DANA BEYERLE: Whooping cranes stay put Gadsden Times By Dana Beyerle Those nine juvenile whooping cranes that were grounded in Alabama while the federal government and whooping crane restoration project managers worked out red tape aren't following their ultralight migration leaders as hoped.
University of Alabama at Birmingham is forming a Comprehensive Cardiovascular ... al.com (blog) By Hannah Wolfson -- The Birmingham News BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Buoyed by the success of its Comprehensive Cancer Center, UAB is forming a similar center focused on cardiovascular disease that proponents say could be a new model for health care and ...
New rules could save billions in prescription drug costs Boston Herald Called for in the 2010 federal health law, the new rules for prescription drug pricing are based in part on an innovation pioneered in Alabama. Instead of paying for drugs based on drug company price lists, which are often inflated, Alabama decided a ...
Tennessee and Georgia resist health care reform Chattanooga Times Free Press The exchanges and other changes to health care will provide coverage to about half the people in Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama who are currently uninsured, according to a study by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan policy research group.
Jefferson County lawmakers lack consensus ahead of opening session of Alabama... al.com (blog) Expand uses of the indigent care fund to all programs that benefit low-income people, not just health care. Under Alabama law, counties do not have "home rule," such as authority to levy a tax or remove earmarks, unless that authority is delegated to ...
Alabama prosecutors subpoena records of former agriculture commissioner Ron Sparks al.com (blog) There is nothing to hide," said former Alabama agriculture commissioner Ron Sparks. "They won't find anything we did wrong." (AP file photo/Dave Martin) MONTGOMERY -- State prosecutors have subpoenaed an array of records from the Alabama Department of ...
Still Crazy: Some Dabble In Hard Drugs After 50, Researchers Find WITN That certainly can be true, but it's not the complete picture, at least according to a new study from researchers at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, who found that people who occasionally use drugs like cocaine, amphetamines and opiates over ...
Huntsville officials look to potential hot job opportunities in the years ahead The Huntsville Times - al.com (blog) (The Huntsville Times/Robin Conn) HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- Where will you find the hot job fields in the local market in the years ahead? The Alabama Department of Industrial Relations projects that nearly 25000 jobs - a mix of new jobs and openings due ...
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