Last week, the 125-year-old hospital said its owner had put it up for sale and warned that it was in danger of closing if a deal wasn’t struck, partly because of the inability of getting financing.
The state department overseeing health and family services “went to great lengths to help us keep the hospital open,” Curran said.
But at about 5 p.m. Wednesday, the hospital said it filed a letter of intent with the state to close the hospital.
State Read the rest of this entry »
Ford City hopes to soon be on a path to fitness and better health.
That’s on an outdoor path equipped with obstacles or stations for doing step-ups, chin-ups and push-ups
Ford City Borough’s Parks and Recreation Committee is seeking support and funding by way of grants and corporate donations to install a fitness trail along the section of the Armstrong Trail that runs through the borough.
The Parks and Recreation Committee is a group of volunteer Read the rest of this entry »
Police on Sunday released no new information about the accident, in which a Honda Accord veered off the road, became airborne and crashed into two trees. Police said the car was headed eastbound on Albany Avenue, toward
.
Police were called to the scene just before 6 a.m., responding to a report of a person lying in the road. The person, Whitehead, had been ejected from the vehicle before it went down a 15-foot embankment to a spot where it was Read the rest of this entry »
A health issue is considered more serious and less common if it is described in technical rather than lay language, according to a study in the December 2008
.
“A simple switch in terminology can result in a real bias in perception,” said Meredith Young, lead author and a graduate student in psychology, neuroscience and behavior at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
Researchers asked 52 undergraduate students to evaluate various Read the rest of this entry »
A newly published study has found that the decline of sea otters along Alaska’s Aleutian Islands has forced a change in the diet of a terrestrial predator – the bald eagle. The study demonstrates the extraordinary complexity of marine ecosystems and how far-ranging the impacts can be when there is a population shift in a keystone species like the sea otter.
The research was published in the October issue of Ecology, the journal of the Ecological Read the rest of this entry »
Deciding on grad school? In addition to taking on six-figure loans, late nights and ramen dinners, would-be students now must add in another challenge: family health insurance.
Increasingly, universities are dropping family health insurance programs, saying soaring costs make them a money-losing option. That’s forcing more families onto government programs like Medi-Cal or Healthy Families while moms and dads earn their law degrees or doctorates. Read the rest of this entry »
Study Shows Half Of Individual Health Insurance Policy Holders Paid Under $130 Per Month, USA
eHealth, Inc.
(NASDAQ: EHTH), parent company of eHealthInsurance, today announced
the release of a new study on the individual health insurance market.
The findings appear in The Cost And Benefits Of Individual And Family
Health Insurance Plans, a commissioned evaluation of eHealth Inc.’s
data conducted by Forrester Consulting.
The analysis Read the rest of this entry »
12:00 AM CST on Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Dallas County commissioners will decide this morning whether to allow county health workers to distribute free condoms in high-risk neighborhoods to combat the spread of HIV.
Before 1995, county health workers routinely ventured into communities to hand out condoms and needle sterilization kits to those with the greatest risk of infection. But that year, a narrow majority of commissioners voted to end Read the rest of this entry »
will continue to operate through November by executive order while Gov. Ed Rendell considers options in keeping the independent research agency alive.
The Senate failed to reauthorize PHC4 before adjourning on Wednesday and Rendell is considering extending his order to keep the council in business past November, according to Rendell press secretary Chuck Ardo. The order will not affect the council’s independence, but may create “some Read the rest of this entry »
Undated — According to German researchers, heated car seats can cook a man’s sperm.
The study suggests that men who spend more than an hour per day in a heated seat can take longer to conceive a child than those who do not, says
.
It all has to do with body temperature. The study says to generate optimal sperm production, it must be stored a few degrees below body temperature.
Men’s Health magazine says the testicle temperature can rise as Read the rest of this entry »