Palangkaraya Post

Though they work in different fields, French physics professor Patrick Aurenche, American English teacher Sarah Bales and Norwegian health activist Jon Liden, visited Vietnam once only to return again and again.
Professor Patrick Aurenche first visited Hanoi in the winter of 1993 to attend the Vietnam Meeting on Physics. Since then, he has come back to […]

A statewide project in California is now one of the largest and most successful pay-for-performance programs in the country. But if you had taken bets on that success a few years ago, you wouldn’t have found many takers.
Resistance to the program was strong back then when various stakeholders struggled to pull it together.
Health plans in […]

MONDAY — Tamoxifen, a drug commonly prescribed to prevent breast cancer recurrence, may cause swelling within the eyes, U.S. researchers conclude.
Tamoxifen is one of two types of drugs often used to prevent breast cancer recurrence. Tamoxifen blocks estrogen receptors in the breast, while new types of medications, called aromatase inhibitors, inhibit estrogen production, according to […]

for the Mail Tribune
SALEM — Parents, teachers and students rallied on the Capitol steps Monday to urge the Legislature to provide more money for schools and full funding for the Head Start program.
Estimates of the number of participants vary from 1,500 to 3,000. They came from around the state, including 30 to 35 Jackson County […]

Kohima: Nagaland Minister for Health and Family Welfare Dr TM Lotha has ridiculed the NPCC’s demand to remove him from office for violation of the Election Model Code of Conduct and further asked them to “clean their eyes first before attempting to clear others.”
It may be mentioned that the NPCC has in an Open Letter […]

If health care reform proposals were precipitation, there’s an 80 percent chance that any particular state legislature will be showered with them in 2007. A number of states are looking seriously at major measures to expand coverage and reduce the number of uninsured. And many of their proposals are going to affect employers. Here’s a […]

A new study reveals 18 million men in the United States suffer from erectile dysfunction. While there are medications to treat this problem, researchers also report many of these men suffer from other health problems, such as high blood pressure and diabetes. Making lifestyle changes, like increasing exercise level, may be an effective treatment for […]