10/13/2008 News For: Coventry And Kansas And QuotesJam and jelly could help in cancer fight, claim scientists JELLY and jam may help prevent the spread of cancer, according to research. Hopkins nabs $1.1B health contract Johns Hopkins Medical Services Corp. renewed a decade-old contract with the Department of Defense this month to provide health care services to military families and retirees. The deal is worth $1.1 billion over the next five years. Cigna contract with Florida Hospital anesthesiologists unresolved It?s been a week of good news and bad news for Cigna policyholders needing radiology and anesthesia services at Florida Hospital?s Central Florida campuses. Some products benefit breast cancer research as others raise awareness It's October, Breast Cancer Awareness month, which means it's time to shop for a cure - to buy corkscrews and bras and candy and dozens of other products that have been adorned with a pink ribbon - in the name of ending breast cancer. Hospitals want to shrink as losses grow The two troubled Hawaii Medical Center hospitals have been losing more than $1 million a month and will likely reduce the size of their operations by more than half to stay in business. Scottsdale-based Laser Institute expanding business to Las Vegas National Laser Institute, a Scottsdale-based medical aesthetics and cosmetic laser college, is expanding into Las Vegas. Baylor inks licensing deal for cancer vaccine Baylor Research Institute has inked a licensing and collaboration agreement with SBI Biotech Co. for the Japanese company to develop potential cancer-fighting vaccines at Kyoto University Hospital for a market that could include Japan, Taiwan and Korea. Christina Applegate kept cancer diagnosis a secret LOS ANGELES Reuters - "Samantha Who?" star Christina Applegate avoided hugs for weeks and hid her cancer diagnosis from nearly everyone working on her hit television program, the actress said in an interview airing on Friday. Major health care reform likely, says Kaiser's CEO George Halvorson, CEO of Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente, recently talked with the Portland Business Journal about health reform. The vertically integrated health system operates the second-largest health insurance plan in Oregon, with 468,603 members at the end of the second quarter, in addition to running Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center in Clackamas and myriad outpatient clinics ... Medical debt is rising among working-age Americans The proportion of working-age Americans with medical bill problems or who are paying off medical debt climbed from 34 percent to 41 percent between 2005 and 2007, according to a comprehensive national study. |

