The Veterans Affairs medical center in La Jolla sponsored its first “Welcome Home†event yesterday – a health and caregiver-support fair for men and women returning from deployment overseas.These days, nonprofit groups and the government are offering a lot more mental and physical health services and other programs for troops leaving active duty and transitioning [...]
Last Wednesday morning, Kansas University health educators stood in front of a classroom of Lawrence High School students answering questions about sexually transmitted infections.
But the real education came after their presentation when the students Health Topics — unabashedly — answered questions posed to them about the prevalence of STIs.
Yes, they said, students talk about [...]
Keeping in view the fast increasing costs of medical treatment, the Punjab government was shortly implementing a special Health Insurance Scheme for the people belong to Below Poverty Line families, so that the poor people could also avail the advanced medical facilities in the private hospitals.
This was disclosed by Ramesh Inder Singh Chief Secretary Punjab, [...]
CLOSE TO to half a million Jamaicans with health insurance can still expect to pay indirectly for services and items in public health facilities from which user fees are to be removed come Tuesday.
Speaking with The Gleaner yesterday Health Insurance, Minister of Health Rudyard Spencer says while insured persons would not be required to [...]
Teresa Hanks learned helpful information Friday about using hypnosis as a tool to help children overcome trauma in their lives.
“So many people think it’s hokey,” said Hanks. “They do it for 90 days at least two times a week. Even though it’s intense, it can save years of therapy.”
Hanks, who works for Kids Central Inc., [...]
OSHA announced in yesterday’s Federal Register (available here) that it is seeking applications for Susan Harwood Training Grants.
The grants are awarded to nonprofit organizations, including community- and faith-based organizations that are not state or local government agencies, to provide training and education programs for employers and employees on safety and health topics selected by OSHA.
Approximately [...]
Washington (dbTechno) - One of the biggest topics on the minds of many Americans is health care. This has far from a quiet subject between Democratic presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Clinton has come out and promised that if she becomes president, she would place a cap on health care insurance. She revealed [...]
Many parents are convinced that the brains of their teenage offspring are different than those of children and adults. New data confirms that this is the case. An article by Jay N. Giedd, MD, of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), published in Journal of Adolescent Health describes how brain changes in the adolescent [...]
A presentation, book signing and reception with rabbi Brad Hirschfield will be from 5 to 9 p.m. April 8 in Beaird Lounge in Oklahoma Memorial Union, 900 Asp Ave.
The event is presented by the University of Oklahoma’s Religious Studies Outreach Program and the United Ministry Center.
Hirschfield, president of the National Jewish Center for Learning and [...]
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Friday unveiled a quality tool for patients and health care providers to access hospital patient satisfaction information and compare hospitals on the Internet.
The Hospital Compare Web site — www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov — allows the public to compare hospitals based on specific medical conditions or surgical procedures or by [...]
