Monthly Health Care

Eastern Health shifts patients from hospital beds to care homes  Newfoundland and Labrador's largest health authority is considering a six-month pilot program to move hospital patients to personal-care homes to alleviate the high demand for hospital beds.

Monthly health and wellness magazine celebrates vitality  Spry, a new monthly health and wellness magazine dedicated to “celebrating the vitality in all of us,” will debut Sunday, Sept. 7 in the North Lake Tahoe Bonanza as an insert in the newspaper.

NPR's 'Morning Edition' Looks At Proposals By Major Presidential Candidates To Limit Health Care Spending  NPR's "Morning Edition" on Friday looked at proposals by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain Ariz. and presumptive Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama Ill. to limit health care costs.

Patrick dropped the ball on health care  Gov. Deval Patrick missed an opportunity to burnish his image as a champion of his state’s thriving biomedical enterprise when he signed a broad-ranging health care bill passed by his Legislature.

Two Doctors, Nurse Charged With Health Care Fraud  Two St. Louis-area doctors and a nurse are indicted on multiple charges of conspiracy to commit health care fraud. They are accused of working together to defraud Medicare and Medicaid.

Sentencing set for former health care system chief   Sentencing is set for Dec. 5 for a former southern Illinois health system chief who admits he failed to pay more than $1.7 million in federal employment taxes to the Internal Revenue Service.

Dare to care: Health, year-round volunteer elements added to Day of Caring  For the 14th year, Heart of Kentucky United Way has organized a Day of Caring where volunteers take a day to help others in the community. Whether it be cleaning up an overgrown garden for a school, building a wheelchair ramp for someone's home or helping care for animals at the humane society, each year hundreds of people make a difference in the lives of those around them.

Does Prevention Really Lower Health Care Costs?  Cancer screening and other measures for heading off disease don't always reduce health-care costs.

Disease Management journal changes name and expands focus to population health management   Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News Reflecting the expanding scope of chronic disease care and the impact of economic, social, cultural, and environmental factors on health care systems and practices, DMAA: The Care Continuum Alliance and publisher Mary Ann Liebert Inc. have renamed the peer-reviewed journal of DMAA Population Health Management.