HHS Will Be Shepherding Health-Care
Under the best of circumstances, overseeing the Department of Health and Human Services is an enormous undertaking. With 65,000 employees and a budget of $707.7 billion, it accounts for nearly one-quarter of all federal spending, second only to the Defense Department.

Mental health league kicked off
Chelsea Football Club helps set up a football league in Surrey for people with mental health problems.

Intestinal Health In Salmon Fed A Plant-based Diet
Access to marine raw materials for fish feed production is limited. Any future increase in the numbers of farmed salmon will therefore necessitate an increased use of feeds of plant origin. If salmon are to grow satisfactorily and remain healthy, it is important to obtain knowledge of just how plant-based feed affects the health of fish.

Health Care Foundation of Greater KC will increase grants in 2009
The Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City will give $26.5 million in grants in 2009, up $1.5 million from last year.

Health workers say close to eradicating guinea worm
Source: Reuters By Matthew Bigg ATLANTA, Dec 5 (Reuters) - Health workers are on the verge of eradicating Guinea worm disease in what would be just the second time in history a disease has been wiped from the ...

Virginia improves health ranking in national survey
RICHMOND A low prevalence of smoking and a relatively small percentage of children in poverty helped contribute to a slight improvement in Virginia's overall health. The nonprofit United Health Foundation ranked Virginia as the 20th healthiest state in the country, an improvement from last year, when it was 22nd.

Health care rivals go to trial
The antitrust legal dispute between Wuesthoff Health System and Health First will go to a jury trial in November 2009.

Rockies: O'Dowd: Helton's health affects Atkins' role
Rockies general manager Dan O'Dowd said Thursday that Garrett Atkins' future with the team is linked to Todd Helton's health.

WellSpan to close mental health office
A local mental health facility that serves about 1,600 people in the community will soon close its doors.

Obama laying the groundwork for U.S. health reform
WASHINGTON (Reuters)?President-elect Barack Obama has begun laying the groundwork for overhauling the troubled U.S. health care system, reaching out to interest groups and building grass-roots support for the huge undertaking.

Harkin urges speed on health care reform
The nation?s political and economic conditions have created a sense of urgency for Congress to enact sweeping health care legislation, Sen. Tom Harkin said in Des Moines on Thursday.

CEO of Ohio health insurer dies in plane crash
CLEVELAND ? The chief executive of the Medical Mutual of Ohio health insurance company has died in a small plane crash in Puerto Rico, a company spokesman said. Kent W. Clapp was 62. Also killed in Wednesday?s crash was his fiancee, Tracy Turner, and the pilot of the plane they chartered. The twin-engine plane crashed in dense fog into a mountain in the El Yunque rainforest about 13 miles east ...

Cash-strapped health clinics saved by merger
Two longtime health clinics -- Roseland Children's Health Center and Santa Rosa Free Clinic -- have been acquired by the Southwest Community Health Center to prevent them from having to close because of rising costs and diminished funding.

Mental health officials warn of cuts
The state's Commission on Mental Health and Developmental Services plans to urge Gov. Jim Gibbons to consider the needs of the mentally ill and developmentally disabled before axing percentages off upcoming budgets.

Early Glance: Health Care Equipment companies
(AP:NEW YORK) Shares of some top health care equipment companies are down at 10 a.m.: Becton Dickinson fell $.96 or 1.5 percent, to $61.76. Covidien fell $.43 or 1.2 percent, to $34.99.

Kennedy opens new prenatal health unit
Kennedy Health Systems anticipates conducting more than 8,000 prenatal diagnostic tests each year at the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Unit, which opened Wednesday in the Washington Township Hospital, Building A.

Governor names Eve Franklin health policy adviser
Associated Press - December 5, 2008 10:04 AM ET HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Gov. Brian Schweitzer has named Eve Franklin as his policy adviser on health and families.

AHIP Announces Universal Health Care Plan That Aims To Slow Growth Of Health Care Costs By 30% Over Five Years
America's Health Insurance Plans on Wednesday announced a universal health coverage proposal that would be funded in part by slowing the growth of health care costs by 30% over five years and reducing inefficiencies, the Wall Street Journal reports.

CEO of Ohio health insurer dies in plane crash
CLEVELAND (AP) - A spokesman for health insurer Medical Mutual of Ohio says the company is in mourning over the death of chief executive Kent Clapp. Sixty-two-year-old Clapp and his fiancee were killed in Puerto Rico Wednesday, along their pilot.

CEO of Ohio Health Insurer Dies in Plane Crash
The chief executive of the Medical Mutual of Ohio health insurance company has died in a small plane crash in Puerto Rico, a company spokesman said. Kent W. Clapp was 62. Also killed in Wednesday's crash was his fiancee, Tracy Turner, and the pilot of the plane they chartered.