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Airplane food caterers cited for health violations

Updated: 2010-06-30 16:15:18

After finding critical health violations at airport restaurants last year, USA Today reporters are at it again. This time, Gary Stoller has reviewed FDA documents that show violations by the catering companies that prepare the food served on the planes themselves. Photo by Mr. Mystery via Flickr According to Stoller, "the inspections ...

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Malaysia: Only 20,000 Doses Of H1N1 Vaccine Left - Ismail

Updated: 2010-06-30 13:45:49

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Ongoing pregnancy rates from vitrified eggs as good as those from fresh

Updated: 2010-06-30 13:44:26

Rome, Italy: Embryos derived from oocytes (eggs) cryopreserved by the vitrification method are just as likely to produce an on-going pregnancy as those involving fresh oocytes, the 26th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology heard today. Dr. Ana Cobo, Cryobiology Unit director at Institut Universitari IVI Valencia, Valencia, Spain, told delegates that the...

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New non-surgical treatment for uterine fibroids can improve quality of life

Updated: 2010-06-30 13:44:21

Rome, Italy: A new, effective, non-surgical treatment for uterine fibroids can help women with this condition maintain their fertility, an American scientist told the 26th annual meeting of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology in Rome today (Wednesday). Dr. Alicia Armstrong, Chief, Gynecologic Services, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Programme in Reproductive and Adul...

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More on the Cambodian PM's H1N1

Updated: 2010-06-30 13:42:23

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Indonesia: A suspected H5N1 death

Updated: 2010-06-30 13:34:34

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HCL Supports Reform of Language Testing for International Doctors

Updated: 2010-06-30 11:43:34

Company stresses that all its international doctors meet or exceed all required qualifications and language competency. London, UK (PRWeb UK) June 30, 2010 -- HCL plc, one of the UK’ leading health and social care staffing companies, today welcomed the British Medical Association ’ calls for a review of the processes which ov...

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ConnectedIn Divorce Resource Offers Online Expert Website for People Considering or Going Through Divorce

Updated: 2010-06-30 11:43:22

ConnectedIn Media Inc. announced today the launch of the ConnectedIn Divorce Resource, an interactive help and expert website. nbsp;Filled with rich, compassionate and timely information to support people considering divorce or separation, those in the process, and those already divorced and trying to adjust. The website includes articles and recommendations from...

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Apps For All Releases New iPhone/iPad Trend Setting App – Mood Lifters

Updated: 2010-06-30 11:43:18

Healthful Apps takes the legwork out of finding the best health-related apps, saving you time and money so you can focus on getting or giving quality healthcare. Next in it's series of pps is Mood Lifters, an app that helps you locate the very best mood lifting apps to be found anywhere on the App Store. (PRWEB) June 30, 2010 -- Apps For All,...

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Ondine Biopharma Announces Sinuwave Technologies Spinout

Updated: 2010-06-30 09:10:30

Ondine Biopharma Corporation, a medical technology company developing photodisinfection based products, today announced its intention to establish a wholly owned subsidiary, “Sinuwave Technologies Corporation”, dedicated to the development and commercialization of photodisinfection based products that address the chronic sinusitis market. The subsidiary will...

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Lexington Health Care Chooses OnShift for Nurse Scheduling and Employee Communications in all Facilities

Updated: 2010-06-30 09:09:44

Lexington Health Care sought to improve quality of care while decreasing labor costs in all 10 of its facilities in the Chicago area. OnShift enabled the company to reduce overtime by 71% in less than 60 days. Cleveland, OH (PRWEB) June 30, 2010 -- OnShift, ( www.OnShift.com ), developers of nurse scheduling and employee communication software...

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Skin Care Tips and Facts Launches Website

Updated: 2010-06-30 09:09:32

So many women are trading in the surgical knives and for a healthy skin care regimen to stay looking young, and with the nation’ economic state still in question, it’ no wonder the cosmetic world has been forced to find more affordable solutions. (PRWEB) -- Inspired by real skin problems for real women Skin Care Tips and Facts R...

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Mexico: Hurricane Alex spurs anti-dengue measures

Updated: 2010-06-30 03:17:08

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Diabetes hits more Britons

Updated: 2010-06-30 01:00:00

GROWING levels of obesity and unhealthy lifestyles have resulted over a million people in Britain suffering from undiagnosed Type 2 diabetes - twice as many as previously thou

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ACCME reverses stand on industry presentations

Updated: 2010-06-30 00:14:06

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education has released new guidance that will allow industry scientists to present "product-related research at for-credit talks" as long as "provider controls ensure they have zero control over the content." Covering Health readers might remember that John Fauber of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently reported ...

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Survey: Freelance writers leaving the business

Updated: 2010-06-30 00:14:05

Rebecca Rosen Lum, an independent journalist, writes in the California Progress Report that the pool of veteran freelancers – a group many publications have used to extend coverage despite shrinking budgets – is shrinking as experienced journalists transition to more lucrative (or at least more stable) careers. "Most say they still ...

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McKenna on A. baumanii, the latest resistant bug

Updated: 2010-06-30 00:14:04

On her Superbug blog, AHCJ board member Maryn McKenna works her explanatory magic on Acinetobacter baumanii, a drug-resistant bug whose profile (and incidence) is, in McKenna's words, "rocketing." A. baumanii is a nasty bug, causing not just wound infections but pneumonia, urinary tract infections, meningitis and bacteremia. Even more nasty, it ...

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Calif. finds 3,500 nurses were disciplined elsewhere

Updated: 2010-06-30 00:14:03

California's nursing board has confirmed what fans of Charles Ornstein and Tracy Weber's disciplined caregivers series for ProPublica and the Los Angeles Times already suspected, that about 3,500 California nurses had clean records there despite being disciplined in other states. You can find Ornstein and Weber's report on these developments ...

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Healthcare.gov coming July 1

Updated: 2010-06-30 00:14:02

KHN's Phil Galewitz previews the July 1 launch of a federal website he says "will give consumers a list of all private and government health care plans for individuals and small businesses in their areas," a service required by the reform bill, and one that has never before been part ...

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Cambodian PM infected with swine flu: government

Updated: 2010-06-29 23:46:29

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More on the Tripura outbreak

Updated: 2010-06-29 15:47:31

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Nigeria: Cholera spreads in Adamawa

Updated: 2010-06-29 15:34:42

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India: Swine flu alert in Tamil Nadu districts bordering Kerala

Updated: 2010-06-29 15:30:35

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Widespread ignorance of E coli bug disease risk

Updated: 2010-06-29 01:00:00

Two thirds of visitors to Britain's countryside have never heard of the potentially deadly E coli 0157 bug - the infection which was responsible for the deaths of 21 peopl

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Sweden: Municipalities call for swine flu inquiry

Updated: 2010-06-28 23:08:38

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US takes note of dengue

Updated: 2010-06-28 21:52:34

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Analysis of billing record data reveals hospital quality issues in Las Vegas

Updated: 2010-06-28 19:44:19

Using data from hospital billing records, Marshall Allen and Alex Richards of the Las Vegas Sun have been able to identify "hospital-acquired patient harm," that is, events in which patients are harmed while in the hospital. Medicare does not pay for these "never events" and so they are reflected in ...

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In major leagues, mental illness losing its stigma

Updated: 2010-06-28 19:44:18

Calling Major League Baseball a "longtime fortress against psychiatry" Sports Illustrated's Pablo S. Torre profiles the organization's recent efforts to go from an organization notorious for its lack of crying to one which takes the mental health of its players very seriously. Photo by Sister72 via Flickr ... baseball has led the ...

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India: Four more test positive for swine flu in Mumbai

Updated: 2010-06-28 17:18:22

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India: A mysterious outbreak

Updated: 2010-06-28 13:59:49

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Malaysia: 10,318 dengue cases reported in Selangor

Updated: 2010-06-28 13:19:32

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Vietnam reports bird flu in northern province

Updated: 2010-06-28 13:13:49

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Sri Lanka wants to eradicate malaria by 2015

Updated: 2010-06-28 00:44:34

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Cambodia: Two weeks with dengue

Updated: 2010-06-28 00:05:05

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Australia: Swine flu soon to hit Tasmania

Updated: 2010-06-27 16:24:29

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Nepal: 5,000 illegally imported chicks destroyed

Updated: 2010-06-27 16:20:40

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Thailand: Dengue fever cases on the rise

Updated: 2010-06-27 16:16:23

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Why is H5N1 so deadly to domestic birds?

Updated: 2010-06-27 13:42:43

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Vaccine waivers contribute to outbreak

Updated: 2010-06-26 11:04:00

In the wake of California's public health director's declaration that whooping cough has reached epidemic status, California Watch's Christina Jewett looks at public health data and where the number of cases are highest. She finds the most cases in Marin County, one of the state's most affluent, and in Fresno County, ...

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Infection-reduction measures vs. the real world

Updated: 2010-06-26 11:03:59

The Wall Street Journal's Katherine Hobson writes about the recent JAMA study which she says demonstrates that publicly reported infection control measures, including checklists, "don’t actually correlate with post-op infection rates." The study was designed to evaluate the six infection control measures tracked by the Surgical Care Improvement Project. Those measures ...

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