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Tuesday, April 5, 2016 |
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USDA on Dengue Mosquito Eradication -- Organic Farms Will NOT Lose Certification
By Andrew Walden @ 6:44 PM :: 7836 Views :: Hawaii County , Agriculture, Health Care, GMOs
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...dozens of Hawaii County organic farmers are refusing access to State and County mosquito-eradication workers....
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Saturday, April 2, 2016 |
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Hawaii Urged to Prepare for Zika at CDC Summit
By Selected News Articles @ 5:50 PM :: 4492 Views :: Environment, Health Care
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"...if we wait until the public is panicking because they're seeing babies born with birth defects, we will have waited too long...."
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Thursday, March 31, 2016 |
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Tutu Bert’s House to serve Homeless Discharged from Queen’s Hospital
By News Release @ 7:01 PM :: 8435 Views :: Health Care, Homelessness
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Public-Private partnerships will provide medically frail homeless discharged from The Queen’s Medical Center with a safety net for short-term homecare and housing support....
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Tuesday, March 22, 2016 |
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New Report Compares E-Cigarette Taxes in 50 States
By Selected News Articles @ 5:03 PM :: 5400 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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...some project that vapor products will surpass traditional cigarettes in consumption over the next decade....
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Friday, March 18, 2016 |
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MDs: Gender Ideology Harms Children
By News Release @ 5:49 PM :: 6227 Views :: Family, Health Care
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The American College of Pediatricians urges educators and legislators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex....
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Thursday, March 17, 2016 |
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Organic Farmers Thwart Tropical Disease Eradication Efforts
By Selected News Articles @ 6:44 PM :: 6428 Views :: Agriculture, Health Care, GMOs
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"It's not a question of if, it's a question of when Zika comes here to this island, and we have a very unique opportunity right now to squash it."
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Thursday, March 17, 2016 |
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2016 County Health Rankings Hawaii
By News Release @ 2:31 AM :: 4008 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...Oahu ranks best followed by Kauai, Maui and Hawaii Counties....
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Friday, March 11, 2016 |
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The Best—and Worst—States for Workers with Disabilities
By News Release @ 3:47 PM :: 5380 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care, Labor
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... In Hawaii 42.4% of people ages 18-64 with disabilities are employed, 8th highest in USA ....
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Sunday, March 6, 2016 |
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Vegans are Crazy: Does Study Stand Up?
By Jack Dini @ 8:17 PM :: 5611 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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A post showing vegetarians and veggies tend to have significantly more mental disorders and health issues than meat-loving people has gone viral....
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Saturday, March 5, 2016 |
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Hawaii Bill to Reject Some FDA Restrictions on Terminal Patients Clears Final House Committee
By Selected News Articles @ 2:38 PM :: 3420 Views :: Health Care
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The legislation would enable terminally ill patients to access to medications and treatments not yet given final approval for use by the FDA....
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Monday, February 29, 2016 |
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SB2956: Involuntary Commitment of Mentally Ill Without Court Order
By News Release @ 1:31 AM :: 6182 Views :: Health Care, Law Enforcement, Second Amendment
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...the Hawaii Senate Judiciary Committee, will give decision on SB2956 Tuesday March 1....
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Sunday, February 28, 2016 |
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Hawaii Right to Try Legislation Receives Bipartisan Support
By Selected News Articles @ 5:34 PM :: 4331 Views :: Health Care
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... legislation that would enable medicine and medical device manufacturers to offer eligible terminally ill patients “investigational drugs” and “experimental treatments” ....
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Sunday, February 28, 2016 |
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Feds Expanding Medicaid involvement in Hawaii homeless initiatives
By News Release @ 4:36 PM :: 5218 Views :: Health Care, Homelessness
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...Hawai‘i will focus on expanding Medicaid involvement in and support for the state’s housing and homelessness initiatives....
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Friday, February 26, 2016 |
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Hawaii CON Law Throttles Health Care Access
By News Release @ 10:08 PM :: 4401 Views :: Health Care
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...Grassroot Institute Testifies in Support of CON Law Reform....
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016 |
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Feds: We will Recover Billions Wasted on Obamacare State Exchanges
By Americans for Tax Reform @ 9:01 PM :: 4115 Views :: Health Care
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To date, recovery of the billions in wasted state exchange funds has been near non-existent, despite failed exchanges in Oregon, Hawaii, New Mexico, and Nevada costing taxpayers $733 million....
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Monday, February 22, 2016 |
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Grassroot Salutes Court Decision Protecting Maui Hospital Plan
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:44 PM :: 6196 Views :: Maui County, Health Care, Labor
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...Watchdog group expresses hope that there will be no more roadblocks to better patient care....
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Saturday, February 20, 2016 |
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HB1013: Hawaii’s Right to Try Bill
By Grassroot Institute @ 9:27 PM :: 3906 Views :: Health Care
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...allow manufacturers of “investigational” drugs and treatments to make such treatments available to eligible terminally ill patients....
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Saturday, February 20, 2016 |
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A Word With Ward - Dengue Fever with guest Dr. Sarah Parks
By Rep Gene Ward @ 3:30 AM :: 6171 Views :: Hawaii County , Health Care
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Dr. Sarah Park is the Hawaii State Epidemiologist and Chief of the Disease Outbreak Control Division, Hawaii Department of Health....
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Saturday, February 20, 2016 |
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Full Text Court Order: UPW May Not Block Maui Hospital Privatization
By Selected News Articles @ 2:58 AM :: 5390 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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A federal judge rejected United Public Workers' emergency request to stay a law that privatizes three Hawaii hospitals and strips some 500 workers of civil-service protections....
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Friday, February 19, 2016 |
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SB2615: Gay Control of Your Son
By News Release @ 11:09 PM :: 6563 Views :: Family, First Amendment, Health Care
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...Prohibits therapists from counteracting the effort of a child molester to turn your son gay....
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Tuesday, February 16, 2016 |
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BBC: Use genetically modified mosquitoes on Big Island
By Selected News Articles @ 2:35 PM :: 5562 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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...while GM methods face challenges when applied in a continent as large as Africa, there is no such issue on an island isolated in middle of the Pacific Ocean....
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Friday, February 12, 2016 |
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Pounded by Schatz and Gabbard, Ige Finally Declares Dengue Emergency
By News Release @ 10:23 PM :: 5411 Views :: Environment, Health Care
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The emergency proclamation will give the state access to the Major Disaster Fund, the option of waiving certain laws and regulations to expedite the outbreak response....
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Friday, February 12, 2016 |
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Federal Court: Unions Can't Stop Maui Hospital Privatization
By Selected News Articles @ 2:30 PM :: 5252 Views :: Health Care, Labor
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U.S. District Judge Helen Gillmor refused to block the privatization after discussion on Feb. 9....
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Thursday, February 11, 2016 |
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Gabbard: Obama, Kenoi show Leadership on Dengue—Where’s Ige?
By Video @ 5:25 PM :: 4328 Views :: Health Care
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Tulsi Gabbard challenges Ige from floor of US House ....
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Tuesday, February 9, 2016 |
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Kenoi Declares Dengue Emergency, Ige Refuses
By News Release @ 4:39 PM :: 6362 Views :: Hawaii County , Environment, Health Care
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...meanwhile Obama is seeking $1.8B in Zika funding....
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Tuesday, February 9, 2016 |
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HB868 Gut n Replace: DoE Sneak Attack on Special Ed Students
By Selected News Articles @ 1:17 AM :: 5666 Views :: Education K-12, Health Care
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This is just the latest example of the Department of Education attempting to shortchange Hawaii’s special needs students....
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Thursday, February 4, 2016 |
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Inspector General: Honolulu VA Hospital Fails on Suicide Prevention
By News Release @ 11:29 PM :: 6095 Views :: Health Care, Military
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...in Honolulu, health records indicated that more than a third of outpatients were not evaluated at least four times in the 30 days after being flagged as high risk for suicide, as required by facility policy....
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Thursday, February 4, 2016 |
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Final Report: Only 14,564 Apply for Obamacare in Hawaii—Lowest in USA
By News Release @ 6:19 PM :: 4119 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Applications Submitted: This includes a consumer who is on a completed and submitted application ....
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Friday, January 29, 2016 |
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HB1686: New standard for involuntarily commitment to psychiatric facility
By Rep Cynthia Thielen @ 5:35 PM :: 7169 Views :: Health Care, Homelessness
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The recent rise in Hawaii's homeless population has highlighted the need for a better standard in involuntarily hospitalization.....
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Wednesday, January 27, 2016 |
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Feds: Only 13,194 people in Hawaii sign up for Obamacare
By News Release @ 3:31 PM :: 3967 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Only 4 days remain before final enrollment deadline for 2016 coverage....
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Tuesday, January 26, 2016 |
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Friday, January 22, 2016 |
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Everything you need to know about Zika, virus that’s spreading like wildfire
By Selected News Articles @ 11:07 PM :: 4826 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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... will anti-GMO activists block mosquito eradication efforts? ....
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Thursday, January 14, 2016 |
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Full Text: Ige Signs Agreement Privatizing Maui Hospitals
By News Release @ 8:36 PM :: 6779 Views :: Maui County, Health Care, Labor
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...transferring the operation and management of the HHSC Maui Region health care facilities from the state to Kaiser Permanente....
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Wednesday, January 13, 2016 |
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Hawaii: Only 11,949 Sign up for Obamacare
By News Release @ 8:00 PM :: 4931 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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To have their coverage effectuated, consumers generally need to pay their first month’s health plan premium. This release does not include totals for effectuated enrollments.....
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Tuesday, January 12, 2016 |
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Expert Slams Hawaii Legislature for Lumping E-Cigs in with Tobacco
By Selected News Articles @ 4:36 PM :: 5829 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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...the new law incorrectly lumps e-cigarettes and lower-risk smokeless tobacco products in with the much more harmful nicotine cigarettes....
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Thursday, January 7, 2016 |
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Study: E-Cig Vapers and Public Health Community Should be United Against Big Tobacco
By Ed Case @ 3:59 AM :: 4464 Views :: Health Care, Taxes
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A recently published study proposes a pact between the public health community and the vaping community to combat a shared enemy, Big Tobacco....
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Wednesday, January 6, 2016 |
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Confucius on Hawaii’s New Smoking Age
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:14 PM :: 4683 Views :: Health Care, Law Enforcement
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“If you lead the people with administrative injunctions and keep the them orderly with penal law, they will avoid punishments but will be without a sense of personal ethics....”
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Wednesday, December 30, 2015 |
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KOLEA: After Burning $155M, Hawaii’s Other Obamacare Eligibility System Falls Short
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 5:45 PM :: 5545 Views :: Health Care
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Med-QUEST Division did not properly plan for or implement the ACA....
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Tuesday, December 29, 2015 |
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Survey Designed to Push for Long Term Care Insurance Mandate
By News Release @ 3:23 AM :: 4459 Views :: Health Care
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...only 24 percent trust that the government will help them....
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Thursday, December 24, 2015 |
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Obamacare: COFA Gets 60 Day Extension after 4,300 fail to Reenroll
By News Release @ 7:18 PM :: 4849 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...the total number of lives covered through 2015 enrollment was 16,803. For the current 2016 open enrollment period preliminary reports indicate enrollments of approximately 12,500 lives....
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Monday, December 21, 2015 |
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Report: Hawaii Youth Drug Overdose Deaths Double
By News Release @ 12:25 PM :: 6770 Views :: Education K-12, Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Hawaii had the Sixth Lowest Rate of Youth Drug Overdose Death Rates, Rate has Doubled in Just Over a Decade....
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Saturday, December 19, 2015 |
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Hawaii Poorly Prepared to Resist Infectious Disease Outbreak
By News Release @ 2:47 AM :: 4300 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...Hawaii Scored Five Out of 10 on Key Indicators Related to Preventing, Detecting, Diagnosing and Responding to Outbreaks....
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Friday, December 18, 2015 |
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Vegetarian Questions
By Jack Dini @ 3:00 PM :: 6954 Views :: Agriculture, Health Care, GMOs
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...fruits, vegetables, diary and seafood are more harmful to the environment because these foods have relatively high resource uses and green gas emissions per calorie....
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Friday, December 18, 2015 |
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HHSC, DoH: Nineteen special funds and two trust funds did not meet criteria
By Hawaii State Auditor @ 2:02 PM :: 3719 Views :: Health Care
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Sixty-three special funds, revolving funds, trust funds, and trust accounts were reviewed....
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Thursday, December 17, 2015 |
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Lawsuit: Deadly ‘Natural’ Supplement contained “methamphetamine-like chemical”
By Selected News Articles @ 12:53 PM :: 5253 Views :: Health Care, GMOs
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'Natural' supplement makers are a key funding source for the anti-GMO movement....
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 |
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Desperate: Obamacare Deadline Extended 48 Hours
By News Release @ 11:53 PM :: 3667 Views :: Health Care
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...must enroll by 10 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 17, 2015....
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 |
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Feds: ‘Organic Farms and General Opposition to Chemicals Present Insurmountable Obstacle’ to Dengue Eradication
By News Release @ 11:42 PM :: 6846 Views :: Agriculture, Health Care, GMOs
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"...homeowner reluctance (many organic farms in the area and general opposition to chemicals) ... likely present unsurmountable obstacles...."
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Wednesday, December 16, 2015 |
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Study: Honolulu Lowest Per-Patient Health Spending in USA
By Selected News Articles @ 3:11 AM :: 4280 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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...spending per privately insured beneficiary in the highest spending HRR (Napa, CA) was $5,515.95, more than three times as high as spending in the lowest spending HRR (Honolulu, HI), which spent $1,707.38 per person....
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Friday, December 11, 2015 |
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Medicare Penalizes Maui Memorial, Pali Momi, Wahiawa General over Safety Incidents
By Selected News Articles @ 12:20 AM :: 5014 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Health Care
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Medicare will lower all its payments to the penalized hospitals by 1 percent over the course of the federal fiscal year, which runs through September 2016....
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