NEW YORK — Publicly funded family planning prevents nearly 2 million unintended pregnancies and more than 800,000 abortions in the United States each year, saving billions of dollars, according to new research intended to counter conservative objections to expanding the program.
The data is in a report being released on Tuesday by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-health think tank whose research is generally respected even by experts Read the rest of this entry »
Along with the trend analysis, quantitative data includes five-year
trends (2006-2010) on number of establishments, industry and number of
employees. This data is developed through Trendologys economic model
using regression analysis based on historical industry trend data.
Forecasts are available for 2010. Quantitative data for current year
2009 is provided for the U.S., 50 U.S. states, and 900 metro areas. Read the rest of this entry »
In Orlando, a 38-year-old contractor suffers from erectile dysfunction, a side effect of the drug he takes for depression. The anti-ED prescription his doctor gave him doesn’t help. He seeks steroids instead.
And in a town north of Seattle, an eighth-grade boy wants steroids for school sports. If he can get his weight up to 170, he thinks he can make the football team.
Here, from the business records of a Florida wellness center that was closed Read the rest of this entry »
Michigan, longtime home of some of the best health benefits in the nation, has fallen below the national average of companies offering health insurance, a new report to be released today finds.
The number of people without insurance also grew, particularly among those ages 35 to 64 and those without a college education, the report found. Black and Hispanic people are disproportionally affected, the report said.
The number of uninsured people increased Read the rest of this entry »
RALEIGH Administrators at a troubled state mental hospital in Goldsboro failed to provide their report of a recent patient death with a pathologist, as required.
A law enacted in July, as well as administrative rules approved in March, mandate that all state institution deaths be reported to a local medical examiner for review. The body is not to be moved without the approval of a pathologist, and the hospital is supposed to share its written Read the rest of this entry »
ScienceDaily (Feb. 3, 2009)
— Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have uncovered crucial clues about a paradoxical disease in which patients with no body fat develop many of the health complications usually found in obese people.
The findings in mice, appearing online Feb 3 in Cell Metabolism, have led to the initiation of a National Institutes of Health-funded clinical trial to determine whether eating an extremely low-fat diet Read the rest of this entry »
A scathing report by the Health and Disability Commissioner says a travelling men's sexual health clinic that regularly visits Nelson came close to exploiting four men it treated.
Between February and June last year Commissioner Ron Paterson received four complaints about the New Zealand Men's Clinic, from men in various parts of the country from Whangarei to Dunedin.
The clinic, which regularly advertises in
and claims a 95 per cent Read the rest of this entry »
January 19, 2009
BAD timing is the most common reason for women seeking abortions at Royal Women’s Hospital, the first report on women using its pregnancy advisory service has found.
An analysis of 3018 women seeking terminations between October 2006 and September 2007 showed 1026, or 34 per cent, listed their primary reason as “does not want children now” or “not the right time”.
Another 547, or 18 per cent, said they already had enough children, Read the rest of this entry »
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OLYMPIA, Wash. — The state’s family and children’s ombudsman says its office has responded to a record number of complaints about the state Department of Social and Health Services.
In a 102-page report issued this week, Mary Meinig, director of the Office of Family and Children’s Ombudsman, said there were a “higher percentage of agency violations in 2008 than in any previous year.”
The ombudsman Read the rest of this entry »
Maverick suffered second- and third-degree burns in the fire on Jan. 22, 2008, the day after he was born. Witnesses said flames erupted inside a plastic oxygen dome, which had been placed over the baby’s head to help him breathe. His bassinet had been placed beneath the warming device in the nursery.
Two nurses, who were standing beside him, put out the fire immediately, hospital officials said. Maverick was soon transferred to Hennepin County Medical Read the rest of this entry »