BY PATRICIA ANSTETT FREE PRESS MEDICAL WRITER Several hundred health care job hunters lined up at a River Rouge employment fair Tuesday, only to find out many of the 1,400 positions touted as available were for people with more training and clinical job skills than they had. The lesson: If you want an immediate entry-level job in health care, commit yourself daily to searching for jobs because they may be the hardest to get, as thousands of job-seekers flood the market. For the better-paying jobs, from medical billing clerks and surgical technicians to physical therapists and registered nurses,...

Paul Hollrah The real problem with healthcare in our country is not quality or availability; the problem with healthcare is the inexplicably high cost, and the fact that no one seems interested in finding out exactly why healthcare is so expensive and who gets all the money. The current resident of the White House and his friends in Congress are now attempting to ram through a national healthcare system that will extend healthcare coverage to 10 million or 40 million (take your pick) uninsured residents, legal and illegal; a plan that they claim will not interfere with existing patient-doctor-insurer...

By David Swanson, Psy.D. (HealthNewsDigest.com) – Your kid wants to stay up late, avoid homework, hang out with friends, and watch TV and play video games. In short, your school-aged child wants to do everything but go to bed early and do schoolwork. What’s more, he has lots of clever ways to wear you down and get his way. Here are six ways school kids manipulate parents, and what to do about each one. Emotional Blackmail: This is when your child deliberately demonstrates an emotion that she knows will cause you discomfort. “I just wanted to watch the new episode, then I was going...

By Mary Jo Rapini, MEd, LPC (HealthNewsDigest.com) – Burt is like many of my patients. He was burned by a woman who later began dating a “bad boy”. Burt told me in more then one counseling session, “I don’t get it…I cleaned the house, took out the trash and treated her like a queen. How could she do this to me?” I knew part of Burt’s problems was he scored three of the top behaviors women find annoying. I gave this list to Burt just as I am giving it to you. Top 7 Annoying Behaviors Women Love to Hate: Women hate it when a man gives her the power to be the boss. In other words,...

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Everyday we read in magazines or hear on television different methods about how to lose, and the best way to permanently achieve the leaner body so many of us want. Summer may be almost over, but our desire to lose isn’t. This week, let’s take a look at a few popular misconceptions, which are perpetuated even by some of us professionals in the business, versus the facts that evidence-based science gives us. Fact or Fiction? Fiction: Eating at night causes weight gain. Fact: Calories count first! If we eat more calories than we burn over the course of...

King of Pop’s burial on day he would have turned 51 to be private ceremony limited to family and close friends Michael Jackson will be buried on what would have been his 51st birthday, a spokesman for his family said today . Jackson will be buried at the Forest Lawn memorial park in Glendale, California, on 29 August, with guests limited to family and close friends. His grave will be on the holly terrace at the park’s great mausoleum, which contains replicas of all Michelangelo’s major works and a stained glass reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper. The 300...

By Amy Husser, Canwest News Service Dentists may want to handle their red-headed patients gingerly when they climb into the chair. A recent U.S. study found that natural redheads were twice as likely to avoid the dentist as their blond and brunette counterparts because of fear-related anxiety. The research — published in a July edition of the Journal of the American Dental Association — attributes the increased sensitivity to a variation of the melanocortin-1 receptor (MC1R) gene, which causes red hair. It also notes that redheads are resistant to local anesthesia, which could lead to increased...

By Maggie Fox, Reuters WASHINGTON – U.S. health officials strengthened their recommendations for seasonal flu vaccines on Friday, saying all children aged 6 months to 18 years should be immunized — especially because of the H1N1 flu pandemic. The seasonal vaccine provides little or no protection against H1N1 swine flu, but immunization will help prevent people from being infected with both at once and can help minimize the effects of the pandemic on schools, workplaces and the economy in general, health experts say. “Vaccination against seasonal influenza should begin as soon...

By Janet French, Saskatoon StarPhoenix SASKATOON — The expected surge in H1N1 cases this fall could challenge Canada’s medical community like nothing before, federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq told Canadian doctors Monday as she issued a rallying cry to physicians. Aglukkaq told physicians gathered for the Canadian Medical Association’s annual meeting in Saskatoon they got into the medical field for the “immeasurable satisfaction of saving lives and helping change lives for the better.” Given the current challenges posed by the H1N1 outbreak and a shortage of medical...

(CBS) U.S. officials Monday said they had slashed their estimate of how many H1N1 flu vaccine doses will be available for the start of a mass vaccination campaign in the fall. Citing delays in manufacturing and packaging the vaccines, the Department of Health and Human Services(HHS) said only 45 million doses of the new H1N1 vaccine would be on hand in mid-October, instead of the 120 million previously forecast. Twenty million doses a week, federal officials said, would be added each week after that. The revised delivery guidelines have pushed back a U.S. government estimate on priority immunizations...