With February’s National Children’s Dental Health Month upon them, academic, industry and government leaders can point to improvements. They formed a Dental Action Committee that has won aid for local health centers; streamlined the Medicaid program; and sent hygienists into the community to provide screenings. They’ve been gaining commitments from dentists to treat poor children. They worry, however, that the bad economy will set back efforts and Read the rest of this entry »

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – COVER GIRL: MALIN AKERMAN SAVES THE WORLD…ON THE BIG SCREEN, THAT IS, page 108: This month, Akerman hits the big screen as Silk Spectre, the femme fatale in Watchmen, the movie based on the popular graphic novel. Akerman sits down with Women’s Health and reveals how to get buff, beat the bad guys, and look good in latex.
COVER GIRL: CARLA GUGINO KNOWS NO LIMITS, page 36: Watchmen star Carla Gugino shares her no-fail strategies Read the rest of this entry »

New Haven (AP) – While most industries are cutting jobs on a seemingly daily basis, the health care industry is seeing growth in Connecticut.
More doctors and nurses and qualified health care professionals are finding jobs. Industry watchers say the trend reflects the growing needs of the nation as baby-boomers age and start needing more intensive health care.
The Connecticut Department of Labor says the health care sector state-wide added 4,100 Read the rest of this entry »

The Apple co-founder, who is 53, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003 but has said he was cured with surgery. As The Times reported Dec. 17, however, “Appearances over the summer, in which Jobs looked unusually thin and drawn, renewed questions about his health.”
Rumors flared again this month after Apple said Jobs wouldn’t deliver the keynote address at January’s Macworld Conference & Expo, the venue the company has used for more than a Read the rest of this entry »

Jan. 21 (Bloomberg) — U.S. regulators are examining
’s
health problems to ensure investors weren’t misled, a person
familiar with the matter said.
The Securities and Exchange Commission’s review doesn’t
mean investigators have seen evidence of wrongdoing, the person
said, declining to be identified because the inquiry isn’t
public.
Bloomberg News reported last week that Jobs is considering
a liver transplant as a result of complications Read the rest of this entry »

Did Apple Lie About Steve Jobs’s Health?
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Jan 14, 2009 12:49 PM
Update, 5 pm EST: Several hours after I posted this blog, Apple announced that Jobs is
.
Apple seems to have learned from Bill Clinton. Like our randy former chief executive being questioned about his sex life, Apple handled Steve Jobs’ ongoing health problems by making statements that were literally true, but ultimately misleading. That’s going to have Apple watchers taking Read the rest of this entry »

Steve Jobs, Patrick Swayze raise awareness of deadly pancreatic cancer
Updated
Friday, January 16th 2009, 5:38 PM
It’s a deadly disease with a dismally poor survival rate and so few initial symptoms that sufferers often don’t know they have it until it’s too late.
– made headlines this week.
Swayze, diagnosed a year ago with the most common and grimmest form of the disease, was hospitalized with pneumonia last Friday. And Wednesday, Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Barack Obama has increased his employment goal with the nation’s economic outlook worsening, seeking to create or save 3 million jobs in the next two years instead of the 2.5 million he proposed last month.
Obama set the more ambitious target earlier this week after meeting with top economic advisers who cautioned that the nation’s unemployment rate could exceed 9 percent given the current pace of job losses, Read the rest of this entry »

Miami County residents can rest assured that upcoming personnel changes at Miami County Medical Center will not result in a reduction of health care services.
On Monday, Miami County Medical Center Chief Operations Officer Jerry Wiesner verified that eight job positions are going to be transferred to Olathe Medical Center as part of an ongoing process. However, he said, the jobs to be transferred are not health care positions, and the medical center Read the rest of this entry »

A New Jersey hospital system is eliminating 180 jobs, citing the strain of the national economic downturn.
Denville-based Saint Clare’s Health Systems said Wednesday that 100 workers are being laid off immediately and another 80 full-time positions would be eliminated in a move to reduce costs and improve productivity.
Leslie Hirsch, St. Clare’s president and chief executive officer, said the jobs were eliminated across the four-hospital system.
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