Dec. 19, 2008 — An 11th-hour ruling from the Bush administration gives health care workers, hospitals, and insurers more leeway to refuse health services for moral or religious reasons.
The rule, issued today, becomes effective in 30 days. Its main provisions widen the number of health workers and institutions that may refuse, based on “sincere religious belief or moral conviction,” to provide care or referrals to patients.
“This rule protects Read the rest of this entry »
Montpelier, Vermont – December 31, 2008
Labor Commissioner Patricia Moulton Powden says she spends a lot of time sitting at her desk. But she plans to be more active in 2009.
“It's always a New Year's resolution, lose weight, get healthy, stop swearing, get more exercise,” she said. “I figured this is a good motivator.”
The motivator — a new competition between the governors and cabinets of 20 states. Moulton Powden is one of about Read the rest of this entry »
don’t really need them, and kids who eat poorly and are most likely to benefit from nutritional supplements rarely get them, a new study reports.
The results surprised researchers, said lead author Dr. Ulfat Shaikh, a pediatrician at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine who treats children with nutritional problems.
,” she said. “We actually found the opposite.”
The children who used supplements the Read the rest of this entry »
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN)
— Doctors remained optimistic Friday that all eight babies born last month to a California woman will fully develop without major complications.
All of the octuplets are breathing on their own and continue to receive tube-fed donated pasteurized breast milk, Kaiser Permanente Hospital spokeswoman Socorro Serrano said. Only two of the six were being supplemented with intravenous nutritional combinations.
“Premature Read the rest of this entry »
, Times staff writer
In print: Monday, December 29, 2008
Dawna Stone is 40, has a 15-month-old daughter and her own business, but still finds time for her morning run — most of the time, anyway. She’s the founder and publisher of the newly renamed
Women’s Running,
a magazine based in St. Petersburg that has a circulation of 90,000. The magazine used to be called
, but so many readers focussed on running that Stone decided Read the rest of this entry »
Hospitals are stopping or postponing construction projects that would not only improve community health care, but also increase jobs and support the local economy, according to a new survey released Thursday by the
.
The survey, to which 639 hospital CEOs across the country responded, showed that hospitals’ ability to obtain the necessary funds to upgrade their facilities or invest in new clinical and information technologies is severely Read the rest of this entry »
FARGO (AP) â Parents of Fargo middle school students can soon test their children for drugs.
Project 7th Grade, a Phoenix, Ariz.-based group, provides the kits to school systems, police and other organizations at no charge. The tests rely on urine samples.
Sullivan Middle school is the only school in North Dakota participating in the project, officials said.
âNo family, no schools are exempt,â Fargo police officer Mike Clower Read the rest of this entry »
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) — If you’re among the millions of women who suffer from urinary incontinence, losing weight might just ease your symptoms, a new study suggests.
Published in the Jan. 29 issue of the
, the study found that when women lost about 8 percent of their body weight — an average of 17 pounds for this group — the frequency of incontinence episodes dropped by almost half.
“Weight is one of the biggest risk factors Read the rest of this entry »
By Mike Adams, January 16, 2009 | Key concepts:
,
Have you ever seen a dark, horrifying psychiatric ward in a Hollywood movie? You know, the kind where the patients are abused by hospital workers, overdosed with medications to keep them sedated, and then dumped on the streets when the insurance money runs out? That’s no Hollywood fiction: It’s the way psychiatric hospitals are run in the state of Georgia.
The U.S. Justice Department launched Read the rest of this entry »
The Bethany Health Care Center, a 169-bed non-profit home sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph, is one of 33 nursing homes nationwide to earn top ratings across all categories in scores posted on a federal government website. McCarthy says giving workers health insurance, pensions and low-cost meals pays off. Turnover is low, and nursing assistants care for the same people each day, allowing them to get to know residents.
“If the resident doesn’t Read the rest of this entry »