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- Health insurer Centene sees 4th - quarter profit climb 11 percent, as membership grows 9 Feb 2010 14:18 GMT
... fourth-quarter profit climbed 11 percent as the health insurer picked up more members in all ... last year to provide Medicaid coverage in Mississippi. Centene's gains come at a time when ... driven by membership growth and rate increases. Medical costs, the insurer's largest expense, rose 22 ...
- Mississippi Settles Zyprexa Suit for $18.5M 9 Feb 2010 04:33 GMT
... February 08, 2010 JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Mississippi will receive $18.5 million from drug maker ... the state spent through its Division of Medicaid and the State Insurance Plan, Hood said. ... later found that the drug could cause diabetes so it did more harm than good," ...
- SouthWest Water-Operated Water Wells Receive High Scores from Mississippi State Department of Health (BIZ) 9 Feb 2010 19:30 GMT
... a year," said Each water system in Mississippi is subject to an annual evaluation by ... annual evaluation by the state department of health in the following areas: -- Technical - ...
- St. John's among top integrated health-care systems 9 Feb 2010 18:36 GMT
... of the nation’s top 100 most integrated health-care networks. ’s 13th annual ranking of the ... a seven-state area including Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas. ...
- SouthWest Water-Operated Water Wells Receive High Scores from Mississippi State Department of Health 9 Feb 2010 19:21 GMT
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- Discover Puerto Rico 9 Feb 2010 19:34 GMT
... civil rights era icons in the American South, the roots of the Blues in Mississippi, and alternative medicine in Europe and Japan. ...
- Centene Corporation Reports 2009 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Earnings 9 Feb 2010 11:40 GMT
... results of operations for our New Jersey health plan, University Health Plans, are classified as ... selected to provide managed care services in Mississippi to Medicaid recipients through the Mississippi Coordinated ... Florida. -- The consolidated HBR, which reflects medical costs as a percent of premium revenues, ...
- Centene Corporation Reports 2009 Fourth Quarter and Full Year Earnings (PRN) 9 Feb 2010 11:40 GMT
... 2009. The results of operations for our health plan, University Health Plans, are classified as ... selected to provide managed care services in Mississippi to recipients through the Mississippi Coordinated Access ... in Florida. The consolidated HBR, which reflects medical costs as a percent of premium revenues, ...
- Centene picks up new members; 4Q profit up 11 pct 9 Feb 2010 14:18 GMT
... fourth-quarter profit climbed 11 percent as the health insurer picked up more members in all ... last year to provide Medicaid coverage in Mississippi. Centene's gains come at a time when ... driven by membership growth and rate increases. Medical costs, the insurer's largest expense, rose 22 ...
- Prescription plan an unnecessary step 9 Feb 2010 17:16 GMT
... Both houses of the Mississippi Legislature have passed a bill that will ... a prescription in order to purchase any medicine containing pseudoephedrine, a chemical found in most ... in the state who do not have health insurance. Today, if they're feeling sick, they can ...
- The right prescription? 9 Feb 2010 17:16 GMT
... The Mississippi Senate passed a bill on to Gov. ... require a doctor's prescription to obtain cold medicine containing pseudoephedrine. The only other state to ... as Sudafed, Advil Cold & Sinus and drugs like that," Waide said. "It adds dozens ...
- DHH names undersecretary 9 Feb 2010 06:56 GMT
... Louisiana Medicaid director Jerry Phillips will become undersecretary of ... become undersecretary of the state Department of Health and Hospitals with Charles Castille’s retirement this ... and economics from the University of Southern Mississippi, a master’s degree in business administration from ...
- Pennsylvania's Top Two Youth Volunteers Selected in 15th Annual National Awards Program 9 Feb 2010 13:50 GMT
... $8,500 to support a summer camp in Mississippi for disabled children by producing and selling ... from CD sales has helped provide the medical support necessary to run a remarkable camp ... variety of original programs benefiting children with cancer, in memory of her older sister. Although ...
- Vet Med dean retires, will return to faculty 9 Feb 2010 18:32 GMT
... Thomson, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Iowa State University, announced today he ... Council on Education of the American Veterinary Medical Association, launched a new cooperative program with ... 20 years at South Dakota State University, Mississippi State University and ISU. Prior to becoming ...
- Is sex addiction real? Even therapists can't say for sure 9 Feb 2010 03:16 GMT
... debate whether serial hooking up is a disease or a byproduct of money, opportunity. Rumors ... sought treatment for sex addiction at a Mississippi clinic. 2009 MCT File Photo Once upon ... the sexual-addiction program at Pine Grove Behavioral Health and Addiction Services in Hattiesburg, Miss., defines ...
- St. Paul police close file in death of St. Thomas student Daniel Zamlen 9 Feb 2010 06:37 GMT
... he came to wind up in the Mississippi River," Schnell said. "During the course of ... police report said. Zamlen had type 1 diabetes, and drinking alcohol with that condition is ... new information, police asked the Ramsey County medical examiner's office to look at the case ...
- St. Paul police close file in death of St. Thomas student Daniel... 9 Feb 2010 08:10 GMT
... he came to wind up in the Mississippi River," Schnell said. "During the course of ... police report said. Zamlen had type 1 diabetes, and drinking alcohol with that condition is ... new information, police asked the Ramsey County medical examiner's office to look at the case ...
- Michelle Obama to kids: Let's Move 9 Feb 2010 19:43 GMT
... help fight childhood obesity, which she and health experts have termed an epidemic in the United ... pediatrician, an urban farmer, and mayors from Mississippi and Massachusetts. President Obama signed a memorandum ... 1970, a 2007 New England Journal of Medicine study found. Obama concluded her statements quoting ...
- Fr. Madden is a fascinating man and one well worth listening to 9 Feb 2010 10:57 GMT
... also incensed about the horrible effects that drugs have in the parish and is appealing ... after his beloved wife, Mary, died from cancer in 1999. The couple had already lived in ... necessary to build secure levees around the Mississippi river and New Orleans. It was negligence,' ...
- Fr Madden is a fascinating man and one well worth listening to 9 Feb 2010 12:16 GMT
... also incensed about the horrible effects that drugs have in the parish and is appealing ... after his beloved wife, Mary, died from cancer in 1999. The couple had already lived in ... necessary to build secure levees around the Mississippi river and New Orleans. It was negligence,' ...
- Intriguing people for 2/9/10 9 Feb 2010 15:01 GMT
... it can spend on education? DeSoto County, Mississippi, schools superintendent Kuykendall came up with a ... in Temple, Texas, received his doctorate in medicine from Texas Tech University School of Medicine, ...
- MSU program looks to boost diversity 9 Feb 2010 12:58 GMT
... STARKVILLE — Mississippi State University (MSU) is working to reach ... that encourages minority students to pursue veterinary medicine and graduate degrees in the biological sciences. ... According to the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges, only 2.5 percent of the 2009 ...
- William F. Shughart, guest columnist: Proposed pipe tobacco tax is a truly stinky idea 9 Feb 2010 17:57 GMT
... level. Tobacco smoking is bad for one’s health. To my knowledge, however, no scientific studies have ... Child Left Behind), new health care initiatives (Medicare Part D, to pay for granny’s meds), ... Professor of Economics at the University of Mississippi. He is the editor of Taxing Choice: ...
- Coast physicians turn to iPhones 9 Feb 2010 16:59 GMT
... PASCAGOULA — Singing River Health System (SRHS) cardiologists are pioneering the integration of ... of mobile technology and healthcare on the Mississippi Coast by using Apple iPhones to access ... delay, regardless of the physician's location. “In medicine, especially in cardiology, you have to act ...
- Birth planning leads to surprising increase in premature births 9 Feb 2010 07:33 GMT
... the past two decades, according to public health officials. The premature-birth rate in Kentucky is ... of pre-term births, trailing only Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina. Some of Kentucky's rise ... said. Planning is good. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that mothers have ...
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