President Bush proposes HSAs scheme for the benefit of both the workers and the country
President Bush in his State of the Union address encouraged Americans to open health savings accounts (HSAs). He said that it would help to fight the nation's out-of-control medical costs. It was // well received by many lawmakers. But the local employers say that HSAs are the means by which the doctors cure the country's health finance ills. Gary Laugharn, regional client leader in H...Dentists Not Lured By Golden Hello Scheme In The UK
The "Golden Hello" grants that were designed to nlure health practioners to distant areas where there is a shortage of NHS personnel has failed for the dental segment in the Scottish area of Lothians, it was reported. //The scheme has allocated a £10,000 grant per dentist to enable them to move to areas where there is a sever shortage of dentists and surgeries. It has emerged not that only about...Self help scheme to reduce risk of HIV in women
Professor Susan Sherman and Researchers from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health has started a new program called Jewelry Education for Women Empowering their Lives (JEWEL) as rehabilitation program for drug using women in Baltimore. // The program is specially started for providing income to drug using women involved in prositutes by providing them with alternate income...GP's online referral scheme in UK 'a national IT disaster'
The Government promised in June last year that every patient referral from a GP in England would go through a computerized 'choose and book' system by the end // of this month. But ministers have admitted that in November - the latest month for which figures are available - barely 2.7 per cent of referrals were booked this way. The Department of Health figures show that between...Health Insurance Scheme Generates Conflicting Opinions
An insurance scheme which has received the approval of the Government is attracting brickbats and bouquets. As many as 2.5 million households stand to benefit from the scheme which the ICICI-Lombard is // meant to implement. But the scheme has come under criticism from some experts who contend that it will do no good to the poor while undermining the reasonably successful public healthcare syst...