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PETA files complaint against Agriprocessors
Associated Press WriterThe People for Ethical Treatment of Animals said in a federal complaint that workers in the Agriprocessors meatpacking plant in Postville were improperly slaughtering cows and calls for the plant to install video cameras to monitor its workers. PETA...Tags: Animals, Health and Safety at Work, Judaism, Religious Leaders, Food Safety
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Rev. Jesse Jackson released from Chicago hospital
The Reverend Jesse Jackson has been released from a Chicago hospital, two days after he was admitted because of severe stomach pains. A spokeswoman for Jackson's civil rights organization, Rainbow/PUSH Coalition, says Jackson was released from...Tags: Jesse Jackson, Hospitals and Clinics, Civil Rights, Food Safety
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Survey: Health Benefit Costs Could Rise 5.7%
Courant Staff WriterThe cost of workplace health insurance might rise about 5.7 percent, on average, for 2009, and many U.S. workers can expect to pay a bigger portion of medical bills themselves, an annual survey shows. The preliminary survey results from benefits...Tags: Private Health Care, Employees, Health Treatments, Employers, Government Health Care
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Troubled Howe Developmental Center to close, advocacy groups say
Chicago Tribune reporterState health officials are expected Friday to announce the closing of two beleaguered Tinley Park institutions, the Howe Developmental Center for disabled adults and the Mental Health Center, advocates and union officials said. The Illinois Department of...Tags: Mental Illness, Tinley Park, Illnesses, Rod Blagojevich, Health Treatments
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Community events
Mike Seeger will perform Music from the True Vine, Southern folk music, 7:30 tonight at the Williamsburg Library Theatre, 515 Scotland St. Tickets are $15 for adults, $12 for Friends of the Williamsburg Regional Library and $8 for children under 16. For...Tags: September 11, 2001 Attacks, People, Chesapeake Bay, NASA, Roman Catholic
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Health care co-pays, deductibles to rise
Associated PressGet ready for another boost in co-pays and deductibles. A survey being released today by the Mercer consulting firm found 59 percent of companies intend to keep down rising health care costs next year by raising workers' deductibles, co-pays or out-of-...Tags: Insurance, Private Health Care, Employees, Health Treatments, Employers
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E. Coli sickens 200, kills one
An E. coli outbreak linked to a restaurant in northeastern Oklahoma has sickened more than 200 people and killed at least one person, state health officials said Tuesday. The Country Cottage restaurant in Locust Grove has been closed voluntarily for more... -
California Legislature enacts no major healthcare overhaul but OKs some key changes
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCalifornia lawmakers acted to curb some of the most extreme practices of the state's healthcare industry this session, even as they failed to fix some of its most widespread problems, such as high costs and uneven quality. The Legislature's two-year...Tags: Parliament, Hospitals and Clinics, Health Treatments, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Britney Spears
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Pall Corp. of East Hills acquires French company
james.bernstein@newsday.comPall Corp., a manufacturer of high-tech filtration systems, said yesterday it has acquired a privately held, France-based company whose technology rapidly detects harmful microorganisms. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. East Hills-based Pall,...Tags: House and Home, Pall Corporation, Food Safety, Long Island
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An outbreak of idiocy
The Food and Drug Administration's hunt for sources of the recent salmonella outbreak reminds me of the antics of the comical Inspector Clouseau of Pink Panther fame. First, they traced it to tomatoes, inflicting $250 million in frivolous damages on...Tags: Food Safety, Fort Lauderdale, Agricultural Research and Technology, Health Organizations
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Extend choice to doctors, too
I am a pro-choice atheist. But I support a regulation, recently promulgated by the Bush administration, that would cut federal funding to nearly 600,000 hospitals, clinics, health plans, doctors' offices and other entities if they do not allow their...Tags: Massacres, Abortion
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Wasie donation provides expansion for NICU
A marketing publication of the Sun-Sentinel CompanyMost days, the sole focus of those at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital is on the life-saving care needed by some of South Florida's most acutely ill newborn babies. However, recently there was a day with a shared...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Joe DiMaggio, Healthcare Provider, Medicaid, Government Health Care
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