A public consultation is being held this week on planned changes to mental health services in the Glasgow area.
On Wednesday June 25th, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is holding a public meeting to discuss proposals to remove services from the Vale of Leven Hospital and transfer them to Glasgow’s Gartnavel Royal Hospital.The Helensburgh Advertiser reports [...]
Lisa Power: It would be reassuring to know in a way, since we seem to get a lot of complaints from gay men that we don’t deal with them enough, that we are giving too much time to somebody else.
We deal with HIV and sexual health, and HIV will always be central to our work, [...]
Health care reform is on many minds as employers are paying higher premiums and employees are paying higher deductibles. Some would argue for market-based reforms with no government intervention such that weaker, inefficient and consumer-despised plans will fail and only cost-effective, consumer-friendly plans will prevail. Others will push for some sort of government-mandated reform, either [...]
Chennai, May 26: AIADMK chief Jayalalithaa today questioned the Tamil Nadu government’s motive for entering into a tie-up with a private health insurance company for health cover for its employees, especially when nationalised insurance companies were offering such services. Condemning the tie-up,Jayalalithaa, in a statement here, said if the scheme was entrusted to nationalised insurance [...]
NEVER again can you complain you do not have enough time for exercise - the new fitness trend in gyms is slimmed-down classes.
Some bite-size sessions now last just 15 minutes.
And many keep-fit clubs are time-tabling half-hour classes before breakfast or during lunch breaks.
The growth of express-style fitness follows demand from time-poor workers and parents, according [...]
Beginning with the 2008-09 school year, Independence School District employees will be covered by a different health insurance provider, Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
The plan was unanimously approved by the Independence Board of Education Tuesday at Bingham Middle School.
According to Assistant Superintendent Brian Mitchell, Humana has been the district’s health insurance provider for 10 years. But with [...]
Auckland District Health Board (ADHB) will consider a staff proposal tomorrow, to provide free access to the emergency contraceptive pill, or morning after pill, at local pharmacies, The New Zealand Herald reports.
At the moment the pill is sold at pharmacies without a doctor’s prescription, for around $35, without parental consent.
ADHB planning and funding manager Wendy [...]
Illustrations show a crook-nosed mom with loose tummy skin under her half shirt picking up her young daughter early from school one day and taking her to a strapping and handsome “Dr. Michael.”
Mom explains she’s going to have operations on her nose and tummy and may have to take it easy for a week or [...]
Operating locally under the Unicare name, Wellpoint said customer information in several states, including Illinois, was exposed in the last year because two computer servers maintained by a vendor “were not properly secured for a period of time.” The insurer declined to name the vendor.Wellpoint, the nation’s largest health insurer, with 35 million subscribers that [...]
WASHINGTON - For years, the nation’s largest drug and medical device manufacturers have courted doctors with consulting fees, free trips to exotic locales and by sponsoring the educational conferences that physicians attend.
Those financial ties don’t have to be disclosed in most cases and can lead to arrangements that some say improperly influence medical care.
Now, under [...]
