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Quinn fires head of health board (Chicago Sun-Times)
Gov. Quinn has fired a high-ranking employee who oversaw a state board that is the gatekeeper for hospital and other health-care construction projects throughout Illinois. Illinois Health Facilities Planning Board Executive Secretary Jeffrey Mark was dismissed quietly Tuesday -- the same day the General Assembly and Quinn signed off on a plan to kill the five-member board and replace it with a ...
Read more...Mental health program on chopping block (The News & Observer)
State legislators intend to phase out a program that had become a symbol of waste and inefficiency in North Carolina's troubled system of mental health care.
Read more...Under Senate health care plan, either way you pay (AP via Yahoo! News)
First you paid to insure your car. Soon you may have to add health insurance premiums to that stack of monthly bills as well.
Read more...Dodd, Kennedy propose employer tax in health care plan (Hartford Courant)
The Senate health committee's top two Democrats on Thursday rolled out a revamped plan to overhaul health care that would cost $611 billion over 10 years — far less than their previous version — but would impose a tax on many employers.
Read more...Grassley sees critical need for bipartisan health-care reform (Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier)
IOWA CITY --- Unlike some of his Republican colleagues who would like to give Democrats enough rope to hang themselves on health-care reform in order to gain some future political advantage, Sen. Chuck Grassley isn't willing to take that risk.
Read more...UNT Health Science Center's Groundbreaking Research Applied To Protecting Brain After Traumatic Injury (Medical News Today)
In groundbreaking research, scientists at the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth have determined that rapid estrogen administration can protect the brain following brain injury. These findings are now being tested on human trauma patients in North Texas. James Simpkins, Ph.D.
Read more...UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News (UPI)
New 'river blindness' drug shows promise ... Tamiflu-resistant swine flu reported ... Older forests store more carbon ... NOW Foods recalls whey products ... Health/Science news from UPI.
Read more...Nurses union concerned about health centre closure (Kingston Whig-Standard)
Nurses at the Brockville Mental Health Centre (BMHC) are worried patients will fall through the cracks as the facility closes its transitional care beds, a union official said yesterday.[...]
Read more...Why British Health Officials Say Swine Flu is Nothing to Party About (Time Magazine)
Reports of 'swine flu parties' have British health officials warning parents of "seriously flawed thinking", even as the country shifts its policy on treating the pandemic in the face of the virus' rapid spread
Read more...This could help save your health, chaps! (Gazette Live - Teeside)
TEESSIDE workers kicked off Men’s Health Week with a fun football tournament.
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