Word: health
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...their president, Ed Silvey, who repeatedly did not return my calls. Walter W. Crow, the in-house counsel for UNICCO, faxed me a statement that "UNICCO pays its full time employees throughout Cambridge a wage not less than $9.20 an hour" and that they also receive pension and health insurance. "Part time employees receive not less than $8.25," he wrote, and "all employees receive paid vacations, jury duty pay, bereavement pay, personal days, and holidays." Adding these up, Crow contended "The combined value of wage and benefits exceeds $10 per hour... UNICCO believes itself to be already in compliance with...
...Federal Government's advisory committee on immunization practices recommended last week that universities and health professionals urge college first-years to get meningitis vaccinations. The federal health advisory board also advocated that college health care providers prepare information about meningococcal disease, and about the risks and benefits of the vaccination. Health officials say that college students are more susceptible to the disease because they live in such close proximity in dormitories. Last May, the federal Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP) reported that college students living in dormitories are six times more likely to contract meningitis than students living...
...addition, UHS still charges students $77 for the meningitis vaccination. Although this price tag may seem steep, especially in comparison to UHS' free influenza shots, it is the Department of Public Health that provides the resources for flu shots, and they have not yet extended this support to meningitis shots. And because UHS officials say that the CDCP is reevaluating their recent immunization recommendation, monetary support from the federal government may be long in coming. Even so, UHS has discussed with College officials the availability of the vaccine. And, as with all of their services outside of the original health...
...been educating the community about meningitis and providing prevention from the infection even before last week's health advisory recommendation. But now that even the federal government has identified meningitis as a danger--especially detrimental to those in a college dormitory environment--UHS must step up to the plate, and increase its education and prevention...
...Jersey's voting record and policy positions position him well to take advantage of liberals' disappointment with the Clinton administration. And he's pressed home his appeal to the left with big, liberal-friendly policy initiatives in an era of incremental shuffling. He wants to spend $65 billion on health care for all, $10 billion on combating child poverty, and extend full civil rights to gays. "Gore's presenting him as a dangerous liberal whose policies will destroy the village in order to save it," says Tumulty. "But if he's too aggressive tonight, he risks alienating many undecided liberals...