A speaker Thursday to the TriCounty Area Chamber of Commerce membership indicated their interest in account-based insurance plans would emulate an earlier move toward 401ks as retirement vehicles.
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Law Could Move Local Employers To Insurance Accounts
Posted on 15 June 2013.
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Tonight’s Documentary Movie Compares Health Systems
Posted on 11 June 2013.
“Sicko,” the documentary directed by Michael Moore that compares the U.S. health care model to those in other nations, is being screened tonight at 6:30 at The Other Farm Brewing Company. It’s sponsored by the Boyertown Area Community Wellness Council.
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Practice Yoga With Friends In Pottstown YMCA’s Yard
Posted on 09 June 2013.
The hour-long session, intended to leave you both refreshed and exercised, is open to the public and will be held Tuesday night from 6-7 at the YMCA on North Adams Street.
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Schuylkill Trail Planners Seek Input On Route 29 Connector
Posted on 09 June 2013.
What’s the best way to connect the Schuylkill River Trail from Mont Clare to Phoenixville? Trail planers have some ideas they’d like your help on, during a Wednesday meeting in Phoenixville Borough Hall.
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County Group Names Pottsgrove Counselor Best of 2013
Posted on 06 June 2013.
Pottsgrove Middle School’s Kim Kelly has been chosen by the Montgomery County Counseling Association as its “Counselor of the Year.”
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Teacher Eaton And Pottsgrove ‘Fuel Up’ Team Honored
Posted on 06 June 2013.
Marilyn Eaton, physical education teacher at Pottsgrove Middle School, has been chosen to lead the statewide Fuel Up to Play 60 exercise program for a year, and colleagues who help her were honored too.
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Not Seeing As Well Lately? Maybe It’s Not Just Your Age
Posted on 05 June 2013.
Normal vision often deteriorates with advancing age, but serious eye problems usually result from some form of chronic disease. A Pottstown Memorial Medical Center physician covers the topic Friday during an 11 a.m. seminar.
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Sanatoga Butterflies Carried Hope Sunday On Their Wings
Posted on 04 June 2013.
A threatened thunderstorm never materialized, allowing butterflies released Sunday at the Sanatoga offices of the Visiting Nurse Association to alight peacefully on roses there. They honored the memories of loved ones.
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Friendship House Appeals For Help Of Foster Families
Posted on 31 May 2013.
Foster families are being recruited by Friendship House, which operates offices in Sanatoga, to help provide safe, comforting and loving homes under temporary conditions.
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Back At Pottsgrove, Relay For Life Now In 16th Year
Posted on 31 May 2013.
The 24-hour fund-raising walk around the Pottsgrove High School track to battle cancer begins Saturday at 10 a.m. It’s the place to be seen this weekend.
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Health News
- FDA probes deaths of two patients on Lilly schizophrenia drug June 18, 2013(Reuters) - The Food and Drug Administration is investigating the cases of two individuals who died after injections with Eli Lilly and Co's long-acting treatment for schizophrenia, Zyprexa Relprevv. […]
- AstraZeneca turnaround is 3-4 year journey, says CEO June 18, 2013LONDON (Reuters) - Turning around drugmaker AstraZeneca will be a long haul, with a strategy of revamping research and boosting acquisitions set to take up to four years to pay off, its chief executive said on Tuesday. […]
- GSK negotiating $1 billion sale of thrombosis drugs to Aspen June 18, 2013LONDON (Reuters) - GlaxoSmithKline is discussing the sale of its thrombosis drug brands Arixtra and Fraxiparine, along with a related French factory, to Aspen Pharmacare in a deal that could be worth some $1 billion. […]
- WHO urges tougher food marketing rules to curb childhood obesity June 18, 2013LONDON (Reuters) - The marketing of unhealthy foods to children has proven "disastrously effective", driving obesity by using cheap social media channels to promote fat-, salt- and sugar-laden foods, the World Health Organisation's Europe office said on Tuesday. […]
- AstraZeneca picks site for new global home in Cambridge June 18, 2013LONDON (Reuters) - AstraZeneca has chosen a science park on the southern outskirts of Cambridge, England, next to the world-renowned Addenbrooke's Hospital, for its new $500 million global headquarters and research center. […]
- J&J in $1 billion deal to bolster prostate-cancer focus June 17, 2013(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson said it would pay up to $1 billion for Aragon Pharmaceuticals and its experimental drugs for prostate cancer, to bolster J&J's role in the field after it acquired another experimental prostate-cancer treatment four years ago that has become a leading brand. […]
- Medtronic bone graft has limited benefit, may cause harm: reviews June 17, 2013(Reuters) - Two long-awaited independent reviews of a controversial Medtronic Inc bone growth product show it works as well as traditional bone grafts taken from patients, but it may not be as safe. […]
- Wait-and-see may be best for early prostate cancer June 17, 2013NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Watching and routinely examining men with early, slow-growing prostate cancer is more effective and cheaper than sending them to surgery or radiation right away, according to a new study. […]
- Saudi Arabia says MERS coronavirus kills four more June 17, 2013DUBAI (Reuters) - Four more people have died and three more have fallen ill in Saudi Arabia from the new SARS-like coronavirus MERS-CoV, the Saudi Health Ministry said on Monday. […]
- Blood tests could detect sexually-transmitted oral cancers June 17, 2013LONDON (Reuters) - Antibodies to a high-risk type of a virus that causes mouth and throat cancers when transmitted via oral sex can be detected in blood tests many years before onset of the disease, according to a World Health Organisation-led team of researchers. […]
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