Tenet Healthcare Corp.’s
(THC) fourth-quarter loss narrowed as the hospital
operator saw improved results amid higher prices.
The company also projected a 2009 loss bigger than expectations,
, according to
Thomson Reuters. Revenue is seen rising to
$9 billion to $9.2 billion
, in line
with estimates, with admissions growth of as much as 1%. Last year’s admissions
increase was 1.2%.
Tenet, which has been struggling to gain its footing after Read the rest of this entry »
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 »
Americans who have lost their job since September 2008 and are paying to extend your company-sponsored health insurance under a law called COBRA,
confirm what you already know: The payments are killing you. In 41 states, according to a recent
, average COBRA payments amounted to more than three-quarters of those states’ average unemployment benefits.
But according to the fine print of the stimulus bill being hammered out between the U.S. Senate Read the rest of this entry »
‘Flat Belly Diet’: a review of the hot new diet book–will it be your ticket to weight loss in 2009?
Well, well, well; it’s December 31st and people all across the fruited plain are engaging in a time-honored American tradition –making resolutions to lose weight.
Every year sees its own crop of hip new diet plans (remember Atkins? The South Beach Diet? The Zone?); this year’s frontrunner looks Liz Vaccariello’s
, delightfully subtitled
A Read the rest of this entry »
Amgen Inc.
said Wednesday the Food and Drug Administration accepted its application for the bone loss drug candidate denosumab, and the company expects the agency to make a ruling by Oct. 19.
) asked the FDA to approve the drug in December in a Biologics License Application. Regulators did not accept the application until Wednesday, but they intend to make their ruling 10 months from the date of the submission.
The biotechnology company wants Read the rest of this entry »
Color additives made from insects will have to be disclosed on food and cosmetics labels by 2011 because of the possibility of allergic reactions, under a new rule from the Food and Drug Administration.
The red dyes derived from carmine and cochineal extract — from the cochineal insect — must be named specifically instead of described generically as “artificial color,” as they are now, the FDA said. The labels won’t have to disclose that the ingredients Read the rest of this entry »
For Mathson, who is undergoing chemotherapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma and had knee surgery in September, the news got worse last week. The mill, which shut down, informed him it could no longer afford to offer health or welfare programs to any employees or retirees as of Jan. 1.
Two years short of Medicare eligibility and beset by health problems, Mathson’s options for health care are limited and expensive.
“There is insurance out there, but they’re Read the rest of this entry »
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 28 (HealthDay News) — If you’re among the millions of women who suffer from urinary incontinence, losing weight might just ease your symptoms, a new study suggests.
Published in the Jan. 29 issue of the
, the study found that when women lost about 8 percent of their body weight — an average of 17 pounds for this group — the frequency of incontinence episodes dropped by almost half.
“Weight is one of the biggest risk factors Read the rest of this entry »
A new study from the US found that moderate weight reduction helped to reduce urinary incontinence among overweight and obese women. The research was the work of first author of Dr Leslee Subak from the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and colleagues, and is published online in the 29 January issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Subak is an obstetrician/gynecologist at the Women’s Continence Center in the UCSF Read the rest of this entry »
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
PALM BEACH GARDENS — It's New Year's Eve and you've just decided 2009 is the time to lose those extra pounds.
Where do you go?
Do you try the South Beach Diet, Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers or some new diet on the Internet?
Here's a thought: Why not try a doctor?
Dr. Stuart Wanuck, a urologist, has spent years treating enlarged prostates, kidney stones and erectile dysfunction.
But since Read the rest of this entry »