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The move to ban all smoking in the workplace is picking up steam world wide...but now some employers are taking the drive a step further. On this week’s Health Show, we’ll report on a health care facility that will no longer consider hiring smokers. Then we’ll head to the ball park and hear how some little leaguers are being pushed right to the disabled list. We’ll find out how to prevent the most common summer burns. And we’ll hear about a drive to help find health care coverage for all...and it’s not coming from the government.
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SMOKE 'EM IF YOU GOT 'EM - Just Don't Expect To Get A Job!
Smokers who want a job at the Cleveland Clinic will soon have to quit the habit or they'll be out of luck. Late last month, the hospital announced that it's going to soon start testing applicants for tobacco use. The Health Show’s Dan Bobkoff has the details.
Little Leaguers Heading To The D.L.
For more than 60 years, Little League baseball has been a staple of summertime fun for American kids. During the past decade, though, there's been an explosion of increasingly competitive little leagues and traveling teams, not to mention ambitious players and coaches who have their eyes on college scholarships and the big leagues. All that intense competition has given rise to an alarming trend: pitchers blowing out their arms at increasingly young ages. The problem has been so pronounced that this year little league officials have implemented new rules designed to protect young arms. Jeremy Shere reports.
Preventing Summer Burns
Summer time has some hazards off the field, too. As the weather heats up, there are many ways for people to suffer burns. Andi McDonnell spoke with an expert from the University Of Michigan Health System and got some tips to avoid some of the more common summer burns.
Health Care Coverage For All
You may have noticed by now, but a few people have expressed mild interest in becoming the next president of the United States. You may also have noticed that many of these politicians are talking about expanding health coverage to more Americans. But not everyone talking about health coverage is running for office. Philip Lebherz is the Founding Director of the Foundation for Health Coverage Education, an independent, non-profit foundation whose stated mission is to simplify public and private health insurance eligibility information in order to help more people access coverage. Bob Barrett asked Mr. Lebherz, when the foundation got off the ground? For more information about the Foundation for Health Coverage Education call 800 - 234 - 1317...or go to: http://coverageforall.org/
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