| The uninsured have a voice at commissioner’s meeting
Grayson County commissioners listened patiently Monday as a representative from a local clinic talked about the number of uninsured people in the county.Linda Bryant, administrative director for the Grayson County Volunteer Health Clinic, told commissioners there are 5.5 million uninsured people in Texas and 1.3 million of them are children. She said 21,000 of those uninsured folks live in Grayson County. "I just want to call ya'll to arms on this issue ... it just gets worse every year," said Susan Vardell, a GCVHC board member.The two women asked commissioners to sign a proclamation making April 23 through the 29th as Cover the Uninsured in Grayson County week."When uninsured patients go without primary care, there are greater consequences to the health care system in general," said Angela Latham, M.D., Texoma Care Family Practice physician and Grayson Volunteer Health Clinic medical director in a press release."Patients with treatable illnesses end up with hard to treat complications which are more devastating to the patients and much more expensive as well.
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After three months in preview mode, Revolution Health has formally launched RevolutionHealth.com, a comprehensive health and medical information site, specially designed with the family's Chief Health Officer - busy moms and other caregivers - in mind. Washington (PRWEB) April 20, 2007 -- After three months in preview mode, Revolution Health has formally launched RevolutionHealth.com, a comprehensive health and medical information site, specially designed with the family's Chief Health Officer - busy moms and other caregivers - in mind. Revolution Health also announces the acquisition of TLContact, Inc., the company that provides CarePages, the leading Internet service for building online communities that support communication among family and friends when someone is receiving care.
Good Health is Just a Bowl of Cherries
ORLANDO, Fla. (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Eating more tart cherries could lower cholesterol, blood sugar and oxidative stress. It could also cause less fat storage in the liver and increase the production of a molecule that helps the body handle fat and sugar. All of these measures are linked to metabolic syndrome, which is a cluster of risk factors linked to type 2 diabetes and high rates of heart disease. Researchers from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor fed rats tart cherries in a powder form and compared their health to rats that did not receive the cherries but had an otherwise similar diet. All of the rats in this study were prone to having high cholesterol and pre-diabetes but not obesity. E. Mitchell Seymour, M.S., a research associate and supervisor of the Cardioprotection Research Laboratory at the University of Michigan, told Ivanhoe, "We found that tart cherries, when fed to our research animals, reduced high blood lipids, high fasting glucose and high insulin.
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