January 20, 2009
January 19, 2009
January 18, 2009
January 17, 2009
January 16, 2009
January 15, 2009
January 14, 2009
January 13, 2009
January 18, 2009 – January 24, 2009
January 11, 2009 – January 17, 2009
January 4, 2009 – January 10, 2009
December 28, 2008 – January 3, 2009
December 21, 2008 – December 27, 2008
December 14, 2008 – December 20, 2008
December 7, 2008 – December 13, 2008
November 30, 2008 – December Read the rest of this entry »

Imagine being a teenager, taken by your family to another state and dropped off at a hospital — so someone else would take responsibility for you.
It’s happened twice over the last week in Nebraska.
In one case, a 13 year old Michigan boy got in a car with his mom, who drove over 700 miles to Omaha to leave him at a medical center in the middle of the night.
In another case, a 14 year old Iowa girl was deposited by her grandparents at Omaha’s Read the rest of this entry »

Here are some of the stories that will be on-line Sunday, as well as in our print editions this weekend,
stories you haven’t read in any other news source!
says crime is down, but the 2008
statistics tell a different story.
Crime is down in some categories, true, but not in murder and rape. In the wake of a tragic shooting in the quiet Hamilton Park neighborhood on Tuesday morning, a block from McNair Academic High School, downtown residents Read the rest of this entry »

Two families donated a total of $6 million Thursday toward the construction of a women’s health center at Holy Cross HealthPlex, an affiliate of Holy Cross Hospital, a nonprofit facility in Oakland Park.
The Harry T. Mangurian Jr. Foundation, operated by furniture store owner and developer Harry T. Mangurian Jr. and his wife Dorothy, donated $5 million to the center, which will be named the Dorothy Mangurian Comprehensive Women’s Center. The gift Read the rest of this entry »

Officials in the US state of Nebraska have received 18 ‘unwanted’ youths since July, including a 13-year-old boy whose mother drove for 12 hours from Michigan to take advantage of a ’safe-haven’ law preventing prosecution for abandonment.
The rule, designed to prevent the deaths of unwanted babies by allowing mothers to hand them into hospitals, has been enacted in other states including Texas but Nebraska offers to protect children as old as 19.
Read the rest of this entry »

BEIJING — More than 200 families of children sickened by tainted milk have filed a lawsuit against milk producers in China’s highest court, escalating the backlash over China’s biggest product-safety scandal in recent history.
The 213 families filed their suit with the Supreme People’s Court by mail late last week, said Xu Zhiyong, a Beijing-based attorney who is one of the lawyers representing the families. The court hasn’t said whether it will Read the rest of this entry »

The lowest-paid U.S. service members make barely more than $1,100 a month. Families that lack access to limited military housing often can’t afford to rent decent housing in the private sector, and some that own homes are facing foreclosure. At least 500,000 military families have incomes low enough to qualify for the earned income tax credit.
Military families often live far from immediate or extended family members who could support them in times Read the rest of this entry »

Edge of Life: Dallas hospital team helps families, doctors with dying
11:44 AM CST on Sunday, December 14, 2008
Min Patel huddled in a fourth-floor hallway with Dr. Edward Taylor near an intensive care unit, where the trauma surgeon’s patient lay tethered to a ventilator. Seven intravenous pumps pushed a cocktail of chemicals into his body to fight infection and keep his heart pumping. The stakes didn’t get any higher Read the rest of this entry »

Finding useful resources is one of the most important — and often hardest — challenges facing families who have a special needs child.
Fortunately, there’s a center in Illinois devoted to helping these families negotiate the often perilous byways of the health care system — the
.
“These are some of the questions that we answer every day,” the center explains on its web site:
How can I get health insurance for my child with special needs?
Read the rest of this entry »

Edge of Life: Dallas hospital team helps families, doctors with dying
11:50 AM CST on Sunday, December 14, 2008
Min Patel huddled in a fourth-floor hallway with Dr. Edward Taylor near an intensive care unit, where the trauma surgeon’s patient lay tethered to a ventilator. Seven intravenous pumps pushed a cocktail of chemicals into his body to fight infection and keep his heart pumping. The stakes didn’t get any higher Read the rest of this entry »