Seattle/LocalHealthGuide

Free disaster preparedness fair at Evergreen–October 9th

LocalHealthGuide — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 22:48:20 +0000

The event will also include tours of Evergreen's emergency department, decontamination demonstrations and a Coast Guard rescue helicopter on display.

To boost organ donations Swedish team webcasts and twitters from Mt. Rainier

LocalHealthGuide — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 20:00:54 +0000

In an effort to raise awareness of the need for organ donations, a team from Swedish Medical Center and LifeCenter Northwest "Twittered" and webcast from the summit.

All King County shorelines closed to recreational shellfish harvesting

LocalHealthGuide — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:08:01 +0000

Paralytic Shellfish Poison (PSP) levels pose health risk, health officials say.

Employers push higher health insurance costs onto workers

Phil Galewitz — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:44:32 +0000

Nationally, employees now pay an average of $3,997 as their share of the annual family health insurance premium — about $1,000 more than in 2006 and twice the 2001 amount.

Talks about cancer and cancer therapy at Gilda’s Club

LocalHealthGuide — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 15:57:01 +0000

Titles: When are we going to cure cancer? Cancer Chemotherapies and the Health of Your Bones. Late Effects After Cancer Therapy

Support slips for health reform law

Laurie McGinley — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:21:11 +0000

Poll found that 43 percent of Americans viewed the law favorably – down from 50 percent in July – while 45 percent held unfavorable views. But voters more concerned about economy than the new health law.

Regulators probe allegations of fraud in health credit cards

Michelle Andrews — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 17:49:37 +0000

Some health providers are offering patients health-care credit cards to help pay for care. But some patients charge they've been swindled.

Seattle AIDS Walk & 5K Run – Sept. 25th

LocalHealthGuide — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 01:18:30 +0000

Related events: Starting this week Lifelong Thrift Store sales event and donations of a portion of proceeds from Chef Ricky Flickenger's Burgeoisie Brunches -- and on Sept. 8 a "Happy Hour for Hope" at Bad Monkey Bistro

Health reform bad news for inefficient insurance companies

Jonathan Cohn — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:33:06 +0000

Reform forces insurers to cover basic benefits, restricts their ability to mistreat consumers, and limits what they can spend on overhead: bad news for the inefficient.

Health and homelessness in Seattle

Michael McCarthy — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:12:04 +0000

While we tend to think of the homeless as single men living on the street—because those are the homeless we see—55 percent of the homeless in King County are, in fact, families with children.