Kaiser's Cleveland Clinic-only plan didn't work out for hospital, insurer
Kaiser Permanente's decision to send nearly all its patients needing hospitalization to the Cleveland Clinic was designed to enhance the health-maintenance organization's reputation and boost profits by consolidating care from 11 hospitals to one.
A decade and a half later, Kaiser has gone back to using numerous community hospitals as well as its own health centers for members Read the rest of this entry »
And instead of assuming more direct control of the inspection system, the government seems likely to remain heavily dependent on growers, food processors and others in the industry to police themselves and the food supply.
Durbin and others on Capitol Hill nonetheless plan to push ahead with legislation to try to strengthen the FDA, the much maligned agency responsible for overseeing about 80 percent of the food Americans eat. While most meat and Read the rest of this entry »
commissioner, Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, said Tuesday that he would resign on
Day, Jan. 20, part of a parade of expected departures at the nation’s crucial public health agencies.
Leaders of these agencies have sometimes straddled administrations, but the
is expected to make a clean sweep in part because of repeated assertions that the Bush administration allowed politics to play an unusually forceful role in science policy, and because Read the rest of this entry »
LOUDONVILLE " Around New Year's Day last year, Tom Motz was facing some significant health issues. His physician, Dr. Deborah Fast of Wooster, had warned him he had to lose some weight.
"She told me my cholesterol and triglyceride levels were both up to where they were items of concern, I was on medicine to control my high blood pressure, and I was having so much trouble sleeping I started participating in a sleep apnea clinic," Motz said.
So Read the rest of this entry »
They might intend to eat correctly, but they just can’t get around keeping it consistent. I know because this is something that I battled with myself for a long time. When I finally sat down and got serious, I finally got to the core of why most weight trainers fail in this department: improper planning.
Most of us can decide to start eating right, and some of us are even good at righting down goals and how we need to achieve them. But, if we Read the rest of this entry »
CHICAGO, Nov 24 (Reuters) - Internal company documents
suggest Johnson & Johnson (JNJ.N:
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drug Risperdal, agreed to fund a child psychiatry research
center at Massachusetts General Hospital to generate data to
support use of the drug in children, the Wall Street Journal
reported on Monday.
The drug, known generically as risperidone, recently came
under fire from an advisory panel to the U.S. Food & Drug
Administration Read the rest of this entry »
What do you get when you combine the old sayings “You are what you eat” and “I feel like a million bucks” with public-policymaking?
The government-generated food pyramid and health advisories support the notion that we are what we eat. If you eat healthy food, you will be healthier, we are told. Eat too much, get fat. Eat poison, certainly get poisoned.
Now, after decades of warnings about heavy metals in some fish and Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON, Nov 12, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
The US Family Health Plan, a Department of Defense-sponsored healthcare
plan serving military family members in six areas across America, has
achieved 2008 national member satisfaction ratings 42 percent higher
than the national average for member satisfaction with health plans, as
documented by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) in its
Quality Compass Read the rest of this entry »
President-elect Barack Obama's "Blueprint for Change" calls for "affordable, accessible health care for all." After a quote from a speech he gave in Iowa City explaining that we have an "obligation" to "turn the page on the failed politics of yesterday's health care debates," he outlines his plans "at a glance."
According to the brief summary, 45.5 million people aren't covered, costs have doubled over the last eight years, and not enough money Read the rest of this entry »
Think of it as insurance for your health insurance.
For workers who lose their employer-sponsored health-care coverage, a first-of-its-kind product from Indianapolis-based Golden Rule Insurance Co. could kick in and save the day.
The plan allows workers currently covered by another policy -- and possibly fearing a layoff -- to pay a monthly fee for the right to enroll in a Golden Rule policy should they become uninsured.
If the policy's purchase Read the rest of this entry »