announced Monday it will eliminate 100 jobs by the end of February and freeze capital spending on anything that doesn’t have a binding contract in place.
About 80 percent of the jobs cut by HCMC are currently vacant, but the other 20 percent of the cuts will be a combination of layoffs and reduced hours.
The job and spending cuts are a response to Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s reduction of $73 million in Minnesota Health and Human Services funding Read the rest of this entry »

Dozens of residents of low-income housing and shelters have lost their subsidized fitness memberships at the Calgary YWCA.
The organization recently decided it couldn’t afford to offset the cost of the memberships for people living in places such as the Salvation Army and Inn From the Cold.
Lee Fletcher, a YWCA director, said the association saw the demand for subsidized memberships jump considerably, just as donors began scaling back. The organization Read the rest of this entry »

Vitami.n C lowers bloo.d pressur.e
Sunday November 9, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) — Survivors
from first heart attack might want to consider using a low fat or Mediterranean
diet and both drastically reduce future cardiovascular events, according to a
new study.
Use of a low fat or Mediterranean diet reduced the risk
of cardiovascular events and mortality by about 70 percent in patients who experienced first heart attack, the study found.
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(Updated to add Fitch comments in the fifth paragraph; updates stock quote.)
Cardinal Health Inc.
(CAH), while lowering its earnings outlook for this
fiscal year because of hospital customers’ spending delays, is sticking with a
plan to spin off its clinical and medical products business this year.
The drug wholesaler and medical-equipment supplier lowered its full-year
outlook Thursday, citing the effect on the clinical and medical products, Read the rest of this entry »

PUERTO VALLARTA, Mexico (AP) — The U.S. is suspending a trade deal with Bolivia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday. She called it unfortunate but necessary because Bolivian President Evo Morales has failed to improve anti-drug efforts.
Rice made the announcement just as Bolivian envoys arrived at the U.S. Trade Representative’s office in Washington to lobby for continued participation in the Andean trade pact, which lowers Read the rest of this entry »

John McCain would pay for his health plan with major reductions to Medicare and Medicaid, a top aide said, in a move that independent analysts estimate could result in cuts of $1.3 trillion over 10 years to the government programs.
The Republican presidential nominee has said little about the proposed cuts, but they are needed to keep his health-care plan “budget neutral,” as he has promised. The McCain campaign hasn’t given a specific figure for Read the rest of this entry »

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As Economy Falters, Many States Cut Back on Medicaid
as revenue falls and more people are out of work and without private health insurance, the
reports. Nineteen states have already lowered payments made to nursing homes and hospitals and ended coverage of certain treatments. Some states have stopped payments for services that the federal government doesn’t require them to cover, such as physical therapy, hospice care, hearing aids, and eyeglasses. Read the rest of this entry »

(RTTNews) - 
Wednesday, Symmetry Medical Inc. (SMA:
), a provider of implants and related instruments to the orthopaedic device industry, reported a profit for the third quarter compared to a loss in the prior-year quarter. Further, the company raised its revenue guidance, but cut the earnings forecast for the full year.
Net income for the third quarter of 2008 was $2.53 million or $0.07 per share compared with Read the rest of this entry »

Budgets cuts have slashed seven health care programs at University Medical Center and three of those programs deal specifically with women's health care.
A high-risk obstetrics unit, mammography services and the University Women's Center which
Twenty-year-old Danielle, who prefers not to give her last name, was born and raised in Las Vegas. She is fourteen weeks pregnant and at Nevada Health Centers OB/GYN Clinic for pre-natal care. Read the rest of this entry »