Charitable hospitals with self-insurance plans can be sued for incidents that occurred before their pooled liability funds were established, the Arkansas Supreme Court said.
Thursday’s decision comes as a blow to not-for-profit hospitals like St. Joseph’s Mercy Health Center in Hot Springs, protected as a charity for more than a century under Arkansas law. The 2007 law put self-insurance and pooled liability funds on the hook for damages once avoided Read the rest of this entry »

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“conducts mass sensitization campaigns throughout the country to educate people about the benefits and limits of male circumcision” in preventing the spread of HIV, Joseph Matovu of
opinion piece. According to Matovu, recent research about male circumcision is “good ground” to argue for widespread, “medically performed” adult male circumcision in Uganda, where the HIV prevalence has remained at about 6% since 2000 and the “percentage of circumcised Read the rest of this entry »

Throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s we had “aerobics”. One word for one thing, high impact, freestyle aerobic dance ala Jane Fonda. I hate to admit it, but I was there! I started teaching in the early 1980’s. It was all high impact and as an instructor, we taught “freestyle”. We had our little group of moves, but we just made it up as we went along. After the 30 or so minutes of cardio, we would do 30 minutes of calisthenics for toning. Unfortunately, Read the rest of this entry »

A dog so obese he is unable to walk is being placed on an extreme low-fat diet by vets.
Patch weighed 28kg when he was brought in to the Dogs Trust’s Glasgow centre – twice his normal weight and roughly equivalent to an eight-year-old child.
Because his legs cannot support his body weight, he has to be placed in a special harness and carried around.

MCLEAN, Va.
,
Jan. 2
/PRNewswire/ — Dr. Siegal’s Direct Nutritionals, LLC,
worldwide distributor of the venerable Dr. Siegal’s COOKIE DIET(R)
hunger-busting cookies and shake mixes and the operator of web site
CookieDiet.com (
), today announced that it is
featured in the cover story of the current issue of People magazine. The story
(
) profiles six men and women who have lost half
their weight, a total of nearly 1,000 pounds.
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FORT WAYNE, Indiana (AFP) — For many among the growing ranks of unemployed workers in the United States, the scariest part of losing their job is losing their health insurance.
Even before the current economic crisis, 45 million Americans were uninsured. That number is expected to rise to 54 million by 2019 if changes aren’t made to the system, according to the director of the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office.
One of the swelling Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack believes a single U.S. agency should be created and put in charge of the food safety work now handled by a variety of agencies, said a spokesman on Friday.
The spokesman was not immediately able to say if Vilsack’s view was shared by the Obama administration.
Earlier this week, a House subcommittee chairwoman introduced a bill to split apart the Food and Drug Administration to create a separate Read the rest of this entry »

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. has announced another recall of oversized tablets.  This time, the company is recalling a single lot of Hydromorphone HCl 2 mg tablets.  According to the
(FDA), Hydromorphone is a drug used for pain management and is packaged under the ETHEX label in 100-count bottles.
The ETHEX Hydromorphone recall involves Lot #90219, Exp: 03/2010; NDC #58177-0620-04.  ETHEX has initiated recall notifications to wholesalers and retailers nationwide who Read the rest of this entry »