Read the rest of this entry »

MEN die at a younger age than women, have higher rates of diseases such as cancer and suffer more workplace injuries.
But they also shun doctors and, when they do look for help, are sometimes already very ill.
To encourage them to seek treatment, and push more medical professionals to branch out into men’s health, several doctors have set up the Institute for Men’s Health, a first for Singapore.
The institute, currently housed at Gleneagles Read the rest of this entry »

There are about 10 million cancer survivors in the United States —- the largest group of people living with a chronic disease. Just from breast cancer, there are 2.5 million survivors. As one of those survivors, I’m often asked what can be done to prevent a recurrence. The American Cancer Society and the American Institute for Cancer Research both stress that diet and lifestyle are the best things we can do to reduce the chance of the Read the rest of this entry »

Under current rules, hospitals may withdraw treatment from patients who want to use their own money to buy drugs not available on the health service.
Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, will end the practice of withdrawing care from patients who pay privately for ‘top-up’ medicines in an announcement to Parliament this week, according to Whitehall sources.
The Government ordered a review into top-up payments earlier in the year after campaigners Read the rest of this entry »

Hospital infections such as C. difficile are to be the target of a £1.2m clinical trial.
Researchers in Swansea and County Durham will tackle the downside of antibiotics given to elderly patients, which can lead to diarrhoea.
The three-year study will examine whether supplements of healthy bacteria – probiotics – can help.
Around 3,000 patients will take part in the trial at five hospitals during the next three years.
Some will be given Read the rest of this entry »

The local health unit is asking the province to consider using a new tool to help measure whether families with children can afford to purchase nutritious food.
At the December meeting of the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit, Board of Health members approved a motion to send a letter to the Premier of Ontario requesting the Nutritious Food Basket be used as a tool when the government develops its Deprivation Index as part of Read the rest of this entry »

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ScienceDaily (Dec. 11, 2008)
— A new study from the psychology department at Tufts University shows that when dieters eliminate carbohydrates from their meals, they performed more poorly on memory-based tasks than when they reduce calories, but maintain carbohydrates. When carbohydrates were reintroduced, cognition skills returned to normal.
“This study demonstrates that the food you eat can have an immediate impact on cognitive behavior,” Read the rest of this entry »

GALESBURG, Ill. — Defense attorneys representing a man charged with killing eight people in Illinois and Missouri last summer say an evaluation of his mental fitness may not be ready for two months.
At a hearing in Galesburg, attorney Jeremy Karlin said a doctor has only recently been appointed to evaluate Nicholas Sheley’s (SHEE’-leez) competency. The report was initially due next week.
Sheley faces first-degree murder charges in the June Read the rest of this entry »