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… 11th. This program is offered in partnership by the Alzheimer’s Association, UK Sanders Brown Center on Aging, and UK Health Care. The Season of Honor: Caring for the Caregiver Support Group will meet on Monday, January 2, 2017 at 6:30 p.m. at First …

A Capitol offense

… to sponsor such legislation. Tom Price, a member of Congress and President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of Health and Human Services, did own between $50,000 and $100,000 worth of stock in such a company, and he did sponsor such …

Korean drugmakers seek opportunities at JPMorgan conference

In search of new partnerships, foreign investment and promotional opportunities, South Korea’s top biopharmaceutical companies will partake in the 35th J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, which kicks off Monday in San Francisco. The annual four-day event is the world’s biggest and oldest health care symposium.

Survivor of the Year

Newly named the Komen VT-NH Affiliate’s Survivor of the Year for 2007, Kerry Clifford, of Brandon, has competed in the Komen Race for the Cure held at Hildene Meadows in Manchester for ten out of the past 11 years. She has consistently finished in the 5K Walk’s Overall Top 35, with her best Overall Walker finish in 7th place in 1999 and finished the 5K Walk as one of the top-4 breast cancer survivors in all ten Komen races she has taken part in.

The good stuff

If one picked up a little pot and morphine but didn’t understand the benefits of heroin, all she had to do was ask her local pharmacist. “Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind, regulates the stomach, bowels, and is a perfect guardian of health,” replied the pharmacist.

Reckless? Shaheen created this mess

… as she does. Shaheen had no such reservations on Christmas Eve 2009, when Senate Democrats rushed through a sloppy health care law without a single Republican vote. The death of Ted Kennedy, replaced by Republican Scott Brown, meant that Democrats …

Cut Dependence On Government

West Virginia’s U.S. senators, Democrat Joe Manchin and Republican Shelley Moore Capito, share one concern about proposals to repeal and replace the Obamacare program. It is that those who have become dependent on it not be cut off from health insurance.

Flu shots urged

Cooler weather and shorter days mark the transition from fall to winter and it’s also a sign that flu season is here. The Florida Department of Health in Monroe County urges Floridians to prevent getting seasonal flu and spreading it to others by getting the flu vaccine.

Suicide and older adults

Suicide is a very serious problem among older adults. Although people age 65 and older made up only 13.7 percent of the population in 2012, they accounted for 16.3 percent of the suicides.

Gov. Pence gives farewell address to Hoosiers

… from Evansville to Indianapolis. Our innovative Healthy Indiana Plan is a national model of how to provide affordable health care coverage to our most vulnerable citizens. Hoosiers are proving we can improve healthcare and drive down costs with …

A Woman’s Heart event scheduled for Feb. 2

Cookeville Regional Medical Center’s “A Woman’s Heart” event committee is in full swing planning the Heart Fund’s biggest fundraiser of the year. Looking forward to the A Woman’s Heart event are, in front, from left, committee members Margaret Arseniadis, Hannah Davis, and Sylvia Kennedy; Katelyn Steakley, Bless Boutique; committee members Marcy Griffin, Cherry Ramsey, chair Coleen Schabacker and Leah Ingram; and Foundation director John Bell; and in back, committee members Amanda Scott, Debbie Baker, Elizabeth Kase; Emily Carwile, Matilda Jane clothing; and committee members Amy Rich, Tracy Galyean, Paula Jackson and Barb Davis.

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The Boobytrapped Presidency

… happen. Obamacare is an unpopular program that has become progressively more unpopular as its effects-more expensive health insurance and fewer choices-have become apparent. Yet the GOP, many of whose Representatives and Senators were elected …

News flash: why some refined carbs may be good for us

Skip to navigation Skip to content Skip to footer View text version of this page Help using this website – Accessibility statement Join today and you can easily save your favourite articles, join in the conversation and comment, plus select which news your want direct to your inbox. Refined carbs aren’t exactly health heroes and are often accused of raising the risk of obesity, heart disease and type 2 diabetes.

Beauty Buzz: make-up to motivate

If you’re detoxing, exercising and generally feeling deprived, some January payday make-up treats may be the way to maintain your motivation. YSL’s new Keep An Eye On Me palette provides a twist on winter shadows with nude, brown, slate and auburn shades that will help you transition into spring .

Halsey Undergoes Surgery to Treat Endometriosis

A year after opening up to fans about her struggle with endometriosis — a disease that causes inflammation outside of the uterus and can lead pelvic pain, fatigue, nausea and potentially infertility — Halsey has shared an update on her treatment from a hospital bed. The singer-songwriter, who was diagnosed following years of suffering from pain, now reveals she’s had surgery to treat her chronic illness.

‘Walking miracle’: NFL star’s 800K addiction

A FORMER Ohio State University football player whose NFL career fell apart because of a painkiller addiction says he wants to become a college coach and help others avoid similar pitfalls now that he’s clean and has a degree. Shane Olivea told The Columbus Dispatch he was high every day following his rookie year with the San Diego Chargers.

Shannen Doherty celebrates her last radiation treatment by running…

She’s chronicled shaving her head and shed light on what cancer treatment really looks like, and now she’s headed to the salon to celebrate the end of another phase of a very scary process. Shannen Doherty finished her first round of radiation treatment on Friday, which became necessary after she found out in late summer that the breast cancer she’d been battling since 2015 had spread beyond her lymph nodes, according to the Los Angeles Times .

The pursuit of pleasure

… one another like dried leaves, awaiting the brass trumpets and wedding bells of the eschaton”. Sitting in a sexual health clinic in Brooklyn, awaiting a test for chlamydia, she ponders the official guidance on avoiding sexually transmitted diseases: …

Editorial, Jan. 8, 2017: Reform, dona t repeal, Obamacare

If Republicans can’t convince Americans they have a replacement that’s better than the Affordable Care Act, then they’ll own the results. Which leads to the sneaking suspicion they don’t have an alternative that will provide equal or better coverage for about 20 million Americans who were able to obtain health insurance through Obamacare.