Archive for 2010/05


Home Health Care Offers Big Savings

By BRIAN RENSTROM AND JAMES TORGERSON

The skyrocketing cost of long-term care in Connecticut has become one of the state’s biggest expenses, with the budget now exceeding $2.4 billion a year. But there is good news — the state can save nearly $1…

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The recession’s psychological toll

At the height of the recession last year, Deanna Ross was busy training the newly unemployed and others how to form support groups to cope with mental illness in these stressful times.

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Budget woes fixed in counties as Baltimore struggles

Despite big revenue shortfalls, Baltimore area counties seemed to breeze through their financial travails this spring, shifting money around, avoiding layoffs and tax hikes and plugging holes in the coming year’s budgets in ways that few residents will…

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Shortage of Doctors Forcing Nursing Home Residents into Hospital

A national shortage of aged care doctors has left more than
half of nursing homes with no choice but to send residents

UN Chief Calls for Anti-gay Law Reform in Africa

UN chief Ban Ki-moon persuaded Malawi’s president to pardon a gay couple jailed for holding a wedding, but his call to r

Economic Stress Destroying British Families

More than a million British households are facing stress at home with rows amongst couples becoming more and more freque

‘March of Blondes’ Offer Solace to Crisis-hit Latvians

Decked out in pink, their locks glinting in the sunshine, hundreds of blondes marched arm-in-arm through the Latvian cap

NGO Opens First ‘Baby Hatch’ for Abandoned Babies in Malaysia

An NGO in Malaysia has opened the country’s first “baby hatch” for rescuing unwanted newborns, reports said Sunday, as a

Smoking Toddler Presents Grim Picture of Indonesia’s Tobacco Addiction

A new video of a smoking Indonesian toddler has emerged to shock health experts and provide further graphic illustration

School Official Suspended for Distributing Anti-Abortion "Fetus Dolls"

A Virginia elementary school principal has been suspended after a staff member handed out pro-life fetus dolls to