| University Grants, California Program Seek To Address Minority Health Disparities
Meharry Medical College: Meharry's Center for Women's Health Research has received a five-year, $1 million grant from the Wal-Mart Foundation to expand its research and educational programs that target minority women, the Tennesseanreports. The center, which opened in 2006, is the first in the nation to focus exclusively on understanding and addressing the health disparities faced by minority women, according to the Tennessean (Ward, Tennessean, 11/12).
Nassau Health Care Corp.: Nassau County, N.Y., Executive Thomas Suozzi and NHCC officials on Thursday announced the development of a $6 million Institute for Health Care Disparities, which will aim to reduce health care disparities between minority and white residents, Long Island Newsday reports. Arthur Gianelli, president and CEO of NHCC, said the institute -- which will be the first in the state to specifically target underserved populations -- will focus primarily on cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes, cancer, pediatric asthma and obesity.
First Edition Cycling News for November 19, 2007
A war of words has erupted between American Jonathan Page and his Belgian Sunweb-Projob squad, with the outfit saying the cyclo-cross rider can't handle the pressure of a professional squad. Page was signed to a two year contract after his impressive second place finish at last season's World Championships, but has come under increasing pressure from the squad in recent races. The feud boiled over on the weekend with the squad sending its doctor around to Page's home in Oudenaarde to check if he was ill after the rider called in sick in the hours leading up to Saturday's GvA-trophy #3 in Hasselt. "Just a routine control," team manager Jurgen Mettepenningen told Cyclingnews of the reasons behind the visit. Page, who has failed to achieve the results his team was expecting to see this season, however didn't appreciate the doctor's visit.
Smoking bans spreading in North County - Encinitas, Carlsbad are latest to investigate ordinances
NORTH COUNTY - At its beaches and parks, North County is becoming a tough place to be a smoker.Municipal smoking bans are accumulating like butts in an ashtray and now exist in half a dozen cities in the region from Del Mar to Oceanside to Poway. On the vanguard of such bans was little Solana Beach, a town that made national headlines in 2003 as the first city in the country to outlaw smoking on its shoreline. City leaders cited the dangers of secondhand smoke and the number of butts left strewn across the sand as reasons for the ordinance.Last week, the Encinitas City Council moved toward enacting a similar beach ban, and the Carlsbad City Council told its staff to return with information about smoking policies in other cities.The spread of such no-smoking laws has encountered little opposition in North County, but groups have formed elsewhere to trumpet smokers' rights.A leader of one such group said Friday that municipal governments were taking their anti-smoking crusade too far."It's not the cities' or the state's job to legislate how we live our lives," said Robert Best, who lives in Ventura and is the California representative for a group called The Freedom Alliance."We're not banning food on parks and beaches because of a littering problem," he said.
Experts: Treat Employees Fairly
Respecting workers at all levels is the best way for workers' comp managers to reduce claims and costs. The voices were there as the best and brightest gathered Tuesday morning at McCormick Place to argue the merits and failings of workers' compensation management in the United States. Could you hear them?
By Dan Reynolds .
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