Program helps families shop for, cook healthy meals
Glenwood Springs Post Independent Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:52 AM PST
GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colorado â€" A new nutrition project, funded privately but aimed at meeting a significant social need, helps low-income families shop, cook and eat healthier foods to improve general health and curb obesity. |
State school chiefs paid more than meets the eye
Indianapolis Business Journal Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:50 AM PST
Indiana's nearly 300 school superintendents are receiving more compensation than reported in their contracts, with extra payments for benefits such as health insurance counting toward their overall salaries for pension purposes, a newspaper's investigation has found. |
Steve Jobs' E-Mail To Fan: 'Life Is Fragile'
WAPT Jackson Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:31 AM PST
Steve Jobs wasn't eager to disclose details of his health issues over the years.Yet Jobs' views on existence, as he increasingly faced his own mortality, became ever more poetic and less concealed toward the end |
Romanow fears 'patchwork-quilt Canada' health care
CTV.ca Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:26 AM PST
Former Saskatchewan premier Roy Romanow warns that allowing the provinces to run their own health care systems would create a "patchwork quilt Canada" of health coverage with the have-not provinces losing out. |
Neurons grown from skin cells may hold clues to autism
EurekAlert! Sun, 27 Nov 2011 10:17 AM PST
( NIH/National Institute of Mental Health ) Potential clues to how autism miswires the brain are emerging from a study of a rare, purely genetic form of the disorders that affects fewer than 20 people worldwide. Using cutting-edge "disease-in a-dish" technology, researchers have grown patients' skin cells into neurons to discover what goes wrong in the brain in Timothy syndrome. Abnormalities ... |
Bronx woman, 49, on ventilator dies during  power failureÂ
New York Daily News Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:52 AM PST
A 49-year-old woman on a ventilator died during a power outage in the Bronx Sunday, officials said. The victim, whose name was not immediately released, died after the emergency generator failed to work at the Eastchester Rehab and Health Care Center on Eastchester Road in Pelham Gardens, officials said. |
Can mother's diet during pregnancy change child's food preference?
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:50 AM PST
WASHINGTON -- What if a mother could predispose her child to like broccoli or Brussels sprouts -- or at least not make a face and spit it out -- by what she ate during pregnancy? Some health care practitioners are suggesting that if mothers include a wide range of foods in their diet during pregnancy, they can shape their children's food preferences later in life. |
Some Dabawenyos afraid to avail selves of free HIV test
WN Philippines Sun, 27 Nov 2011 09:28 AM PST
THE Reproductive Health and Wellness Center of the City Health Office (RHWC-CHO) said some Dabawenyos are apprehensive to avail themselves of the free Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV) tests. Keneth Sadia... |
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