ACOEM releases 10 point Agenda for Change
News-Medical-Net Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:03 AM PDT
The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) has released its 10 point Agenda for Change - an advocacy plan intended to improve the health of America's workers and at the same time integrate workplace health more closely with the nation's overall health improvement strategies. |
UnitedHealth sees bright skies ahead -- earnings up
News-Medical-Net Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:03 AM PDT
UnitedHealth Group Inc. (UNH), the biggest U.S. health insurer, increased its 2012 earnings forecast after reporting that first-quarter profit beat analysts' estimates for higher enrollment and low medical costs. ... UnitedHealth's shares climbed, along with other health insurers, after Chief Executive Officer Stephen Hemsley said he expects only a "gradual" rise in health spending this year. |
Wayland Police Chief Dan Miller fired
WZZM 13 Grand Rapids Sat, 21 Apr 2012 03:00 AM PDT
Flint-based-based McLaren Health Care says it has reached a deal to buy a ... Legislation that will require insurance companies to offer coverage for autism ... |
Examining links between agricultural development, nutrition
News-Medical-Net Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:48 AM PDT
In this post in the Center for Global Development's (CGD) "Global Health Policy" blog, Amanda Glassman, the director of global health policy and a research fellow at the center, examines the connection between smallholder farming, agricultural productivity and nutrition. She writes, "For some time now, the food security movement has been stating that improving the agricultural productivity of ... |
Consumer-directed health plans surge, get boost from health law
News-Medical-Net Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:48 AM PDT
The concept is also central to Republican-backed market-based reforms. Also in the news, media outlets analyze what's a stake as the Supreme Court considers challenges to the health law, and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius reiterates the administration's confidence that the law will be upheld. |
Does giving antibiotics to animals hurt humans?
seattlepi.com Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:48 AM PDT
Does giving antibiotics to animals hurt humans? Associated Press Copyright 2012 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 09:59Â a.m., Friday, April 20, 2012 [...] public health advocates argue that the practice breeds antibiotic-resistant germs in animals that can cause deadly diseases in humans. [...] pigs that ... |
Health ministry official: Tymoshenko refuses to undergo medical examination, waiting for lawyer
KYIV Post Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:40 AM PDT
Former prime minister of Ukraine and the leader of the Batkivschyna party, Yulia Tymoshenko, after being transferred to the Central Clinical Hospital No.5 of Ukrzaliznytsia is refusing from undergoing primary medical examination, First Deputy Health Minister Raisa Moiseyenko told reporters at a briefing in the Kachanivska Penal Colony in Kharkiv on April 21. |
Viewpoints: Health law's legal peril; Barney Frank's misdiagnosis
News-Medical-Net Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:33 AM PDT
Health-care reform, the impossible dream that seemed to become a reality in 2010, is now in mortal danger. Republicans want to repeal it even though the federal law is patterned after a Massachusetts law that their apparent presidential nominee signed in 2006. They can't do that, of course, unless they sweep the next election. So the clear and present danger comes from the Supreme Court, where a ... |
Evaluating priority setting for health
News-Medical-Net Sat, 21 Apr 2012 02:33 AM PDT
"When facing a limited budget as most low- and middle-income countries are how can countries best sort multiple priorities into effective, sustainable policies?" Amanda Glassman, director of global health policy and a research fellow at the Center for Global Development (CGD), and Kate McQueston, a program coordinator at CGD, ask in the CGD's "Global Health Policy" blog. |
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