Archive for February, 2009
Obama picks Sebelius as health secretary
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will nominate Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to head the Department of Health and Human Services, a U.S. official said on Saturday.
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Sebelius tapped as health secretary – source
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Gwyneth Paltrow defends offbeat health site Goop.com
Gwyneth Paltrow has blasted critics of her Web site Goop.com, claiming they ”don?t get it”. RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
Zimbabwe suffers while Mugabe parties
Zimbabwe’s president Robert Mugabe celebrates his 85th birthday with a lavish all-day party, despite the country being gripped by an economic and health crisis. Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party raised $250,000 in order to hold the party, as prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai toured a major hospital’s intensive care unit in need of $30,000 to start operating again. RSS feeds and Feed widget on Feedzilla.com
Combative Obama vows to fight for his budget – Reuters
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A combative President Barack Obama warned on Saturday he was bracing for a fight against powerful lobbyists and special interests who sought to pick apart the $3.55 trillion budget he wants to advance his agenda of reform …
Obama to Cancel Bush
s Health Care Rules – Softpedia
On Friday, president Obama and his team made the first step towards setting things in the American health care system right, when they announced that they were looking to review and replace the decisions that Bush made before he left the White House …
CAARE reaches out to Durham
s most needy – WRAL
Posted: Feb. 27 4:10 p.m. Updated: Feb. 27 7:41 p.m. Durham, N.C. Dr. Sharon Elliot Bynum says that her vision of free health care for at-risk populations has become even more important than when she founded a Durham nonprofit 14 years ago …
Magellan Health Services names CEO as chairman (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
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Magellan Health Services Inc., a provider of health care outsourcing services, said Friday that its board has appointed Chief Executive Rene Lerer to the additional role of chairman, effective immediately.
Obama puts health care reform at heart of budget (AFP via Yahoo! News)
President Barack Obama unveiled Thursday an unprecedented bid to reform the country’s ailing health care system, aiming to endow millions of Americans with much-needed insurance and give a shot in the arm to the ailing economy.
In Auto Talks, No Cure-All for Health Care Costs (Washington Post)
The health benefits for retired autoworkers may be the envy of most Americans. For $11 a month, a retiree gets medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage.
WHO to give poor countries flu vaccine technology
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GENEVA — The World Health Organization said Tuesday that a deal with U.S. drug maker Schering-Plough Corp. will allow it to provide poor countries with improved vaccine-making technology to prepare for a possible flu pandemic. News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com
More Evidence Links Alcohol, Cancer in Women
breast cancer screening clinics about their drinking habits, and tracked their health for seven years. A quarter of the women reported no alcohol use. Nearly all the rest reported fewer than three dr… News widgets and RSS feeds on Feedzilla.com