WASHINGTON — Things are looking up for substantive reform of America’s troubled health-care system.
No one who knows the history of such efforts, from Harry Truman’s administration through Bill Clinton’s, needs to be reminded of the difficulties that inevitably confront any plan to overhaul one-seventh of the U.S. economy and bring quality medicine to millions of the uninsured.
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, a new study concludes.
Researchers examined the records of more than 310,000 trauma patients whose cases were entered in a national databank that includes information on race, age, severity and type of injury, insurance status, and mortality.
After controlling for severity of injury and other factors, they found that compared with whites, African-Americans had a 17 percent increased risk of death and Hispanics a 47 percent increased risk.
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By Anne E. Kornblut
President Obama signed legislation on Wednesday extending health insurance to millions of low-income children, ending a two-year Democratic effort to enact a bill that former president Bush had vetoed.
The House passed the legislation — known as S-CHIP — on Wednesday afternoon by a vote of 290 to 135 and brought it swiftly down to the White House for a signing ceremony. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi hailed it as “the beginning Read the rest of this entry »

Central Coast Labs, Inc., San Luis Obispo based manufacturer and marketer of personal care products, announced that they have engaged Jennifer Nicole Lee, to act as the lead spokesperson for the company's line of CREO® line of products. CREO is a premium product sold exclusively through high end salons and direct to consumers. The engagement of JNL is the first step in the company's efforts to expand its base of direct customers.
San Read the rest of this entry »

Sure, we know some of you are saying the term “marriage penalty” is redundant. In fact, of all the costs associated with
getting married (have you seen the cost of a wedding cake lately?), the marriage penalty can be the worst.
Here’s how
it works: Mr. and Mrs. Right walk down the aisle in wedded bliss and suddenly they¿re a two-income household. If both make
roughly the same amount of money, they can Read the rest of this entry »

Rodale is a global multi-platform media company with a mission dedicated to the health and wellness of the individual, community and planet. The company, which reaches more than 70 million people worldwide, publishes some of the best-known health and wellness lifestyle magazines, including Men’s Health, Prevention, Women’s Health, Runner’s World, Best Life, Bicycling, Running Times, and Organic Gardening, and is also the largest independent book publisher Read the rest of this entry »

ScienceDaily (Oct. 12, 2008)
— Research presented at the 20th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium, sponsored by the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), found that coronary heart disease (CHD) symptoms presented in the context of a stressful life event were identified as psychogenic in origin when presented by women and organic in origin when presented by men. The study could help explain why there Read the rest of this entry »

Celebrity trainer to be featured in advertising and public relations campaign LISLE, Ill., Oct. 16

LISLE, Ill., Oct. 16 /PRNewswire/ — Armour-Eckrich Meats LLC, one of the
nation’s most respected and well-known premium meat product companies, is
proud to announce fitness expert Kathy Kaehler as the spokesperson for their
Healthy Ones(TM) brand. Healthy Ones, a line of American Heart Association
certified lunchmeat products, will debut a mom-to-mom Read the rest of this entry »

In what the hospital system calls an effort to lessen its patient load,
's cardiac services.
WakeMed is running at near 100 percent capacity, and many of its patients are from outside the Triangle area, says Dr. Bill Atkinson, the hospital’s president and chief executive officer. By working with community hospitals such as Wilson Medical to boost their services, Atkinson says, WakeMed hopes to take some of the load off its own facilities.
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C and E in hopes of reducing their risk for heart disease, and some research supports those hopes. But a large long-term trial has found that the supplements work no better than placebos.
Scientists enrolled 14,641 male physicians in the study, dividing them into four groups of roughly 3,600 each. The first took 400 international units of vitamin E every other day and 500 milligrams of
daily; the second, vitamin E and a placebo vitamin C; the Read the rest of this entry »