Making a connection with the elderly and the homebound is what motivates Brenda Johnson, the manager of Visiting Nurses at Nantucket Cottage Hospital.
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Loading ...The gap between rich and poor remains huge, but a survey of global health finds that significantly fewer people in poorer countries say they have had to go without food or health care because they lacked the money to pay for it.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...A genetic mutation known to increase the odds of breast cancer in some Jewish women has been found in significant numbers of Hispanic and African-American breast cancer patients as well, underscoring the need for genetic testing across ethnic lines to determine who is at risk.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...It used to be that getting a quote on life insurance felt like you were pre-determining your life expectancy. Sure, they called it a life insurance quote, but it seemed more like a death insurance quote. After answering each question, the insurance salesperson would give you that look that says, How could you do that? Don’t you know it cuts ten years off your life??
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...In the business of supplying blood, Labor Day is the last hurdle of the donor-dry summer. We are in dire need of blood donors,” said Audrey Lundey, communications manager for the American Red Cross Southwest-Texas region and spokeswoman for the East Texas region.Throughout the summer, the Texas region of the American Red Cross has been on a blood appeal, informing communities that the blood shortages are so severe that there is less than a day’’s supply of blood available.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...A recent study states that for the first time the dollar impact on private health insurance premiums when doctors and hospitals provide health care to uninsured people. In 2005, premium costs for family health insurance coverage provided by private employers will include an extra $922 in premiums due to the cost of care for the uninsured.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Partners for healthy livingWith overweight and obesity rampant in this country, a cultural shift to more healthful living is in order, many experts say, but patients don”t always know how to do that on their own.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Political interference often prevents the nation’’s top public health official from dispensing unvarnished medical opinions, two powerful Democratic lawmakers want to make the position of surgeon general more independent by giving the president less of a free hand in selecting nominees.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Life insurance (Life Assurance in British English) is a type of insurance. As in all insurance, the insured transfers a risk to the insurer, receiving a policy and paying a premium in exchange. The risk assumed by the insurer is the risk of death of the insured.
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Mammograms are the best way to detect breast cancer, but the number of Florida clinics performing the procedure has dropped by 10 percent in the past six years. Since 1999 the total number of mammography clinics has declined by more than 1,200, a decrease of 12 percent, according to a report released last week by Democratic U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner of Brooklyn, N.Y.Weiner plans to introduce an “Assure Access to Mammography Act” this week, which would raise Medicare reimbursement rates for mammograms.
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