by Research Team | Aug 16, 2015 | Health News
Nearly 32 percent of South Carolina adults are obese, up from 25 percent in 2004 and 12 percent in 1990. COLUMBIA, S.C.>> Poor, obese South Carolinians covered by Medicaid can get help slimming down through nutritional counseling sessions aimed at stemming...
by Research Team | Aug 16, 2015 | Health News
A statewide database is helping nurses keep track of students who need vaccinations before the new school year begins in Indiana. The state’s Children and Hoosier Immunization Registry Program has been used in the past by state and county health...
by Research Team | Aug 15, 2015 | Health News
Calls to extend the smoking ban to outside areas of schools, pubs and restaurants have met with criticism, as Coleen Nolan claimed smoker s were being “treated like lepers”. The Royal Society for Public Health said the ban, introduced in 2007, had...
by Research Team | Aug 15, 2015 | Health News
Nearly a million people signed up for health insurance under President Barack Obama’s law even after the official enrollment season ended, helping push the share of uninsured Americans below 10 percent and underscoring how hard it could be for Republicans to...
by Research Team | Aug 15, 2015 | Health News
The Labor Department says its Producer Price Index, which measures inflation pressures before they reach the consumer, increased 0.2 percent in July compared to June when prices had risen 0.4 percent. Food costs fell 0.1 percent in July.
