India: Gurgaon fears dengue and malaria
Updated: 2012-04-30 14:22:44
DRC: Poor sanitation systems hinder fight against cholera
Updated: 2012-04-30 14:16:24Hong Kong: 21 ill in gastro outbreak
Updated: 2012-04-30 14:01:12S. Korean inspectors leave for U.S. following outbreak of mad cow disease
Updated: 2012-04-30 13:50:54Dr. Carroll: Doctors Without Borders doing the heavy lifting for cholera in Port-au-Prince
Updated: 2012-04-30 13:38:39Paraguay: 1,000 evacuated from Asunción floods
Updated: 2012-04-30 04:55:30Haiti: Central Plateau reports 225 cholera cases, 29 deaths in one month
Updated: 2012-04-30 04:41:20Pakistan: Fighting dengue in Rawalpindi
Updated: 2012-04-30 04:26:02Indonesia: More on B2B and human H5N1 in Bali
Updated: 2012-04-30 03:46:21Japan: Law on new flu outbreaks enacted
Updated: 2012-04-29 21:12:24MR enterography is as good or better than standard imaging exams for pediatric Crohn's patients
Updated: 2012-04-29 18:16:13MR enterography is superior to CT enterography in diagnosing fibrosis in pediatric patients with Crohn disease and equally as good as CT enterography in detecting active inflammation, and a new study shows. The study, conducted at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, found that MR enterography was 77.6% accurate in depicting fibrosis compared to 56.9% for CT enterography. MR enterog...One-third of adult Americans with arthritis battle anxiety or depression
Updated: 2012-04-29 18:13:45Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that one-third of U.S. adults with arthritis, 45 years and older, report having anxiety or depression. According to findings that appear today in Arthritis Care & Research , a journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR), anxiety is nearly twice as common as depression a...Philippines: Contaminated water suspected in Eastern Samar typhoid outbreak
Updated: 2012-04-29 14:37:30Nepal: Anti-polio campaign for urban children under way
Updated: 2012-04-29 14:14:51Ecuador: Dengue increases in flooded areas
Updated: 2012-04-29 14:04:54India: 10 cases of cholera in Surat in 1 month
Updated: 2012-04-29 13:52:10Being left out puts youths with special needs at risk for depression
Updated: 2012-04-29 11:15:08BOSTON The challenges that come with battling a chronic medical condition or developmental disability are enough to get a young person down. But being left out, ignored or bullied by their peers is the main reason youths with special health care needs report symptoms of anxiety or depression, according to a study to be presented Sunday, April 29, at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annu...Haiti: 10,000 displaced by heavy rains
Updated: 2012-04-29 03:16:36Sri Lanka: School heads cautioned against dengue breeding sites
Updated: 2012-04-29 03:00:12Haiti: Dr. Carroll on the lady in the wheelbarrow
Updated: 2012-04-28 17:55:15Drug-resistant bacteria go undetected
Updated: 2012-04-28 17:22:53Low-Income Mothers May Overfeed Their Infants
Updated: 2012-04-28 15:03:37SATURDAY, April 28 (HealthDay News) -- Poor mothers who are single or who have depression are more likely to overfeed their infants by adding cereal to baby bottles, a practice that can lead to excess weight gain in infants, a new study reveals. For the study, U.S. researchers examined data from 254 mothers of infants in low-income, primarily Hispanic households and found th...Canada: BC in the next pandemic
Updated: 2012-04-28 14:27:36Spanish researchers discover molecule which spreads HIV
Updated: 2012-04-28 14:16:24Parents' poor math skills may lead to medication errors
Updated: 2012-04-27 19:01:51BOSTON Many parents cringe when their child asks for help with math homework. New research shows that poor math skills can cause another difficulty for caregivers measuring the right amount of medicine. In fact, parents with math skills at the third grade level or below were five times more likely to measure the wrong dose of medication for their child than those with skills at the sixt...Better health in adulthood starts with early prevention in childhood
Updated: 2012-04-27 19:01:21BOSTON -- Preventing chronic diseases and disorders that begin in infancy will improve the health of children and adults, according to research being presented on Saturday, April 28, 2012, at 10:30 a.m. ET in a topic symposium at the Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) annual meeting in Room 302 at the Hynes Convention Center in Boston. The session, "Life-course Research: State of the Art a...New standards for treating traumatic shoulder injuries to improve patient care
Updated: 2012-04-27 19:00:45Traumatic shoulder injuries that result in a patient visit to the ER often contain a secondary injury that can cause pain and discomfort in that part of the body after the primary injury has healed. By focusing on the primary injury, radiologists sometimes miss the secondary injury, which can compromise treatment effectiveness. Trainees in the Brigham and Women's Hospital Radiology Residency P...Study Recommends Putting Your Left Face Forward
Updated: 2012-04-27 10:01:54FRIDAY, April 27 (HealthDay News) -- People show more emotion on the left side of their face, and that may help explain why that side typically appears more pleasant to others, researchers say. Scientists from Wake Forest University said the findings may also help explain why portraits painted by Western artists often feature left-side profiles. The report is scheduled for...Popocatepetl volcano's activity puts Mexico City on alert
Updated: 2012-04-21 12:36:54
A volcano outside of one of the world's largest cities, Mexico City, has begun spewing ash and molten rock, forcing the authorities to raise the level of alert for fear of an eruption.Disclosure of hospital infections still in its infancy
Updated: 2012-04-19 21:20:28
On Forbes.com, Gergana Koleva evaluated the woeful state of national hospital-associated infection reporting, with the help of recently published research. As Koleva writes, such infections account for more than 8,000 deaths each year in the United States and add an estimated $10 billion in annual cost, and hospitals routinely collect ...Reporters must listen to learn, accurately report about the experience of aging
Updated: 2012-04-18 13:08:43How do people feel about growing older?
You might think this is a much-examined subject in the media. It's not.
While the angst and energy of youth appears endlessly fascinating – what are they wearing and drinking? Which apps do they use? What movies or music are most appealing? – the interior life, ...Tulsa World investigates billing, compensation at ambulance utility
Updated: 2012-04-17 02:00:03The Tulsa World's Ziva Branstetter has, for months now, been doggedly investigating the billing practices of the Emergency Medical Services Authority, an agency that provides ambulance service to many residents in and around Tulsa and Oklahoma City. The service is largely funded by utility fees which, unless users specifically opt ...HHS responds to questions about enforcement of NPDB restrictions
Updated: 2012-04-16 17:59:40
Journalists who name troubled physicians in their stories after downloading a public version of the National Practitioner Data Bank do not have to answer government questions about their sources and will not be subject to criminal, civil or administrative penalties if they violate new restrictions on use of the database.
That's ...Ranking may lead to sources for reporting on aging
Updated: 2012-04-13 13:09:15Health reporters covering the aging beat might be interested in which hospitals offer the best geriatric services, according to recent rankings published by U.S. News & World Report.
Don't take the magazine's word as gospel; its method for rating hospitals has been questioned by many and is by no means the ...AP puts numbers on the prescription drug epidemic
Updated: 2012-04-09 18:52:14The Associated Press' Chris Hawley has worked through the latest numbers on the prescription painkiller boom, helping to illustrate the ongoing toll the opiod abuse epidemic is taking on traditional hotspots like Appalachia and emerging ones like the American Southwest and parts of New York City. Nationally, numbers continue to ...AHCJ urges Joint Commission to release inspection results
Updated: 2012-04-06 19:28:16The Association of Health Care Journalists has called upon The Joint Commission to make public its hospital accreditation surveys and complaint reports.
In a letter to the agency sent last week (PDF), AHCJ president Charles Ornstein noted that some consumers can obtain hospital inspection reports while others cannot, depending on where ...Understand how Supreme Court’s possible decisions will affect seniors
Updated: 2012-04-06 11:27:20Older Americans have a lot at stake as the Supreme Court considers the future of the Affordable Care Act, and it behooves reporters on the aging beat to understand this slice of the health reform debate.
Howard Gleckman gave a good overview recently on his ...How health care price fixing works in Maryland
Updated: 2012-04-06 11:27:18As part of her series in National Journal, Margot Sanger-Katz explains how four decades of health care price controls have held costs in Maryland from 25 percent above the national average in 1976 to 3 percent below average in 2009.
In addition to price, the state's system has also had an ...After AHCJ protest, HHS stipulates public meetings are open to media
Updated: 2012-04-06 11:27:16Can you imagine holding public meetings open to everyone – except reporters who want to cover them? That's exactly what the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services did last year. But, after complaints from the Association of Health Care Journalists, HHS has agreed to make it a policy that ...