Ont. facing ‘tough choices’ in health care: Caplan
TORONTO — Ontario is facing “difficult choices” when it comes to health-care spending as the province’s economic problems deepen, Health Minister David Caplan warned Thursday. The government will have to strike the “right balance” in deciding which health-care projects will take priority and which ones may have to sit on the back-burner, he said.
“The choices and the trade-offs are — given Read the rest of this entry »

He chose to make this surprising admission at the Super Bowl, knowing millions of impressionable youngsters will be closely following the game and its players. By revealing his secret, Holmes hopes he may persuade other at-risk youth to choose a path that leads to the athletic field and a classroom, not to a detention center or a jail cell.
“I’ve only told three or four people about it,” Holmes said Wednesday. “I feel it’s time to share things. Read the rest of this entry »

Newcastle boss Joe Kinnear was taken to hospital for treatment after falling ill on Saturday.
The club stated that his hospitalisation was a precautionary measure and that he would not be present at the Barclays Premier League match against West Bromwich Albion. Chris Hughton, who stood in as the caretaker manager before Kinnear was appointed, will take charge in his absence.
“This morning, Joe Kinnear reported feeling unwell at the team hotel Read the rest of this entry »

Merit Medical Systems issues FY09, CY10 guidance – Quick Facts
(RTTNews) - 
Merit Medical Systems Inc. (MMSI:
) Thursday reported that earnings for Merit’s existing business would be in the range of $0.84-$0.86 per share for the year ending December 31, 2009. When adjusted to include business from the Alveolus and Biosearch transactions, Merit’s management estimates earnings to be in the range of $0.77-$0.79 per Read the rest of this entry »

By Mike Adams, January 23, 2009 | Key concepts:
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for charging patients 18% interest on medical debt.
Health care in America is a profit-centered business, of course, and that involves extracting as much money from patients as possible. Allina Hospitals likely would have liked to charge even more for financing medical debt, but state law limits the interest rate to 18 percent.
The Minnesota AG wants the hospitals to issue refunds to patients Read the rest of this entry »

     I would like to call attention to a great approach to Mental Health Care that has been enacted through Family Health Teams. These teams are located throughout Ontario and take an interdisciplinary approach to health care. Teams of health care providers include nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, dietitians, mental health counselors and physicians to provide convenient and comprehensive health care. The Family Health Team approach to Read the rest of this entry »

Why Women Should Eat Less, Move More And Consider Wearing Transdermal Patches During Menopause
Weight and appetite experts from around the world met at a conference in Bangkok 1 earlier this year to discuss sex differences in obesity. One line of discussion looked at factors leading to women’s weight gain during menopause, and how it might be avoided.
Co-chairs of the conference, Dr Amanda Sainsbury-Salis from Sydney’s Garvan Institute of Medical Read the rest of this entry »

10:17 a.m.,
Thursday, Sept. 25
The red, white and black helicopter ascended slowly from its helipad at the Warren County Airport in Lebanon, creating a whirlwind of dirt below as it headed for its 24-mile trip to Clinton Memorial Hospital in Wilmington.
This was a routine trip, a safety training mission for hospital staffers who work with CareFlight, Miami Valley Hospital’s 25-year-old air and ground ambulance service.
But then plans changed, Read the rest of this entry »

POUGHKEEPSIE — Advances for Nurses, a regional magazine geared toward the growing nursing community, named Vassar Brothers Medical Center “The Best Place to Work” among the select “top hospitals” in the magazine’s second annual readers’ choice survey.
The nurses who voted for Vassar Brothers selected it to receive this award among a field of 291 hospitals in the Greater New York/New Jersey Metro Area. Vassar Brothers received this distinction Read the rest of this entry »

St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children is a 170-bed pediatric
hospital located at Erie Avenue at Front Street in Philadelphia, PA.
The hospital provides a wide range of pediatric medical and surgical
specialties through its affiliation with Drexel University College of
Medicine. With a medical staff of more than 270 pediatric
specialists, St. Christopher’s is a Level I Pediatric Trauma Center
and provides programs such as kidney transplantation, Read the rest of this entry »