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  • You Mean that Iceland Volcano Really Isn’t a Health Hazard?

    Tuesday, April 20th, 2010 at 07:23 | Comments Off

    Last week some experts played down the World Health Organization’s announcement that it was “very concerned” about the potential health effects of inhaled ash from the Iceland volcano. But we wanted to follow up on that point: can it really be safe to breathe in the same stuff that threatens to destroy jet engines?

    Ronald Crystal, chief of pulmonary medicine at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, tells the Health Blog it’s all in the context. He knows of which he speaks: when ..read more

  • Retail Clinics: CVS to Double Presence, Walgreens Seeks Partners

    Thursday, April 15th, 2010 at 02:15 | Comments Off

    Drugstores are trying to bolster their presence in the in-store clinic market, even though the concept has thus far not been a particularly profitable one. The WSJ reports that CVS Caremark may double its number of MinuteClinic retail operations over the next five years.

    The company has no plans to forge financial partnerships with medical providers, but instead prefers “collaborative” non-financial ties, MinuteClinic President Andrew Sussman tells the paper. Bloomberg quotes Gabelli analyst Jeff Jonas as saying that CVS has trimmed ..read more

  • Obama to Tap Harvard Prof as Head of Medicare and Medicaid

    Tuesday, March 30th, 2010 at 02:16 | Comments Off

    Medicare and Medicaid programs are slated for sweeping changes under the new health-care legislation and President Obama now has decided who should oversee the changes for the giant health programs.

    The president has selected a Donald Berwick, a pediatrics and health-policy prof at Harvard, to take the top post at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which is in charge of the agencies providing health care for the elderly and low-income people. The CMS job, which is part of HHS, ..read more

  • Obama Signs Health-Care Reform Bill

    Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 at 02:48 | Comments Off

    Watch video of President Barack Obama signing the landmark $940 billion health-care overhaul bill into law Tuesday in Washington. Video courtesy of News Core.

    Read the rest here:  Obama Signs Health-Care Reform Bill/a>

  • PM Report: Obama Tries to Close Health Deal

    Saturday, March 20th, 2010 at 06:00 | Comments Off

    In what could be his last public appeal for health-care legislation before a critical House vote, President Barack Obama says Congress is in position to end a century-long struggle over health care by passing his sweeping overhaul. Plus, the Dow finishes lower for the first time in nine sessions; and WSJ’s Amy Chozick joins the News Hub to tell us why a crop of shows with dysfunctional leading women has given Showtime a burst of momentum.

    Originally posted here:  PM Report: Obama ..read more

  • Obama Speaks About Health Care in Ohio

    Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at 04:20 | Comments Off

    Watch video of President Barack Obama’s health-care reform speech delivered Monday in Ohio. Video courtesy of Fox Business Network.

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  • Wait! Could There Actually Be Votes on Health Care Up Ahead?

    Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 at 01:10 | Comments Off

    It’s another Monday and another week of to-ing and fro-ing on the health-care bill in Washington. But this week is different because there could actually be votes on the legislation.

    The gameplan has been set for a while now: first the House passes the same health bill approved in the Senate on Christmas Eve and that completed legislation goes to President Obama for his signature. The ink on that may hardly have time to dry before the House then takes up ..read more

  • White House Pushes for Passing of Health Bill

    Thursday, March 11th, 2010 at 03:40 | Comments Off

    The President’s final push on health care reform may be creating a big rift with Democrats in Congress, Fox News’ Doug Luzader reports. Courtesy of Fox News.

    Excerpt from:  White House Pushes for Passing of Health Bill/a>

  • Soft-Drink Score: Lower Sales in Schools; More Talk About Taxes

    Tuesday, March 9th, 2010 at 08:37 | Comments Off

    The sales volume of soda and other drinks shipped for sale at U.S. secondary schools has dropped 72% since late 2004, resulting in an 88% drop in beverage calories sold in schools, drink makers said today.

    Local and state regulations aimed at curbing sweetened beverages in schools explain part of the decline, but a report by the American Beverage Association also says its efforts played a big role, according to the WSJ. Soft-drink consumption nationwide is also down, but the ..read more

  • A Jumpstart for Food-Safety Bill?

    Thursday, March 4th, 2010 at 03:40 | Comments Off

    A version of this post by WSJ’s Jean Spencer also appears on the Washington Wire blog.

    A coalition of consumer, public-health and food-safety advocates is trying to jumpstart the food-safety legislation that is stalled in the Senate.

    To make its point, the Make Our Food Safe coalition is trumpeting a report by Ohio State University economist and former FDA official Robert Scharff that concludes that health costs associated with foodborne illnesses totals $152 billion annually in the U.S.

    The report was commissioned by ..read more