September 10, 2008 13:17:00
The head of the Gippsland Women’s Health Service, Dianne Wilkinson, says she was disappointed by the debate in State Parliament on the Abortion Law Reform Bill.
The legislation will allow women to decide whether to have an abortion up to the 24th week of pregnancy.
After that, two medical practitioners would be required to sign off on the decision.
Ms Wilkinson says the debate should not be about the moral and ethical Read the rest of this entry »
Debate: Obama, McCain Talk Health Care
Oct. 8, 2008 (Nashville, Tenn.) — The economy and foreign policy may have dominated, but last night’s second presidential debate also included a substantive face-to-face discussion of health care policy between Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama.
Both candidates vowed to make health care reform a top priority in their first year in office.
McCain called health care “one of the major challenges America Read the rest of this entry »
By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Keep your health insurance you already have. I will try to cut premiums by $2,500 a year (but he doesn’t say how).
Obama says others without health care will get choice of doctors, at low cost, just like Congress does. Again, Obama doesn’t talk about how to afford this, beyond cutting out bureaucracy. But he admits it will “cost some money on the front end.”
wants to give individual Read the rest of this entry »
Backed by both presidential candidates, Silicon Valley tech giants and other companies are leading an effort to create electronic health records containing data about your most intimate health conditions — from your bunions and bad back to your chronic hemorrhoids and psychiatric history — so the information can be easily shared with doctors, insurers and others.
Proponents of electronic health records believe they can dramatically cut Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans appear to have overplayed their hand when blocking the expansion of a children’s health care program last year.
They face the likelihood that Democrats in the coming weeks will pass a bill that they dislike even more.
With more Democrats in Congress and President Barack Obama in the White House, GOP lawmakers don’t have the numbers or a veto threat to do anything about it.
The Senate planned to begin debate Read the rest of this entry »
ST. PAUL–As the drug Salvia becomes more popular, some Minnesota
lawmakers want to put usage restrictions, while some researchers believe it could be an efficient medical treatment.
Salvia Divinorum is a member of the mint family that is dried and then smoked.
and it can be found in head shops around the Twin Cities.
There are over 5,000 videos on YouTube.com that show people tripping out on salvia.
Those videos prompted State Representative Read the rest of this entry »
Backed by both presidential candidates, Silicon Valley tech giants and other companies are leading an effort to create electronic health records containing data about your most intimate health conditions — from your bunions and bad back to your chronic hemorrhoids and psychiatric history — so the information can be easily shared with doctors, insurers and others.
Proponents of electronic health records believe they can dramatically cut Read the rest of this entry »
There seems to be a lot of bickering when it comes to who’s to blame for the skyrocketing costs of health care.
in September released a survey that called on health insurance plans to cut inefficiencies and control their costs to help stem the annual spikes in health care bills.
The Massachusetts Division of Insurance shot back in October with a report that points to doctors and hospitals as the primary causes behind the double-digit inflation Read the rest of this entry »
The debate over New York's so-called “fat tax” – an 18% tax on all non-diet soda and juices with sugar added to them – is taking place online.
The state health commissioner, Richard Daines, MD, posted a 5 minute video onto the video-sharing site YouTube on December 26th. “No one likes to hear about new taxes, but some taxes can be good for you,” says Dr. Daines in the video.
Just three days later, the video has been viewed more than 15,000 Read the rest of this entry »
Nov 20 (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Barack Obama has chosen former Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle to lead his drive to overhaul the U.S. health system. Daschle’s nomination as secretary of health and human services would have to be confirmed by the Senate.
Here are some of the challenges Daschle will face and some of the advantages he brings to the U.S. healthcare debate:
Healthcare costs in the United States are rising faster than wages Read the rest of this entry »