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Baylor Health Care System plans first dedicated cancer hospital in North Texas  By JAN JARVIS DALLAS �� Baylor Health Care System plans to build the first dedicated cancer hospital in North Texas, a $350 million facility that will include the state��s largest outpatient oncology center. The outpatient center is scheduled to open in 2011 near Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas and provide radiation, chemotherapy, pain management and complementary medicine such as ...

Health care costs outpace earnings  Health insurance costs have far outpaced employee wages in recent years, placing severe economic stresses on families throughout the state. A report released Thursday by Families USA, a national health care consumer group, revealed that insurance premiums rose more than six times faster than earnings between 2000 and 2007.

German Health-Care Workers Take to Berlin Streets in Protest  Sept. 25 -- German health-care workers are staging their biggest-ever protest today in Berlin, denouncing what they call inadequate funding from the government for increasingly costly medical care.

Kennedy Working Now for January Health Care Push  Brain cancer has kept Sen. Ted Kennedy from Washington this month, but he and his staff are still hard at work on a major health care plan that he'll unveil early next year.

Inmates health, taxpayers, and health care  About three weeks ago, I read how Clark Kelso is requesting $8 billion to improve medical care for our state inmates. According to the request, the quality of inmate health care was so poor it violated the U.S. Constitution.

Health-care costs to rise in '09  Get ready to add ''health care'' to the list of things that probably will cost you more next year. A national survey released Wednesday reveals that 40 percent of companies say they're ''very likely'' or ''somewhat likely'' to increase the amount employees pay for their health insurance in 2009.

Bi-Partisan Burgess Health Care Bills Unanimously Pass U.S. House Of Representatives  Congressman Michael C. Burgess, M.D. R-TX announced that two bi-partisan bills he helped write to improve health care unanimously passed the House of Representatives last night. The bills must now pass the Senate and be signed by the President to become law. The first bill, the Health Insurance Source of Injury Clarification Act H.R.

Protesters target health care  Providers of medical insurance are more concerned about dollars than people, claims a coalition of labor and other organizations that wants the federal government to take a bigger role in health care financing.

Ex-surgeon general: Attitude change needed for health care  The United States has the best doctors, the best nurses, the best hospitals, cutting edge technology and medical research, but the country must undergo an ��attitudinal change�� if it wants to deliver quality, preventive health care to its residents, former U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Joycelyn Elders said Wednesday.

Study notes health care disparities in Minnesota  Minnesota medical groups are providing better quality care to patients with private health insurance than those covered through public programs, according to a report released Wednesday.

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