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Newly characterized adenoviruses can cause severe human infections

The ongoing dance between a virus and its host distinctly shapes how the virus evolves. While human adenoviruses typically cause mild infections, recent reports have described newly characterized adenoviruses that can cause severe, sometime fatal, human infections.

12 Apr 2013

Longer looks: Global obesity, health care cost transparency, a medical puzzle

Getting your appendix out can cost between $2,000 and $180,000. Hip replacements run from $10,000 to more than $100,000. Hospitals, we have also learned, frequently mark up the price of cotton swabs and routine X-rays by 300 or 400 percent, with most patients oblivious to the reason their health care bills are so large.

12 Apr 2013

FDA requests budget of $4.7 billion to protect, promote public health

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is requesting a budget of $4.7 billion to protect and promote the public health as part of the President's fiscal year (FY) 2014 budget.

12 Apr 2013

Obama budget would replace SGR formula, boost Medicaid, mental health

Among the changes included in the president's 2014 budget blueprint are the elimination of the SGR formula to set Medicare physician payment rates, and funding boosts for mental health and food and drug safety. The proposal also delays funding cuts to hospitals that treat the uninsured.

12 Apr 2013

New tool to identify air travelers with infectious disease developed

Researchers have developed a simple new tool to help governments worldwide decide whether to screen airplane passengers leaving or arriving from areas of infectious disease outbreaks.

11 Apr 2013

Disease burden from air pollution underestimated, U.N. reports

"Air pollution is an underestimated scourge that kills far more people than AIDS and malaria and a shift to cleaner energy could easily halve the toll by 2030, U.N. officials said on Tuesday" at a conference in Oslo focusing on new development goals for the post-2015 development agenda, Reuters reports.

11 Apr 2013

Experts to discuss changes to medical ethics paradigms proposed by bioethics colleagues

Experts from across disciplines at Johns Hopkins will hold a symposium on Thursday, April 11, 2013 to discuss changes to medical ethics paradigms as proposed by their own bioethics colleagues in a recent, groundbreaking publication.

11 Apr 2013

Exposure to metabolic risks of cardiovascular disease increasing

Despite their greater life expectancy, the adults of today are less "metabolically" healthy than their counterparts of previous generations.

11 Apr 2013

State-level debate about Medicaid expansion heats up

ov. Jay Nixon led a three-front charge Tuesday to expand Missouri's Medicaid program, meeting privately with reluctant state senators, rallying publicly with hundreds of disability advocates and chatting with the nation's top health care official about whether particular Medicaid proposals could win federal approval.

11 Apr 2013

Research findings reveal potential health benefits of reversing global obesity epidemic

The economic crash in Cuba following the fall of the Soviet Union has provided researchers with a unique natural experiment on obesity, diabetes and heart disease.

11 Apr 2013

Roundup: Minn. Democrats push pay hike for nursing home workers; Colo. official warns of possible exchange delays due to IT

A selection of health policy stories from Minnesota, Colorado, New York, Delaware, Georgia, Oregon, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Massachusetts and California.

11 Apr 2013

Doctors don't receive information about harmful effects of medicines during promotional visits

The majority of family doctors receive little or no information about harmful effects of medicines when visited by drug company representatives, according to an international study involving Canadian, U.S. and French physicians.

11 Apr 2013

Analysis: 1 in 5 seniors with Medicare Advantage plans receive prescription for high-risk medication

More than 1 in 5 seniors with Medicare Advantage plans received a prescription for a potentially harmful "high risk medication" in 2009, according to a newly published analysis by Brown University public health researchers.

11 Apr 2013

Study reveals high blood pressure and obesity are no longer confined to wealthy countries

High blood pressure and obesity are no longer confined to wealthy countries, a new study has found. These health risks have traditionally been associated with affluence, and in 1980, they were more prevalent in countries with a higher income.

10 Apr 2013

Researchers use metagenomics to reconstruct genome sequence of Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli

Researchers have been able to reconstruct the genome sequence of an outbreak strain of Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli using metagenomics (the direct sequencing of DNA extracted from microbiologically complex samples), according to a study in the April 10 issue of JAMA, a Genomics theme issue.

10 Apr 2013

First Edition: April 10, 2013

Today's headlines include more details and analysis regarding President Barack Obama's budget plan and how it handles Medicare and other entitlement programs.

10 Apr 2013

Study finds Google searches for information about mental illnesses, problems follow seasonal patterns

A new study published in the May issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine finds that Google searches for information across all major mental illnesses and problems followed seasonal patterns, suggesting mental illness may be more strongly linked with seasonal patterns than previously thought.

10 Apr 2013

Public Health News and Research

Newly characterized adenoviruses can cause severe human infections

Longer looks: Global obesity, health care cost transparency, a medical puzzle

FDA requests budget of $4.7 billion to protect, promote public health

Obama budget would replace SGR formula, boost Medicaid, mental health

New tool to identify air travelers with infectious disease developed

Disease burden from air pollution underestimated, U.N. reports

Experts to discuss changes to medical ethics paradigms proposed by bioethics colleagues

Exposure to metabolic risks of cardiovascular disease increasing

State-level debate about Medicaid expansion heats up

Research findings reveal potential health benefits of reversing global obesity epidemic

Roundup: Minn. Democrats push pay hike for nursing home workers; Colo. official warns of possible exchange delays due to IT

Doctors don't receive information about harmful effects of medicines during promotional visits

Analysis: 1 in 5 seniors with Medicare Advantage plans receive prescription for high-risk medication

Study reveals high blood pressure and obesity are no longer confined to wealthy countries

Researchers use metagenomics to reconstruct genome sequence of Shiga-toxigenic Escherichia coli

First Edition: April 10, 2013

Study finds Google searches for information about mental illnesses, problems follow seasonal patterns

Lynch syndrome and cancer risk: an interview with Prof. Ellen Kampman, Wageningen University

Recent articles from Journal of American College Health focus on campus safety

Autism spectrum disorder: Earlier diagnosis, better treatment

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Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy

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