• Scienceblogs, and when bloggers attack

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:39:09
    The Next Web's Simon Owens tries to put the recent ScienceBlogs / PepsiCo quagmire into the larger context of the long, proud history bloggers have of biting the hand that feeds. He looks into the uneasy relationship bloggers have always had with those who advertise in their space, as well ...

  • Myths obscure lack of health care for some Asians

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:39:09
    A focus on "ethnic disparities" can obscure the fact that racial designations are so broad that the disparities within them are just as great as those without. The latest example? The paper "Barriers to healthcare among Asian Americans," [press release] by two SUNY Buffalo sociologists. The paper takes on the myth ...

  • Is California’s prison health system really fixed?

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:39:09
    After years of failing to prevent preventable inmate deaths, the California Department of Corrections health system was placed under a federal receivership in 2005. Soon after, state officials claimed that the system had reached an "acceptable standard," and that they were ready to take control back from the feds. Over the ...

  • Indiana numbers show preventable errors down

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:39:09
    The Indianapolis Star's Daniel Lee reports that, according to the state's newly released 2009 numbers, preventable medical errors are down in Indiana. There were 94 reported errors last year, down from 105 each in 2007 and 2008. Part of the decline can be attributed to the health department's Indiana Pressure ...

  • Conflicts of interest + off-label use = Blockbuster

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:39:09
    Medtronic is back at the FDA, asking for approval of another spine fusion product. Not coincidentally, the Journal Sentinel's John Fauber is also hard at work, this time exposing the conflicts of interest and off-label applications which helped make Medtronic's first spine fuser, Infuse, into a dubious blockbuster. First approved for ...

  • Society ‘snookered’ by research that isn’t new

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:39:09
    Peggy Peck of MedPage Today found that research presented as new at the European Society of Cardiology's annual meeting this weekend was actually published in July, despite the society's requirement that information submitted for presentation must be new, unpublished data. When asked by MedPage Today to point out the "news" in ...

  • ‘Main Street’ informed, skeptical on health reform

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:39:09
    In her blog on CJR.org, AHCJ Immediate Past President Trudy Lieberman updates what is becoming an annual franchise: Her summer man-on-the-street column gauging popular opinion on health reform. Just like last year, Lieberman found her subjects on the streets of Columbia, Mo., a town that's about as close to ...

  • Hospitalist: What health journalists should know

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:39:09
    R. W. Donnell, an Arkansas hospitalist with a long-running blog and a few burrs in his saddle, has outlined what amounts to an exam for health care journalists. It's based on the assumption that journalists should have some prerequisite knowledge before tackling difficult scientific issues. But, instead of just grumbling ...

  • Gays excluded from clinical trials

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:39:09
    Thanks to an awards announcement from the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, we just noticed Jen Colletta's story in the Philadelphia Gay News about the exclusion of gays from clinical trials. Colletta won an Excellence in News Writing Award. The exclusion of gays in clinical trials is an issue ...

  • Dissecting Gawande’s narrative structure

    Updated: 2010-09-03 01:39:09
    In a recent post, Not Exactly Rocket Science's Ed Yong tried to break down Atul Gawande's work and figure out why it can be so darn compelling. Yong and many thousands of others (myself included) were riveted by Gawande's latest New Yorker piece, a treatise on palliative care. Atul Gawande in ...

  • Fighting cholera in a civil war zone

    Updated: 2010-09-03 00:17:23

  • Canada: SARS survivors struggle with symptoms years later

    Updated: 2010-09-02 22:46:18

  • Health Care Reform Helps Small Businesses Offer Coverage: Report

    Updated: 2010-09-02 19:03:29
    By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- As the provisions of the Affordable Care Act begin to be implemented, many small businesses in the United States will be able to take advantage of new tax credits, a new report shows. During the first phase of the act, some businesses employing some 16.6 million workers will be eligible for these ta...

  • American Chemical Society Webinar focuses on providing scientific advice to the film industry

    Updated: 2010-09-02 18:15:55
    WASHINGTON, Sept. 2, 2010 News media and others interested in the chemical sciences are invited to join the next in a series of American Chemical Society (ACS) Webinars, focusing on opportunities for scientists to consult for the film industry Scheduled for Thursday, Sept. 9, from 2 3 p.m. EDT, the free ACS Webinar will feature Barry J. Byrne, M.D., Ph.D., of the University of Florida, s...

  • EMAS publishes position statements about the post-reproductive health of women

    Updated: 2010-09-02 18:15:52
    Amsterdam, 2 September, 2010 - Elsevier announced today the publication of four important position statements from the European Menopause and Andropause Society (EMAS) in the journal Maturitas ( http://www.maturitas.org/ ) on common management problems in the post-reproductive health of women. The statements cover the management of the menopause in the context of obesity, epilepsy, endometr...

  • Safety cultures in EMS agencies vary widely, Pitt study finds

    Updated: 2010-09-02 18:15:47
    PITTSBURGH, Sept. 2 A survey of emergency medical services (EMS) agencies from across the country found wide variation in perceptions of workplace safety cultureproviding a tool that might point to potential patient safety threats, according to researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. The study , to be published in the October/December issue of Prehospital Emerge...

  • Mental 'Exercise' May Only Hide Signs of Alzheimer's

    Updated: 2010-09-02 17:11:38
    By Melissa Lee Phillips HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Sept. 1 (HealthDay News) -- Reading, crossword puzzles and other mentally stimulating activities have pros and cons when it comes to Alzheimer's disease, new research suggests. In line with prior research, the study finds that such mental activity may slow declines in thinking and memory during normal old age. But folk...

  • Cigarette smoke may contribute to lung inflammation through a new chemical pathway

    Updated: 2010-09-02 12:41:28
    BIRMINGHAM, Ala. Cigarette smoke shuts off a key enzyme in airways that regulates the body's response to inflammation, according to findings from the University of Alabama at Birmingham published online today at Science Express. The UAB researchers say smoke inhibits the enzyme, called Leukotriene A4 Hydrolase (LTA4H), causing it to fail in its job of shutting down white blood cells f...

  • New model may simplify high-dose radiosurgery planning

    Updated: 2010-09-02 12:41:26
    COLUMBUS, Ohio There is yet no straightforward way to determine the optimal dose level and treatment schedules for high-dose radiation therapies such as stereotactic radiation therapy, used to treat brain and lung cancer, or for high-dose brachytherapy for prostate and other cancers. Radiation oncologists at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospit...

  • Indonesia: Is bird flu dead and gone?

    Updated: 2010-09-02 12:39:08

  • Experimental TB Test Called Fast and Accurate

    Updated: 2010-09-02 12:01:46
    By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- An experimental test that can diagnose tuberculosis in less than two hours, making only one doctor visit necessary before treatment starts, is being hailed as a potentially significant advance against a disease that kills nearly 2 million people annually, most of them in developing countries. "This...

  • Costa Rica: Over 20,000 dengue cases so far this year

    Updated: 2010-09-02 09:56:30

  • UK: Birmingham reports two NDM-1 patients

    Updated: 2010-09-02 09:48:02

  • Cambodia: NGO attempts to curb bird flu

    Updated: 2010-09-02 09:36:45

  • Thailand: Experts warn deadly bird flu could return

    Updated: 2010-09-02 09:31:25

  • Nigeria: President orders intervention in cholera outbreak

    Updated: 2010-09-02 09:26:52

  • Seniors Get Boost From Bad News About the Young

    Updated: 2010-09-02 09:13:16
    By Randy Dotinga HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Sept. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Older people prefer to read negative news stories about the young, possibly because it makes them feel better about themselves, a new study suggests. "The more time they spent with negative news about young people, the higher self-esteem they reported. They may get some self-esteem boost out of t...

  • A pause

    Updated: 2010-09-01 14:00:00

  • India: Another H1N1 death in Delhi

    Updated: 2010-09-01 04:29:02

  • Pakistan: An administration as overwhelmed as the people

    Updated: 2010-09-01 02:43:57

  • Australia: Mosquito control as an education issue

    Updated: 2010-09-01 02:36:49

  • Egypt: WHO confirms latest H5N1 death

    Updated: 2010-08-31 23:30:59

  • Pakistan: Floods increasing landmine risk in Pakistan: ICRC

    Updated: 2010-08-31 22:33:12

  • Honduras: MSF tackles outbreak of dengue fever

    Updated: 2010-08-31 22:11:46

  • WHO on the vaccine-narcolepsy issue

    Updated: 2010-08-31 13:42:36

  • Children in Pakistan hit by flood illnesses

    Updated: 2010-08-31 13:38:17

  • UK: Avian flu still likely to strike in humans, says Welsh expert

    Updated: 2010-08-31 13:05:19

  • Singapore: Dengue, malaria and chikungunya cases down

    Updated: 2010-08-31 13:00:34

  • Indonesia: Does H5N1 prefer backyard chickens?

    Updated: 2010-08-31 12:55:06

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