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Ohio to bolster checks on home health care workers
Ohio officials plan to bolster criminal background checks for those home health-care workers who provide direct care to the disabled and elderly. The state has received a $2.1 million federal grant to provide increased reviews for more than 100,000 workers who serve patients in Medicaid- and Medicare-funded settings. Gov. John ...
Portland revisits issue of public fluoridation
While soaking up the rays in what's been an unusually sunny season, Portlanders have broken away from their polite chatter about food, wine and outdoor adventure to fight about whether to fluoridate the water supply. Supporters and opponents of public fluoridation have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead of ...
Fate of LA pot shops left to voters
Los Angeles politicians have struggled for more than five years to regulate medical marijuana, trying to balance the needs of the sick against neighborhood concerns that pot shops attract crime. Voters will head to the polls Tuesday to decide how Los Angeles should handle its high with three competing measures ...
Stilt walker wrapping up trek around Michigan
Hundreds of miles and thousands of dollars later, the "Michigan Stilt Walker" is wrapping up his latest trek across the state. Neil Sauter (SAW'-ter) is raising money for the United Cerebral Palsy of Michigan nonprofit by walking from one end of Michigan to the other all while 9 feet off ...
Law requires 1 form for authorization of medicine
A new Michigan law calls for the creation of a universal form that doctors can use when patients need prior authorization for coverage of prescription drugs. Bills signed last week by Gov. Rick Snyder ask the state insurance commissioner to develop a standard form for physicians when insurers require prior ...
ND hospitals need help in screening for bad debt
Medical centers in western North Dakota's booming oil patch need help in diagnosing which patients seeking nonemergency services are bad debt risks. As part of a fund of nearly $10 million to help defray hospitals' bad debt in 2013-2015, the Legislature appropriated $700,000 for new information technology aimed at reducing ...
Mich. disabled vets could see property tax relief
Some disabled veterans living in Michigan could get some relief next tax season under legislation being debated in the state Senate. Two different bills passed by the Senate Finance Committee last week have one aim: to provide property tax exemptions for veterans who are disabled as the result of their ...
32nd annual NH fundraiser sets $2.75 million goal
Organizers of New Hampshire's annual Prouty fundraiser for cancer research and treatment have set a $2.75 million goal for this year's two-day event. The Prouty, which takes place July 12 and 13 in Hanover, has raised more than $17 million in the past 31 years. It features 100- and 200-mile ...
8 yr-old autistic boy goes missing on Fla vacation
Authorities are searching by land and sea for an 8-year-old autistic boy who went missing while vacationing in the Florida Panhandle. Escambia County Sheriff's officials said Owen Elliot Black was on the beaches of Perdido Key with his mother and wandered off on his own around 4 p.m. Friday. He ...
More centers in DC area speak seniors' language
If Mohammad Rahro, 91, had gone to just any senior center in Maryland, chances are he would not have encountered someone who remembered the headmaster with four wives who rode to school each day on a beloved white donkey. Instead, on his first day at the Loving Care Adult Medical ...
Pa. woman fights cancer while pregnant
Jenise Kaliszewski had been trying to get pregnant for less than a month when she first noticed a painful lump near her left armpit in June 2012. A friend told Kaliszewski, 30, to see a doctor, even though the pain had subsided. The doctor sent the Franklin Township woman to ...
20,000 weekend runners for Cleveland events
Twenty-thousand runners are participating in the Cleveland marathon and related races this weekend. In addition to Sunday morning's marathon, the weekend races include a half-marathon, 10-kilometer, 5-kilometer and Kid's Run events. The starting and finishing lines are located along downtown Cleveland's Lake Erie waterfront. Marathon officials say runners and spectators ...
Wisconsin bill would ban mandatory flu shots
Wisconsin employers, including hospitals and nursing homes, could no longer require workers to get flu shots under a bill pending in the Legislature. Republican Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, of Fond du Lac, says he began drafting the legislation after several hospital workers and health care contractors in his district complained they ...
Free dental exams for service dogs at UW
Guide dogs and other service canines will get some special attention from University of Wisconsin Veterinary Care specialists. UW Veterinary Care is the teaching hospital at the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine. Two of its dental specialists are certified by the American Veterinary Dental College after completing advanced ...
Gregory woman, 72, proves health is timeless
Brenda Badish found herself in a desperate situation at a tough age. At age 68, Badish had gained about 100 pounds since her husband's 1997 death and could no longer function physically on her own. "I couldn't do anything. I was at a point where I couldn't even dress myself," ...
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