JOHANNESBURG, South Africa - At field offices in the African bush and at medical schools and research labs worldwide, doctors and scientists funded by Bill Gates are starting to make a difference on a continent all too familiar with poverty, disease and early death.

The new health care reform has several provisions affecting the future of oral health for Americans. These various provisions in HR 3590 and HR 4960 will be going into effect from 2010 to 2018. The American Dental Association made a strong presence during the passing of the bill to ensure the House bill contains provisions to improve oral health nationwide. The 2010 oral health care provisions focus on oral health prevention, oral health workforce, health care quality, public health infrastructure, insurance fraud and abuse.

The new health care reform has several provisions affecting the future of oral health for Americans. These various provisions in HR 3590 and HR 4960 will be going into effect from 2010 to 2018. The American Dental Association made a strong presence during the passing of the bill to ensure the House bill contains provisions to improve oral health nationwide. The 2010 oral health care provisions focus on oral health prevention, oral health workforce, health care quality, public health infrastructure, insurance fraud and abuse.

The call for universal health care in Arizona has gone mainstream. The venerable Arizona Town Hall, meeting last week in Prescott, recommended a statewide program to ensure everyone in the state has access to basic health care.

Gov. Janet Napolitano’s plan to expand health care coverage for Arizona children could become a casualty of ongoing budget talks.

More than 3,000 Arizonans have lost public health insurance in the past year because they couldn’t prove U.S. citizenship, though it’s unknown how many, if any, were in this country illegally.

It’s not just your spiritual health that concerns today’s churches. A majority of congregations surveyed are actively involved in ministering to the physical and mental health of their communities, whether or not you’re a churchgoer.

Mary Ann Miller: It's hard to avoid the subject of the economy these days, and the array of remedies to nurse it back to health. In Arizona, lawmakers face many difficult decisions about how to address the state's massive budget deficit and restore our state's economic well being.

Gov. Jan Brewer wants an investigation into whether it's legal for Congress to give special treatment in its health care plan to Nebraska.

Oct. 24, 2004

I am astounded that the EVT would publish the commentary by Susan Stamper Brown regarding the Affordable Care Act. I fully understand everyone’s right to free speech, but this commentary is so full of falsehoods, innuendo, half-truth, and outright lies as to be a farce. Publishing this commentary is pretty much the same as supporting the right to yell fire in a crowded theater.

Glenn Ray may not have won a seat in the Arizona Senate, but he’s not giving up his campaign for universal and physician-controlled health care. Ray, a Mesa Democrat who ran against Sen. Thayer Verschoor, R-Gilbert, in the November legislative election, has begun a campaign that he said will lead to a voter initiative on the 2008 ballot.

Arizona hospitals intend to ask voters to tax the richest 1 percent of the state's residents to help pay for health care for the needy.

Insurance for people with pre-existing conditions. Consistent benefits for seniors. An ability for children to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until their 27th birthday. The controversial health care reform bill signed into law Tuesday by President Barack Obama brings about a number of changes to various population groups in Arizona.

WASHINGTON — Suitably opaque, Section 2006 takes up only a few dozen lines in a sweeping health care bill that runs to 2,074 pages and mentions neither Sen. Mary Landrieu nor her state of Louisiana.

WASHINGTON - Most Americans see health care and insurance costs as a more pressing problem than malpractice lawsuits, a survey says, although the Bush administration often cites litigation as a reason for high medical bills.

There's been just one election for the Maricopa County Special Health Care District Board and people might be hard-pressed to recall who they voted for or what the board has been doing in the meantime.

WASHINGTON  — A strong force, perhaps as powerful in Congress as President Barack Obama, is keeping the drive for health care going even as lawmakers seem hopelessly at odds.

Voters on Tuesday elected a new board to run Maricopa County's public health system, returning an East Valley incumbent and selecting four newcomers.

Gov. Jan Brewer formally signed legislation she negotiated that will balance the state budget, cut aid to public schools and universities and pave the way for sharply reducing the number of people getting free health care.

Gov. Jan Brewer formally signed legislation she negotiated that will balance the state budget, cut aid to public schools and universities and pave the way for sharply reducing the number of people getting free health care.

About 135,000 Arizonans living in poverty will not be getting their free health care back.

About 135,000 Arizonans living in poverty will not be getting their free health care back.

The state has picked up a new, powerful foe in its bid to deny any public funds to Planned Parenthood for family planning services: the United States government.