Meditation increases pain tolerance, but you don’t have to devote your life to the practice to derive benefits, new research shows.
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17Mar
Tags: Research
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17Mar
What’s the next step when a child’s controller drugs fail to prevent asthma attacks? Different kids do best with different step-up treatments, an NIH-funded study finds.
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17Mar
The Royal College of Nursing in Wales in partnership with a local nurse from Abertawe Bro Morganwg Local Health Board has organised an event for health care staff working within the NHS and independent sector at the Aberavon Hotel, Port Talbot on Monday, 1 March, 2010. This event was sponsored by the Welsh Union Learning Fund. The event is a motivational seminar for health care staff and in the spirit of partnership, invitations have been offered to other local union members. A selection of inspirational speakers will feature throughout the day…
Tags: Health, Health Care
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17Mar
Royal College of Nursing Applauds Welsh Assembly Government’s Plan to Help Military Veterans Tina Donnelly, Director of the Royal College of Nursing in Wales, said: “The Royal College of Nursing in Wales is pleased that the Welsh Assembly Government is allocating additional funding to support our military veterans. Our military veterans have demonstrated unmatched dedication to public service and our government should be able to help them out in their time of need…
Tags: Health
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17Mar
The Federal Communication Commission’s National Broadband Plan to make broadband Internet connectivity available across the nation calls for significant revamping of the current Rural Health Care Program that offers subsidized telecommunications connectivity, including Internet service.
Tags: Health, Health Care
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17Mar
The HIT Policy Committee and HIT Standards Committee, federal advisory bodies to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, have set their workgroup meeting schedules for April.
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17Mar
CytoDyn, Inc. has begun full humanization of Cytolin®, the Company’s unique immune therapy for treating HIV/AIDS. Although a murine (mouse) version of Cytolin® was used for previous human experience that included some 200 patients successfully treated for up to two years, as well as an encouraging Phase I(b)/II(a) study, the Company believes that a fully-humanized version is necessary for the clinical trial that is expected to follow the current one (described at http://clinicaltrials.gov) for the reasons explained below.
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17Mar
New York Times: President Obama is scheduled to give an interview with Bret Baier of Fox News Wednesday evening. The interview comes “at the height of a week in which Democrats, including Mr. Obama, are pressing allies and lawmakers to push ahead to get the health care bill passed in the House despite solid Republican opposition and the lessening of public support for the legislation.” The interview comes after Obama administration aides last year criticized Fox News for its political coverage and commentary (3/16).
Tags: Health, Health Care
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17Mar
A clothespin-type device that clips together the partially open doors of leaky heart valves may obviate the need for open heart surgery in some patients, doctors say.
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17Mar
Genetic tests designed to predict how well lung cancer patients will fare after treatment do very little to guide doctors, government researchers said on Tuesday.
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17Mar
Although restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research have been lifted under the Obama administration, some researchers are finding the new ethical requirements burdensome, the Washington Post reports. Under the George W. Bush administration, only 21 stem-cell “lines” were permitted to receive federal research funding. President Obama relaxed the restrictions but allowed the National Institutes of Health to issue ethics guidelines…
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17Mar
Women who take the birth control pill are more likely to live longer than women who have never taken the pill, according to a study published Friday in the British medical journal BMJ, the AP/Boston Globe reports. Researchers in the United Kingdom followed more than 46,000 women who took the pill and then compared the mortality rate of those women with women who did not take birth control pills. The women in the study generally took the pill for almost four years. Researchers followed the women for about 40 years, beginning in 1968…
Tags: Cancer, Gene, Health, mortality rate, Research
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17Mar
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17Mar
What the World Bank has dubbed “quiet corruption” in it’s Africa Development Indicators 2010 report (.pdf) could be as significant a threat to the continent’s development “as the graft scandals that frequently dominate newspaper headlines,” Bloomberg/BusinessWeek reports (McGregor/Seria, 3/15).
Tags: Africa
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17Mar
Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) and the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) have discovered that injecting a simple hormone into leeches creates a novel way to study how hormones and the nervous system work together to produce species-specific reproductive behavior.
Tags: Research
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17Mar
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17Mar
GE Foundation-the philanthropic organization of GE- and the GE Corporate Diversity Council today announced the award of $1 million in total to four Milwaukee community healthcare centers toward the goal of increasing access to primary care for uninsured and underserved populations across the city. The donations expand the reach of the GE Developing Health program, a 3-year, $25 million commitment that provides grant funding and GE employee engagement to selected healthcare centers across the United States. “With nearly 16% of the U.S…
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16Mar
Body size, gender and the complexity of heart disease significantly influence how much cumulative radiation skin dose that patients receive during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) therapy, also known as angioplasty, according to a new Mayo Clinic study. The study was undertaken as a quality control initiative to reduce the potential radiation risks of cancer to patients and PCI operators…
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16Mar
Sibley Memorial Hospital in Washington, D.C., has outsourced infrastructure management of its information technologies to CareTech Solutions Inc., Troy, Mich. Financial terms of the five-year contract were not disclosed.
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16Mar
The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association, a trade group of vendors, has joined many other stakeholders in asking the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to significantly streamline meaningful use requirements and change unrealistic compliance timetables.
Tags: EHR, Electronic Health Record, Health, Medicaid, Medicare
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