Published January 2, 2009
TEXAS CITY — A 22-year-old woman was charged Friday with leaving her 2-year-old daughter locked in her car in the parking lot of a bar while she was inside drinking.
It was one of two child endangerment cases Texas City police investigated during the New Years holiday.
Officers were called to the Scruples bar in the 2300 block of Palmer Highway about 12:15 a.m. Friday on a report of an intoxicated woman causing a Read the rest of this entry »

NEEDHAM, MA –
As the U.S. recession deepens, and hospitals
see their revenues falling and costs increasing, pressure is building for
hospital layoffs and cutbacks.
Reduction in Force (RIF) actions are difficult decisions but are sometimes
necessary to keep hospitals financially sound. Savvy hospital CEOs are
making RIF contingency plans should their economics demand it. However,
it’s very important that they be targeted, rather than across-the-board,
and Read the rest of this entry »

Facilities management just part of fun as coach leads women’s basketball team to .844 win mark.
HOLLAND, Mich.
— It was game day and Hope College women’s basketball coach Brian Morehouse was busy at work.
No, Morehouse wasn’t tweaking his game plan for the night’s opponent. He had more pressing responsibilities. Besides, you can bet his No. 2-ranked team was well prepared.
Morehouse, 40, also is director of Hope’s two athletic complexes — Read the rest of this entry »

Not more than 30 seconds after Phillies pitcher Brad Lidge nailed down the World Series, Independence Blue Cross chief executive officer Joseph A. Frick, amid the jubilant throng at Citizens Bank Park, felt his BlackBerry hum.
It was Kenneth R. Melani – chief executive at Highmark Inc., the Pittsburgh health insurance giant and future Independence merger partner.
“Way to go,” Melani wrote.
“That meant the world to me,” Frick remembered Wednesday, Read the rest of this entry »

Fitness centers stocked with the latest in high-tech machinery and staffed by fitness professionals can be a huge help for those interested in getting or staying in shape.
For the days you don’t have time to get to the gym, or you’d like a change of pace, there’s always a home gym.
Studies show the closer a gym is to your house, the more likely you are to use it. And home gyms receive the most use of all. So, if you’re intent on keeping your Read the rest of this entry »

Below is a letter regarding universal health care that I sent to my congressman, Allan Mollohan.  I had written him earlier about supporting HR 676, a single-payer system that would fix our broken health system.  In his reply, Congressman Mollohan waxed eloquent in broad generalizations-something politicians are good at-about his concern for health care, but he failed to say whether he supported HR 676.  In this letter I have given highly specific Read the rest of this entry »

In the last week, millions of Americans have tackled the annual ritual of making New Year’s resolutions.
Some will succeed, some will stumble and others, come March, will join the ranks of those vowing to try again next year. What is the secret to success? Not going alone.
This year, YMCAs nationwide are encouraging families to put a new twist on the old custom and make resolutions together as a family. We have worked for more than 150 years to Read the rest of this entry »

All fats are not created equal. That was a recurring theme at the recent Worlds of Healthy Flavors conference, an annual collaboration between the
and nutritionists at the Harvard School of Public Health. The conference, which brings together chefs from the food service industry and leading experts in
and medicine, is intended to help food purveyors expand healthy meal choices for consumers.
The message that not all fats are bad has been around Read the rest of this entry »

WASHINGTON (AP) — Food and Drug Administration officials have finalized guidelines that make it easier for pharmaceutical companies to use medical journal articles to promote drugs for unapproved uses.
The final guidelines, which have been criticized by some lawmakers as too lenient, allow companies to distribute articles about their products to doctors — even when they involve uses that have not been federally approved.
The FDA Read the rest of this entry »

Snacking on shrimp and carrot sticks, doctors and nurses gathered at
Langone Medical Center to celebrate the opening of a new research center called the Center for Healthful Behavior Change.
They were tapping into the spirit of the times, and now Gov.
has done so as well, turning the familiar call for political change into an appeal for healthful living as he promotes a number of anti-
measures, from a sugar tax on soft drinks to posting calorie Read the rest of this entry »