Faced with the impending closing of four of Chicago’s 12 mental health centers, an advisory board prodded the city’s public health commissioner Monday and spoke of pressuring
to create a separate mental health department in the hopes of avoiding further cutbacks.
Dr. Terry Mason met with the Community Mental Health Board of Chicago and mental health activists for two hours Monday, explaining that the centers were being closed and what was Read the rest of this entry »

LIMA – The YWCA will keep its pool and fitness center open this year and wants to harness the energy generated by its proposed closing.
The YWCA board of directors released its response Wednesday to the Save the Fitness/Aquatics Center Task Force, saying it would keep open the facilities, generate new programs, increase membership fees and need members to volunteer and serve on new committees.
With the pool and fitness center losing nearly $127,000 Read the rest of this entry »

Oct 07, 2008 (Datamonitor via COMTEX) –
— Chindex International, an American healthcare company, has announced that United Family Healthcare made its entry into the southern China market with the receipt of the healthcare practice license for its new Guangzhou United Family Health Center.
Patient care at the clinic is expected to commence soon, with the first patients scheduled to arrive on October 8, 2008.
Clinical services at the Guangzhou Read the rest of this entry »

- Life Time Fitness, Inc. Kent Wipf, 952-229-7211
or Jason Thunstrom, 952-229-7435
Life Time Fitness, Inc. (NYSE: LTM) today announced that the Grand Opening of its newest sports and athletic, professional fitness, family recreation and resort-spa center in Westminster, Colorado, will occur Wednesday, November 12, 2008, at 5:00 a.m. This
is the Company’s second location in the Denver area, joining the Parker location that opened earlier this Read the rest of this entry »

– Ten years ago, a new era of wellness and fitness began when Haywood Regional Medical Center opened one of the only hospital-based fitness centers in the area. As the 10th anniversary of the center winds down, the staff of the fitness center would like to invite everyone to come and check out the facility and programs offered.
An open house event will be held from 8 a.m. until noon on Saturday, Dec. 6. Tours of the fitness center will be Read the rest of this entry »

UFC Gym officials said they are close to breaking ground on the first of five health clubs planned in California, and plan to build more such gyms across the country and in Canada.
“We’re going to force all these other gyms to take it up to another level,” UFC President Dana White told The Associated Press on Monday. “Just like we have in the fight business, and everyone’s trying to compete with us now, same thing’s going to happen in the fitness Read the rest of this entry »

After years of hemming and hawing, the FDA relents position on stevia
The U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) wields plenty of power about what we can and cannot eat by issuing declarations towards food products that determine whether they are “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS). Some of the most popular sugar substitutes on the market today, including Splenda, Nutrasweet, Sweet ‘N Low, and others have long held this coveted Read the rest of this entry »

Physicians Medical Center Carraway expects to get an
immediate cash infusion by this morning from its landlord to
allow it to make payroll today and keep the century-old
hospital open for the immediate future, hospital officials
said late Thursday.
Because the money is not coming until today, employees are
likely to get a paper check instead of their typical direct
deposit, hospital officials said.
“I can’t say enough good things about our
employees Read the rest of this entry »

Salt Lake City’s LDS Hospital is hosting an open house and free health fair Jan. 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., to celebrate its recent $4.7 million face-lift. Most activities will take place in the education center, north of the main hospital entrance on 8th Avenue and C Street.
The screenings are for cholesterol, glucose, blood pressure, hearing and body weight. There will also be free flu shots, beginning yoga classes and children’s activities, Read the rest of this entry »

When Dr Justin Varney started out in his medical career he was advised to become a GP, not because his skills were better suited to this particular branch of medicine, but because he was gay.
His tutors felt that a career in paediatrics, the area he was interested in at the time, would be inappropriate because of his sexuality.
Tutors said parents might not like him working with their children, nor might other staff.
Today, more than a decade Read the rest of this entry »