A simple idea really: health has no concern about the ability to pay for it.
The new baby is coming even if the mother has no money. Illness doesn’t ask for an insurance card before it appears.
Inner Center Health Center is an option, somewhere between a free clinic and the emergency room, a place for medical treatment, reassurance and consideration.
“We’re a patient-centered health care home,” said Pam Krotchko, director of resource development. Read the rest of this entry »
The Los Angeles Times reports that various medical devices, including “certain hip joints” and “a type of defibrillator,” gained
without first going through “a close, scientific review,” according to a congressional investigation.
This issue was supposed to have been resolved “years ago.” But the FDA has not followed through, resulting in device recalls because of “malfunctions and other problems,” Read the rest of this entry »
By Emma Brown, Globe Correspondent
When Janie Katz-Christy and her husband needed to take their three children from Cambridge to Newton for a cousin’s birthday party this summer and to Medford for dinner at a friend’s house, they didn’t pile into the family car. They couldn’t. There is no family car.
“We gave it away last November,” says Katz-Christy, 51, a lifelong cyclist who drove infrequently but worried that going completely car-free might Read the rest of this entry »
Oct. 21, 2008 — Biological
, especially the pioneering ones, may have safety issues that come to light after the drugs’ approval.
That’s according to a new study, published in tomorrow’s edition of
.
In response to the study, a journal editorial points out that the FDA’s resources for checking drug safety “do not include a crystal ball,” and the pharmaceutical industry stresses the importance of reporting adverse reactions to any drug, whether Read the rest of this entry »
Pilot sites are being set up in areas of London with the highest teenage
pregnancy rates to see if the programme is feasible before being rolled out
nationally.
Ministers said the aim is to increase access to contraception and reduce the
number of unintended pregnancies although critics were concerned that
relying on the Pill does not protect against sexually transmitted infections
which are at epidemic proportions.
Women will not Read the rest of this entry »
Laborists — hospital-based specialists — are filling in the gaps as a growing number of obstetricians stop delivering babies because of malpractice insurance costs and long hours,
. Pregnant women don’t even meet a laborist until they arrive at the hospital to deliver, but some experts say the change will improve safety. Laborists start caring for women on arrival and have defined shifts, so they’re not overworked and fatigued.
Surgeons in Australia Read the rest of this entry »
For a few months, Johnny King has been like 170,000 other children in Colorado – uninsured.
Johnny, who typically is enrolled in the state’s Children’s Health Plan Plus program, or CHP+, has been without health insurance since July as his mom tries to renew her coverage.
“They (Salud) put me on a reduced payment plan today,” said Tamra King, Johnny’s mother, who brought her son to Salud Family Health Center in Fort Collins for a flu shot.
Colorado Read the rest of this entry »
Exercise an hour a day. Lift weights constantly. Follow Atkins. Follow South Beach. Follow the Beyonce diet.
Lose 100 pounds. Lose 50 pounds. Lose your mind if you try to follow all these.
“People set themselves up for failure, because they try to do too much initially,” says Regina Coreil, group fitness coordinator for the Texas Club in Dallas. “It becomes, ‘I have to do something that hurts me. I’m sore when I’m Read the rest of this entry »
2 Ask about your COBRA rights. With some exceptions, laid-off workers can continue their coverage for 18 months by paying its full cost. (Congress is considering a temporary, 65 percent premium subsidy.) If COBRA coverage isn’t an affordable option, explore non-group plans. Make sure that any coverage meets the requirements to protect you against pre-existing condition exclusions in the future. State rules vary.
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How many of us are walking around with cancer? How many of us have undiagnosed heart disease? How many of us are taking medications prescribed 10 years ago that could be perfectly wrong and are now harming our health?
The truth is -20 per cent of us don’t know. Twenty per cent of us do not have primary health care in the City of Kawartha Lakes. Twenty per cent of us do not have the basic right of access to a family doctor. Go to Emerg … stand Read the rest of this entry »