Published February 6, 2009
GALVESTON — Francisco Cigarroa will end his first week as chancellor of the University of Texas System by touring the island’s medical branch, which lately has been rocked by a hurricane and mass layoffs and is hurtling toward an uncertain future.
Cigarroa began the job Monday. Today he’ll tour the University of Texas Medical Branch with President David L. Callender.
Cigarroa’s immediate focus on the medical Read the rest of this entry »

MENTOR, Ohio
,
Jan. 20
) today announced that it has submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) a new liquid chemical sterilization system for 510(k)
clearance. The new submission follows discussions with the FDA regarding
issues raised in a
warning letter relating to the Company’s SYSTEM 1
Sterile Processing System. The new liquid chemical sterilization system
submitted to the FDA addresses the changes referenced by the Read the rest of this entry »

pledged on Thursday to work with lawmakers of both parties in a grass roots, ideology-free campaign to revamp the nation’s struggling health care system.
“We will be guided by evidence and effectiveness, not by ideology,” Mr. Daschle told the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions after saying that he wanted “to work with each of you” on ways to improve health care for all Americans.
“When Read the rest of this entry »

The U.S. Department of Labor
that another 533,000 jobs were lost in November; catapulting the unemployment rate to 6.7 percent–and bringing the grand total number of jobs lost this year to a whopping
.
Further adding to these depressing stats: many of the jobs lost aren’t coming back.
Among the unemployed, the number of persons who lost their job and did not expect to be recalled to work increased by 298,000 to 4.7 million in November. Over Read the rest of this entry »

CONCORD — Several off the 546 adults who participated in a new consumer survey about the state’s mental health system had positive things to report. One person said their community mental health center “changed my life by allowing me to get ’stabilized’ to really begin to heal myself back to where I was before I collapsed … .”
Others had negative experiences to report when it came quality of treatment, services, accessibility and staffing.
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(NYSE: IBM) today announced the launch of a new suite of healthcare
information sharing and analytics technologies at the Guang Dong Hospital
of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), which combines the strengths of TCM
and Modern Western Medicine (MWM). The first-of-a-kind system, dubbed CHAS
(Clinical and Health Records Analytics and Sharing), is designed to enable
the sharing of electronic medical records (EMRs) that incorporates TCM and
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Health organisations have welcomed the warts and all view of the health system offered by the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s (NHHRC) interim report.
The peak body representing the nation’s public hospitals, area health services and public aged care providers, says the report, released in Canberra on Monday, has revealed years of underfunding.
Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) executive director Prue Power Read the rest of this entry »

Business executive Roger Vang wanted to know what federal plans might affect his company’s health insurance plan so he checked President-elect Barack Obama’s website.
“I wanted to see if Obama had any major changes coming,” said Vang, chief financial officer of Diversified Plastics in Brooklyn Park. “They had a button to click for information on health care, so I foolishly did.”
The button led Vang to a discussion guide for a grass-roots forum Read the rest of this entry »

(Jan 29, 2009 – 10:39 AM) :
Mort Fertel has a new step-by-step relationship changing system. It is not marriage counseling, but Marriage Fitness.
Baltimore, Maryland, January 2009 — The first step in entering the new world of Marriage Fitness is signing up for a free Email. This will get you started on saving your marriage. If either person in a relationship starts the learning process to getting their marriage back on track, once the Read the rest of this entry »

Here is my choice: In order to keep my family from going under financially, I can continue to go broke taking paying the ridiculously expensive COBRA plan we’re on now or I can take all of us (including the baby) off the grid so that none of us have health insurance for 45 to 90 days.
Is there any universe where that makes sense from a public health perspective?
First, a little background: I’m 46, a promotional copywriter for magazines and newspapers Read the rest of this entry »