Mobile dentistry unit rolling in Hagerstown
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 20, 2012
Tags: children's health insurance, hagerstown, head start, healthy smiles in motion, mobile dentistry, sen. ben cardin, walnut street community health center, washington county
HAGERSTOWN — A mobile dentistry unit is promising to put “Healthy Smiles in Motion” for hundreds of Washington County children.
Sen. Ben Cardin is attending the kickoff Monday of the program at the Walnut Street Community Health Center.
The 39-foot vehicle will serve children at the county’s public schools and Head Start sites.
Cardin says he has worked [...]
Counterfeit drugs becoming big business worldwide
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 15, 2012
Tags: avastin, counterfeit, drugs, FDA, food and drug administration, lipitor, prescription, united states
WASHINGTON— The discovery that a fake version of the widely used cancer medicine Avastin is circulating in the United States is raising new fears that the multibillion-dollar drug-counterfeiting trade is increasingly making inroads in the U.S.
The criminal practice has largely been relegated to poor countries with lax regulations. But with more medicines and drug ingredients [...]
Maryland awards $1.1 million for community health care
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 9, 2012
Tags: Baltimore, bel alton high school, charles county, community clinic inc., dental care, esperanza center, immigrants, Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, maryland community health resources commission, medical care, Montgomery County
ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Community Health Resources Commission is awarding $1.1 million to improve access to medical and dental care statewide.
Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown announced the 15 awards Wednesday.
Baltimore City tops the list, with three grants totaling $183,000. The largest is $109,000 to Catholic Charities’ Esperanza Center. The center provides [...]
Board of Public Works approves $2.4B prescription drug contract
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: February 8, 2012
Tags: Annapolis, board of contract appeals, board of public works, catalyst rx, department of budget and management, express scripts, prescription drug, rockville, state employees
ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland Board of Public Works has approved a $2.4 billion prescription drug contract for state employees.
The board voted 2-1 on Wednesday to award the contracts to Missouri-based Express Scripts Inc.
Gov. Martin O’Malley and Treasurer Nancy Kopp both voted for the contract, saying they believed it has been extensively reviewed. Comptroller [...]
Hagerstown free clinic aims to take new patients
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 30, 2012
Tags: community free clinic, fiscal year, free clinic, funding, hagerstown, health insurance, herald-mail, patients
HAGERTOWN — The Community Free Clinic in Hagerstown says it hopes to start accepting new patients by early March.
The clinic stopped seeing new patients in late October due to a funding shortfall.
The executive director told The Herald-Mail of Hagerstown newspaper Sunday that a fund drive, combined with cost-cutting measures, may make it possible for the [...]
School lunches to have more veggies, whole grains
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 25, 2012
Tags: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, first lady, junk food, lunches, michelle obama, Parklawn Elementary, school
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — The first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in more than 15 years means most offerings — including the always popular pizza — will come with less sodium, more whole grains and a wider selection of fruits and vegetables on the side.
First lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced the [...]
Food Network, book take on weight in chef whites
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 24, 2012
Tags: chef, diabetes, food network, healthy, paula deen, weight
NEW YORK — Paula Deen’s diabetes revelation pretty much sums it up: Kitchen pros at all levels struggle with obesity and its dangerous aftertaste in the high-pressure, high-calorie world of food.
The queen of Southern comfort cooking, now a spokeswoman for a diabetes drugmaker’s health initiative, announced last week that she hid her Type 2 diabetes [...]
O’Malley increases DDA funding
BY: marylandreporter.com
POSTED: January 19, 2012
Tags: budget, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Developmental Disabilities Administration, funding, General Assembly, general fund, gov. martin o'malley, joshua sharfstein, thomas frank kirkland
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After a rocky six months for the Developmental Disabilities Administration, Gov. Martin O’Malley’s fiscal year 2013 budget proposal increases funding by about $31 million and creates a new fund so unspent money will stay in the agency.
Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Secretary Joshua Sharfstein and Developmental Disabilities Administration Director Thomas Frank Kirkland sent a [...]
Md. health organization seeking to hire veterans
BY: Associated Press
POSTED: January 19, 2012
Tags: Annapolis, employment, Health Facilities Association, hire, jobs, long-term health care, maryland, veterans
ANNAPOLIS — Maryland’s largest long-term care organization says its members want to hire returning veterans.
Joseph DeMattos, president of the Health Facilities Association of Maryland, made the announcement Thursday in Annapolis with Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown, who is a colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, and state lawmakers who are veterans.
DeMattos says several major nursing and [...]
Sharfstein commits to fixing DDA problems
BY: marylandreporter.com
POSTED: January 18, 2012
Tags: Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Secretary Joshua Sharfstein, Department of Legislative Services, Developmental Disabilities Administration, General Assembly, House Appropriations Committee, maryland
ANNAPOLIS — A flawed, outdated and ineffective method of accounting is why the state Developmental Disabilities Administration discovered $33 million in unspent funds, and Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Secretary Joshua Sharfstein said the agency is committed to fixing those problems.
Testifying Tuesday before the House Appropriations Committee, Sharfstein, whose department oversees the Developmental Disabilities [...]
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