Here’s what’s not in dispute: The United States spends 16 percent of its national income on health care, more than any other country in the world. In return, we get lower life expectancy than most other Western countries, uneven care, and enormous anxiety about how to pay for it.
Who’s to blame? Not the hospitals and [...]
The need for meaningful health care reform remains one of the hottest topics in the public as we approach our national election. Health Insurance An important new study, in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine, reveals a growing consensus among practicing physicians that our broken health care system would be best fixed by legislation [...]
Evolution has run riot on Yemen’s windy isles of Socotra, whose dizzying cliffs, jagged peaks and exotic plants entice the imagination to do the same.
Here be dragons, or at least Dragon’s Blood trees, prized for their red medicinal sap. Fearsome gales blow beaches up hillsides. People speak an obscure language older than Arabic.
The ancients cherished [...]
Cabbies here complain their take-home pay is thinner than it used to be. Trucking companies across the country are making drivers slow down to conserve fuel. Filling station owners plead that really, really, the skyrocketing prices aren’t their fault.
And the rest of us? With gas prices now averaging $3.50 a gallon nationwide, according to AAA [...]
The companys 10-seater Chieftain Piper plane hit the tarmac at 8.40am after a 29-minute flight.
It has been three years since a commercial service has run between Invercargill and Dunedin.
Flights between the cities stopped when Origin Pacific withdrew its service in 2005, before the company folded.
Mainland Air plans to run a return service three days a [...]
Men with diabetes who ate any eggs at all raised their risk of death during a 20-year period studied, according to the study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.
The study adds to an ever-growing body of evidence, much of it contradictory, about how safe eggs are to eat. It did not examine what [...]
Bandaged around his head and left hand, senior firefighter Grylls, 29, today credited fate with leaving him with minor injuries.
He was standing next to his Red Watch boss, Senior Station Officer Derek Lovell, when a huge explosion ripped through the Icepak Groups Waikato coolstore, where they were checking an alarm.
Mr Lovell, 48, was knocked backward [...]
Health commissioner Ron Paterson, whose office launched the study after the Sunday Star-Times last year questioned the quality of foreign doctors says he had referred his findings to the Medical Council and specialist colleges.
The research into six years of complaints to his office found Indian-trained doctors are attracting more complaints per head than any other [...]
The girl has been drawing crowds to the familys mud-and-brick house in a town 50km from New Delhi, Agence France Presse reported.
Shes fed through one mouth and sucks her thumb with the other. We use whichever mouth is free to feed her, her father, factory worker Vinod Kumar, told AFP.
Kumar admitted he was a little [...]
A report to the Hospital Advisory Committee shows the board has spent almost $5.2 million on out-sourced doctors, against a budgeted $2.2 million for the year to February %26mdash; 134 percent over budget.
%26quot;The period December 2007 to February 2008 have seen a large increase in the use of out-source resources, in both the senior and [...]
