Dr. Kevin M. Sherin, director of the Orange County Health Department, has been elected president of the
.
He will serve two years as president of the statewide group that represents all county health departments across the state. The association works to influence public health policy and assist with training and education for county health departments to promote health and prevent disease.
Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He became director Read the rest of this entry »

Doctors group rips U. of C. hospital
A national emergency doctors’ group on Thursday said the University of Chicago Medical Center is “dangerously close” to violating federal laws with its policy of steering some of its emergency room patients to other hospitals and clinics on the South Side.
In a statement, the American College of Emergency Physicians said it has “grave concerns that the University of Chicago’s policy toward emergency patients Read the rest of this entry »

The Honolulu 100, Ala Moana Park’s “Hoa Paka” or park partner, donated an $80,000 fitness center to Ala Moana Park Monday.
The upgraded fitness station is the first of two built at Magic Island, and is designed to encourage community support for the park’s recreational facilities.
“Whatever way we can assist the park in making it better for all of us in the community,” Project Recreation Director Les Chang said.
Park visitors can stop by the Read the rest of this entry »

AP National Writer= The decision by the Food and Drug Administration to allow U.S.-manufactured infant formula contaminated with melamine or its byproducts onto store shelves is “seriously flawed” and medically risky because parents may feed their babies more than one product, scientists at the nonprofit group Consumers Union said Friday.
The FDA detected melamine and its byproduct cyanuric acid separately in four of 89 containers Read the rest of this entry »

Throughout the 1970’s and 1980’s we had “aerobics”. One word for one thing, high impact, freestyle aerobic dance ala Jane Fonda. I hate to admit it, but I was there! I started teaching in the early 1980’s. It was all high impact and as an instructor, we taught “freestyle”. We had our little group of moves, but we just made it up as we went along. After the 30 or so minutes of cardio, we would do 30 minutes of calisthenics for toning. Unfortunately, Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. consumer group said Thursday it filed a class action lawsuit against Coca-Cola Co, accusing the company of making deceptive health claims about its VitaminWater beverages.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) said Coke made a range of claims that go beyond those allowed by the Food and Drug Administration.
“Coke markets VitaminWater as a healthful alternative to soda by labeling its several flavors Read the rest of this entry »

A year later “Stormy” was a hit, and “Traces of Love” made it to No. 2 in 1969. That same year, the group had a top 20 hit with “Everyday With You Girl.”
Buddy Buie, co-writer of the group’s songs with guitarist J.R. Cobb, said: “Dennis had an incredible voice — just a great voice for love songs.”
The group eventually changed its name to “Dennis Yost and the Classics IV.”
Although the group’s lineup changed, Yost continued to perform with the Read the rest of this entry »

Bev Anderson, president of the Northern California Chapter of the Neuropathy Association, remembers struggling with neuropathy as a child.
“I have had it since I was in preschool,” said the 73-year-old Anderson, who is from Colfax. “Kids that can do the balance beam well without looking is not something that I can do. I have to watch where I’m walking.”
Neuropathy is any disease of the nervous system, and peripheral neuropathy is a deranged function Read the rest of this entry »

It was Democracy 101 — nine citizen-soldiers responding to a battle call for government reform, gathered around lattes and quiche in a downtown San Jose cafe, brainstorming ways to help President-elect Barack Obama ride to the rescue of an expensive, bloated and inequitable health care system.
At the invitation of the Obama-Biden Transition Project, the grass-roots gang, most of whom had never met, filled a corner of Caffe Trieste for two Read the rest of this entry »

’s request for approval to market its device for treating heart failure.
New Brighton-based Acorn has struggled in recent years to win the government’s OK for the CorCap product. In 2006, a
(FDA) dispute-resolution panel voted against approving Acorn’s device. But in May of last year, the FDA reached an agreement with Acorn that allowed the firm to conduct a new clinical trial, which has yet to wrap up.
The consumer group, Read the rest of this entry »