RESPECT HEALTH: JUST ANOTHER WASTE?
Free Market News Network, FL -
The report points to details like the "25,000 green rubber band-style bracelets imprinted with the phrase 'Respect Your Health!' and 24,500 refrigerator magnets featuring the Department�s logo and website address," which cost state taxpayers over $17,000. TCPR president Drew Johnson notes the fact that in comparison with the $5 million-plus spent for marketing and advertising, the Department spent a mere $3,500 in evaluating the program's impact on Tennesseans' health. He also cites findings that show no progress in a study ranking state health statistics; the Volunteer State is still 38th in the nation, as it was before this high-dollar program.
2006-06-19
Mercy adds $2.8 million in technology
Community Press, KY -
PACS, the Picture Archiving Communications System, works in the same vein, storing X-rays on a computer which physicians and other care providers can pull up on any computer in a hospital without having to look for films, she said. Viewing the pictures on a computer also gives more diagnostic tools to the physician by allowing them to manipulate, turn and analyze the pictures in ways that were not possible before.
2006-06-18
FDA approves new cervical cancer
UNI Northern Iowan, Iowa -
Last fall, Merck funded �Make the Connection,� run by the industry-backed, nonprofit Cancer Research and Prevention Foundation and celebrity charity Step Up Women�s Network. Designed by the public-relations giant Edelman, the campaign features publicity events, a TV public-service announcement and cameos by celebrities such as Maria Shriver and Jessica Alba wearing girls� beaded bracelets � designed by Edelman � to highlight the link. �That has been very helpful for girls,� Lybrand said.
2006-06-16
�Relay� changes, goal doesn't
Morris Daily Herald, IL -
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2006-06-15
Student beats brain tumor
Asheville Citizen-Times, NC -
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2006-06-14
Who's minding the babies?
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, PA -
, 24, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to kidnapping 12-hour-old Grayci Barrows from a Lexington, Ky., hospital in April 2004. Shelton was a nurses' aide at the hospital and had faked being pregnant, authorities said. She was arrested at a truck stop several hours after an Amber Alert was issued. Shelton had abandoned Grayci, who was found unharmed behind a store near the struck.
2006-06-13
Honour the men whose lives bought freedom
Times & Star, UK -
* BEFORE granting approval and permission for a housing development at Strand Street, Maryport to proceed, I have sent a letter to the Ombudsman to ask that the decision-making processes of Allerdale Council’s planning department be investigated on the grounds that they are non-representative and to the detriment of the local residents of Maryport.
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