As the end of the year approaches, many start thinking about New Year's resolutions. Losing weight is a perennial favorite, and the diet industry is well aware of this. Ads for prepackaged food plans, diet pills, exercise equipment and gym memberships abound in print and on the air waves this time of year. Unfortunately, most of them will not help you lose weight, and some are an outright rip off.
Dr. Barry Groves, author of Eat Fat Get Thin and Read the rest of this entry »
By Mitchell H. Katz, M.D.
Today is the Great American Smokeout and while San Franciscans are doing their part to help people battle nicotine addiction, recently, I became aware that not all the health insurance plans for our county workers in San Francisco -- nor in many other counties around the state – were covering all of the smoking cessation benefits recommended by the Center for Disease Control.
The City of San Francisco has embraced a Read the rest of this entry »
Several Connecticut health plans fared well in the fourth annual America's Best Health Plans rankings released today, and the state's Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield made the Top 10.
Anthem of Connecticut took seventh place among 239 commercial (employer-based) health plans with a score of 87.8 of a possible 100, according to the rankings by U.S. News Media Group and the National Committee for Quality Assurance. The committee is an accrediting Read the rest of this entry »
has bought the land to move forward on long-awaited plans for a second Greene County hospital.
The network, an umbrella for six area hospitals, bought a 35 acre parcel of land Oct. 28 on New Germany Treibein Road in Beavercreek for $13.9 million. The location — near Commons Boulevard and visible from Interstate 675 — has been earmarked for a new $100 million campus that will bring 150 to 200 additional jobs to Beavercreek.
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DALLAS —Seniors may see their Social Security increases next year trimmed back by higher prescription costs unless they shop for a Medicare drug plan this fall that better fits their budget.
Social Security beneficiaries will get an average of $63 more each month, but part of that increase may be claimed by higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs in their drug coverage.
“Seniors who enrolled in a drug plan several years ago should Read the rest of this entry »
President-elect Barack Obama’s universal health insurance plans would look a lot like the program being tried in Massachusetts. It would cost $75 billion a year and $1 trillion over the next decade, according to a new analysis.
placed those price tags on Obama’s plans in a report released Wednesday. Obama wants to expand some government health programs and mandate and subsidize coverage in other areas to provide insurance for the 46 Read the rest of this entry »
02:17 PM CST on Sunday, November 2, 2008
Seniors may see their Social Security increases next year trimmed back by higher prescription costs unless they shop for a Medicare drug plan this fall that better fits their budget.
Social Security beneficiaries will get an average of $63 more each month, but part of that increase may be claimed by higher premiums and out-of-pocket costs in their drug coverage.
"Seniors who Read the rest of this entry »
Associated Press - October 24, 2008 1:34 PM ET
CHICAGO (AP) - The head of the Chicago Police Department says he has a plan to make the department more nimble and aggressive in combating gangs, drugs and weapons.
Police Superintendent Jody Weis (WEES) appeared Friday before the City Council's budget committee. The hearing came after reports that the murder rate in Chicago, the country's third-largest city, is outpacing that of its two larger counterparts Read the rest of this entry »
will build a $2.2 million cardiac imaging and cath lab, hospital officials announced today.
The lab will located on Greene Memorial’s hospital campus in Xenia. Construction, set to begin in the next couple weeks, is expected to be finished next March.
The lab will be a dual-use interventional imaging and catheterization facility, which includes equipment for detailed, real-time images during procedures that require exacting precision. Read the rest of this entry »
It seems clear that change is coming to the U.S. healthcare system. President-elect Barack Obama wants it. Congress wants it. Even the insurance industry says the time is ripe to do things differently.
But not too differently. The idea of doing away with the employer-based insurance system -- which has become increasingly unsustainable for businesses and has resulted in 47 million Americans going without coverage -- seems to be off the table. Read the rest of this entry »