Health news Subcribe to Health news |
 |
|
 |
|
|
By The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- Mississippi remains at the top of the list in this year's national annual obesity rankings, with Alabama coming in second. Outside of fairly lean Colorado, there's little good news.
Read More
|
By Tom Hester Sr., newjerseynewsroom.com
Another 62,000 households in New Jersey will receive the NJ FamilyCare applications they requested on their state tax forms, Gov. Jon Corzine announced Wednesday. The mailing is for families in Essex and Hudson counties.
Read More
|
|
|
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
 |
FL: Prescription drug overdose deaths soar in Florida
By Scott Hiaasen, The Miami Herald
Florida continues to see a rapid rise in fatal overdoses caused by prescription-drug abuse -- a trend fueled by a cottage industry of cash-only pain clinics -- while deaths from illegal drugs wane, according to a report from the state's medical examiners released Tuesday.
Read More
|
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
 |
IL: Mentally disabled in housing fight
By Lisa Black, Chicago Tribune
Samuel Golden admits he wants to keep his 53-year-old daughter, who functions at the level of a 2-year-old, in what some critics would label a large "institution." Her life, he said, would deteriorate if she were forced to move into a smaller group home that couldn't provide adequate therapy and daily activities.
Read More
|
 |
KS: Governor to reveal budget plan
By The Associated Press, The Topeka Capital-Journal
Educators and officials in Kansas are awaiting word from Gov. Mark Parkinson about how he plans to balance the state budget.
Read More
|
 |
MD: State Medicaid coverage, costs grow
By Sarah Fisher, The Sun (Baltimore)
A year into a new effort to expand health coverage, recession-weary Marylanders are flocking to the state's Medicaid program in numbers far greater than expected, costing the state $50 million more in the process.
Read More
|
 |
ME: Maine still fattest state in New England
By Meg Haskell, Bangor Daily News
Like a "spare tire" of unwanted belly fat, the rate of adult obesity in Maine continues to expand. According to the 2009 report "F as in Fat," released Wednesday by the nonprofit Trust for America's Health, 24.7 percent of Maine adults are clinically obese compared with 23.7 percent in last year's report.
Read More
|
 |
MI: Michigan fat and getting fatter
By Megha Satyanarayana, Detroit Free Press
Michigan adults are the ninth-fattest in the nation, and the state is spending about $3 billion a year dealing with related health problems, according to a report released Wednesday by a national health care foundation.
Read More
|
 |
|
|
 |
MS: Uninsured health-care ranks rising in Miss.
By Jerry Mitchell, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
In a state the federal government already rates weak in health care, Mississippians are losing health insurance and choosing to either forego treatment or join the uninsured filling waiting rooms at subsidized clinics and emergency rooms.
Read More
|
 |
MS: PSC minus spending plan
By Elizabeth Crisp, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
Disagreement over the size of the Public Service Commission's staff left it as the only state agency unfunded as the fiscal year began Wednesday.
Read More
|
 |
MS: Miss. still fattest state in America
By The Associated Press, The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson)
WASHINGTON — Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers.
Read More
|
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
 |
ND: Survey -- N.D. lacks 'brain smarts'
By Chuck Haga, Grand Forks Herald
As if the challenge of reforming the nation's health care system isn't vexing enough, here's another brain twister for Sen. Kent Conrad to ponder when the North Dakota Democrat meets in Grand Forks today with doctors, nurses, hospital and clinic administrators and patient advocates:
Read More
|
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
 |
OH: Ohio court protects clinic's files
By James Nash, The Columbus Dispatch
Parents who are suing Planned Parenthood over an abortion clinic's alleged negligence in allowing a teenage sexual-assault victim to obtain an abortion will not get access to clinic records on other patients, the Ohio Supreme Court ruled yesterday.
Read More
|
 |
|
|
 |
PA: Drug company's case reaches top state court
By Staff Reports, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has agreed to hear legal arguments from a pharmaceutical company about whether a Texas law firm whose founder donated $91,000 to Gov. Ed Rendell's campaign can continue to represent the state in a lawsuit against the drug manufacturer.
Read More
|
 |
RI: Senate commission to study marijuana decriminalization
By Katherine Gregg, The Providence Journal
Weeks after legalizing the sale of marijuana to sick people, lawmakers have voted to explore how much Rhode Island might collect in revenue if it were to make all sales of marijuana legal and impose a "sin tax" of $35 per ounce.
Read More
|
 |
|
|
 |
VT: N.H. among states hit by E. coli in beef
By The Associated Press, Burlington Free Press
WASHINGTON — At least 12 people, two of them suffering kidney failure, have been hospitalized in connection with a possible E. coli outbreak in beef suspected of having sickened people in nine states, federal health officials said Wednesday.
Read More
|
 |
VT: Smokers wince at tax increase
By John Briggs, Burlington Free Press
Cigarettes in Vermont cost a quarter more a pack and $2.50 more a carton, and the 6 percent state sales tax applies for the first time to liquor, all the result of legislation that took effect Wednesday. Liquor? No big deal, beverage store proprietors said. Cigarettes? That's another story.
Read More
|
 |
|
|
 |
WA: Aid case increase adds to budget shortfall
By Brad Shannon, The Olympian
More Washington residents will receive Medicaid and children's health assistance in the next two years than earlier forecast, creating a $250 million shortfall in the state's already-strained budget.
Read More
|
 |
Financial crisis torments states
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
(Updated 5:25 p.m. EDT, July 1, 2009)
California may begin issuing IOUs this week because of the state’s unresolved budget crisis. But government disruptions were averted at least temporarily in five other states that missed a July 1 deadline for closing billion-dollar budget gaps.
Read More
|
 |
|
|
 |
Tracking the recession: Budget deadline looms
By Stephen C. Fehr, Stateline.org Staff Writer
Unlike the federal government, states have to balance their budgets. But several states still have not completed spending plans for the fiscal year that begins July 1.
Read More
|
 |
Ga. hotline aims to cut mental health costs
By Rob Silverblatt, Special to Stateline.org
Even as the recession chips away at mental health services across the country, Georgia’s around-the-clock psychiatric hotline is finding a way to weather the storm — and other states are watching closely.
Read More
|