Mayor Seeks Millions for Health Needs
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Mayor Anthony A. Williams will propose today that the city dedicate at least $245 million in tobacco settlement funds to an array of major health initiatives, from cancer prevention to new comprehensive clinics east of the Anacostia River to significant improvements in hospital emergency care.
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A doctor is leading a campaign aimed at requiring insurance companies to fund programs that would help people lose weight with exercise programs and diet counseling.
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Cincinnati s mayor is planning an economic-development trip to Germany that is to be paid for by private businesses.
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CHRIS CLARK: There&#39;s no end in sight to the soaring tally of health funding promises in the election campaign. In the latest, Mark Latham has come up with a $1 billion dollar parcel for hospitals, and the signs are there&#39;s more to come.
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Last summer, Motaz Herzallah needed &#36;65,000 for an operation on a cancerous brain tumor. He said he sent an appeal to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat through contacts in the West Bank and received a check within three days.
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Thursday he was "committed" to a $1.25 billion tax rebate and unveiled high-tech improvements to city services, as speculation mounts he will run for president.
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Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng yesterday met with Dr Shigeru Omi, the Western Pacific Regional Director of the World Health Organization(WHO).
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THE government is to target deprived areas - including Manchester - where poor families suffer more ill health. Health Secretary John Reid spotlighted the city when he unveiled his health White Paper in the Commons yesterday.
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Mayor Williams outlines his plans to publicly finance a baseball stadium to a gathering at the Pennsylvania Avenue Baptist Church.
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Measures to tackle rising public health problems are being hit by a lack of funds, health chiefs say.
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Billionaire Mayor Michael Bloomberg,  an ex-smoker, on Tuesday announced plans to donate $125 million  to help the world stop smoking.
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New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday proposed raising spending in the next fiscal year by 3.7 percent to $58.5 billion, despite falling tax revenues due to Wall Street's sinking profits.
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He copes with budget shortfalls, accidental deaths at King/Drew hospital and demands for his ouster. By Jia-Rui Chong. Dr. Thomas Garthwaite, the embattled director of Los Angeles County&#39;s Department of Health
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Some are starting to wonder whether the mayor's ambitious pledge of four years ago was more politics than policy
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The commissioner of the stateâs Department of Health and Human Services visited nonprofits across Portsmouth on Tuesday to share his future plans on Medicaid and hear suggestions from the workers in the field.
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Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said yesterday that the city had enough flu vaccine to inoculate the small children and elderly New Yorkers who are streaming into city-run health clinics.
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The mayors of Columbus, Akron and Dayton are among 50 leaders from across the country kicking off a campaign this week to target diabetes.