Sen. Ron Wyden hasn’t had time to consider whether he, as some in Washington, D.C., are speculating, would make a good Secretary of Health and Human Services.
The Oregon Democrat is busy finalizing a bill that would regulate bonuses received by executives whose companies accepted Troubled Assets Recovery Program funds. He’s also set to roll out a new version of the Healthy Americans Act, which would guarantee private health coverage Read the rest of this entry »

The Apple co-founder, who is 53, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2003 but has said he was cured with surgery. As The Times reported Dec. 17, however, “Appearances over the summer, in which Jobs looked unusually thin and drawn, renewed questions about his health.”
Rumors flared again this month after Apple said Jobs wouldn’t deliver the keynote address at January’s Macworld Conference & Expo, the venue the company has used for more than a Read the rest of this entry »

The University of Minnesota men’s hockey team will have to forge onward without its head coach.
The unknown illness that has Don Lucia sidelined will keep him home next weekend when the Gophers play the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks.
Lucia, 50, looking slightly fatigued, addressed the media Saturday night during the Gophers’ 3-2 overtime victory over Northeastern in the championship game of the Dodge Holiday Classic at Mariucci Arena, Read the rest of this entry »

is suffering from exhaustion because of the strain of his job, the official news agency IRNA reported Sunday in an unusual disclosure about the health of the country’s top elected leader. But the news agency quoted a political ally as saying Mr. Ahmadinejad would make a full recovery.
State television also quoted Mr. Ahmadinejad himself as saying that he might be exhausted, but that it was nothing more serious. “Of course, we are also Read the rest of this entry »

is suffering from exhaustion because of the strain of his job, the official news agency IRNA reported Sunday in an unusual disclosure about the health of the country’s top elected leader. But the news agency quoted a political ally as saying Mr. Ahmadinejad would make a full recovery.
State television also quoted Mr. Ahmadinejad himself as saying that he might be exhausted, but that it was nothing more serious. “Of course, we are also Read the rest of this entry »

Temple University Health System said yesterday that it was studying how it could make its Northeastern Hospital more “cost effective,” but a nurses’ union believes the system is planning to “virtually close” the community hospital, and it already has scheduled a protest.
Bill Cruice, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals (PASNAP), which represents registered nurses at Northeastern, said the hospital’s Read the rest of this entry »

Inc. were on their way to a gain today, with the rest of the market. Then came yet another report that CEO
was in failing health.
Apple stock sank from about $88 to $84.72 in a matter of minutes shortly before 10 a.m. PST, then recouped about half of the loss to finish at $86.29, down 32 cents for the day.
The new report on Jobs’ status, on the
website, cited an anonymous source saying he was in “rapidly declining” health.
The Apple co-founder, Read the rest of this entry »

Tom Smithson calls Apple CEO Steve Jobs “iconic.” But he’s confident the Cupertino company’s future is solid regardless of who is in charge.
That certainty has taken on a new sense of urgency as concerns about Jobs’ health have grown in recent weeks. Those worries were heightened when Apple announced that the company’s charismatic co-founder would not deliver the keynote address – as he has done for the past 11 years – at the Macworld Read the rest of this entry »