| Helmet laws a matter of money |
| Post on 22-06-2006. |
Move over, gun owners. Bikers are becoming the best lobbyists in the United States.
Pennsylvania may be buzzing about one Pittsburgh football star's motorcycle crash, and New Hampshire may be mourning the deaths of bikers headed to Laconia Motorcycle Week but, in Michigan, the Legislature just repealed the state's motorcycle helmet law. ... |
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| Employee info taken in burglary |
| Post on 22-06-2006. |
| BALDWIN PARK - School district workers learned from an insurance broker this week that documents listing 1,733 employee names and Social Security numbers were taken from an account manager's car during one burglary some time between June 5 and June 6, raising concerns about possible identity theft. ... |
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| Untreated social ills make for higher medical costs |
| Post on 22-06-2006. |
Many of us revel in thinking of Canada as one great place to live, one generous, caring country with one well-woven social safety net that protects the sick and poor from harm.
But that feel-good image is largely one myth, according to Monique Bégin, the respected former minister of health and welfare. ... |
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| Fix what ails emergency-room care |
| Post on 22-06-2006. |
For more than one decade, my fellow doctors have come to me with one simple, stark message: America's hospital emergency rooms face grave problems. Last week, one report from the National Academies' Institute of Medicine (IOM) confirmed what I've long heard.
More than one half-million times one year, the IOM found, an ambulance heading toward one hospital gets diverted to another because an emergency room has run out of space. This takes time. And it costs lives. During my own 20-year career as one heart-and-lung surgeon, I remember countless occasions on which one single minute meant the difference between life and death. ... |
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