Donna Shalala

Re "The Instant Formula for Poverty," editorial, July 16: It's laughable that we're revisiting the Murphy Brown controversy again and giving time to book-shill (and possible presidential shill) Dan Quayle, who was rightly lambasted for blaming a national problem on a fictional character. What Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala said in comment to a ridiculous question was the safe political answer which, rightly or wrongly, has become obligatory. But what is amazing is that you and Dan Quayle keep focusing on this issue of marriage, which, if one looks closer at Shalala's comments, seems to obfuscate the real cause of the problem.

Chances are excellent you've heard of the University of Miami's football Hurricanes, 37-0 and vying for their second national championship in a row. But what of senior Devi Sridhar, who won't be suiting up to play in today's Fiesta Bowl? The UM biology major, who is also a violinist, tennis player, author of a children's book on Indian myths and speaker of five languages, is one of the latest crop of Rhodes scholars. At just 18, the senior is the youngest Rhodes laureate in American history.

A listener called Michael Jackson's radio show on KRLA-AM (1110) and mentioned that he was on his car phone. "Just be careful," replied Jackson's guest, Donna Shalala. She added, "L.A. makes me nervous." As it would any secretary of Health and Human Services. * EVEN THE OCEAN LINERS ARE FREEWAY HAZARDS: The Titanic is in trouble again, having apparently veered off the 110, according to a drawing by Curt Miller (see accompanying). Miller won a prize from the L.A.

Outgoing Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala said Monday that the biggest hurdle for her likely successor, Gov. Tommy G. Thompson of Wisconsin, will be to stop thinking like a governor--advice that might apply as well to the president-elect, former Texas Gov. George W. Bush. Thompson's "biggest challenge will be to stop thinking about Wisconsin when sitting at my desk--his desk now," she quickly corrected.

When President Bill Clinton announced last December his intention to name Donna Shalala to head the government's largest civilian bureaucracy--the Department of Health and Human Services--conservative activists chortled.

Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala on Thursday defended, explained and tried to sooth fears over President Clinton's newly outlined health care reform package to about 250 senior citizens in Sherman Oaks. Shalala assured the sometimes raucous, standing-room-only crowd that the President's plan will not gut Medicare, which for the past three decades has paid hospital bills for Americans older than 65.

A string of powerful pre-dawn aftershocks--including a magnitude 5.0 temblor--rattled a sleeping Los Angeles on Saturday, putting police on temporary alert, buckling already weakened structures and sending some nervous residents scrambling back to shelters. But the strongest aftershock to hit the city in 10 days was not enough to impede recovery efforts, as detours were opened around collapsed freeways and U.S.

Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala blamed Republican governors Sunday for failing to press for a bipartisan welfare proposal acceptable to President Clinton. Shalala said GOP governors, the majority of the National Governors' Assn., let the group's bipartisan proposal be swept away by Republican leaders in Congress. "They had a chance for a bipartisan effort, and they walked away from it," Shalala said.

Seniors could get stuck with sharply higher premiums in the Medicare plans that Republicans want to create, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala said Tuesday. She told an unofficial hearing by Democrats from the House Commerce Committee that the GOP plan would scrap current limits on how much hospitals and doctors can charge the elderly. "Doctors and hospitals in MedicarePlus plans could charge seniors any amount they want," Shalala said.

Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala thwarted a robbery attempt Sunday morning in Georgetown by throwing herself to the ground and screaming after a man demanded that she give up her wallet, police said. The man and a female accomplice ran to a black Jeep Cherokee and sped off, police said. Shalala's screams attracted the attention of a passerby, who offered help.

Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala announced Saturday that she will become president of the University of Miami after eight years in President Clinton's Cabinet. "I welcome the opportunity to get out of government and get back to higher education," said Shalala, who was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin before she joined the Clinton administration. She replaces Edward T. "Tad" Foote II, who is retiring after 19 years.

Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala thwarted a robbery attempt Sunday morning in Georgetown by throwing herself to the ground and screaming after a man demanded that she give up her wallet, police said. The man and a female accomplice ran to a black Jeep Cherokee and sped off, police said. Shalala's screams attracted the attention of a passerby, who offered help.

A listener called Michael Jackson's radio show on KRLA-AM (1110) and mentioned that he was on his car phone. "Just be careful," replied Jackson's guest, Donna Shalala. She added, "L.A. makes me nervous." As it would any secretary of Health and Human Services. * EVEN THE OCEAN LINERS ARE FREEWAY HAZARDS: The Titanic is in trouble again, having apparently veered off the 110, according to a drawing by Curt Miller (see accompanying). Miller won a prize from the L.A.

Why is Donna Shalala wearing a milk mustache? The secretary of Health and Human Services has been showing up in full-color ads for months, a line of milk on her upper lip. (Actually, milk is not viscous enough to survive the hot camera lights, so Shalala and other celebrities use a combination of milk, yogurt and ice cream.) Whatever the substance, Shalala, with the likes of David Copperfield, Spike Lee and Tyra Banks, is pitching the dairy industry. And some folks are having a cow over it.

"From the Top" is an occasional feature that gives prominent leaders in health, medicine and fitness an opportunity to sound off about health matters. Today, Times staff writer Martin Miller talks with U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala.

Federal laws protect the privacy of credit cards, driving records and even video rentals, but there are no safeguards for personal health records, Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala warned Thursday. "Our most cherished and personal information," family secrets about heart disease and cancer, sexual habits and depression all flow freely through computers open to virtually anyone, she said.

Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala decried domestic violence Friday as "terrorism in the home" and called upon Americans to wake up to the problem. She promised that the Clinton Administration would do its part, including establishing a national telephone hot line for victims of domestic abuse that is awaiting congressional approval.

Low-income mothers should not stay home at taxpayer expense while working-class mothers must help support their families, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala said Thursday in tough comments on welfare-to-work requirements. "I don't think we should subsidize poor mothers to stay out of the work force when working-class mothers are going into the work force," Shalala said in an interview.

Medicare should be updated to give beneficiaries more choices among health plans and an easier time moving in and out of health maintenance organizations, Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala said Wednesday in a preview of Clinton administration proposals. The plans could have special impact in California, the biggest market for managed care for senior citizens. About 25% of the state's Medicare beneficiaries are in HMOs, compared to fewer than 10% nationwide.

Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala and New York Gov. George Pataki were given failing grades for their response to the AIDS epidemic in a "report card" issued today by a major gay legal group. In a statement to mark World AIDS Day, the Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund said Defense Secretary William J.