A Nashville judge has ruled the state was wrong to refuse to pay for special foods for two young TennCare patients with a rare genetic disorder.
State officials fought the decision, fearing it could lead to a flood of requests from people who want TennCare to cover food for medical diets.
Chancellor Carol McCoy ruled Wednesday in favor of two Coffee County children.
The children have phenylketonuria, an incurable disease that can cause permanent Read the rest of this entry »

LOUDONVILLE ” Around New Year’s Day last year, Tom Motz was facing some significant health issues. His physician, Dr. Deborah Fast of Wooster, had warned him he had to lose some weight.
“She told me my cholesterol and triglyceride levels were both up to where they were items of concern, I was on medicine to control my high blood pressure, and I was having so much trouble sleeping I started participating in a sleep apnea clinic,” Motz said.
So Read the rest of this entry »

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — Charleston Area Medical Center and its foundation lost a combined $1 million in investments with Bernie Madoff, the New York financier accused of running a Ponzi scheme that bilked investors of $50 billion.
The foundation lost about $800,000 and the hospital lost about $200,000.
Gail Pitchford, president of the foundation, says the hospital’s philanthropic arm still has $143.8 million in assets.
Pitchford says the loss Read the rest of this entry »

O’Connor Hospital got a bit of a scare Monday afternoon when its emergency generator failed to kick in during a power outage in San Jose.
About 3:25 p.m., an outage on Bascom Avenue from Hamilton to Forest avenues knocked out power to 1,200 customers, including O’Connor Hospital.
When the hospital’s emergency generator failed to activate, the hospital called San Jose fire officials, who transported two patients from its emergency room to Valley Read the rest of this entry »

10:43 AM CST on Tuesday, January 27, 2009
By JANET ST. JAMES / WFAA-TV
It was recently ranked one of America’s healthiest diets behind an in-patient diet treatment center and ahead of Weight Watchers.
The baggy pants are proof.
“They’re a size 26,” said Brenda Willis.
She used to be more than 100 pounds heavier.
“I couldn’t button them. They would just cut into my stomach they were so tight,” she said.
How she went from Read the rest of this entry »

A Croatian man has lost 160 pounds in just six months on a diet of garlic and onions.
The man weighed more than 360 pounds and doctors warned him to lose weight or risk dying.
The man says he tried several diets that didn’t work but then started living off garlic and onions on a plain biscuit with carrot juice.
Doctors warn against the radical diet.
One of the man’s friends says that while he looks great “his breath is really rancid.”
Copyright Read the rest of this entry »

O’Connor Hospital got a bit of a scare Monday afternoon when its emergency generator failed to kick in after an outage left more than 1,000 customers without power in central San Jose.
At about 3:25 p.m., an outage on Bascom Avenue from Hamilton to Forest avenues knocked power to 1,200 customers, including O’Connor Hospital.
When the hospital’s emergency generator failed to activate, the hospital called San Jose fire officials who transported Read the rest of this entry »

. Although she never appeared on the TV show, she lost 115 pounds within a year and a half….by utilizing a common sense approach to diet and exercise.
One of the first steps towards the journey of losing weight was to begin to eat differently …no more pasta or bad carbs rather her meals consisted of fish or chicken and tons of vegetables.
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The president and chief executive officer of Clayton County’s troubled hospital resigned Friday —- hours after creditors agreed to give the hospital more time to find the money to remain open.
Edward Bonn resigned as head of Southern Regional Health System after eight years. His resignation is effective Dec. 31.
He leaves the health system, which includes the 331-bed hospital in Riverdale, with a possible reprieve to its financial Read the rest of this entry »

10:43 AM CST on Tuesday, January 27, 2009
By JANET ST. JAMES / WFAA-TV
It was recently ranked one of America’s healthiest diets behind an in-patient diet treatment center and ahead of Weight Watchers.
The baggy pants are proof.
“They’re a size 26,” said Brenda Willis.
She used to be more than 100 pounds heavier.
“I couldn’t button them. They would just cut into my stomach they were so tight,” she said.
How she went from Read the rest of this entry »