Good Health is Your Greatest Wealth……Virgil
Health Affairs: US Spending On Complementary And Alternative Medicine During 2002-08 Plateaued, Suggesting Role In Reformed Health System – The authors write that complementary and alternative medicine services are "equal to 3 percent of national …
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Fitness trainer David Glenaman (left) gives instructions to Kenneth Wise on how to use the treadmill properly when exercising. Glenaman will be at the Scenic Hills Senior Center two days each week to help individuals who are interested in a fitness …
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Obstacles XRT Turns Your Living Room into an Exercise Obstacle Course (via Your iPhone) iOS: If you're looking for a fun and effective way to exercise at home, you don't need much more than your iPhone and an open space. Obstacles XRT offers exercise …
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OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper agreed in a meeting with native leaders on Friday to pay more attention to their demands, trying to mollify an aboriginal protest movement that has threatened to blockade roads and railways across the country. Faced with a seemingly intractable situation that has confronted successive governments, Harper agreed to a high-level dialogue with the natives and to have his office take increased responsibility for their issues, Aboriginal Affairs Minister John Duncan said. …
CDC data shows that that flu activity could be waning, but numbers may have been artificially deflated because of the holiday season.
NEW YORK (AP) — Flu is now widespread in all but three states as the nation grapples with an earlier-than-normal season. But there was one bit of good news Friday: The number of hard-hit areas declined.
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – A Texas judge on Friday denied a Planned Parenthood request to be allowed to offer health services to low-income women through a state program. Texas now excludes abortion providers and affiliates from the program and Planned Parenthood has been fighting to become a provider again. State District Judge Stephen Yelenosky, who issued a temporary ruling in favor of Planned Parenthood in November, said on Friday it was unlikely Planned Parenthood would succeed at trial. …
SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Regulators in Oregon and California have quietly directed some health insurance companies to stop denying coverage for transgender patients because of their gender identity.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nancy-Anne DeParle, a top aide to President Barack Obama, is leaving the White House, a source familiar with the matter said on Friday, marking the latest departure of a woman from a senior post in the administration. DeParle, 56, a White House deputy chief of staff, was Obama's point person on his signature healthcare overhaul in 2010. She was also a healthcare adviser to former President Bill Clinton and headed the agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid from 1997-2000. DeParle's departure is for personal reasons after nearly four years at the White House. …
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Aboriginal protesters blocked the main entrance to a building where Canada's prime minister was preparing to meet some native leaders on Friday, highlighting a deep divide within the country's First Nations on how to push Ottawa to heed their demands. The noisy blockade, which lasted about an hour, ended just before Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his aides met with about 20 native chiefs, even as other leaders opted to boycott the session. …
