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AOA urges all people to focus on vaccination

Back to school is an annual reminder to make sure children are fully vaccinated. But vaccination is a life-long health concern and the American Osteopathic Association urges adults to use the seasonal cue to ensure their own immunizations are up to date.

12 Aug 2015

New Johns Hopkins study shows hepatitis C infection may spell heart trouble

People infected with the hepatitis C virus are at risk for liver damage, but the results of a new Johns Hopkins study now show the infection may also spell heart trouble.

12 Aug 2015

CVS Health introduces new pharmacy service to help patients manage multiple prescriptions

CVS Health today announced the launch of ScriptSync, a new pharmacy service that enables patients with multiple medications to pick up their eligible maintenance prescriptions in a monthly CVS/pharmacy visit.

11 Aug 2015

GLOBVAC programme tests new vaccine that may provide complete protection against Ebola virus

The Research Council of Norway's Programme for Global Health and Vaccination Research (GLOBVAC) is co-funding testing of a new vaccine against Ebola that is drawing widespread international attention. The research programme has allocated NOK 20 million towards this work.

11 Aug 2015

Leading researchers, policymakers and health professionals to discuss on obesity, weight loss at ObesityWeek 2015

More than 1,500 research abstracts will be presented on new and emerging obesity treatments, the science of weight loss, new prevention strategies, metabolic surgery, digital health technology and public policy, when thousands of leading researchers, policymakers and health professionals gather for ObesityWeek 2015 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in California from November 2 to 7, 2015.

11 Aug 2015

Sexting, Internet safety climb higher on list of major health concerns for children

With more kids online and using cell phones at increasingly younger ages, two issues have quickly climbed higher on the public's list of major health concerns for children across the U.S: sexting and Internet safety.

11 Aug 2015

Early exposure to repetitive head impacts linked to later life structural brain changes among former NFL players

Former National Football League (NFL) players who started playing tackle football before the age of 12 were found to have a higher risk of altered brain development compared to those who started playing at a later age. The study is the first to demonstrate a link between early exposure to repetitive head impacts and later life structural brain changes.

11 Aug 2015

More marijuana dispensaries associated with more marijuana-related hospitalization rates

People who live in areas of California with a higher density of marijuana dispensaries experience a greater number of hospitalizations involving marijuana abuse and dependence, a University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health analysis discovered.

11 Aug 2015

Researchers apply new approach to make improved nasal spray flu vaccine

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health researchers say they have developed a method that could make a nasal spray flu vaccine effective for those under two and over 49 - two groups for which the vaccine is not approved.

11 Aug 2015

Meta-analysis confirms oral contraceptives reduce endometrial cancer risk

Oral contraceptive use protects against endometrial cancer, with effects persisting for decades after cessation of use, shows a meta-analysis of individual patient data published in The Lancet Oncology.

10 Aug 2015

BMC partners with RIH, CVS to support pharmacy-based naloxone rescue kits to help combat opioid addiction, overdose

Boston Medical Center has received a $1.3 million grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality to support a demonstration project of pharmacy-based naloxone rescue kits to help reduce opioid addiction and overdose death in two New England States: Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

7 Aug 2015

Leading public health scholars argue that increasing national focus on precision medicine misguided

The increasing national focus on personalized or 'precision' medicine is misguided, distracting from broader investments to reduce health inequities and address the social factors that affect population health, two leading public health scholars argue in the New England Journal of Medicine.

7 Aug 2015

Urban emergency department sees high rates of HCV infection among intravenous drug users, Baby Boomers

An urban emergency department that set up a hepatitis C testing protocol saw high rates of infection among intravenous drug users and Baby Boomers, with three-quarters of those testing positive unaware they were infected.

7 Aug 2015

Scientific consensus paper highlights health benefits of UV exposure and vitamin D

The Journal of the American College of Nutrition is pleased to offer Open Access to a scientific consensus paper, Sunlight and Vitamin D: Necessary for Public Health, authored by scientists from the University of California, San Diego, Creighton University, Boston University Medical Center, and the Medical University of South Carolina, along with other research contributors.

7 Aug 2015

UC Davis study finds higher survival rates for women diagnosed with ovarian cancer

Combing data collected on thousands of California ovarian cancer patients, UC Davis researchers have determined that almost one-third survived at least 10 years after diagnosis.

7 Aug 2015

Clinical study shows two-drug combination can prolong survival in men with metastatic prostate cancer

Newly diagnosed patients with metastatic, hormone-sensitive prostate cancer gained a dramatic survival benefit when started on two drugs simultaneously, rather than delaying the second drug until the cancer began to worsen, according to results of a clinical trial led by a Dana-Farber Cancer Institute scientist.

6 Aug 2015

Diet high in refined carbohydrates may lead to depression risk in postmenopausal women

A diet high in refined carbohydrates may lead to an increased risk for new-onset depression in postmenopausal women, according to a study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

6 Aug 2015

Breakthrough initiative aims at empowering Americans to make better food choices

Empowering Americans to make better food choices is the goal of a breakthrough initiative between the American Heart Association, the nation's largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke, and Aramark, the largest U.S.-based food service provider.

5 Aug 2015

Coordinated, two-part approach could help reduce hospital-acquired infections

By coordinating with state health departments and communicating with each other about patients with C. difficile and antibiotic-resistant infections, hospitals, long-term acute-care facilities and nursing homes could reduce the number of such hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) by an estimated 619,000 cases in the next five years, a new Centers for Disease Control 9 (CDC)-led report has found.

5 Aug 2015

Nonmedical use of prescription opioids increasing among young adults

The nonmedical use of prescription opioids (POs) has become an area of increasing public health concern in the United States and rates of use are particularly high among young adults. In the past decade, an emerging "epidemic" of nonmedical PO use has been reported.

5 Aug 2015

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AOA urges all people to focus on vaccination

New Johns Hopkins study shows hepatitis C infection may spell heart trouble

CVS Health introduces new pharmacy service to help patients manage multiple prescriptions

GLOBVAC programme tests new vaccine that may provide complete protection against Ebola virus

Leading researchers, policymakers and health professionals to discuss on obesity, weight loss at ObesityWeek 2015

Sexting, Internet safety climb higher on list of major health concerns for children

Early exposure to repetitive head impacts linked to later life structural brain changes among former NFL players

More marijuana dispensaries associated with more marijuana-related hospitalization rates

Researchers apply new approach to make improved nasal spray flu vaccine

Meta-analysis confirms oral contraceptives reduce endometrial cancer risk

BMC partners with RIH, CVS to support pharmacy-based naloxone rescue kits to help combat opioid addiction, overdose

Leading public health scholars argue that increasing national focus on precision medicine misguided

Urban emergency department sees high rates of HCV infection among intravenous drug users, Baby Boomers

Scientific consensus paper highlights health benefits of UV exposure and vitamin D

UC Davis study finds higher survival rates for women diagnosed with ovarian cancer

Clinical study shows two-drug combination can prolong survival in men with metastatic prostate cancer

Diet high in refined carbohydrates may lead to depression risk in postmenopausal women

Breakthrough initiative aims at empowering Americans to make better food choices

Coordinated, two-part approach could help reduce hospital-acquired infections

Nonmedical use of prescription opioids increasing among young adults

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