Affordable health benefits for employees is just one of the downgrades that Remington Lodging and Hospitality, who run the Sheraton Anchorage Hotel, have tried to pull off, says Union Organizer Matt Fennel. Remington is trying to “stay” a judges order that sided with workers. To “stay” the judge’s order means to put that judge’s order [...]
Diabetes Type 2 management is now needed for children. Alaska’s young children are in danger of obesity and all the adult ills that are linked to obesity. In recent figures published today by the Alaska Health and Social Services Department (HHS), our pre-school kids are developing obesity already. The figures come from pre-schoolers through various [...]
A public health program at the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Section of Epidemiology; the Environmental Public Health Program cautions the public about the possible health problems brought by sulfolane exposure from the wells of the North Pole area. Sulfolane is an industrial solvent that was found in wells near the North Pole Flint Hills [...]
Paula Deen and most of the foodie gurus today apparently have missed the paradigm shift in health eating consciousness that has been occurring in the past few years. One article written since the famous chef has come out about her recent diabetes 2 diagnosis tried to “fat down” some of her famous recipes. Like putting [...]
Medicaire leads in congressional measures that may hurt seniors–In a campaign letter written by AARP Campaign representative, Fred Griesbach, the chances of American elders losing their Medicare doctors is due to the lesser prioritization level given by the Congress to senior-related health benefits. Friesbach also urged Alaska Representative Don Young to pass stable rates for Medicare doctors [...]
A masters in education is not a requirement for taking care of your health. The online university, an immense source of information, more commonly known as the internet, can help you find all the information you need to get connected with the people who can guide you to better health. With 2012 just barely started, have you [...]
A recent statistical analysis found, “pharmaceutical drug deaths now outnumber traffic fatalities in the US.” In Alaska in 2007, 75 deaths were directly caused by illicit drug use, says the National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMSA). In the past 27 years, says WakeUp-World.com, there [...]
Anchorage lawyer Jim Gottstein started “The Law Project for Psychiatric Rights”, PsychRights® an Alaska non-profit, in 2002. The attorney has come to the legal rescue of people diagnosed with mental illness from abuses. The abuses this attorney at law referrs to are those where “unwarranted court ordered psychiatric drugging requiring people diagnosed with mental illness [...]
From right now until January second, 2012, you have a pretty good chance of being a member of those winning the DUI lottery, thanks in part by grants distributed through Alaska Highway Safety Office. December 16th through December 22nd, the following winners have received their wrist bling, their chauffered ride to an exclusive gated community, [...]
The fourteen-year-old girl known as J.D., is in critical condition at an Anchorage, Alaska hospital where she was admitted Friday afternoon, December 23, 2011, at least eighteen hours after 26-year-old Sean Warner reportedly injected her in her arm with heroin, then, at 9:30 a.m. the next day, when she was found having difficulty breathing, lying [...]
