11/29/2008 News For: Low Cost Health InsuranceancState's children lack health coverage Nearly 19 percent or 797,000 children in Florida do not have health insurance -- the second highest percentage in the country -- and experts expect the number to rise as more parents are laid off, according to a report released this week. Florida children without health insurance Nearly 19 percent of Florida children do not have health insurance, the second highest percentage in the country. Health centers need, offer help Community Health Centers, Inc. is wishing for cash, children's books -- and a new parking lot. The health centers help provide medical care to the uninsured and others. Braintree seems increasingly unlikely to join state health insurance plan Braintree���s chance to join a state health insurance plan may finally be dead. The police union���s president, leading a group of several unions, said the town���s offer fell far short. But the mayor said Wednesday that he remains optimistic an agreement can be reached. Childrens health insurance priority for state WASHINGTON Wisconsin has the nations fourth-lowest rate of uninsured children, but the director of a health advocacy group said the state could cover more kids if Congress expands the State Childrens Health Insurance Program, or SCHIP. Doctors, patients upset as insurers push them to use cheaper drugs Health insurers have long promoted switching from brand-name medicines to cheaper generics, but now more of them are going farther: urging people to take different drugs altogether. Debakey health school seeks partners THE newly established Michael E Debakey High School for Health Professions DHSHP in Doha has sought the assistance of the local medical community to be able to smoothly deliver the goals it has set out to achieve. (AFX UK Focus) 2008-11-28 16:52 German health insurer AOK picks generics suppliers FRANKFURT, Nov 28 Reuters - AOK, Germany's largest health insurer, has picked 58 suppliers as part of its first Europe-wide tender for generic-drug procurement contracts in a long-awaited decision that could potentially reshape the industry in Germany. AOK said in a statement on Friday it had decided from whom to buy 44 active ingredients out of a total of 64 it had tendered for, without ... Pentagon, VA improve sharing of health info Dr. Ross Fletcher, chief of staff of the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, D.C., asked a recent patient, a war veteran, how many times he had been exposed to the blast of an improvised explosive device. Answer: about 11. 2:45 p.m. ��� Guam regains designation as Health Professional Shortage Area, Medically Underserved Area 2:45 p.m. ��� Guam has regained its designation as a Health Professional Shortage Area, as well as a Medically Underserved Area by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. |

