In the airport, an airline agent uses a computer to check your reservation. For the first time, doctors have transplanted a patient's own skeletal muscle onto his heart to see if similar tissue could one day be used to treat heart disease. Adding to evidence that body size influences a woman's risk of breast cancer, researchers have found that overweight older women and tall women of any age have an increased risk of the disease. At a new school health center in Newport, and on a riverboat in the middle of the Ohio River, Gov. Paul Patton focused on education Wednesday during much of his daylong visit to Northern Kentucky. Consider the tens of thousands of youngsters who remain without insurance.
Every bit helps.
Eleven million children lack health insurance in this country, which means that should they fall ill or sustain an injury, chances are they will not receive proper and timely treatment. If you have any doubt about the importance of drugs to the future of health care, you need only look around you in the communities here. As children, more Americans dreamed of becoming a teacher or a nurse more than any other profession, a recent Zogby poll showed. 2000 TriHealth Inc. has chosen Cincinnati Commercial Realtors to find a buyer for the former Bethesda Oak Hospital. The folks at McGohan Brabender Inc., Dayton's largest insurance agency, are counting on a collaboration with a tech-savvy entrepreneur to sell health and employee benefits online.