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50 Fortune 500 companies join forces to give four million uninsured working Americans access to affordable health insurance

More than 50 Fortune 500 companies have joined forces to give an estimated four million uninsured working Americans access to affordable health insurance coverage. The united effort is part of a broad market reform to reduce spiraling health care costs and incorporate performance standards that help consumers choose hospitals and physicians.

10 May 2004

Soybeans may reduce the risk of colon cancer

A substance found in soybeans may reduce the risk of colon cancer, the third most common form of cancer in the world according to the World Health Organization.

10 May 2004

All Black urges allergy sufferers to play it safe

All Black Kees Meeuws is fronting an Allergy New Zealand poster campaign urging allergy sufferers to play it safe and protect a life as part of Allergy Awareness Week, which kicks off May 10, 2004. The poster sports a bare-chested and tattooed Kees with his six-week-old daughter, Inéz (who is now three months old).

10 May 2004

Support for securing health insurance for all Americans

A diverse group of local organizations has come together to demonstrate its support for securing health insurance for all Americans, including the nearly 44 million uninsured Americans, among them 400,000 in Tampa Bay.

8 May 2004

Health Canada is reminding Canadians about the potential hazards of items sold at garage sales

The bulletin covers products commonly sold at garage sales and provides useful information to vendors and potential buyers. For example, it tells you that it is illegal to sell a crib made before 1986 and that these cribs should be destroyed. It is also illegal to sell lawn darts with elongated tips.

8 May 2004

Reports of actor trying to break HIV quarantine

As reported by The Adult Video Industry News, sources in the Czech Republic have confirmed that veteran performer/director Jay Ashley has been attempting to work over there even though he is among the 53 performers quarantined by the AIM Healthcare Foundation because they may have been exposed to the HIV virus.

8 May 2004

Most soaps and household cleaners will remove enough peanut allergen

Peanut allergy sufferers and their parents take note: a Johns Hopkins Children's Center study finds that most soaps and household cleaners will remove enough peanut allergen from hands and dining surfaces at home and in schools to prevent an attack.

8 May 2004

Paul Martin has been accussed of hypocrisy for pushing public health care in Canada

Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin is has been accussed of hypocrisy for pushing public health care in Canada while his own family doctor runs a several private medical clinics.

8 May 2004

Measurable improvements in productivity throughout the NHS

NHS Chief Executive, Sir Nigel Crisp today reported that sustained improvements to services for patients were being accelerated, with measurable improvements in productivity throughout the NHS.

8 May 2004

Burundi population deprived of healthcare

Since February 2002, nearly five million Burundians out of a total population of 6.9 million have had to cover the costs of their medical care. The government, which devotes the great majority of its budget to its war effort, intervenes only for salaries of medical personnel and financing of infrastructures.

8 May 2004

Update AIDS Quarantine list

As of 4/13/04, the AIM Healthcare Foundation found a positive detection for the HIV Virus of an actor named Darren James. We have taken confirmatory tests which validate his positive status. The following people are on quarantine from working in the industry until they retest!

8 May 2004

BMA warns future doctors face training chaos

Under the government's 'Modernising Medical Careers' plans, from August 2005 the first two years of junior doctors' training are to be replaced with a 'foundation programme'. However, there is currently very little information about the content of the second year of the programmes, or how doctors' skills will be assessed.

8 May 2004

Low fat/high carb eating plan is not bad for good cholesterol

A slight fall in blood levels of HDL (“good”) cholesterol in men due to a low-fat, high-carbohydrate eating plan may not be a problem, researchers reported today at the American Heart Association’s 5th Annual Conference on Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology.

8 May 2004

66 percent of adults never talked to their mothers about heart disease

Just in time for Mother's Day, a national survey commissioned by GE Healthcare reveals that nearly two out of three adults have never talked to their mothers about heart disease, the number one killer of women in the United States.

8 May 2004

Man who deliberately infected two female tourists with HIV was refused bail

A Sydney man accused of deliberately infecting two female tourists with HIV was refused bail. The magistrate at Penrith Local Court yesterday refused the bail application as she considered the risk to society was too great and the married man could possibly infect even one more woman.

8 May 2004

Poor diet and lack of exercise targeted by UK government

Britain's obesity problem, poor diet and lack of exercise were being discussed today at The Diet and Exercise Summit in London.

8 May 2004

Retrial for grievous biological harm HIV case

Mohammed Dica from south London, has had his conviction overturned after an appeal yesterday based around legal error found at his trial on the 14th October 2003.

8 May 2004

British man charged for contaminating baby formula with boric acid

A British national was charged today with extortion and tampering with consumer products for sending several adulterated food items – including baby formula contaminated with boric acid – to the Ralphs grocery chain and demanding $180,000 to prevent poisoned food from being placed on store shelves.

7 May 2004

Mad cow sent to slaughterhouse

On Friday, April 30th, the Food and Drug Administration learned that a cow with central nervous system symptoms had been killed and shipped to a processor for rendering into animal protein for use in animal feed.

7 May 2004

HHS pushes Medicare-approved drug discount cards on mothers day

This year for Mother's Day, HHS Secretary Thompson urges families to give their mothers who are Medicare beneficiaries the gift of savings on prescription drugs by helping them pursue Medicare-approved drug discount cards.

7 May 2004