| What concerns voters now
What's the most important issue facing the state these days? According to a recent poll by St. Norbert College, it's high taxes and government spending. No surprise there, really. The two have been at the top of the list likely since government was invented. About 35 percent of those surveyed think the tax structure is the problem. Some of those 35 percent upset about the budget say that government is spending money too much on the wrong things and too little on the right things. In second place is government ethics. About 11 percent say this broad category is their top concern. Over half of the comments in the category say Gov. Doyle is the biggest problem while partisanship and politics was second. It appears that people are still smarting from the state budget process. The economy concerned 9 percent of the survey.
USC School of Dentistry researchers discover link between oral cancer and ethnicity
(Los Angeles CA)�Clinicians from the USC School of Dentistry unravel connection between the incidence of oral cancer and race and ethnicity-- as part of first epidemiological study of oral cancer in California. Dr. Satish Kumar and Dr.Parish Sedghizadeh, clinical professors in the school�s Division of Diagnostic Sciences, gleaned through 20 years of records from the California Cancer Registry (CCR)�the state�s cancer surveillance database�for the incidence rates of invasive squamous cell carcinoma, the most common form of oral cancer. Their findings will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology, Oral Radiology and Endodontology and are currently available online at www.ooooe.net. Kumar and Sedghizadeh theorized that groups who engaged in these high-risk behaviors would also experience higher rates of oral cancer.
Employees in Rockford, Illinois Lose Nearly a Ton of Weight and Save Employers a Ton of Money in Healthcare Costs
Tangerine Wellness Proves Financial Incentives, Not Disincentives, Work Best to Reduce Waistlines and Bottom Line Costs. Rockford, IL and Boston, MA (PRWEB) October 31, 2007 -- Employers in Rockford, Illinois know a thing or two about saving money on healthcare costs: pay employees to lose weight, pay them to keep the weight off and reap the savings in annual healthcare costs. Using Tangerine Wellness, the first incentive-based corporate wellness program that reduces the cost of healthcare for employers, employees at Rockford area businesses have already lost more than 1,700 pounds and their employers have seen between a 10 - 19 percent decrease in medical claims costs. .
Chiropractor bill draws criticism
A measure purported to allow New Jersey's chiropractors to legally ply their trade drew criticism Monday from others in the health industry who claim it would create an untrained class of quasi-doctors. The bill, advanced unanimously by the Assembly Regulated Professions and Independent Authorities Committee, makes official that chiropractors can practice anything -- except surgical cutting and writing prescriptions -- taught in chiropractic college and approved by the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. A gamut of other health professions -- nurses, medical doctors, physical therapists and acupuncturists -- cried foul, saying the measure goes too far and will have an array of results including chiropractors doing school physicals, performing acupuncture or selling nutritional supplements from their offices.
The new MDs in town: Hospitalists
Patients at South Nassau Communities Hospital in Oceanside are learning a thing or two about changes in the administration of care.
South Nassau is using a type of physician not well known to the public -- the hospitalist.
Patients at South Nassau receive care from teams that include these doctors, mostly internal medicine physicians who specialize in acute care and are based at the hospital rather than in private offices. Some hospitals call them inpatient care specialists. "From the moment patients are admitted to the second they're discharged, the hospitalists work in concert with the physicians and the nursing staff and provide complementary care that assists patients in their recovery from illness or injury," said Dr. Joshua Kugler, senior vice president at South Nassau.
• Top 5 Myths About Popular Herbal Supplements
Many individuals often turn to herbal supplements and products for particularly good reasons, which include a need to compensate for an incomplete diet, a desire for a "natural" cure, or attaining hope when medical science offers no more answers. Sometimes though, supplements may provide a lot of assistance.
However, the public is often surprised to learn that some supplements lack many of the safeguards afforded to prescription or over-the-counter drugs, and that even potentially helpful supplements can pose slight risks. Here's how to verify if a certain supplement may help you, and how to avoid those that almost certainly won't help you, and could possibly do more harm. 5 Popular Myths About Herbal Supplements - Herbal Supplements "Cure Cancer" or Offer "Boundless Energy" Some product labels may just too good to be true when they say they offer "boundless energy," "quick weight loss," "cancer cure".
2007 InfoWorld 100 Awards
Abbott Laboratories www.abbott.com Sales and Financial Data Warehouse Initiative Project Lead: Peggy Mathias, Senior Manager HQ IT Applications, International Division Project Description: Abbott launched an international sales data consolidation effort, developing a flexible information management infrastructure capable of accommodating future organizational changes and rapidly evolving business needs. The project integrated Kalido as a data warehouse, Oracle and PL/SQL for data staging, and Cognos for its reporting front end, providing 250 finance and marketing executives in 65 countries access to consistent, high-quality data. Industry: Pharmaceuticals .
McKinney Calendar and NEWS BRIEFS
Descendants of early Collin County settlers will have their first reunion from 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday.Activities begin with a tour of the McKinney Performing Arts Center - the renovated old county courthouse at 111 N. Tennessee Street. Participants should meet at the Tennessee Street entrance.A program and reception will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. at the library, 101 E. Hunt Street. Glenda Mounger will present "A Days of the Republic of Texas Trunk Show," and Bruce Pastusek will display and demonstrate items used during the Civil War.RSVP by Wednesday to Faye Chism at 972-924-3818, 469-767-8957 or Chmtraildixietx@aol.com. Princeton groupsto 'Stuff the Bus'The Princeton ISD and the Princeton Lions Club are co-sponsoring a "Stuff the Bus" activity to recruit donations of non-perishable food items, unwrapped new toys, money and new clothing.
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