The proposed law on sweetened drinks is the latest in a long line of public health interventions by Mayor Bloomberg's office.
The Colorado Psychological Association has set up a referral line for mental health professionals to offer their services through the Mental Health Association of Colorado (MHAC).
The group Coverage for All also offers a state-by-state guide of health-care choices and has a help line open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Citigroup Inc. offers the Citi Health Card, while Chase has ChaseHealthAdvance, a line of credit aimed at helping customers finance elective health procedures such as corrective eye surgery.
Health care grew in a straight line up, never missing a year of growth.
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Problems with a new non-emergency NHS telephone advice line have prompted Shropshire health chiefs to divert calls back to a local service.
"There's a line of kids outside the health office before the school day even begins, " says Patricia Gomes, R.
Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board was responding after a line-up of nine ambulances was reported outside Wrexham Maelor Hospital on Monday.
In Connecticut, legislators just voted for a generous line-up of essential health benefits, including breast cancer screenings and autism treatments.
Another stunning example is found in health insurance costs, which is a major line item for most families.
I've been fighting more generally to improve health care for veterans because it is outrageous that so many service members are returning home and being told to take a number and wait in line for the health care they need.
To appeal to more health-conscious Americans, Hostess launched a line of whole-grain breads called Nature's Pride that the company says has been selling well, but it is a small product line compared with rival offerings.
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So, you're replacing a manufacturing job that can sustain a family with jobs where people are -- in some cases, if you're a home health aide, you're barely above the poverty line.
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The Illinois senator offered a similar line of attack on foreign policy, energy policy and health care.
Bottom line on universal health care: This will be a very tough slog.
That's largely because firms like 23andMe and Navigenics have to walk a fine line between providing medical information about patient's potential health and actually performing diagnosis.
In assessing the value of a senior health-service manager or council chief, for example, the line between core competence and bonus-worthy brilliance might be hard to define.
What's already striking about this reshuffle is that it is being used to address Tory weaknesses in the long run up to an election - hence the new soothing presence of Jeremy Hunt at Health, Chris Grayling's harder line at Justice and a new pledge-free Patrick McLoughlin in charge of deciding whether there should be a new third runway at Heathrow.
Employee health insurance is, of course, a far greater burden on the bottom line.
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The bottom line, according to Lee, is that mammography is a public health measure that works.
On Tuesday evening, the chair of the Northern Ireland Assembly's Health Committee, Sue Ramsey, called on Mr Poots to take a firmer line with trusts on the issue of residential care homes.
In both cases, the more sedentary job carried greater health risks than the more active job, even though they were in a similar line of work.
Integris Health, a 14-hospital system in Oklahoma City, has a Consumer Price Line number that allows patients to learn what the out-of-pocket costs will be for their procedures.
Companies like Akorn ( AKRX) that have a diverse business model, years of experience and a strong line of drugs and pharmaceutical products that are in demand will benefit from increases in coverage and health awareness.
One stock in the health care provider group is WellCare Health Care Plans ( WCG), and the daily chart shows a nine-month trading range (line h) that was resolved to the upside in early January 2011.
The weekly chart of the Select Sector SPDR Health Care ( XLV) shows that the upper trend line resistance from the 2010 highs (line a) has just been decisively overcome.
And it might just work, if BP can avoid getting dragged into a morass of tangential health claims like the ones that sank just about every company that manufactured or installed asbestos products as a main line of business.
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