http://thedraftdoctors.com Healthy answers to important questions. Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:27:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A Sacramento jury convicted Matthew Zugsberger, left, of attempting to take 3 pounds of marijuana onto a flight to New Orleans. His attorney, Grant Pegg is at right.In a test of how much marijuana reasonably can be carried for personal medical needs, a Sacramento jury Tuesday convicted a man of ... http://thedraftdoctors.com/family-health-articles/sacramento-jury-convicts-man-with-marijuana-in-luggage-of-a-felony.html Just a small fraction of the thousands of consumers whose health coverage was unfairly revoked by their insurers have benefited from state-brokered settlements with insurance companies, according to an Assembly report made public Tuesday. Today, an Assembly watchdog committee is expected to question officials from the Department ... http://thedraftdoctors.com/family-health-articles/california-assembly-hearing-to-look-at-rescinded-health-insurance-issue.html RENÉE C. BYER rbyer@sacbee.com Jan Nolta, director of the new UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures, discusses the state-of-the-art hot-cells device, left, at the new facility housed in a former State Fair exhibit hall on Stockton Boulevard. The device generates radio tracers to locate cancer stem cells before they form a ... http://thedraftdoctors.com/family-health-articles/62-million-uc-davis-center-puts-sacramento-at-hub-of-stem-cell-research.html Getty Images Supporters of President Barack Obama's health care overhaul protest Tuesday outside a hotel in Washington, D.C., where a health insurance industry group was meeting.WASHINGTON – Thousands of liberal public-option backers and conservative tea partiers launched last-chance campaigns Tuesday in the nation's capital to persuade Congress to pass – or ... http://thedraftdoctors.com/family-health-articles/rival-camps-ramp-up-efforts.html Hernando Garzon, an ER doctor at Kaiser's Sacramento Medical Center, treats an injured Haitian woman six days after the Jan. 12 quake.Port-au-Prince appeared as heaps of rubble growing ever distant as the plane carrying Dr. Hernando Garzon flew home from Haiti. "It's hard to appreciate the devastation ... http://thedraftdoctors.com/family-health-articles/sacramento-area-doctors-helping-in-haiti-say-need-still-great.html It's a sweet, oily, peanut butter-ish substance capturing the Willy Wonka-ism that mixing sugar and fat is a recipe for success. Only the UC Davis researchers who created Nutributter have a lofty goal: preventing childhood malnutrition across the world. Each ketchup-packet-size dose of Nutributter ... http://thedraftdoctors.com/family-health-articles/uc-davis-team-combats-malnutrition.html Ladies – it might be time to stop worrying that the Wednesday night glass of wine is just empty calories. A new study tracking 20,000 American women through middle age found those who had two or more drinks a day gained less weight than their non-drinking counterparts. ... http://thedraftdoctors.com/family-health-articles/obesity-risk-lower-in-women-who-had-2-or-more-drinks-a-day-study-finds.html Rosey Ramsey, who suffered a stroke at age 52 and now works to help other stroke patients, gets a neurological evaluation from physical therapy students in a mock clinic at CSU Sacramento. Students are, left, Donovan Shields, Lo Saechao, lower right, and Claudiu Stefan Mich. Ramsey's biggest risk factor was ... http://thedraftdoctors.com/family-health-articles/stroke-victims-in-their-50s-have-battled-back.html Amid consumer furor over rising health insurance premiums, the Obama administration asked insurers on Thursday to post rate hikes – and the justification for them – on the Internet. Also on Thursday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced legislation that would give the federal government authority to reject ... http://thedraftdoctors.com/family-health-articles/obama-presses-health-insurers-to-give-details-online-for-rate-hikes.html Lorene Duran, 43, was "in and out of hospitals a lot" with bronchitis, pneumonia, depression and anxiety before she was signed up for the T3 program created by Sutter Medical Center and a nonprofit community clinic called The Effort. Duran, a former methamphetamine user, is one of the people who ... http://thedraftdoctors.com/family-health-articles/sutter-program-targets-frequent-er-visitors.html