There are more than 78,000 Americans waiting for a kidney transplant, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing. Worse, the gap between the number of patients waiting and the number of kidney transplants performed has grown by 110% in the last decade.
Cutting the lengthy wait for a kidney will take more than innovative changes in medical practice, according to the National Kidney Foundation. As part of a new initiative unveiled in late January, Read the rest of this entry »

Unsuccessful in reaching a critical mass of members,
Health Plan of Arizona is pulling out of the Arizona market.
The health plan serves 16,000 Arizona members, but needed at least 50,000, said Cliff Klima, Arizona market relations executive for LifeWise.
Klima retired from LifeWise as Arizona president and CEO in 2007, but he was lured out of retirement last May when his replacement, Tom Dameron, returned to his roots at
Klima plans to stick Read the rest of this entry »

Sunday, February 15th 2009, 1:25 AM
The struggling economy is working wonders for Bethenny Frankel. At least for her diet plan.
One of New York’s straight-shooting “Real Housewives,” she claims the secret to skinny is akin to financial planning in her new book, “Naturally Thin: Unleash Your Skinny Girl and Free Yourself From a Lifetime of Dieting” (Simon & Schuster, out March 2009). “It’s a no-more-dieting-forever book,” says Frankel, a natural-food Read the rest of this entry »

PLANO, Texas
,
Jan. 30
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — While Congress debates the particulars of the economic bailout, Diet Dr Pepper is ready to serve up its own stimulus plan for Americans — a diet soda that doesn’t taste like a diet soda — for free.
“It’s clear that 2009 is going to be a year of sacrifice for our country, but we have good news for people thirsting for something to lift their spirits. We’re giving away up to 2 million coupons Read the rest of this entry »

Kaiser’s Cleveland Clinic-only plan didn’t work out for hospital, insurer
Kaiser Permanente’s decision to send nearly all its patients needing hospitalization to the Cleveland Clinic was designed to enhance the health-maintenance organization’s reputation and boost profits by consolidating care from 11 hospitals to one.
A decade and a half later, Kaiser has gone back to using numerous community hospitals as well as its own health centers for members Read the rest of this entry »

And instead of assuming more direct control of the inspection system, the government seems likely to remain heavily dependent on growers, food processors and others in the industry to police themselves and the food supply.
Durbin and others on Capitol Hill nonetheless plan to push ahead with legislation to try to strengthen the FDA, the much maligned agency responsible for overseeing about 80 percent of the food Americans eat. While most meat and Read the rest of this entry »

commissioner, Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, said Tuesday that he would resign on
Day, Jan. 20, part of a parade of expected departures at the nation’s crucial public health agencies.
Leaders of these agencies have sometimes straddled administrations, but the
is expected to make a clean sweep in part because of repeated assertions that the Bush administration allowed politics to play an unusually forceful role in science policy, and because Read the rest of this entry »

Free fully customizable diet plan offered by Dr. Gourmet
,
Jan. 7
Timothy S. Harlan
, M.D., also known as Dr. Gourmet, today launches the newest version of his free, customizable
, which is now available @
The name of the plan reflects Dr. Harlan’s belief that quality calories – found in healthy, delicious foods – are the key to eating healthy and sustained weight loss.
The software is based on the 5 areas that research has shown help 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 »

They might intend to eat correctly, but they just can’t get around keeping it consistent. I know because this is something that I battled with myself for a long time. When I finally sat down and got serious, I finally got to the core of why most weight trainers fail in this department: improper planning.
Most of us can decide to start eating right, and some of us are even good at righting down goals and how we need to achieve them. But, if we Read the rest of this entry »