withdrew his nomination as secretary of health and human services on Tuesday after weathering four days of scrutiny over unpaid taxes, prompting
to concede having “screwed up” in undermining his own ethical standards by pushing the appointment.
“I’ve got to own up to my mistake, which is that ultimately it’s important for this administration to send a message that there aren’t two sets of rules,” Mr. Read the rest of this entry »
Christopher M. O’Connor, the president of Caritas St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center, is leaving the hospital immediately to pursue other opportunities, according to a spokeswoman for the six-hospital chain.
O’Connor, 38, who was head of the flagship hospital of Caritas Christi Health Care for 2 1/2 years, will continue in a limited consulting role at the Brighton institution. His photo and greeting to visitors were still on the St. Elizabeth’s website Read the rest of this entry »
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN- A few months ago, swimmer Michael Phelps was largely considered to be the most annoying living human being on earth. Obnoxiously successful at the 2008 Summer Olympics due to years of intense, some say obsessive, training, Phelps became the very definition of “trying too hard.” Worse still, his grotesquely elongated face was everywhere- talk shows, sit-coms, and the occasional feminine hygiene product. Even cave-dwelling hermits Read the rest of this entry »
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius was very near the top of President Barack Obama’s list of candidates to head the Health and Human Services Department, a senior administration official said Saturday.
The source, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss private administration deliberations, said no decision was imminent and that other candidates remain in the mix. But the official added the former Kansas insurance commissioner Read the rest of this entry »
Police had suspected that the attacks were linked to public fury over bureaucratic bungling in the loss of millions of pension records.
Alarming government officials across Japan, a man with a knife last Monday and Tuesday attacked the homes of two retired vice ministers who had led the pension department in the Health and Welfare Ministry in the 1980s, when records were lost during a botched computerization effort.
But Takeshi Koizumi, 46 and Read the rest of this entry »
Diet | Detective: Part 2 — Just Had a Baby? Everything You Should Know About Post-Pregnancy Nutrition and Weight Loss
This is the second of a two-part series on fitness and nutrition for new mothers. This column is about nutrition and weight loss.
According to Jennifer Wider, M.D., author of The New Mom’s Survival Guide (Random House, 2008), pregnant women should gain 25 to 35 pounds (including weight of baby, placenta, etc.). However, Read the rest of this entry »
For fitness centers, the post-holiday rush is on
Saturday, December 27, 2008 2:11 AM CST
Combine one turkey feast with five weeks noshing on cookies and eggnog, and local fitness centers usually have little trouble around the first of the year packing bikes and treadmills with people eager to shed extra holiday pounds. But for gym owners, the real challenge is finding ways to keep people coming in regularly once the ground thaws.
“January Read the rest of this entry »
on Sunday examined the high rates of maternal mortality in some developing countries — an issue that “rarely gets attention from international donors.” According to the
, more than 500,000 women worldwide die annually in childbirth — about one every minute — usually from causes that could be prevented with basic medical care, such as bleeding, infection, obstructed labor and preeclampsia. Maternal mortality often does not receive attention from Read the rest of this entry »
Dr. Francisco Cigarroa, president of the
, says he plans to step down from his position next September.
Cigarroa, 50, was appointed eight years ago by the UT System Board of Regents. He became the first Hispanic chief executive of a comprehensive health sciences university in the continental United States. He has also continued to practice his medical specialty of transplant surgery part time during his tenure as president.
“It has been Read the rest of this entry »