9 results for "Annie Lowrey"
Pioneer in hospital reform shows just how difficult it is
Sunday, April 28, 2013 at 12:00 AMOn a snowy evening this spring, nurses at Dr. Gary Stuck's family practice were on the phone with patients with heart ailments, asking them not to shovel. The idea was to keep them out of the hospital.
Lucky programs are spared sequester cuts
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 at 12:00 AMThe worst of the federal cuts to a major infant nutrition program would be reversed. Embassy security and construction could be spared in the wake of the consulate attack in Benghazi, Libya. And child care subsidies, once seen as critical to the...
Federal medical inflation slows
Tuesday, February 12, 2013 at 12:00 AMA sharp and surprisingly persistent slowdown in the growth of health care costs is helping to narrow the federal deficit, leaving budget experts trying to figure out whether the trend will last and how much the slower growth could help to allevi...
FHA to raise fees on its loans
Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 12:00 AMThe Federal Housing Administration, a government agency that insures mortgages, said Friday that it was taking steps to shore up its books and avoid a taxpayer bailout.
Weak report leaves Obama on defensive
Saturday, September 8, 2012 at 12:00 AMOnly hours after accepting his party's nomination for a second term, President Barack Obama found himself on the defensive over a jobs report that was weak in almost every way.
Corn crop falling to 'scary' levels
Saturday, August 11, 2012 at 12:00 AMWASHINGTON – With the worst drought in a half century decimating crops in the United States, the government Friday slashed its estimate of the annual corn yield by about 17 percent in the last month to the lowest level since 1995.
Patients likely to find M.D. shortage
Sunday, July 29, 2012 at 12:00 AMRIVERSIDE – In Southern California's economically depressed Inland Empire, President Barack Obama's health care law is expected to extend insurance coverage to more than 300,000 people by 2014. But coverage will not necessarily tran...
Fannie ends its bailout request
Thursday, May 10, 2012 at 12:00 AMFannie Mae, the government-backed mortgage financier, said Wednesday that it made a profit in the first quarter of the year and that it does not need additional bailout money – a first since the federal government took it over in the fall o...
Study: Good teachers have lifelong impact
Friday, January 6, 2012 at 12:00 AMElementary- and middle-school teachers who help raise their students' standardized-test scores seem to have a wide-ranging, lasting positive effect on those students' lives beyond academics, including lower teenage-pregnancy rates and gr...
