| Millrats defeat hoop Rainmen
The Manchester Millrats from New Hampshire defeated the host Halifax Rainmen 124-106 in American Basketball League action Thursday night at the Metro Centre. Forward Eric Crookshank and guard Jermaine Anderson led the Rainmen with 20 points apiece. For full story, read Friday's edition of The Daily News. .
Train derails in Athens County
ALBANY (AP) -- Authorities have closed a couple of roads in Athens County after a coal train derailed this morning. County Emergency Management Agency director Fred Davis said officials want to keep vehicles out of the area in the town of Albany to make cleanup easier. .
Kenya: Aquatic Exercise Could Help You Keep the Doctor Away
Fred Sambu, a physiotherapist, helps a patient to exercise in the hydro pool at Karen Hospital November 6, 2007: The first and most predominant thought that comes to your mind when one mentions a hospital is illness. Usually people go to hospitals either as patients or when they are accompanying patients. But imagine going to hospital for a dip in a hydro pool. Welcome to Karen Hospital in Nairobi. "We allow clients to walk in and use our hydro pool, which is basically exercising in water," said Elizabeth Nyokabi, a physiotherapist at the hospital. So who uses this pool that is heated to body temperature? .
Sonoma West News
Alarming statistics surrounding what health officials have tagged an epidemic are revealed in a new report from the Sonoma County Asthma Coalition."Asthma in Schools," the eye-opening two-page document, will be sent out to parents of students enrolled in various Sonoma County schools, as well as every law enforcement agency, fire department, superintendent, and elected official in the county, in an attempt to improve asthma-related health conditions for students, staff and community members.School nurses, libraries, past volunteers of the American Lung Association, and the media will also be among the 5,000 recipients of the report, which states that nearly one in five school-aged children - or about 20 percent of students in the county have asthma."Asthma is a chronic disease that produces recurring episodes of breathing problems, including coughing, wheezing, chest tightness, and shortness of breath," the SCAC states in its report.
Charles Brandes Buys Countrywide Financial Corp., Washington Mutual Inc., CIT Group Inc., Sells Fleetwood Enterprises ...
How did Charles Brandes become billionaire? By buying undervalued stocks in out of favor industries. As homebuilders and financials are trashed on Wall Street, Charles Brandes seems to love all of them, including Washington Mutual, Countrywide. These are the details. Charles Brandes buys Countrywide Financial Corp., Washington Mutual Inc., CIT Group Inc., Argonaut Group Inc., Braskem S.A., Pulte Homes Inc., CIBA Specialty Chemicals Holdi, Centex Corp., Lennar Corp., Brunswick Corp., The Timberland Company, D.R. Horton Inc., Toll Brothers Inc., SAIA, INC., Valassis Communications Inc., Cott Corp., Circuit City Stores Inc., KB Home, Meritage Homes Corp., Standard Pacific Corp., Molson Coors Brewing Company, Hovnanian Enterprises Inc., Beazer Homes USA Inc., Chesapeake Corp., The Ryland Group Inc., Tele Norte Celular Participaes S.A., Biovail Corp., sells Fleetwood Enterprises Inc., International Business Machines Corp, Stoneridge Inc., Telus Corp., Triad Hospitals Inc., El Paso Corp., Idearc Inc., Philippine Long Distance Telephone Compa, Tyco International Ltd., InterVoice Inc., Tenet Healthcare Corp., Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd., Dorel Industries, Inc.
Now, the Stick
Employers frustrated with mounting health-care costs for their workers have tried dangling a carrot to discourage bad habits such as smoking as well as behaviors that can lead to obesity, uncontrolled diabetes or high blood pressure. Now some employers are beginning to brandish a stick, docking pay, hiking insurance premiums or even banning employees from the workplace if they don't comply with off-site smoking bans. So far Midwestern companies have taken the lead; only a few Washington area employers have followed. Starting in January, Tribune Co. will require its employees, including 1,200 at the Baltimore Sun, to pay $100 a month more in insurance premiums if they or any of their covered family members smoke. .
Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition Encourages Vaccination Throughout The Influenza Season
To raise awareness of the need to vaccinate more infants, children and adolescents against influenza, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in conjunction with Families Fighting Flu, declared, November 27, as the first ever "Children's Flu Vaccination Day." The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases' (NFID) Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition commends this effort to emphasize the importance of annual influenza vaccination to protect children and their contacts from this serious and potentially deadly virus.
"Influenza claims more American lives every year than all other vaccine- preventable diseases combined," said Richard H. Carmona, M.D., M.P.H., FACS, Coalition Chair, 17th Surgeon General of the United States (2002-2006), President of Canyon Ranch Institute and Distinguished Professor of Public Health, The University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.
Medicaid program offers ‘coaches’ to nurse chronic ailments
JEFFERSON CITY — Coaches are called upon to strategize and execute a game plan. In Missouri, there is a need for this type of coach — not to aid the floundering St. Louis Rams, but to help patients in lower income brackets who are suffering from chronic illnesses. Nina Stewart is one of these coaches, and her work is part of the new direction Missouri is taking with its Medicaid program, renamed MO HealthNet. Stewart tells one success story of a diabetic whose chances of achieving a healthy lifestyle have increased through the aid of a health care coach. “A coach recommended to the patient the use of a food diary to help monitor blood-sugar levels; now the patient will have good news to deliver to the physician, instead of just bad news," she said.
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