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Health board candidate challenges foes (The Arizona Republic)
A candidate for the governing board of Maricopa Integrated Health System, which runs the county hospital, is trying to get her opponents disqualified from the November ballot, although it is unclear if she can legally hold the position herself.

Health experts say insurance the wrong focus (Denver Post via Yahoo! News)
With national heath-care reform high on the list of priorities for Democrats this election year, several leading health experts suggested Monday that insurance should not be the No. 1 priority.

Health Highlights: Aug. 25, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

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Report: Health inspectors failed to report unsafe conditions (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)
CINCINNATI (AP) A newspaper is reporting that state and city health inspectors failed to report deplorable conditions at Cincinnati nursing home facilities that were later declared unsafe and unsanitary.

County offers health clinics, screenings (Onalaska Community Life)
The La Crosse County Health Department offers a number of clinics and screenings every month, including the following. For more information about any of the services or to make an appointment, call 785-9723:

Health Highlights: Aug. 24, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Health care solutions can come with own ailments (Republican-American)
Two years ago, the good people in my native Massachusetts came up with a solution to the health insurance crunch. Every adult in the commonwealth must have health insurance or face legal penalties. Residents now can choose from a panoply of new, cheap policies some as low as $250 a month.

Look to Europe for health care model: CMA head (CTV.ca)
The new president of the Canadian Medical Association says Canada needs to look to European countries that have restored their health-care systems by including private clinics and changing funding formulas.

Private health reforms ‘chaotic’ (The Australian)
THE ACT Government has broken ranks with its state peers to criticise the commonwealth’s "ad hoc reforms" to private health insurance.

Monthly health and wellness magazine celebrates vitality (North Lake Tahoe Bonanza)
Spry, a new monthly health and wellness magazine dedicated to celebrating the vitality in all of us, will debut Sunday, Sept. 7 in the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza as an insert in the newspaper.

Row over health budget cut claim (BBC News)
A row breaks out between ministers and Labour, after the party claims health boards could lose 85m due to inflation.

Health fair welcomes senior adults (The Pasadena Citizen)
Next Wednesday, the Madison Jobe Senior Center will hold its 15th Annual Senior Health and Fitness Fair.

Two Doctors, Nurse Charged With Health Care Fraud (FOX 2 News St. Louis)
Two St. Louis-area doctors and a nurse are indicted on multiple charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. They are accused of working together to defraud Medicare and Medicaid.

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‘Our health care system … is extremely messed up’ (Dayton Daily News)
KETTERING Hers is a typical story in America these days: a working mom with no health insurance who makes too much to qualify for government assistance but not enough to afford a health plan.

Residents of Sun Valley Using Walking Program to Improve Health (FOX 11 News Los Angeles)
For the past year and a half, hundreds of people in the largely Latino community of Sun Valley have been the subject of a UCLA medical program. As part of the program, the residents are out walking in their neighborhoods to improve their health. And the program has become so popular that it has surprised the doctor who started it. Jeff Michael has the story in this video report.

New Huntley health center a ‘Godsend’ (Daily Herald)
Madonna Frankel, 45, Lake in the Hills, woke up Monday, Monday, Aug. 18 with a terrible earache and dizziness. As she drove her son to football practice, she noticed the sign proclaiming that Immediate Care at the Centegra Health Campus-Huntley was opening.

Row over health budget cut claim (BBC News)
A row breaks out between ministers and Labour, after the party claims health boards could lose 85m due to inflation.

Presidential candidates’ health care plans (Dayton Daily News)
Key points: Candidates’ health care plans

Public Health officials link Listeria outbreak to Maple Leaf products;PMO (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
OTTAWA - Public health officials have apparently linked a deadly nationwide bacterial outbreak to recalled meat products from Maple Leaf Foods.

Does Prevention Really Lower Health Care Costs? (Newsweek)
Cancer screening and other measures for heading off disease don’t always reduce health-care costs.

Can either candidate’s plan fix health care woes? (Dayton Daily News)
DAYTON Neither plan proposed by Barack Obama or John McCain will fix this nation’s health care system woes, local doctors say.

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Ten BestHealthFacilities In the United States!

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Ezra Klein: A LimitedHealth-Care Success in Massachussetts

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Health network, St. Joe’s reach deal for kids’ care (The Arizona Republic)
Health network, St. Joe’s reach deal for kids’ care.

Federal judge approves Goodyear health care trust (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
A U.S. District Court judge in Akron, Ohio, has approved a trust fund set up by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and the United Steelworkers union that will pay retiree health care bills for union members.

UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News (UPI)
Test rocket destroyed by NASA after launch … FDA approves irradiated lettuce … Second death in tainted deli meat probe … Details of anthrax investigation revealed … Health/Science news from UPI.

Health Highlights: Aug. 22, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Adagio Health’s VIPink party (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
Adagio Health’s VIPink party at the home of Steve Herforth and Peter Karlovich on Mount Washington. …

Feds give Mass. fifth health insurance waiver (Boston Globe)
The federal government has granted Massachusetts a fifth extension in negotiations aimed at continuing the state’s new universal health care law.

Health care mutual funds could help cure what ails you (USA Today)
Hey, the stock market is making everyone sick these days, and Wall Street doesn’t seem to have a cure. But a dose of health care stocks might help ease your pains.

Sun Health president given lifetime health care award (The Arizona Republic)
Joseph Rogers received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2008 Health Care Heroes Awards breakfast.

Final Glance: Health Care Equipment companies (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
Shares of some top health care equipment companies were mixed at the close of trading: Baxter rose $.46 or .7 percent, to $70.49.

Health Highlights: Aug. 20, 2008 (MedicineNet.com)
Title: Health Highlights: Aug. 20, 2008 Category: Health News Created: 8/21/2008 2:00:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 8/21/2008

Health Highlights: Aug. 21, 2008 (HealthDay via Yahoo! News)
Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay:

Health officials stops short of defining abortion (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Health officials released a regulation on Thursday to protect health professionals who do not want to provide abortions or certain other health care services.

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