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- As FIU president leaves medical opens
- US Spends $33.9 Billion Annually on Alternative Medicine
- UTMB’s ER is back in business
- ‘Broken’ health system can learn from heart treatment
- Medical-marijuana proposal needs petitions to make ballot
- In rural America skepticism of health care reform
Texas and Southwest News Briefs
Dallas Morning News
The trauma center had treated about 64000 patients a year before Ike shut it down last September. Woman accidentally runs car into church GILMER Texas – Three people were injured when an SUV crashed into a church auditorium in eastern Texas just as Sunday morning services were about to start. Texas Department of Public Safety Trooper Kenneth Nolley said a 66-year-old woman indicated she stepped on the gas instead of the brake in the parking lot of the Zion Hill Baptist Church. She was not hurt but a man and two children were treated at local hospitals and released.
As FIU president leaves medical opens
MiamiHerald.com
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US Spends $33.9 Billion Annually on Alternative Medicine
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9 Billion Annually on Alternative MedicineMonday August 3 2009Americans spent $33. 9 billion on complementary and alternative medical practices and products such as herbal supplements meditation chiropractic and acupuncture during the past 12 months according to a new report from the National Institutes of Health. 9 billion spent on alternative medicine represents about 1. 5 percent of the nation’s total annual.
UTMB’s ER is back in business
Houston Chronicle
“But people came to us right away and asked if we needed any assistance then the doctor saw us. Roughly 75 patients received treatment at the emergency room by early Saturday evening according to officials. The hospital laid off more than 2400 employees in November after Ike forced the temporary closure of the medical school and its hospital the school’s main source of revenue. ther employees including emergency physicians moved on to other jobs. Hill told the Houston Chronicle that a large percentage of UTMB’s pre-Ike employees have been brought back. In March the state Legislature forced the UT Board of Regents to reverse its decision to downsize the state’s oldest medical school to compensate for an estimated $710 million in storm-related losses. ___ n the Net: The Galveston County Daily News.
‘Broken’ health system can learn from heart treatment
USA Today
Experts say these variations are the clearest indication that the nation’s health system is ailing — as clear as a cholesterol test that reveals a high risk of heart disease. Cardiologists accustomed to using cholesterol and high blood pressure in gauging heart risk have pioneered ways to use data to evaluate the quality of heart disease treatment. Those methods now are being used more broadly to address the quality of medical care as a whole.
Medical-marijuana proposal needs petitions to make ballot
Tallahassee Democrat
Jennifer Davis a spokeswoman for the Division of Elections said it may be unlikely that the group People United for Medical Marijuana will be able to collect enough petitions to make the ballot. “That would be fairly difficult to do between now and Feb. 1″ she said referencing the deadline to get petitions submitted for the general election. There’s a step-by-step process involved before any constitutional amendment can be put on the ballot she said.
In rural America skepticism of health care reform
The Associated Press
Many folks in Huerfano County population 7900 depend on a low-cost outreach clinic for care. There’s no eye doctor no full-time dentist. The clinic relies on nurse practitioners midwives and medical assistants to provide basic exams but most sick patients are referred to a bigger town about 30 minutes away. “I don’t have any way to get up there to the doctor” said Tenorio who doesn’t drive. “Sometimes I can’t even get out of bed because of the pain. “The 25 percent of Americans who live in rural areas are poorer older fatter and sicker than their city neighbors. They live farther from doctors and have a harder time getting to appointments many depending on neighbors or church volunteers if public transportation doesn’t exist.
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