12/25/2008 News For: Preferred Medical Health Puerto RicoMedical care reform: making it easier to see a doctor Going to see the doctor was too expensive for 54-year-old Chinese peasant Song Zhiyao, but the introduction of a rural cooperative medicine scheme in 2007 has greatly eased his financial burden. A new public-health reform under review might give even more help to Song and millions of other Chinese citizens who have borne their own medical bills for as long as two decades. TOO MUCH TO PAY Song has lived in ... Angola: Eleven Health Units Built in Kwanza Norte Province Ndalatando ? Eleven new health units, including a maternity hospital, were built and rehabilitated during the year 2008, in the northern Kwanza Norte province, in the light of local action of increasing the supply of basic health and medical assistance services to the population. Health Digest: Free testing offered at health fair Feb. 5 More than $400 in medical testing services will be available free to the Longview community at the "Get it Together" health fair from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Feb. 5 at the Solheim Arena on the LeTourneau University campus, 2100 Mobberly Ave. County reviews Sutter's medical plan Sutter Medical Center in Santa Rosa has taken the entire Sonoma County health-care industry for a ride these past two years with its ever-changing plans to build a new hospital. Mich. chooses prison health company, angers foes LANSING, Mich. ? Michigan is hiring a new company to treat state prisoners with medical problems after investigators criticized the existing health provider for low productivity and not having enough doctors. City medical waste a health hazard HCM CITY ? With only a third of HCM City?s 130 hospitals equipped with standard wastewater treatment facilities, medical waste poses a severe threat to the city?s environment. Decker threatens to cut Health Alliance funding Should Cambridge withhold city money from the embattled Cambridge Health Alliance? City Councilor Marjorie Decker said it should since the health organization?s drastic budget cuts has resulted in closed clinics, angered senior citizens and consolidated medical services across the community. Students prepare for medical workforce at SHS With the bleak economy causing layoffs in the workforce, high school students are establishing skills and techniques needed to help them gain successful employment in the medical field. ATS Medical closes $20M financing deal, settles CarboMedics lawsuit ATS Medical Inc. said Tuesday it closed on $20 million in equity financing with Palo Alto-based Essex Woodlands Health Ventures. ATSI Job cuts planned for UT Health Science Center The University of Tennessee Health Science Center plans to cut as many as 200 jobs next year. UT employs about 1,100 faculty members as well as 2,000 staffers in Memphis. The health science center also operates medical training facilities in Chattanooga and Knoxville. |




