by Research Team | Oct 11, 2015 | Health News
No coffee or breakfast sandwiches awaited the drivers who snaked their cars in line at a drive-thru lane Saturday morning, but they did get a seasonal gift promising more lasting comfort than a pumpkin or peppermint latte: an influenza vaccine shot. Flu season is...
by Research Team | Oct 11, 2015 | Health News
A Kentucky nonprofit that emerged as one of the largest insurance providers on the state’s health exchange has given notice that it won’t offer plans for 2016, a decision affecting tens of thousands of customers ahead of the next enrollment period starting...
by Research Team | Oct 11, 2015 | Health News
WEST HOLLYWOOD >> The 31st annual AIDS Walk Los Angeles will be held Sunday, with an estimated 20,000 people walking 10 kilometers through West Hollywood and the Fairfax district to raise funds for AIDS Project Los Angeles and more than 20 other Los Angeles...
by Research Team | Oct 11, 2015 | Health News
The Rhode Island Department of Health has launched a statewide effort to make the flu vaccine available for free in schools. Students at every school in the state can now receive the vaccine free of charge, even without health insurance coverage.
by Research Team | Oct 11, 2015 | Health News
By law, the annual cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, is based on a government measure of inflation, which is being dragged down by lower prices at the pump. The government is scheduled to announce the COLA – or lack of one – on Thursday, when it releases...
by Research Team | Oct 11, 2015 | Health News
Stuart Haythorpe, 53, of Earls Colne had been diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer when he went to see his GP with a stomach ache in April. The father-of-one proposed to his girlfriend, Sally Hoskin, at a fundraiser organised by Vikki V’s Theatre...