Miscellaneous

• Law Enforcement Officers' Deathes Increase

  Staff Writer | December 27, 2007 10:22 AM | 0 CommentsFort Collins, CO

  A report recently released by the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund and Concerns of Police Survivors stated that there has been 186 officer deaths since December 26th. This has increased from 145 in 2006.Eighty-one officers died in traffic-related accidents and there have been 69 shooting deaths.Craig Floyd, chairman of the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund, stated...

• Whole Foods Recalls Chocolate Bars

  Linda Snyder | December 20, 2007 11:34 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  The world's largest retailer of natural and organic foods, Whole Foods, recalled milk chocolate bars on Tuesday, December 18th that were sold in their stores in Colorado.The brand name 365 Organic Everyday Value Swiss Milk Chocolate Bars with Rice Crisps with the "best if used by date" of 11/21/07 was recalled due to the possibility of containing nuts that are not listed properly in the...

• Diactyl linked to lung ailment removed from microwave popcorn

  Staff Writer | December 19, 2007 9:54 AM | 0 CommentsFort Collins, CO

  On Monday, December 17th, the nation's four largest makers of microwave popcorn stated that they have removed a flavoring chemical that has been linked to a lung ailment in popcorn plant workers from their products.The Weaver Popcorn Company, ConAgra Foods Inc., General Mills Inc., and the American Pop Corn Co. have all promised to change their microwave popocorn recipes by January 2008. These...

• Special Amenities in hospitals, if you can afford it

  Staff Writer | December 18, 2007 2:21 PM | 0 CommentsGrand Junction, CO

  Imagine being a patient in a hospital, and actually enjoying the experience with a personal chef and a larger room. Such exclusive amenties are being offered more and more every day at hospitals nationwide.Three such hospitals in Colorado offer incredible amenities for those who are willing to pay the price. The Rose Center for Preventive Medicine in Denver, The University of Colorado Hospital...

• Residents in Midwest still with no power

  Linda Snyder | December 18, 2007 12:15 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  A week after the huge ice storm that hit the Midwest, more than 88,000 homes and businesses in Oklahoma are still without power.Temperatures have been falling into the teens overnight this week, leaving people not only in the dark, but fighting the rigid coldness. Some residents in Oklahoma have spent money on hotels, thinking their power would be restored in only a couple of days. Others have...

• Another Attempt by Merck to make cholesterol drug over-the-counter

  Linda Snyder | December 14, 2007 1:31 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  Pharmaceutical company, Merck & Co., has recently made a 3rd attempt to make the cholesterol lowering drug, Mevacor, available to consumers over-the-counter. Since 2000, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has rejected the attempts due to possibly too many of the wrong people using Mevacor and risking unnecessary side effects.Merck & Co. defended their case by arguing that only 6 million of...

• UnitedHealth Group to make improvements

  Linda Snyder | December 11, 2007 3:52 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  The nation's second largest health insurer, UnitedHealth, recently admitted to customer service mistakes."We understand relationships, and we recognize that this a health system that needs to work for everyone, not just for us," stated David S. Wichmann, who is charge of the UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s individual and employer markets.315,000 customers were lost this year due to poor customer...

• Report Shows 40 Million in U.S. Can't Afford Health Care

  Linda Snyder | December 04, 2007 11:45 AM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  A federal report released on Monday, December 3rd, states that more than 40 million people in the United States can not afford health care. As a result, these people go without their medication, dental and visual treatments.Nearly 15 million adults did not obtain eyeglasses, 25 million did not get dental care, 19 million did not get needed prescribed medicine, and 15 million did not get needed...

• 2007 Colorado Hospital Ratings Released

  Linda Snyder | November 29, 2007 1:23 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  On November 28th, Colorado Governor, Bill Ritter and the Colorado Hospital Association recently released the 2007 Colorado Hospital Report Card.The report card gives consumers the ability to choose a hospital based on both the quality and the patient's needs. The House Bill 2006-1278 was passed in early 2007, which made detailed reports on Colorado hospitals available to the public online. All...

• Insurance Companies Profited on Hurricane Katrina

  Linda Snyder | November 19, 2007 3:46 PM | 0 CommentsDenver, CO

  The American Association for Justice recently released a report on insurance companies and the analysis of how they handled Hurricane Katrina. It's been over two years since the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast. Hurricane Katrina caused more than $135 billion in damages and left many people homeless and unemployed while insurance companies collected more than $40 billion the...