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A medical helicopter taking a 1-year-old girl to a Chicago hospital apparently clipped a radio tower wire before crashing and burning in a suburban forest preserve overnight, killing all four aboard, authorities said Thursday.
It was the sixth fatal crash involving medical helicopters this year, according to federal data.
The helicopter carrying 1-year-old Kirstian Blockinger of Leland, Illinois, was headed for Children's Memorial Hospital in Read the rest of this entry »
Erin Meier, left, and Betty Kennedy
Rick MacWilliam, The Journal
On Saturday, Kennedy was honoured by hundreds of women for her efforts at the inaugural Speaking of Women's Health Conference as an "everyday superhero."
"Children need family. They need love more than anything else," Kennedy said. "People can open up their wallets all they want and they can donate food all they want, but if the children don't have a family, love, support, we lose Read the rest of this entry »
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ihealthtube adds videos with Ori Hofmekler, author of "The Anti-Estrogenic Diet" and discusses why 66% of the U.S. population is considered overweight or obese.
Fargo, ND (
) December 29, 2008 -- Today 66% of the U.S. population is considered overweight or obese, which is defined as 30 or more pounds over a healthy weight.
sits down with Ori Hofmekler, author of "The Anti-Estrogenic Diet," a revolutionary diet book that discusses the over-exposure Read the rest of this entry »
Health care premiums soared five times faster than increases in salaries in California between 2000 and 2007, according to a report released Wednesday.
And there's no end in sight for this growing disparity between income and health care costs, creating the prospect of "diminishing economic and health security" for many Californians, added the report, released by Families USA, a national nonpartisan group based in Washington, D.C.
But the grim Read the rest of this entry »
LONDON (AFP) — One of Britain's leading children's hospitals has been heavily criticised in a report by senior doctors.
The report, a copy of which was obtained by The Observer, claimed that doctors at the Birmingham Children's Hospital had lied to parents about why their child had undergone a major operation as they could not admit they lacked the personnel and infrastructure to conduct safer procedures.
The report also claimed that transplant Read the rest of this entry »
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By Yael T. Abouhalkah, Kansas City Star Editorial Page columnist
Keep your health insurance you already have. I will try to cut premiums by $2,500 a year (but he doesn't say how).
Obama says others without health care will get choice of doctors, at low cost, just like Congress does. Again, Obama doesn't talk about how to afford this, beyond cutting out bureaucracy. But he admits it will "cost some money on the front end."
wants to give individual Read the rest of this entry »
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