Consumer Watchdog sent the following letter to Congressional leaders today in response to a letter sent by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in which he incorrectly cited California’s draconian limits on the legal rights of injured patients as a successful cost containment tool. Consumer Watchdog is a nonpartisan nonprofit with offices in California and Washington, D.C.
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31Oct
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31Oct
Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/eb00fc/medical_home_contr) has announced the addition of the “Medical Home Contracting: Building a Solid Framework – 45 Minute Webinar on CD-ROM” report to their offering.
Tags: Research
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31Oct
Source: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
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31Oct
UroToday.com – An article in the online edition of Cancer assesses differences in prostate cancer (CaP) treatment, trust and regular patient care based upon patient race. The North Carolina-Louisiana prostate Cancer Project (PCaP) is a population-based study of men identified shortly after CaP diagnosis.
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31Oct
Watering eye, also known as epiphora or tearing, is a condition in which there is an overflow of tears onto the face, often without a clear explanation. There is insufficient tear film drainage from the eye(s) – instead of all the tears draining through the nasolacrimal system, they overflow onto the face. Epiphora can develop at any age.
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31Oct
If you’re sick, traveling to a foreign land may boost your spirits, but jeopardize your health, according to a paper being presented at the American Society of Nephrology’s 42nd Annual Meeting and Scientific Exposition in San Diego, CA. The findings indicate that dialysis patients who travel on vacation risk infections, anemia, and other complications that can compromise their dialysis treatments.
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31Oct
Schering-Plough Corp. (NYSE: SGP) announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued a complete response letter to the company’s supplemental Biologics License Application regarding PEGINTRON® (pegylated interferon alfa-2b) for the adjuvant treatment of patients with stage III malignant melanoma after complete lymphadenectomy.
Tags: Drug, Food and Drug Administration, Treatment, U.S.
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31Oct
Affymax, Inc. and Takeda Pharmaceutical Global Research & Development Center, Inc., today announced data from multiple clinical and preclinical studies evaluating Hematide, including preliminary results of a Phase 2 trial which demonstrated that Hematide increased hemoglobin levels in a group of anemic hemodialysis (HD) patients.
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31Oct
Lawmakers and various groups continue to react to the House health bill, which was released Thursday and may significantly increase federal spending on health care.
Tags: Health, Health Care
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31Oct
Polymyxin B, an old antibiotic, is joining the list of antibiotics that are facing resistance from infections.
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31Oct
Last week’s 19 new child deaths is the biggest single-week jump since the H1N1 swine flu pandemic began. So far, 114 kids have died of the flu.
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30Oct
A Task Force of the European Society of Hypertension have released the official European guidelines on the management and treatment of hypertension. The guidelines are an update of those published in 2007, and will be published in the November issue of the Journal of Hypertension.
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30Oct
Grocery shoppers in a new study report that a one to 100-point food rating system would help them choose what goes into their carts. However, a nutrition index alone is not enough to change the buying and eating habits of U.S. consumers, said a health behavior expert who was not part of the study.
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30Oct
The Radiological Society of North America’s 95th Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting will again feature the Integrating the Healthcare Enterprise Image Sharing Demonstration. IHE is a global initiative to improve the system interoperability and information exchange.
Tags: Health, North America
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30Oct
A coalition of electronic health records vendors is urging the HIT Standards Committee to focus its efforts on achieving implementation of data standards that the committee already has recommended to federal officials, rather than reopening decisions already made. The committee, authorized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, advises federal officials on standards, implementation specifications and certification criteria for the electronic exchange of health information.
Tags: EHR, Electronic Health Record, Health
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30Oct
A report released Thursday (.pdf) by a group of global health advocates outlines ways the U.S. can work toward increasing access to health care throughout the world, Inter Press Service reports. They call “for doubling U.S. aid to global health projects from the current level of nearly eight billion dollars a year to 16 billion by 2011,” followed by “annual increase[s] leading to a six-year total investment of 95 billion dollars.”
Tags: Health, Health Care, U.S.
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30Oct
“Action always leads to reaction, a fundamental law of nature,” write the authors of an introduction appearing in a Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes (JAIDS) supplemental issue that focuses on global health systems.
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30Oct
Researchers in South Korea say pumpkin skins contain a powerful antifungal protein that works against the cause of many common yeast infections.
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30Oct
Moving around right after procedure cuts conception rate, study foundSource: HealthDay
Related MedlinePlus Topic: InfertilityTags: Health
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30Oct
120 nurses from around Australia will today urge Federal Health Minister, Nicola Roxon to take action and address major challenges facing the aged care sector in the next decade.
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