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- Controversy over NYC ‘quit smoking’ ad
- As secretary of health and human services Sebelius will face a …
- Health centers help reduce spending on ER care
- Public invited to reception at mental health conference
- Better benefits planned for veterans
Controversy over NYC ‘quit smoking’ ad
NECN
The tax went up 62 cents more per pack as of April 1 driving the price of cigarettes well over $8 a pack in Boston. In New York the Public Health Department is trying to get 20000 more smokers to quit. And they're counting on a new dramatic PSA to help do it.
As secretary of health and human services Sebelius will face a …
Kansas City Star
The Kansas governor now almost certainly the next secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services will be at the wheel of a very big rig. “It touches every man woman and child every day.
Health centers help reduce spending on ER care
Corpus Christi Caller Times
But when you’re poor and want to try to stay well you might not get the care you need. For at least 18 million Americans trying to stay healthy primary care is accessible mainly through nearly 6000 community health center clinics. In some towns they’re the “free clinic” or the community clinic or the evening clinic or simply the place where you can go and get seen paying what you can even if it’s nothing. “I tend to go about every three months to get blood work done’’ said Mark Southern an uninsured diabetes patient at Georgia Mountain Health Services in Morganton Ga. “If something occurs I go back. No other place is close.
Public invited to reception at mental health conference
Salina Journal
The program is “Nature of Nurturing: Building Caring Relationships to Support Kansas Citizens. Victor Bernstein a research associate in the department of child psychiatry at the University of Chicago will lead the session. Join the Discussion:Salina. comdoesn’t necessarily condone the comments here.
Better benefits planned for veterans
Detroit Free Press
Plan to beef up benefitsSen. Daniel Akaka D-Hawaii chairman of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee is shepherding a raft of legislation that would enhance education benefits increase access to medical care and raise income ceilings that cut off access to services. Almost 40% of the veterans who have served in Iraq and Afghanistan have sought help through the VA health system with 300000 reporting mental health conditions. Suicides among veterans who saw combat in Iraq and Afghanistan have spiked. The VA budget is still in its earliest stages but rough estimates of the cost of some of these reforms reach the tens of billions of dollars. Getting to the vetsne of the most daunting challenges the VA faces is providing care to veterans who don’t live near VA facilities. Thomas Loftus a Vietnam-era veteran now living in rural Virginia said VA care especially for those with complex brain injuries is hours away.
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