LONG BEACH, CA: Healthcare has come to occupy center stage, especially after the recent Supreme Court ruling upholding the Affordable Health Care Act enabling nearly 47 Million Americans without health coverage to buy or obtain health care coverage. Physicians play a central role in providing healthcare services to every individual, both in preventing as well as treating diseases.Physicians of...
DALLAS: Gov. Rick Perry has said that Texas won't establish an online marketplace for patients to shop for insurance or expand Medicaid, two key elements of the federal health care overhaul.
In a letter sent to U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Perry said both elements ``represent brazen intrusions into the sovereignty of our state.''
``I will not be...
HELENA, Mont.: The state Supreme Court says obesity qualifies as an impairment in some cases under the Montana Human Rights Act, potentially allowing obese people to seek greater protection against discrimination.
The divided court handed down the ruling in a case between Eric Feit and Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, finding that if a person's weight is outside the normal...
Can you wrap your mind around a 10-day convention where delegates from the US, Iran, Israel, Turkey, Zimbabwe, India, China, Russia, Ukraine, Great Britain and many other countries gather together and build a world of friendship?Such a convention is actually happening now in Cincinnati at the 7th World Choir Games, the Olympics of choral music – the largest international...
NEW YORK: New York based independent filmmaker Shailja Gupta has launched her maiden film ‘Walkaway’ online for viewers in India.
The Indian American movie is in English. Positioned as a light-comedy drama, the film mocks the clutches of social obligations on young Indian professionals settled in New York City. The story softly weaves through the lives of four couples from...
NEW YORK: The comedy adventure Bol Bachchan starring Ajay Devgn and Abhishek Bachchan scored a terrific opening in North America generating the best debut this summer for any Bollywood film. Released by Fox International Productions, Rohit Shetty's comic hit grossed $562,000 in its first three days beating the opening of Akshay Kumar's Rowdy Rathore by a remarkable 47% despite...
NEW HAVEN, CT: The fragile global economy, the evolving political and economic crises in the Middle East and Europe, and the 2012 U.S. Presidential elections, along with the challenges of leadership, dominated the 6th India-Yale Parliamentary Leadership Program that began on June 20 and concluded June 30.Yale University, widely recognized for educating leaders in government, business, and civil society...
ATLANTA, Georgia: The renowned Emory University has started a Telugu Initiative to raise money to establish an endowed chair in Telugu Studies in order to teach Telugu literature, culture, and history on a permanent basis at Emory. Emory University, located in Atlanta, Georgia, is already well known for its program in Kuchipudi dance and Telugu cultural studies. Emory has...
ATLANTA, Georgia: American Telugu Association’s 12th Conference and Youth Convention concluded its three-day event here on July 8 on a very high note with a scintillating and exhilarating music concert by Thaman Group, keeping the audience of over 8,000 people mesmerized.The other programs beginning from opening night of Banquet Dinner through the concluding night were equally enthralling. The prestigious...
EDISON, NJ: Over 15,000 diversified Americans from various faiths, religions and color celebrated American Independence Day on 4th of July in Edison, NJ organized by South Asian Community Outreach (SACO).The South Asian Community Outreach organization kicked off the July 4th American Independence Day Celebration at the sprawling Edison Municipal Park, aka Lake Papaianni Park near Edison Municipal Complex in...