Results of a new US study released by the Commonwealth Fund, find that more and more young Americans are living without any form of health insurance.
The report, entitled Rite of Passage? Why Young Adults Become Uninsured and How New Policies Can Help, used census data to calculate the numbers, that show that 13.79 million Americans [...]
By Rubia Rodriguez Caribbean Net News Dominican Republic correspondent Email: rubia@caribbeannetnews.com
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: Public Health minister Bautista Rojas stated that he will not meet with the leaders of the Dominican Republic doctors%26rsquo; union (CMD) as the doctors continued their second day of strike action and said that no talks can be forthcoming until the [...]
Still on display in a carefully managed space, the big cat is a good example of zoos’ successes in keeping their animals alive longer than ever with improved husbandry and medical attention. But as a consequence, zoos now struggle to care for animals with increasingly difficult geriatric problems.
Marta most likely would be [...]
KINGSTON, Jamaica (JIS): A total of 200 Jamaican children have to date benefited from surgeries under the Jamaica/Cuba Eye Care Programme. %26quot;Some children as young as six months have gone to Cuba for surgeries,%26quot; said Liaison Officer for the programme based in Cuba, Delita McCallum. She said, however, that she would like to see more [...]
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA): Medical facilities and services throughout Guyana have been given a boost with the arrival of 14 Cuban medical practitioners most of whom will serve at the Leonora Centre in Region Three. This facility is expected to open within the next three weeks. Minister within the Ministry of Health Dr Bheri Ramsaran on [...]
With all the toy recalls this past year, it seemed that perhaps the safest thing to play with was the box the toy came in. In fact, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled 20 million toys in 2007. Many of these recalls involved toys with unsafe lead levels that had been imported from China. [...]
Dr. Patrick Fisher told a couple of callers they should go to their nearby emergency room when they phoned into Saturday’s Deseret Morning News/Intermountain Health Hotline on heart failure.
One caller said he was scheduled, a month out, to have a stress test. But after strenuous [...]
�God bless Earl Campbell,� David �Deacon� Jones said to himself in a voice barely above a whisper.
Jones, the former defensive end known as the �Secretary of Defense� during his heyday with the Los Angeles Rams from 1961-71, still looks spry and full of life at age 69. It was a stark contrast to [...]
