Many of those working on health-reform issues in Congress and the new administration were part of the failed effort during the Clinton administration. One of their lessons learned was to make the effort more of an open process — so now is the time for HR leaders to make their views known.
Tomorrow, the nation will enter the era of President Barack Obama. The initial efforts of national health reform are likely to be signed into law before he Read the rest of this entry »
Better fitness, less paper are police department goals
Chief Dial is out of town this week, and it’s my pleasure to fill in for him. I enjoy occasionally writing these columns because it’s fun to share some “inside” information about the Naperville Police Department.
These are interesting times for all of us, not just in Naperville but throughout the country and the world we’re connected to. And I mean “interesting times” in the sense of Read the rest of this entry »
“May God make you be victorious,” she said. “I cannot stand what is happening to your people.”
Neither, apparently, can Hussein, a Palestinian policeman whose right arm was broken when Israeli missiles hit his police academy Dec. 27. Hussein voted for
in the last election but said he never joined their militia. That’s about to change.
“I want to go back and fight with Hamas,” he said.
strategy in Gaza is to crush Hamas’s will to fight, especially Read the rest of this entry »
SHERMAN, Tex. ― If you have ever made the New Year’s resolution to lose weight and get in shape, you are not alone. But several people this year are finding a new way to stick to it.
A recent survey by nutritionists and dieticians shows less people are signing up for gym memberships than in previous years and more are instead turning to fitness books.
Many folks are turning to bookstores and buying fitness books instead of buying Read the rest of this entry »
Medicine is a humbling profession. Just as you begin to feel good about the way you handled a patient’s concern or your perceived profound insight into a medical condition, something occurs that puts you in your place. So it was last Friday when my final patient of the day came to see me because of “a concern.” I had delivered her beautiful baby girl a number of months earlier. Apparently, over the past few weeks, she had been seeing a psychologist Read the rest of this entry »
Yet despite the slowdown, most health-care costs continue to rise, with consumers’ out-of-pocket expenses having increased 40 percent in the last 10 years, largely due to an aging population and chronic diseases such as high blood pressure and diabetes, a second report found.
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“National health spending declined to 6.1 percent in 2007, the slowest rate of growth since 1998 and 0.6 percent lower than the 6.7 percent growth in 2006,” Micah Hartman, Read the rest of this entry »
Monday, February 16, 2009
The Prescott Area Women’s Shelter (PAWS) has announced that as of Feb. 2, the shelter has opened its doors to provide year-round emergency shelter services.
Guests must arrive between 5 and 6 p.m. for check-in procedures. Hours will be overnight, from 5 p.m. until 8 a.m. Women and their children (male children must be younger than 12) will be admitted if they agree to abide by the rules and regulations of the shelter, Read the rest of this entry »
*Much has been said about drugs and gun trafficking and how it could be stopped if government and law enforcement agencies weren’t in cahoots with powerful profiteers that keep the money flowing.
In “The International” a similar situation exist that pretty much explains why Joe public and the poor have to bail out failing banks—and this is on a global level—while they continue to wreak havoc on the Read the rest of this entry »
There is no absolute number of drinks per day that defines alcoholism. Learn the behavior and body reactions that constitute alcoholism.
By removing toxins from your home you can make you and your family healthier in the long run. Here are ten ways to do just that.
So you want a cool job huh? Find out what you could be making to do something you love.
Check out the New Model Showcase and see all the new cars that will be hitting the roads for Read the rest of this entry »
CONCORD — Several off the 546 adults who participated in a new consumer survey about the state’s mental health system had positive things to report. One person said their community mental health center “changed my life by allowing me to get ’stabilized’ to really begin to heal myself back to where I was before I collapsed … .”
Others had negative experiences to report when it came quality of treatment, services, accessibility and staffing. Read the rest of this entry »