10/12/2008 News For: Compare medicare Select Prices LouisianaMedicare Rx talk set for Wednesday Regence Blue Cross/Blue Shield is sending its Medicare experts to Coos Bay to talk with people about Medicare options. Compare hospitals on heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia Welcome to a new era of openness in medical care. In this interactive USA TODAY graphic, you'll find medicine's best-kept secret revealed: death rates for heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia for every hospital in the nation. Learn about Medicare health-plan options at Senior Center Heather Hurd, consultant for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, will present ?Health-Plan Options for People With Medicare? Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1 p.m. at the Marblehead Senior Center, 10 Humphrey St. Big Y Launches Breast Cancer Awareness, Fundraising Initiative As part of its "Partners of Hope" program to fight breast cancer during October -- Breast Cancer Awareness Month -- all Big Y Supermarkets will donate the proceeds from their produce departments, as well as other select products throughout the store, to local Susan G. Komen for the Cure foundations in Massachusetts and Connecticut for the second consecutive year. Health Highlights: Oct. 12, 2008 Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by editors of HealthDay: Biotech, drug stocks drop to 52-week lows The share prices of major pharmaceutical, biotech and medical-device stocks hit 52-week lows as the broad market volatility claimed sectors traditionally considered safe havens. Each major U.S. drug stock hit its lowest price in at least a year in yesterday's trading. |


