Italy health minister apologizes for botched birth

Italy health minister apologizes for botched birth
Italy’s health minister traveled to Sicily on Monday to apologize to a woman whose delivery of a son was botched when her two doctors got into a fistfight in the operating room.
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AnMed Health Blood Center Needs Donations

AnMed Health Blood Center Needs Donations
AnMed Health Center needs blood donations of all types, specifically of A-postive and O types. Greg Johnson, AnMed’s blood donor recruiter, said they typically like to have a three week supply of blood ready to go, but as of Thursday, they only have enough to last about a week.    
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Mental health system in N.O. still healing post-Katrina

Mental health system in N.O. still healing post-Katrina
NEW ORLEANS — The mental health delivery system was severely wounded after Hurricane Katrina, and the people on the front lines say there are still big problems five years later. The picture the experts paint of mental health needs in the region since Hurricane Katrina is of one [...]

Town looks to partner with home care agencies to plan for emergencies

Town looks to partner with home care agencies to plan for emergencies
The town’s health department is reaching out to home health and personal care agencies working in Greenwich, asking them to become a partner in helping vulnerable residents during emergencies.
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Health Matters: CAT Scans Peek Inside the Body

Health Matters: CAT Scans Peek Inside the Body
Tens of millions of CAT scans are performed annually, but are all those really necessary? Some of the latest research has made many more people careful about their use.
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Frugal Consumers Hurt Health Care Stocks

Frugal Consumers Hurt Health Care Stocks
Amid worries that the U.S. economy is slowing, health care — a sector traditionally billed as resistant to economic downturns — is feeling the effects
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PhilHealth covers dengue hospitalization

PhilHealth covers dengue hospitalization
The Philippine Health Insurance Corp. (Philhealth) assured Sunday that members and their legal dependents who would be confined due to dengue will receive hospitalization benefits, covering room and board and other medications. “We are alarmed by the continuing rise in dengue cases from different parts of the country. We have to ensure [...]

Arthritis exercise class is slated

Arthritis exercise class is slated
The East Hanover Health Department and the Roseland Board of Health along with the North Jersey Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation will offer anexercise program for East Hanover and Roseland residents from 11 a.m. to noon, Wednesdays, beginning Sept. 22 and continuing for eight weeks, at the Tom Rinaldi Recreation Building [...]

Northwoods Health Trail

Northwoods Health Trail
The Northwoods Health Trail circles a water park, a youth baseball diamond and is right behind a police station.
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Crist flip-flops on health care

Crist flip-flops on health care
From NBC’s Mark MurrayCharlie Crist (I) today reversed his position on the health-care law — twice in one day. In an interview, he said this: “I would have voted for it, but I think it can be done better. I really do.”
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