The Northeast Iowa Food and Fitness Initiative (FFI) has announced it is seeking requests for activities to support and build on its efforts. This initiative is about people working together to create vibrant communities where the healthy choice is the easy choice.
This work began in April 2007 when the W.K. Kellogg Foundation selected Northeast Iowa as one of nine communities locations across the country to become models of community change. Each Read the rest of this entry »

Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Offers New Tools for the New Year to Help Women
Identify and Discuss Symptoms of Low Testosterone in their Husbands and Male
Partners

MARIETTA, Ga., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Nine out of 10 women in
the United States are unaware that if their husband or male partner
experiences symptoms like fatigue, depressed mood and increased waistline it
could be related to a condition known as low testosterone, or Low T, according
to Read the rest of this entry »

Making good on a longtime Democratic goal, federal lawmakers and President Barack Obama have approved an expansion of the state Children’s Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP. The measure will continue health-care coverage for about 7 million children already enrolled in SCHIP and extend coverage to another 4 million children.
The SCHIP expansion, costing $35 billion over five years, is worthwhile given rising unemployment and an increasingly bleak Read the rest of this entry »

, Senator
, the chairman of the Finance Committee, will unveil a detailed blueprint on Wednesday to guarantee health insurance for all Americans by facilitating sales of private insurance, expanding
, and requiring most employers to provide or pay for health benefits.
Aides to Mr. Obama said they welcomed the Congressional efforts, had encouraged Congress to take the lead and still considered health care a top priority, despite the urgent need Read the rest of this entry »

AMHERSTBURG — The Amherstburg Family Health Team (AFHT) has received approval from the Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) to implement the delivery of health-related services via videoconferencing said Mike Levitt, Administrator.
The Ontario Telemedicine Network (OTN) is an independent, not-for-profit organization that is funded by the Government of Ontario. “Telemedicine” is the delivery of health-related services and information using telecommunications Read the rest of this entry »

Mich. Voters Divided On Ballot Initiative To Allow Embryonic Stem Cell Research
, a ballot measure that would amend the state constitution to allow embryos created for fertility treatments that otherwise would be discarded to be used for stem cell research, the
reports. The proposed amendment pits the state’s public and private biological research centers against conservative Catholic and evangelical groups who oppose the research, the
reports Read the rest of this entry »

Tony Miller spends his days in a towel-draped chair, heavily medicated and sweating profusely as prostate cancer spreads through his body. Over and over again, he changes out of drenched T-shirts and shorts, puts them on a hanger to dry and then goes back to his chair to sweat some more.
After a lifetime of international travel as a journalist, the 65-year-old Miller has made this one-room apartment in Portland his final home.
Miller was drawn Read the rest of this entry »

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provides a full spectrum of consumer-oriented health benefit plans and
services to individuals, public sector employers and businesses of all
sizes, including more than half of the Fortune 100 companies. The
company organizes access to quality, affordable health care services on
behalf of more than 25 million individual consumers, contracting
directly with more than 560,000 physicians and care professionals Read the rest of this entry »

Solvay Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Offers New Tools for the New Year to Help Women Identify and Discuss Symptoms of Low Testosterone in their Husbands and Male Partners MARIETTA, Ga., Jan. 5

MARIETTA, Ga., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Nine out of 10 women in
the United States are unaware that if their husband or male partner
experiences symptoms like fatigue, depressed mood and increased waistline it
could be related to a condition known as low testosterone, Read the rest of this entry »

Tue, 10 Feb 2009 03:50
San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom and his wife Jennifer Seibel
Newsom will promote a charity event this morning benefiting the city’s
fitness initiative.
The program, “Shape Up San Francisco,” promotes healthy eating and
physical activity.
All day Tuesday, seven local Crunch fitness clubs will have
trainers offer guests personal training sessions for $30 or $50, with
proceeds donated to the initiative.
Newsom Read the rest of this entry »