| Electronic drug information system reduces risk for ICU patients A new German study has demonstrated that doctors can lower the risk for patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with the help of the electronic drug information system "AiDKlinik", which reduces the number of adverse drug interactions and adverse... | |
| Seaweed extract may help treat lymphoma A new research has shown that seaweed extract can help treat lymphoma, a cancer of the immune... |
| Gastric bypass op raises risk of kidney stones Gastric bypass surgery can change patients' urine composition that may increase their risk of developing kidney stones, research from UT Southwestern Medical Center investigators... |
| Chewing gum can give you wrinkles A constant gum-chewing habit can cause wrinkles to pop up, health experts... |
| New drug to slash cholesterol levels A team of researchers, including scientists from Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet, has found that a thyroid-hormone-like substance that works specifically on the liver reduces blood cholesterol with no serious side... |
| Health Care Costs Shifted To Hampton School Employees In Proposed Budget HAMPTON - Additional details about proposed health care cost increases to employees were presented to the School Board Wednesday night. Monthly paycheck deductions will more than double for some... |
| Congressional Democrats, Near Deal On Health Legislation, Must Sell It To Rank And File WASHINGTON - House Democratic leaders on Thursday worked to rally their rank-and-file members around last-minute agreements on insurance taxes and prescription drug coverage that could move... |
| Doctors May Be Failing To Properly Control Cholesterol Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 10:50 CST As many as half of patients who are at risk for heart attack or stroke may be getting incorrect information about cutting cholesterol from their... |
| Breast Cancer Incidence Among Iraqi Women Profiled Posted on: Thursday, 11 March 2010, 09:00 CST DEAD SEA, Jordan — Breast cancer continues to rise in Iraq, and scientists have established the Iraqi National Cancer Research Program to better... |
| The German Medical Aid Organization Action Medeor E.v. Has Become An Official Partner Of The Global Goals For South Africa Campaign! campaign is issuing an appeal for assistance for the medeor project in the South African township of Masiphumelele. The project gives a home and family life to AIDS orphans and provides them with... |
| Kantar Health Ceo To Participate In Panel Discussion At Pmrg 2010 Annual National Conference Kantar Health , a leading healthcare-focused global consultancy and marketing insights company, today announced that Chief Executive Officer Lynnette Cooke will participate in a panel discussion at... |
| Pelosi: Health Care Was 'hijacked' House Speaker Nancy Pelosi concedes that Democrats allowed the health care reform debate to get “hijacked” by insurance companies and other interests set on killing the bill. Pelosi,... |
| Doctors Fail To Cut Cholesterol Enough LONDON - Only half of patients at high risk of heart disease are given the right targets for cutting their cholesterol and millions may suffer heart attack or stroke due to doctors' poor advice,... |
| Senate-passed Health Care Bill Would Cut Deficit WASHINGTON -- Congressional budget referees say Senate legislation that's now the foundation for President Barack Obama's health care plan would cut the federal deficit by $118 billion over 10... |
| Nyt Editorial Calls On Abortion-rights Supporters 'to Make Their Voices Heard' ) that would criminalize certain behavior by women that results in miscarriage," the editorial notes. It adds, "The measure exempts lawful abortions, and particularly worrisome language about... |
| W.va. House Panel Approves Bill Requiring Information About Ultrasounds Before Abortions reports. According to the Gazette, the rule would only apply to cases where ultrasound technology already is being used. The Senate passed the bill last week... |
| Jackson Health System: We Are `fully Operational' Financially strapped Jackson Health System issued a news release Thursday saying, ``The community can rest assured that Jackson is fully operational, with all the necessary supplies for the most... |
| Research Shows Removing Healthy Breast Does Not Improve Breast Cancer Survival, Nyt Columnist Writes breast cancer chose to remove both the cancerous and healthy breasts, a procedure known as contralateral prophylactic mastectomy, Pope says. According to... |
| Obama Makes Final Public Push For Health Reform As Democrats Consider Timeline President Obama is delivering his "closing argument" for health care reform in St. Louis today as Democratic leaders strategize on moving the bill through the House and... |
| Gop Putting Strategies In Place To Thwart Dems On Reform : "When Mitch McConnell speaks these days, he expects House Blue Dogs to be listening." The Senate minority leader is "very much part of a newly launched Republican shadow war to block health care... |
| President Announces Plans To Crack Down On Health Care Fraud : "President Barack Obama said Tuesday he'll bring in high-tech bounty hunters to help root out health care fraud, grabbing a populist idea with bipartisan backing in his final push to overhaul the... |
| Senate Poised To Pass Cobra Subsidy Extension, Medicare 'doc Fix' : The bill "extends health insurance subsidies for the unemployed through December. It would add $132 billion to the budget deficit over the next year and a half. ... In states with the highest... |
| Fda Sponsoring Workshops To Increase Rare Disease Treatment Options : FDA is putting on workshops for pharmaceutical manufacturers to increase the pool of applicants for approved "orphan drugs," that treat rare diseases. Currently, there are about 7,000 so-called... |
| Medical School Costs, Loan Rates Rise Sharply NPR reports on the high cost of medical school, focusing on one student, Sarah Rosen. The interest rate on her school loans "shot up to eight and a half percent, almost twice the rate [her parents]... |
| Non-profit Operations Plugging Health Care Gap In Chicago Medill Reports presents a story on community health centers in Chicago that try to fill access-to-care gaps for people too sick to get health care coverage or too poor to afford other care.... |
| Comparative Research Lags Far Behind Approval-driven Evaluations Reuters reports. The study, published in today's Journal of the American Medical Association and written by doctors from Harvard and University of Southern California, also found that private firms -... |
| States' Legislative Health Initiatives Stall : "A group of Massachusetts mayors, fed up with what they say is legislative inaction on skyrocketing municipal health care costs, has launched a ballot initiative for 2012 aimed at giving cities and... |
| Lifesaving Bills Filed In Florida Legislature To Guarantee Patient Safety Improvements National Nurses Organizing Committee-Florida and National Nurses United today announce that the Florida Hospital Patient Protection Act of 2010 has been filed in the state legislature by authors Rep.... |
| Aamc Says Patient Safety Is A Top Priority For U.s. Medical Schools And Teaching Hospitals 0 posts AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., issued the following statement today on the Lucian Leape Institute's new... |
| The American College Of Obstetricians And Gynecologists Supports Women's Access To Universal Health Care During Cover the Uninsured Week, The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists reiterates its position that all women should be guaranteed a package of essential benefits that includes... |
| Who's Updated Malaria Guidelines Include Rapid Diagnosis, New Act BMJ News reports. According to BMJ News, WHO's guidelines are "expected to enhance earlier and accurate diagnosis, halt the emergence of drug resistance, and reduce the use of unnecessary treatment"... |
| British Government, Hiv/aids Advocates Warn Decreased Aid Budgets Could Lead To Reversals In Hiv/aids Treatment Progress Recent gains in the global fight against HIV/AIDS could be reversed as the "global economic downturn pinches poor countries' budgets and donors show signs of backing away from their promise to... |
| New Patient Data Has The Power To Transform Health Care Management - New Report Published Today, Uk 0 posts One year on from the NHS becoming the first national health system in the world to routinely collect patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), a new report highlights the potential for PROMs... |
| Congress Works On Tariff-lowering Legislation For Haiti As Preval Meets With U.s. Leaders In Washington The Senate Finance Committee's chair, Max Baucus (D-Mont.), and top Republican, Charles Grassley (Iowa), are working with colleagues in the House on legislation that would lower tariffs in an effort... |
| Obama Targets Health Care Fraud, Waste U.S. President Barack Obama said this week that the healthcare system loses billions of dollars a year to fraud, waste, abuse and subsidies to insurance companies."Nowhere is reform more needed than... |
| Democrats, White House Close In On Health Bill (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius speaks at the American Health Insurance Plans 2010 National Policy Forum in Washington, Wednesday, March 10,... |
| Senate-passed Health Bill Would Cut Deficit: Cbo Congressional budget referees say Senate legislation that's now the foundation for President Barack Obama's health care plan would cut the federal deficit by $118 billion over 10... |
| House, Senate Leaders Agree On Health March 11 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. House and Senate leaders have agreed on legislative language to push forward President Barack Obama’s proposed overhaul of the nation’s health-care system, a... |
| Exclusive - Drugmakers Agree Landmark Vaccines Deal For Poor A vaccine is prepared for administration at a clinic in central London Apri... Several drug firms have agreed a landmark deal to supply up to 200 million doses a year of cut-price pneumococcal... |
| White House, Democrats Close In On Health Bill March 11: As congressional Democrats continue to work out differences on health care reform, the president says the time for talk is over. NBC’s Chuck Todd... |
| Young Cancer Survivors Seek Support Young Canadians with cancer say they're falling through the cracks of a health-care system designed for older patients. Adolescent and young adult cancer patients, survivors and cancer specialists... |
| Cancer Patients Benefit From Advance In Diagnosis An international team of cancer researchers has found a way to predict which Hodgkin's lymphoma patients won't respond well to therapies, opening the door to using a less aggressive regimen on those... |
| Sick Time Abuse Eyed; Health Region Ceo Highlights Absenteeism's Effect On Budget A memo from the Saskatoon Health Region's CEO to employees discussing some workers' abuse of sick time has upset and offended health-care workers."To have this kind of a comment from the CEO,... |
| B.c. Cancer Researchers Make Lymphoma 'breakthrough' Chemotherapy treatment is pictured in a file photo. Dr. Joseph Connors, study co-author and lymphoma expert, said although 75 to 80 per cent of patients are cured with initial treatment, the rest... |
| Is Sexual Anorexia The Flip Side Of Sex Addiction? answer readers’ questions about sex addiction . Here, Dr. Drew Pinsky responds to one reader who wonders why too little sex isn’t given the same attention as too... |
| Vatican Criticizes Condom Machines In Rome School Cardinal Agostino Vallini, the pope's vicar for Rome, has criticized the decision as trivializing sex, while the Italian bishops' newspaper said Thursday that sex was being reduced to "mere physical... |
