With a leafleting, lobbying, and letter-writing blitz, healthcare groups are urging Governor Deval Patrick to use expected federal bailout money to shore up health programs slashed this fall because of the state’s budget crisis.
A coalition of three dozen social service, healthcare, labor, and legal groups – dubbed Put Patients First – is mailing 100,000 Boston area voters a flier about the specific effect of recent cuts to Boston Medical Center Read the rest of this entry »
Nashville police last night said that McCready, whose legal first name is Malinda, called her assistant, Brent Young, at 7:50 a.m. to say she needed him to come over, because “she had done something bad.” Young arrived at 10:15 a.m. “and discovered that she had cut her wrists and taken several pills.” McCready was taken to Centennial Hospital, according to the report.
McCready’s attorney, Lee Offman, told Newsday last night that he was “still trying Read the rest of this entry »
Driving home just how important this issue is, Schrager is pulling
out all the stops and producing a children’s health seminar, “Beyond
Chicken Nuggets: How to Raise a Healthy Eater,” hosted by Tara
Parker-Pope, the Well columnist for The New York Times. Modeled off
the symposium that took place as part of the inaugural Food Network
New York City Wine & Food Festival, featured seminar guests include
Rachael Ray, founder of the nonprofit Yum-O!, Read the rest of this entry »
ANKARA, Jan. 17 (Xinhua) — Turkish security forces
confiscated around 3,550 kg of hashish in operations conducted across the
country, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off, the security forces seized 3,500
kg of hashish in an operation conducted in Lice town of southeastern province of
Diyarbakir on Saturday, said the report, adding that a drug producing facility
has also been discovered.
Meanwhile, Read the rest of this entry »
AMARILLO—It's four days until News Year's Eve, and so if you're like us, you've probably already started thinking about your New Year's resolutions.
One of the most popular, is losing weight.
Fitness experts have four tips on how you can get started for the New Years.
The key to start now.
“Start today, start now, what's the point of waiting four days when you can start now,” says fitness trainer Darin Roberts. Read the rest of this entry »
DAYTON — Grandview Medical Center was named among America’s 50 best hospitals in a study of patient outcomes during the past six years by HealthGrades, one of the nation’s leading hospital evaluators.
HealthGrades, based in Golden, Colo., issued the report Tuesday, Feb. 24, after analyzing more than 110 million hospitalization records that facilities are required to file with the federal government in order to receive Medicare and Medicaid Read the rest of this entry »
commissioner, Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, said Tuesday that he would resign on
Day, Jan. 20, part of a parade of expected departures at the nation’s crucial public health agencies.
Leaders of these agencies have sometimes straddled administrations, but the
is expected to make a clean sweep in part because of repeated assertions that the Bush administration allowed politics to play an unusually forceful role in science policy, and because Read the rest of this entry »
With California unemployment rates at an all-time high, people are facing a double whammy — losing their job and their health care. A new report finds it will take a big bite out of your unemployment check to keep your health insurance. Kelley Weiss reports.
The report is by the consumer advocacy group Families USA. It shows most laid-off workers have to spend about three-quarters of their unemployment benefits to keep their health care insurance. Read the rest of this entry »
(HealthNewsDigest.com)-A world of benefits to you and your growing baby is at your feet…if, doctors say, you move those feet. Regular, moderate exercise–favorites include walking and water aerobics–can help reduce the risk of developing gestational diabetes for some women; lessen pregnancy-related woes such as backache, bloating and constipation; increase energy; and improve mood.
“Even women who weren’t exercising before becoming pregnant can Read the rest of this entry »
Salix Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. (NASDAQ:SLXP) today announced that the
Company has received a complete response letter from the U.S. Food and
Drug Administration (FDA) for its New Drug Application (NDA) for
balsalazide tablet studied as a treatment of mild-to-moderate active
ulcerative colitis in patients 18 years and older. Based on its review,
the FDA has determined that the application cannot be approved in its
present form and that clinical data from Read the rest of this entry »