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Group develops health-care Web site (Louisville Courier-Journal)
People seeking information about health care — or just wanting to share opinions on the issue — can go to a new Web site launched by a group of advocates seeking to improve health-care coverage in Kentucky.
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Man, 19, broadcasts suicide live as some Web viewers urge him on (The Palm Beach Post)
A Pembroke Pines man who broadcast his suicide to an Internet audience Wednesday was a Web enthusiast distraught about his parent's divorce and a rocky relationship with his girlfriend, friends say.
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Summit focuses on children's health care (The Daily Iberian)
FRANKLIN — Empow-ering young adults and informing their parents about Louisiana’s free health care insurance for kids and families is the focus of an empowerment summit called Hype III Saturday at the West St. Mary Civic Center.
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Local News & Events (The Salinas Californian)
The Monterey County Convention and Visitors Bureau has announced the appointment of Nicole Gustas as Web site and marketing manager.
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NEWS: Bernstein creates anti-smoking site (The Dartmouth)
The Children's Hospital at Dartmouth and Dartmouth Medical School collaborated on a new web site, NoSmokingRoom.org, to teach girls between the ages of 8 and 11 about the dangers of smoking. Ninety percent of smokers become addicted to nicotine before the age of 21, and young girls are more susceptible to nicotine addiction than boys, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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Nebraska lawmakers vote to limit safe-haven law (CNN)
Nebraska lawmakers voted Friday to change a controversial safe-haven law by restricting the age under which a child can be dropped off at a hospital without the parents being prosecuted.
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Around Danville: Parents form Web site to support, protect teen girls (Contra Costa Times)
This new Web site is designed to give tween girls a safe Internet clubhouse to have fun and learn with parental supervision.
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Teddy Bear Clinic shows kids that doctor visits can be fun (Spring Observer)
Health care for ailing teddy bears may not make much sense to adults, but watching their stuffed animals getting checkups can ease children’s fears of doctor visits. Or, at least that is what Windrose Family Medicine hopes will happen as a result of its Teddy Bear Clinic on Thursday, Nov. 20, at the Windrose Holiday Market in Spring.
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Md. health officials track flu with e-mail queries (Baltimore Sun)
You're all achy, coughing and feverish. Work is out of the question, but you're not sick enough to see a doctor. How nice it would be if someone checked in to ask how you're feeling.
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Gerstman Family Spotlighted on Reader's Digest Website (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News)
The Gerstman Family was spotlighted on Reader's Digest's Web site because of their extraordinary dedication and contribution to physically disabled children through their foundation, the Lisa Beth Gerstman Foundation.
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