“It’s the combined taxidermist and veterinarian approach: either way you get your dog back,” says David Himmelstein, an internist at the Harvard Medical School and co-author of a letter published in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. The largest tobacco investor on the list, the 160-year old Prudential company with [...]

A letter from the Marathon County Health Department was sent home with students of Hawthorne Hills Elementary School. Health department leaders say they want the community to practice good habits, as with any virus, to help prevent the spread. A letter sent home with students advises parents that a fourth grader is confirmed to [...]

As the H1N1 swine flu virus continues to wax and wane in different parts of the country, U.S. health officials said they were working as fast as possible to learn as much as they can about the novel pathogen before the return of the flu season in the fall. The reason for the urgency: Some [...]

President Obama vowed in an interview Saturday that his health care plan will provide “basic coverage” to all Americans – a linguistically different choice than “universal” care – but reiterated his commitment to the idea of reform. Speaking to C-SPAN Political Editor Steve Scully in the White House Library, Obama also said the country [...]

programs, South Bay health care providers who depend on state funding aren’t sure how much more they can trim. But if the governor’s proposed cuts are approved – cuts that health advocates describe as the most profound roll-back in health services in California’s history – clinics from Hawthorne to San Pedro will have to take [...]