Starting with the current state fiscal year, which began July 1, mental health services are being paid based on the amount of services billed. Previously, the state distributed money for mental health services through grants approved at the beginning of the fiscal year.
“They were advanced too much [money] in fiscal year 2008, and they didn’t bill for [services]” after the new payment system began, said
, a spokesman for the Illinois Department Read the rest of this entry »
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – A person’s fitness level in childhood seems to influence certain measures of their health as young adults, new study findings suggest.
The study followed Norwegian students and found that those who were more physically fit at age 13 were less likely to become obese or have elevated blood pressure in early adulthood.
By the age of 40, however, that effect had faded, the researchers report in the journal Pediatrics. Read the rest of this entry »
MEXICO CITY (AFP) — Gold-incrusted weapons, children’s clothes decorated with LSD-laced stickers, and religious paintings packed with cocaine offer a glimpse into Mexico’s growing drug culture in a unique museum.
As Mexican drug traffickers spread their influence from Peru to Panama and contribute to their country’s spiralling murder rate — with more than 5,000 killed in suspected drug-related attacks this year — the Mexico City drug museum Read the rest of this entry »
rose into the close Tuesday after an FDA unanimously recommended approval of its anticlotting agent prasugrel.
The nine members of the Food and Drug Administration’s cardiology panel said the new blood thinner, which Lilly developed with Japanese drugmaker
, is a significant improvement over its forebears for preventing blood clots in patients with heart problems.
Lilly had asked the panel to specifically evaluate prasugrel in patients requiring Read the rest of this entry »
WHEN I’m pitching my Web site, I’m often asked what my “cash-burn rate” is.
That’s startup speak for: “How long can you keep going until you run out of money?”
But cash burn isn’t my problem.
My costs are low: You can run a Web site with laptop, an Internet connection and $6.95 web-hosting account.
The wall I’m facing is my COBRA.
COBRA, the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1986, is the law that lets you stay in your employer’s Read the rest of this entry »
“We all think that we should be taking vitamins because it makes us more healthy, and yet we can’t prove that.”
The new research involves preliminary findings from the U.S._Physicians’ Health Study II. Researchers tracked 14,641 doctors, aged 50 and older. Each was given either 400 IU (international units) of vitamin E every other day, 500 milligrams of vitamin C daily, or their placebos.
After an average eight years of treatment and followup, Read the rest of this entry »
Published:Sunday, December 28, 2008 12:00 a.m.
BOARDMAN — Humility of Mary Health Partners is offering a nutrition and fitness eduction program for overweight children ages 8 to 12 at St. Elizabeth’s Boardman Health Center, 8401 Market St. and the Davis Family YMCA, 45 McClurg Road, Boardman.
Two sessions of six classes will be available from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. The first session will be on Mondays beginning Jan. 12 through Feb. 16 and the Read the rest of this entry »
SANFORD, Fla. – A woman accused of stealing a baby from a Sanford hospital pleaded guilty on Tuesday.
Jennifer Latham was accused of taking a newborn baby from Central Florida Regional Hospital last March. In April, Latham pleaded not guilty to kidnapping, attempted kidnapping and burglary, but reversed those pleas Tuesday.
Testimony was scheduled to begin on Tuesday, but Latham surprised the court by pleading guilty to all counts.
The plea Read the rest of this entry »
FDA Announces Recalls of Weight-Loss Pill, Dietary Supplement
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday the recall of a weight-loss product — Zhen De Shou Fat Loss Capsules — and a dietary supplement — Starcaps Diet System dietary supplements, according to published reports.
San Diego-based Fashion Sanctuary said it was recalling all lot codes of Zhen De Shou Fat Loss Capsules sold in 10-count blister cards. The recall was prompted Read the rest of this entry »
The Ravenswood Family Health Center in East Palo Alto has been given a $100,000 grant from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation and its parent company, Sutter Health, so the clinic can expand its diabetes management program.
The number of diabetes patients at the East Palo Alto clinic has increased more than 100 percent in the last four years, with the clinic currently treating more than 1,000 adults with diabetes. Of those patients, 58 percent are Read the rest of this entry »