Oak Cliff baby, brain damaged after injury, taken off life support
09:29 PM CST on Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Darlene Diles spent the first 17 days of her life in her mother’s care before an injury on Jan. 30 left her with severe brain damage.
She spent the remaining days of her life hooked to tubes and machines inside Children’s Medical Center Dallas, where doctors blamed her head injury on child abuse.
On Tuesday afternoon, Read the rest of this entry »

has settled on Gov.
of Kansas, a key ally with a record of working across party lines, as his top choice for secretary of health and human services, advisers said Wednesday.
Should she be nominated, Ms. Sebelius would bring eight years of experience as her state’s insurance commissioner as well as six years as a governor running a state
program. But with Mr. Obama about to begin a drive to expand health coverage — an issue on which Read the rest of this entry »

Fullerton, CA, February 11, 2009 –(
)– MBody Strength has added the CloseGrip Weighted Vest to their fitness equipment lineup. In their ongoing mission to provide their customers with high-quality, low-cost, effective fitness equipment, MBody Strength is proud to offer the innovative CloseGrip Weighted Vest, which uses standard weight plates found in most home gyms.
“The CloseGrip Weighted Vest is a cost-effective way to get into resistance Read the rest of this entry »

For most newly unemployed workers, maintaining family health coverage through an extension of workplace benefits is a prohibitively expensive proposition, a recent study suggests.
With unemployment hitting a 16-year high in December – and even higher in January – measures such as federal subsidies to help jobless people afford coverage are all the more urgent, argues Families USA Foundation Inc., a national advocacy organization for health care Read the rest of this entry »

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – COVER GIRL: MALIN AKERMAN SAVES THE WORLD…ON THE BIG SCREEN, THAT IS, page 108: This month, Akerman hits the big screen as Silk Spectre, the femme fatale in Watchmen, the movie based on the popular graphic novel. Akerman sits down with Women’s Health and reveals how to get buff, beat the bad guys, and look good in latex.
COVER GIRL: CARLA GUGINO KNOWS NO LIMITS, page 36: Watchmen star Carla Gugino shares her no-fail strategies Read the rest of this entry »

“It’s kind of like a hall of fame for teenage bodybuilders,” says the 40-year-old in a thick British accent. “To be even ranked with people like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lee Haney, all those bodybuilders are fantastic bodybuilders. And it’s of all time, it’s not just of our era. This is from the beginning of bodybuilding to present day. So it made me feel really good, actually.”
The magazine also made mention Read the rest of this entry »

Lines leading from the new Gulf Coast Medical Center in south Fort Myers looked more like the line for a ride at Disney World than for a hospital tour.
But, crowds came to take in all the new facility, walking around the 436,000 square feet of new construction in groups of 20.
Rose Digiorgio, 69, said she came to see it for peace of mind.
“Nobody wants to go to the hospital, but it’s great to know it’s here if you need it,” she said. “Plus Read the rest of this entry »

Pain, Suffering, and Early Death
, provisions have been tucked into the Obama s
timulus package that would, in effect, take the ability of making medical decisions away from doctors and grant them to the federal government.
provisions of the Obama stimulus package would create a national database that would track every person’s medical records, including
they are taking and treatments they are receiving. This, so far, is actually a good thing. Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON – Health-care advocates are actively campaigning to persuade Barack Obama to cross a leading candidate off his short-list for secretary of Health and Human Services: Tennessee Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen. And, in an unusual move for an official under consideration, the governor is fighting back publicly.
“Anybody who’s got some real scars and experience is going to have their detractors,” the governor said Monday in an interview Read the rest of this entry »