Remote Medical gets $8M to bring health care to the remote corners of the world
Source: Venture Beat
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 15:47:33 -0700 | health-news
Seattle-based Remote Medical just scored $8 million to bring health care to virtually anyone in need, anywhere in the world. Remote Medical serves companies and individuals in remote places; it's a good option for military personell, research teams, law enforcement...
Hospitals Profit When Patients Develop Bloodstream Infections
Source: Newswise
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | updated 2013-05-22 11:52:51 -0700 | health-news
EDT Source Newsroom: -- Private insurers rather than hospitals would reap the most savings by supporting programs to prevent these avoidable complications Newswise Johns Hopkins researchers report that hospitals may be reaping enormous income for patients whose hospital stays are...
Smoke Permeates Nonsmoking Hotel Rooms
Source: The New York Times Health Blog
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | updated 2013-05-17 09:40:58 -0700 | health-news
Jim Wilson/The New York Times A no-smoking sign in a hotel room in Honolulu. Staying in a nonsmoking room in a hotel that allows smoking elsewhere does not prevent exposure to tobacco smoke, a new study reports. Writing in Tobacco...
Senate group OKs Medicaid for Micronesian migrants
Source: SF Gate
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | updated 2013-05-14 19:23:41 -0700 | health-news
Senate immigration reform bill restores Medicaid eligibility to migrants from three Pacific island nations in Micronesia. The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to reinstate eligibility by adopting an amendment from U.S...The Democrat from Hawaii says the move will save the...
Abercrombie mulls bill to help local pharmacies
Source: SF Gate
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | updated 2013-05-13 14:20:50 -0700 | health-news
A bill sitting on Gov. Neil Abercrombie 's desk could increase competition for Hawaii pharmacies and make it easier for some residents to receive their medications. The Hawaii Legislature passed the bill to allow residents to go to their local...
Vulaono's chance at rugby dream
Source: Fiji Times
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | updated 2013-05-08 13:01:02 -0700 | health-news
Tomorrow, he jets off to Hawaii for a life-changing surgery at the Shriners Children Hospital. Mosese Vulaono of Votualevu, Nadi, suffers from a bone infection that prevented him from doing what normal five-year-old boys do. Mosese's father, Sakiusa Vulaono said:...
Health officials warn about "sex superbug"
Source: Sacramento Bee
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | updated 2013-05-01 15:17:31 -0700 | health-news
Health officials are warning that two cases of a so-called "sex superbug" have been confirmed in Hawaii. Hawaii News Now (http://is.gd/9bzhiH) reports that the "sex superbug" is a resistant strain of gonorrhea. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has...
Breast-pump mom 'humiliated' on American Airlines flight
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | updated 2013-04-27 07:38:36 -0700 | health-news
A flight attendant refused to allow Dawnella Brahos to use her breast-pump, a violation of American Airlines policy. Similarly, a TSA agent hassled a mom with a breast pump in Hawaii. Two recent cases of traveling breast-pumping moms resulted in...
Report: LA tops list of cities with worst traffic
Source: KSBY
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | updated 2013-04-24 12:47:07 -0700 | health-news
Los Angeles has the worst traffic in the nation, according to a new report...The scorecard says the average LA driver spent 59 hours sitting in traffic last year, or about 2 ½ days...LA got worse because the city has added...
B vitamins can help prevent breast cancer
Source: Natural News
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | updated 2013-04-17 22:41:58 -0700 | health-news
New research suggests that ingredients found in B vitamins could help reduce the risk and incidence of breast cancer, particularly folate, a water soluble B vitamin that occurs naturally in food. The study of 1,412 women, by researchers at the...
Santa Maria flights to Hawaii may be taking a hiatus
Source: KSBY
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | updated 2013-04-17 18:57:19 -0700 | health-news
News An Allegiant Airlines representative says direct flights from the Santa Maria Airport to the Aloha State will end in August, which is right after the peak of the summer travel season. Allegiant Airlines says flight availability all depends on...
Hawaii Legislature approves infant protections
Source: SF Gate
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | updated 2013-04-16 17:02:33 -0700 | health-news
The Legislature wants Hawaii child care facilities to do more to protect infants from sudden death. The state Senate approved a bill Tuesday to require child care facilities to adopt policies that ensure infants sleep safely. The bill was one...
Hawaii lawmakers fund health agency reorganization
Source: SF Gate
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | updated 2013-04-15 17:05:42 -0700 | health-news
Hawaii lawmakers are taking small steps toward shaping the state's multi-billion-dollar biennial budget. A conference committee made up of senators and representatives met Monday to announce the latest agreements in ongoing budget negotiations. Although Monday is the first day conference...
Jackie Robinson, who lived on the Central Coast, honored by MLB
Source: KSBY
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | updated 2013-04-15 15:15:52 -0700 | health-news
by Andrew Masuda Major League baseball honors Jackie Robinson on Monday. April 15, 1947 Robinson became the first African-American to play in Major League Baseball. But six years before he made sports history, Robinson lived and worked on the Central...
This Seven-Million-Year-Old Skull Is The Oldest Human Known
Source: BusinessInsider
Honolulu :: HI :: USA | updated 2013-04-04 10:47:29 -0700 | health-news
A seven-million-year-old skull found in the Djurab Desert in Chad may indeed represent the earliest known member of the human family. Researchers unveiled the specimen back in 2002 and made quite a splash with their claim that the ancient fossil...
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