New H5N1 outbreak reported in central Nepal
Updated: 2012-12-31 21:31:03
West Africa: Cholera lessons learned
Updated: 2012-12-31 19:51:32Abington Memorial Hospital and Gilda's Club Offer Spouses/Partner Support Group
Updated: 2012-12-31 18:11:21Abington, PA (PRWEB) December 31, 2012 Gildaâs Club Delaware Valley at Abington Memorial Hospital hosts âMy Spouse Has Cancer,â a support group for men and women with partners and spouses living with cancer. The support group meets on the second Monday of each month from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Abington Memorial Hospital in the Garden Training Room, located on the ground floor of the Widener...2012 a Rocky Year for SEO and Medical Marketing
Updated: 2012-12-31 17:16:40Dallas ,TX (PRWEB) December 31, 2012 Dallas based SEO 1 Medical, a search engine optimization company specializing in medical marketing has published a new article highlighting the major turning points in SEO. With over 28 updates in a 12 month span, Google has fundamentally changed the criteria used to rank websites. Medical websites, in the competitive healthcare industry, were signific...Seattle Assisted Living Community Recognizes Importance of Music and Dance with Busy January Event Schedule
Updated: 2012-12-31 17:02:49Seattle, WA (PRWEB) December 31, 2012 Music and dance have come to be known as important components to the health and well-being of seniors. They can go a long way towards encouraging social interaction and self expression, especially for seniors with varying degrees of cognitive impairment. Bayview Manor, an assisted living Seattle community, takes this very seriously, as shown by their...hCGTreatments/Diet Doc hCG Diets & Weight Loss Plans Reveals Medical Weight Loss Tailored Around Holiday Eating
Updated: 2012-12-31 17:02:45Louisville, KY (PRWEB) December 31, 2012 When most think of the holiday season, holiday weight loss dies not immediately come to mind. But Diet Doc reminds people during the time of plenty that weight can be lost during the holiday season, as their prescription only hCG diet requires two consecutive days of calorie loading in order to prevent fatigue often associated with a low calorie nu...Bridges to Recovery Reaches Ten-Year Milestone as Premiere, Licensed Residential Behavioral Treatment Program and Honors Founding Medical Director Dr. Terry V. Eagan
Updated: 2012-12-31 17:02:40Santa Monica, CA (PRWEB) December 31, 2012 Bridges to Recovery (BTR) has reached the ten-year milestone as Southern Californiaâs premier private residential behavioral health program for adults with psychiatric disorders, licensed by both the Department of Mental Health and Department of Social Services, announced Medical Director, Dr Michael Brodsky. Integrating in-depth psychotherapy...Women's Excellence in Midwifery near Troy, MI is Now Accessible Via the World Wide Web and Facebook
Updated: 2012-12-31 17:02:35Troy, Michigan (PRWEB) December 31, 2012 Pregnancy, labor, and giving birth are significant, natural, life changing events for a woman and her family. The Women's Excellence in Midwifery website provides current and evidenced-based information to a woman and her family which will enable her to make the best informed health care decisions possible. Founded by Dr. Jonathan Zaidan, Wom...ATA Applauds Congressional Proposal to Increase Telemedicine Reimbursement, Fix Licensure for Federal Health Programs
Updated: 2012-12-31 17:02:21Washington, DC (PRWEB) December 31, 2012 The American Telemedicine Association strongly endorses a comprehensive bill, introduced today in the U.S. House of Representatives, which would increase federal support and payments for telehealth services. The Telehealth Promotion Act of 2012 (H.R. 6719,) sponsored by Representative Mike Thompson (D-CA 1), would establish a federal reimbursement p...New Products Re-Energize Business at National Ergonomic Conference
Updated: 2012-12-31 17:02:15Burnsville, MN (PRWEB) December 31, 2012 HealthPostures will unveil two new ergonomic products at the National Ergonomic Conference that will take place this month in Las Vegas. Good ergonomic products at work will re-energize business by offering employee satisfaction, customer satisfaction, and bottom line results. HealthPostures specializes in sit to stand ergonomic products th...Philippines: Typhoon survivors celebrate New Year's Eve
Updated: 2012-12-31 16:25:54Paired CT scans catch chemo-killing of liver tumors in real time
Updated: 2012-12-31 15:58:33Using two successive pairs of specialized CT scans, a team of Johns Hopkins and Dutch radiologists has produced real-time images of liver tumors dying from direct injection of anticancer drugs into the tumors and their surrounding blood vessels. Within a minute, the images showed whether the targeted chemotherapy did or did not choke off the tumors' blood supply and saved patients a month of...Indonesia: East Kalimantan tightens checks on H5N1 fears
Updated: 2012-12-31 15:51:51US: FDA approves Sirturo for MDR-TB treatment
Updated: 2012-12-31 15:40:52Malaysia: Sabah government intensifies monitoring to prevent spread of H5N1
Updated: 2012-12-31 15:35:21Estonia: A fierce war against MDR-TB
Updated: 2012-12-31 15:17:40Annals of Internal Medicine tip sheet for 1 Jan. 2013
Updated: 2012-12-31 10:38:131. Distributing Naloxone to Heroin Users May be a Cost-effective Way to Reduce Overdose Deaths Distributing naloxone to heroin users to use to reverse overdose may be a cost-effective strategy to reduce overdose-related mortality. Opioid overdose is a leading cause of accidental death in the United States and accounts for half of the mortality among heroin users. Naloxone is a short-acti...Houston, we have another problem
Updated: 2012-12-31 10:38:09As if space travel was not already filled with enough dangers, a new study out today in the journal PLOS ONE shows that cosmic radiation which would bombard astronauts on deep space missions to places like Mars could accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease. "Galactic cosmic radiation poses a significant threat to future astronauts," said M. Kerry O'Banion, M.D., Ph.D., a professor...Differences in generic pill characteristics may lead to interruptions in essential medication use
Updated: 2012-12-31 09:47:39Boston, MAGeneric medications currently account for over 70 percent of prescriptions dispensed. However, while generic drugs are clinically bioequivalent to the brand-name version, they often differ in their physical characteristics, such as color and shape. Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have found that some patients who receive generic drugs that vary in their color are...Late-life depression associated with prevalent mild cognitive impairment, increased risk of dementia
Updated: 2012-12-31 09:47:35CHICAGO Depression in a group of Medicare recipients ages 65 years and older appears to be associated with prevalent mild cognitive impairment and an increased risk of dementia, according to a report published Online First by Archives of Neurology , a JAMA Network publication. Depressive symptoms occur in 3 percent to 63 percent of patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and some s...Economic environment during infancy linked with substance use, delinquent behavior in adolescence
Updated: 2012-12-31 09:47:25CHICAGO The larger economic environment during infancy may be associated with subsequent substance use and delinquent behavior during adolescence, according to a report published Online First by Archives of General Psychiatry , a JAMA Network publication. The current economic crisis has received much attention from policy makers, although the focus has been on short-term effects, while t...Economic Conditions at Birth Linked to Behavior in Teen Years
Updated: 2012-12-31 09:01:43MONDAY, Dec. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Infants growing up in households struggling with chronic unemployment may face a higher risk for engaging in substance abuse and a range of other delinquent behaviors as adolescents, new research suggests. The finding is reported in the Dec. 31 online issue of the journal Archives of General Psychiatry . "The results demonstrate a stro...Uganda: Looking back at a bad year
Updated: 2012-12-31 05:09:41Sudan: Almalha residents complain about spread of diseases
Updated: 2012-12-31 04:59:55Nicaragua: More volcano evacuees
Updated: 2012-12-31 03:21:51Haiti: With friends like us, who needs enemies?
Updated: 2012-12-31 00:45:54Palestine: 9 dead of H1N1 virus over 2 weeks
Updated: 2012-12-31 00:37:07Pakistan: 54 kids die of measles in Sindh province
Updated: 2012-12-31 00:34:11India: Here comes hand, foot and mouth disease
Updated: 2012-12-31 00:08:26Sri Lanka: 220 dengue deaths in 2012
Updated: 2012-12-30 19:55:59India's appalling record on rape needs to change
Updated: 2012-12-30 16:17:44Haiti: 7,844 cholera deaths as of December 17
Updated: 2012-12-30 15:47:15: : H5N1 Medicine is a social science , and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale Rudolf Virchow East Africa : HIV Aids , Ebola , Marburg dampen gains made in fight against malaria Main India's appalling record on rape needs to change December 30, 2012 Haiti : 7,844 cholera deaths as of December 17 MSPP has posted new cholera statistics on its Documentation page , covering December 13 through 17. As usual , the first day's numbers include a huge increase in the total case numbers for the first day , which I think is the result of delayed numbers being folded in . So on December 12 the total case number since October 2010 was 629,300. On December 13, the total cases rose by 1,438 to 630,788 even though the daily cases for that date rose by only 320. Similarly , the dailyEast Africa: HIV/Aids, Ebola, Marburg dampen gains made in fight against malaria
Updated: 2012-12-30 15:24:23India: Rape charges fail to quell protests
Updated: 2012-12-30 15:14:30US: Early flu season could be severe, experts warn
Updated: 2012-12-30 15:09:33Cost of long-term care merits coverage, discussion
Updated: 2012-12-24 15:01:08
With the baby boomers aging into Medicare and heading into years when physical decline and disability gradually become more common, one thing seems certain: Long-term care will inevitably become a much more important topic of national discussion in the years ahead. Judith Graham (@judith_graham), AHCJ’s topic leader on aging, is writing blog posts, editing tip [...]Stories on changing role of nursing illustrate ‘scope of practice’ issues
Updated: 2012-12-21 19:03:40On Wednesday, I wrote about “scope of practice” – what health care providers, particularly nurse practitioners, who aren’t physicians are or are not allowed to do in their state. I provided several resources, reports and links to understand these fights, and the role nurses or physician assistants or other providers can have in providing primary [...]KC Star: Centralization of Big Beef also aggregates risk
Updated: 2012-12-21 15:01:05Mike McGraw’s recent investigation into “big beef” at The Kansas City Star begins with an interesting assumption: Regardless of their safety record, massive slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants introduce unacceptable systemic risk based on their size alone. Or, as he summarizes the argument, “When processing speed and volumes rise, so do the chances for contamination to [...]LA Times: While board investigates, doctors’ ‘reckless prescribing’ kills
Updated: 2012-12-20 18:28:00By zeroing in on one particular type of dangerous physician behavior, known as “reckless prescribing,” Los Angeles Times reporters Lisa Girion and Scott Glover were able to draw a powerful link between the state medical board’s inaction and patient death in an investigation titled “Dying for Relief.” For the piece, reporters reviewed state medical board [...]‘Scope of practice’ stories vary according to state laws
Updated: 2012-12-19 19:01:56One of the interesting stories to watch in the coming months in the states is the fight over “scope of practice.” That means: who gets to do what, and under whose supervision. It basically pits doctors against other health care providers – nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, etc. They are sometimes called “extenders” or “non-physician providers.” [...]Investigation exposes police inaction in face of abuse allegations at Calif. facilities
Updated: 2012-12-19 16:01:11In recent weeks, California Watch’s long-running focus on abuse of the developmentally disabled at state-run institutions has coalesced into a broad indictment of the flawed oversight and enforcement programs at those facilities. Ryan Gabrielson’s centerpiece is a classic deep investigation which relies on a mix of data and anecdotes to show that, even though the centers [...]Investigation: Peace Corps health system failing to provide for volunteers
Updated: 2012-12-18 16:01:23In recent years, there has been a steady drumbeat of troubling news about federal support for Peace Corps volunteers, including a GAO report, federal legislation, and even a statement from the Corps’ acting director. Over at FairWarning, Lilly Fowler has worked with former volunteers to organize this steady stream of negative press into a report [...]Low interest rates affect seniors’ ability to pay medical expenses
Updated: 2012-12-17 17:27:08A lot is written about people who don’t save enough for retirement. But what about older adults who saved diligently, only to find the value of their nest eggs depleted in this low-interest rate environment? Judith Graham (@judith_graham), AHCJ’s topic leader on aging, is writing blog posts, editing tip sheets and articles and gathering resources [...]E-books may become new outlet for journalists
Updated: 2012-12-14 19:07:18This is a guest post by Stephen Beale, an AHCJ member and editor of Bulldog Reporter’s Inside Health Media and news editor of Bulldog Reporter. Interest in e-books is soaring as Kindles, Nooks and iPads fly off the shelves and readers increasingly consume content in digital formats. For journalists, the e-book marketplace also provides an [...]AHCJ Chicago Chapter: Panelists make predictions for health reform implementation
Updated: 2012-12-14 16:27:22
This is a guest post from Chicago chapter leader Carla K. Johnson, an Associated Press medical writer and member of AHCJ’s board of directors. In the first of a new series of briefings for health care journalists, a panel of experts offered updates and analysis about implementation of the Affordable Care Act in the states. [...]