Archive for October, 2007



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10-Year-Old With Matches Started a California Wildfire
New York Times - 2 hours ago
By MICHAEL PARRISH LOS ANGELES, Oct. 31 - A 10-year-old boy admitted that he accidentally started one of the largest of last week’s Southern California wildfires while playing with matches, enforcement officials say.
Charges weighed against 10-year-old who started fire Los Angeles Times
Boy playing with matches started huge California fire Guardian Unlimited
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5.6 quake hits near Alum Rock, strongest since Loma Prieta
San Jose Mercury News - 1 hour ago
By Sandra Gonzalez and Julie Sevrens Lyons Willow Glen resident Catherine Kilkenny gets under a table during an earthquake on October 30, 2007 in San Jose.
Quake near San Jose rocks Bay Area Los Angeles Times
Magnitude-5.6 earthquake shakes San Francisco Bay area Contra Costa Times
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Kucinich questions Bush's mental health

Author: CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
31.10.2007
Kucinich, with wife Elizabeth, questioned the president's mental health. (CNN) — Strong words from Democratic presidential contender Dennis Kucinich may be nothing new, but his comments to a newspaper Tuesday questioning President ...

Mary Agnes Carey, associate editor of CQ HealthBeat, examines SCHIP funding, health information technology legislation and House approval of veterans’ health care and cancer screening measures in this week’s “Health on the Hill from

From PR Newswire: Government and Policy: "We desperately need more young people to pursue health care occupations to meet the growing needs of Pennsylvanians," Governor Edward G. Rendell said. "These occupations not only promise the ...
31.10.2007
This course offers opportunities to gain the skills necessary for helping others with health behavior changes, while creating healthier environments in the home, workplace and community. Starts: 01/22/08 -- Provided by: UW-Whitewater.

This course is the designated gateway course required for students who choose to minor in health education or health promotion and should be taken within the first 6 units of declaring a health minor or pursuing health licensure

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Bush told Republican lawmakers on Tuesday he will not agree to legislation expanding children's health insurance if it includes a tobacco tax increase, a decision that virtually ensures a renewed veto ...
Ohioans spend $62.2 billion on non-institutional health care each year, while the Ohio economy loses between $2.1 and $5.8 billion due to lost productivity and other indirect costs of having 1.3 million Ohio residents without health ...

With health care costs soaring and the number of uninsured people in Illinois climbing to nearly 1.5 million, AARP says enough is enough, things have to change. Today, AARP Illinois joined Governor Rod R. Blagojevich in pressing for

On October 29, the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) presented the 2007 Julius B. Richmond Award to New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg for his ongoing efforts to promote the health of New Yorkers through innovative and bold

Have we now come down to the “nitty gritty” on why President George Bush is so absolutely adamant on nixing the expanded or even the REVISED expanded children’s health care…even though it has wide bipartisan support? ...
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I remember reading the textbook we used for my health class in high school and thinking, “I’m going to read this whole thing when I have the time.” Though I did have a lot of spare time (with a diet consisting of three anime episodes

Live blog: Health Debate

Author: Thomas
30.10.2007
Watching ABC today - obviously health isn’t an important issue to channel 9. I can understand not showing this one to be honest. Perhaps the environment purely to see Turnbull and Garret go at it, but other than leaders and treasurer, ...
"California's Proposed Health Care Reform," a one-day invitation-only conference on the legal and economic impacts of Gov. Schwarzenegger's universal health care proposal. The event is being sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Law, ...
While large health insurers have posted very healthy profits since 2000, premiums for consumers have increased without a corresponding increase in bene its. In fact, during the same time period, consumers have faced increased ...

The New York Times is reporting that the health care industry is giving more money to Democratic presidential candidates than Republican candidates and that Hillary Clinton is the big winner: “In a reversal from past election cycles,

Kucinich questions Bush's mental health

Author: CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
30.10.2007

Kucinich, with wife Elizabeth, questioned the president’s mental health. (CNN) — Strong words from Democratic presidential contender Dennis Kucinich may be nothing new, but his comments to a newspaper Tuesday questioning President

30.10.2007
2 - The US sought to limit the application of the agreement to situations involving HIV/AIDS, TB, malaria and other “epidemics,” rather than permitting countries to assess their own public health priorities; ...

Back To Health Care

Author: John Myers
30.10.2007
Depending on who you believe, health care reform at this point either has a lot of work left to forge a compromise... or may be dead for 2007. As has been the case for most of the year, there are still strong disagreements about who ...

Retain/Recruit/Inform…

Author: Charlie Baker
30.10.2007

First, most employees (60%) believe they’re paying for a greater share of their health insurance costs. No surprise there. My guess on that is they probably are. The more interesting finding was the employee’s view about how much the


Navy Accidently Drops Dummy Bomb In Virginia Beach
CBS 2 - 1 hour ago
(CBS) VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. A small, inert training bomb carried aboard an F/A-18C Hornet fell from the aircraft at about 12:15 this afternoon as it was returning to NAS Oceana following a training mission at the Navy's Dare County, NC, bombing range, ...
Practice bomb falls from Hornet as it prepares to land, no injuries The Virginian-Pilot
Small Training Bomb Fell From Navy Fighter Jet in Virginia FOX News
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Health Tricks for Your Halloween Treats

Author: Tara Parker-Pope
30.10.2007
Halloween treats that won't scare away good health.