Forty-seven percent of California’s older residents cannot afford to pay for basic necessities, including health care, food and housing, according to a report released on Tuesday, the San Jose Mercury News reports (de Sa, San Jose Mercury News, 2/24).
The Massachusetts Food Protection Program, within Bureau of Environmental Health in the Department of Public Health, strives to ensure a safe and wholesome food supply in the .
Outback Stores says a quality food store is as essential as police, education and health in remote Aboriginal communities.
Sure, you want to teach your kids to eat healthy food. But some parents have little Johnny and Suzy running around scared of trans fats and sodium and who knows what else, to the point that they can’t enjoy cookies etc. like a little .
President Obama on Thursday released an outline of a more than $3.1 trillion fiscal year 2010 budget proposal that will include a 10-year, $634 billion reserve fund to help finance universal health coverage, the New York Daily News reports (Bazinet/McAuliff, New York Daily News, 2/26). health+food
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) has outlined a detailed plan to oversee health spending in the recently enacted economic stimulus package, including the $19 billion for health information technology and $87 billion in increased Medicaid funding to states, CQ Today reports. Rep. health+food