SD loses ground in state health rankings
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SIOUX FALLS, SD - Increased rates of obesity, traffic fatalities and childhood poverty helped push South Dakota down four spots to 19th in a national ranking of healthy states.
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Report assessing a range of factors in nation and each state has health officials concerned. Overall, Indiana ranked 32 out of 50 states.
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California health maintenance organizations continue to show improvements in quality but fall short in areas such as vaccinating adults with flu shots and persuading smokers to kick their cigarette habit.
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Gov. Phil Bredesen announced Monday that he will drop 323,000 adults from the state's expanded Medicaid program to save about &#36;1.7 billion a year, but will preserve health coverage for children.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- The health of Americans is improving, but it&#39;s not getting better quite as fast in Florida and other southern states, according to a new report.
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California did not start the current wave of efforts to overhaul the American health-care system, but what happens in Sacramento over the next few weeks could have a big impact on whether the drive gains momentum or peters out.
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Since last year, the Hawkeye State fell from 7th to 11th among the 50 states. However, officials said Iowa residents still remain healthy overall.
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Arizona leads the nation in seat-belt use, according to a federal survey, news that means fewer injuries and deaths on the road and possibly lower insurance rates, according to one state official.
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A blistering audit claims the state&#39;s Medicaid system is in such disarray that 1.4 million pills are missing, thousands of people who are dead or lack Social Security numbers are getting millions of dollars in benefits and abuse of mental patients may be
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Most Democrats say "socialized medicine" would be better than the current U.S. health care system, while most Republicans say it would be worse, a poll by the Harvard School of Public Health showed on Thursday.
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San Diego County&#39;s unemployment rate plunged sharply to 3.7 percent in August - its lowest point this year â-s the local economy continued to outpace the state and nation as an engine of job growth.
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Greater Southeast Community Hospital was downgraded yesterday to a provisional accreditation by the independent organization that inspects U.S. health-care programs.
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An annual report released Tuesday put Minnesota at the top of its health rankings for the fourth straight year, while concluding that the nation's health improved slightly.
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A new report by a national health advocacy group calls state and national policies ineffective tools in the war against obesity. The Trust for Americaâs Health, a nonprofit organization based in Washington
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The state Health Department is discouraging swimming and surfing at the Atlantic Beach Club Beach in Middletown, Easton's Beach in Newport and Scarborough State Beach North and South in Narragansett.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS.MW) -- If health care is a highly ranked domestic priority among voters as expected, Sen. John Kerry may have an advantage: A new report suggests Americans are worse off than they were four
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State budget pressures threaten to undo gains in health insurance coverage for children and the poor, according to two surveys released Monday.