"Health News - Medicine, Diet and Fitness"

1. Ads for sex workers - particularly those operating in the building.

2. Real estate ads for apartments in other buildings.

3. Personal attacks on residents or EC members.

4. Political pamphlets.

5. Ads for fumigation and pest pest control services.

6. Offers for cut-price surround sound systems.
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Washington — The rising cost of health insurance continues to drive a slow but steady decline in employer-sponsored coverage and an increase in the number of uninsured people, according to the authors of an annual employer survey.

Premiums increased 6.1% on average in 2007 — the slowest rate since 1999, according to the “Survey of Employer Benefits 2007″ by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research & Educational Trust. But that figure is more than twice the 2.6% rise in inflation and outstrips the 3.7% boost in workers’ earnings.

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With Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine in Parker, Colo., one step closer to becoming the only for-profit, accredited medical school in the United States, it is generating controversy in the medical community.

In August, the Commission on Osteopathic College Accreditation awarded the school provisional accreditation. Once fully accredited, it will join the ranks of 149 public and private medical schools in the U.S. All those institutions are nonprofits.

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Doctors and patients will still not have important information on side effects of medicine

Statement of Emily Clayton, CALPIRG Health Care Advocate, on today’s Assembly Business and Professions Committee vote on SB 163 (Scott), the Pharmaceutical Drug Safety and Information Act:

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A new study finds that while most Canadian parents are accepting of the fact that their children will drink alcohol, they are unaware of many of the risks of teen drinking, the CanWest News Service reported Sept. 12.

The Ekos Research report also found that some parents buy alcohol or host drinking parties for their kids.

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After landing a first-round federal court victory against a 2006 New Hampshire prescriber privacy law, data-gathering firms are targeting similar laws set to take effect next year in Maine and Vermont.

Legislators in those two states, wary of a similar legal upset, shied away from a New Hampshire-style ban on any marketing use of prescriber data. Instead, they crafted legislation allowing physicians and other prescribers to choose whether drugmakers can access their prescription data.

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