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Literacy Network offers classes to help area immigrants better understand healthcare
Marcus Greatens enters the classroom carrying a white bucket. The third-year UW medical student proceeds to remove two hearts, one lung, two brains and various other human organs seeped in alcohol solution, and he arranges everything on two beige cafeteria trays.
Two proposed constitutional amendments under legislative debate would further complicate future state budgets by giving special treatment to four health care provider groups, the Louisiana Budget Project said Friday.
Board Of Contributors: Medmal Victims Seeing Their Options Disappear
The passage of Senate Bill 1792 eliminates a litigant's right to use expert testimony from a health care provider whose practice is similar to that of the defendant's. It's just another case of the constant erosion of the civil justice system for medmal victims, according to attorney Kenneth J. Sobel.
Kennewick masseuse accused of kissing patients
Charges of sexual misconduct have led state health officials to immediately suspend the license of Kennewick massage practitioner Donald A. Brandsma, MA00021370.
Women in Business 2013-Margaret Perryman
Perryman, who took over as CEO of the company when it was near bankruptcy in 1987, is the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal's Women in Business Career Achievement winner.
Justice Department Lawsuit Reveals Roadmap to Avoid False Claims Act Liability
Earlier this month, the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against Vitas Hospice Services, LLC, and related entities, alleging that Vitas fraudulently billed the Medicare program in violation of the False Claims Act .
Pharmagen to Present at the Second Annual Marcum LLP MicroCap Conference
Pharmagen, Inc. , and wholly owned subsidiaries and operating divisions Pharmagen Laboratories, Inc., Pharmagen Distribution, LLC and Pharmagen Nutraceuticals, Inc.
Locally Grown Alternative Newspaper
Legislation introduced by State Senator John Marty in the last hours of this year's legislative session is the latest hope that universal, single payer health care can be achieved in Minnesota.
Health | Women & Infants: 8 Tips For Healthy Exercise When Pregnant
Years ago, women enjoyed eating whatever they wanted and resting through their pregnancies like a nine-month sabbatical from their otherwise healthy lifestyles.
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Effect of Winter School Breaks on Influenza-like Illness, Argentina, 2005 - "2008
In Argentina, annual winter school breaks occur during the influenza season, providing an opportunity to study this intervention.
New Priority Care Facility Opens in Mason
A new place for medical care opened in Mason today. It's designed to provide many of the same services you can get in an emergency room, without the same expensive co-pay. Local 12's Liz Bonis, asks the experts at TriHeath to tell us more about it.
Ind. Decisions - Indiana cert petition nominated as 'petition of the day' yesterday by SCOTUSblog
Issue: Whether the Indiana statute that disqualifies a health care provider from participating in a government program because, outside that program and with wholly private funds, it provides abortion care imposes an unconstitutional condition in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
Take care: Obesity a serious Franklin County problem
More than a quarter of the people in Franklin County suffer from obesity. This serious health problem can have deadly effects but is reversed with lifestyle changes and a commitment to health improvement.
Health-care provider plans job cuts
Ministry Health Care plans to lay off several hundred employees, citing a drop in the number of patients and cuts in federal reimbursement levels.
WomanCare Global launches Simplant, Long-acting Reversible Contraception, in Chile
Simplant , a long-acting reversible contraceptive , is a highly effective subdermal implant composed of two thin, flexible, silicone rods, each containing 75 mg levonorgestrel .
GVSU alumna to discuss impact of health reform
Dinah Dittman, a Grand Valley State University graduate who now works for a California-based health care provider, will discuss how the Affordable Care Act will affect "community-based health care providers and organized philanthropies." The discussion, open by invitation only, is taking place June 25 in downtown Grand Rapids at a GVSU building ... (more)
High blood sugar may increase Alzheimer's risk
The information provided on battlediabetes.com is designed to support, not replace, the relationship that exists between a patient/site visitor and his/her health professional.
Harrington Case, 1 More Patient Tests Positive for Hepatitis B
According to the Tulsa Health Department, following a fifth round of testing, only one new case of hepatitis B has been confirmed.
Humana selling Concentra lab business
Health insurer Humana is selling a toxicology and clinical lab business, a division of its Concentra health care provider, to Quest Diagnostics Inc.
NH Insurance Department hears from stakeholders
Consumers, business owners and health care provider are being asked to give the state some advice about how it should help them navigate the new federal health care overhaul law.