Reports Examine Hospital Consolidation, Medicare Drug Benefit, Immigrant Health Care (Medical News Today)
"Stretching the Safety Net To Serve Undocumented Immigrants: Community Responses to Health Needs," Center for Studying Health System Change: The issue brief -- prepared by Andrea Staiti, an HSC health research analyst; Robert Hurley of Virginia Commonwealth University; and Aaron Katz of the University of Washington -- examines documented and undocumented immigrant health care in 12 cities across

Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson Visits Manchester to Herald Success of New Medicare Drug (RedNova)
MANCHESTER, N.H., March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Former Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tommy Thompson joined more than 100 seniors at the William B Cashin Senior Activity Center in Manchester today to herald the success of the new Medicare drug benefit.

Resources Are Few for Many Poor Local Residents With Mental Illnesses (The Ledger)
Greg Popwell, an unemployed truck driver, was saved from a suicide attempt when someone at the motel where he was staying in East Polk County smelled gas and called for help. "The depression got so bad, I isolated myself from the world," he said. "I got to the point where depression froze me, made me physically unable to function."