Health News

News : health : posted : Jul 4, 2008

• Bomb injures 50 in Belarus - MINSK, Belarus - A homemade bomb tore through a crowd that included the country's authoritarian president early yesterday, wounding more than 50 people at an all-night holiday concert, health officials said. President Alexander Lukashenko was not
  2 hours ago : Baltimore Sun
• Self-insured plans gaining popularity - Many companies and governments are turning to self-insured health plans. The reason They don't require employers to pay a tax on monthly insurance premiums and they allow companies to customize their benefits rather than pay for more general
  36 minutes ago : Detroit Free Press
• NHS faces major challenges - expert - The NHS faces major challenges to its survival, the head of an influential health think tank said as the service celebrated its 60th anniversary on Saturday. Niall Dickson, chief executive of the King's Fund, said obesity and an ageing population
  51 minutes ago : Western Telegraph
• Blue Cross hid charges to county, suit claims - The county said that, unknown to its officials, Blue Cross added the costs on top of an annual administrative fee it charges the county to manage health benefits for 5,000 active and retired Oakland County employees.
  36 minutes ago : Detroit Free Press
• Indonesia seeks to shut Navy lab researching avian flu - JAKARTA, INDONESIA Threats to shut down a U.S. Navy medical research lab here may undermine the hunt for mutating viruses that could set off the next flu pandemic, Western scientists warn. Indonesia suspended negotiations with the United States
  36 minutes ago : Los Angeles Times
• Bevan plaque for NHS anniversary - The National Health Service began work on the 5th July 1948. This scene from the 1960s is featured in an exhibition around Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust hospitals A plaque to mark 60 years of the NHS is to be unveiled in Tredegar, the birthplace of the
  1 hour ago : BBC UK News
• Nockamixon Township Expert To Speak On Equine Health - Aliza Simeone, a veterinary medical doctor with the state Agriculture Department, will speak on equine health at 7 p.m. July 18 at the Pavilion at Bucks County Horse Park off Route 8934 Easton Road Route 611 in Revere, Nockamixon Township. Simeone
  1 hour ago : Allentown Morning Call
• Dose of vitamin D too little, some say - WASHINGTON A flurry of recent research indicating that vitamin D may have a dizzying array of health benefits has reignited debate over whether federal guidelines for the sunshine vitamin are outdated, leaving millions vulnerable to cancer
  22 minutes ago : Chicago Tribune
• KZN health minister accused of witch-hunt - KwaZulu-Natal's health minister Peggy Nkonyeni was on Friday accused by the Treatment Action Campaign of orchestrating a witch-hunt against two rural doctors. The organisation has also accused her of breaching the National Health Act by publicising
  1 hour ago : Mail & Guardian Online