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Lack of support hinders evidence-based nursing

The reasons US nurses do not conduct evidence-based practice include a lack of support from their organization, resistance among their seniors, and a lack of education, show survey results.

7 Sep 2012

First Edition: September 7, 2012

Now on Kaiser Health News' blog, Sarah Varney reports on California Gov. Jerry Brown, his absence from the Democratic convention and efforts to implement the health law: "California's Jerry Brown, the governor of the most populous state in the union, a state that has aggressively pushed ahead with the Affordable Care Act even when it wasn't the "in-thing," is sitting out this year's Democratic National Convention.

7 Sep 2012

George Washington University receives two grants for medical and health research

The George Washington University today announced that it has received two grants totaling nearly $24.5 million dollars, the largest grant allocation the university has received in recent history.

7 Sep 2012

Clemson’s bioengineering senior design team wins NCIIA BMEStart competition for AssureFit

Clemson University's bioengineering senior design team won the annual National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA) BMEStart undergraduate design competition for its project AssureFit, a novel chest tube anchoring device.

7 Sep 2012

NFL donates $30 million for research on brain injuries

The National Football League pledged to support research to study the long-term repercussions of head traumas experienced by athletes and others, including members of the military.

7 Sep 2012

U.S. announces additional $21M in humanitarian aid to Syria

"The United States is adding $21 million to its humanitarian aid package for people displaced by violence in Syria, U.S. officials said Wednesday amid U.N. reports that more than 100,000 Syrians fled to neighboring countries in August," the Washington Times reports.

7 Sep 2012

Policymakers agree to water monitoring initiative, U.N. official says

"Policymakers have agreed on an ambitious plan to create a global monitoring and reporting system to oversee water supply, sanitation and water resources management, a U.N. expert said," AlertNet reports.

7 Sep 2012

Washington Post examines India's efforts against TB amid fears of drug resistance

The Washington Post examines how the "discovery of an almost untreatable form of tuberculosis [TB] in India has set off alarm bells around the world and helped spur a dramatic expansion of government efforts to battle the killer lung disease."

7 Sep 2012

Capsules: Study: Decision aids show promise in reducing medical procedures

While policymakers debate whether doctors should be paid by the number of services they provide or the outcomes of their treatment, shared decision could have an impact on the ground by reducing demand for medical procedures.

7 Sep 2012

HHS Global Health Strategy helps protect Americans, 'all persons worldwide'

"The notion that diseases or contamination somehow recognize geographic or political borders is a dangerous illusion. ... Fortunately, the United States has a broad, diverse, and world-class range of experience and expertise in dealing with all manner of global health issues," Nils Daulaire, director of the Office of Global Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), writes in a perspective piece in the Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

7 Sep 2012

Democratic speakers rally around health law

During Wednesday's convention proceedings, speakers criticized what they described as Republican plans to "voucher-ize Medicare" and touted provisions of the 2010 health law already in effect, such as coverage for children with pre-existing medical conditions, the closing Medicare Part D "doughnut hole" and the ability to keep young people on their parents' policies until age 26.

7 Sep 2012

Maternal posttraumatic stress, depression and anxiety common after prenatal diagnosis of CHD

Heart defects are the most common form of congenital malformations affecting newborns. Infants who were prenatally diagnosed with congenital heart disease (CHD) are more stable and have better outcomes than infants who were diagnosed after birth. Diagnosing CHD in a fetus also allows mothers to educate themselves on heart malformations, consider their options, and potentially plan for intervention or surgery after birth.

7 Sep 2012

Rwanda to host regional conference on social health protection in East Africa

Rwanda next week will host the Conference on Social Health Protection in the East African Community, which "will consider various approaches to providing universal health coverage in Rwanda, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Burundi," VOA News reports.

7 Sep 2012

Clinton skewers GOP on Medicare, offers strong defense of Obama on health law

In former President Bill Clinton's speech to nominate Barack Obama for re-election, he made a point-by-point case to return Obama to a second term, lauding his efforts to strengthen Medicare and Medicaid and to pass the health law.

7 Sep 2012

Conservatives say Dems' characterization of GOP Medicare plan is 'misleading attack'

Republican pundits dispute the description of their plans to overhaul Medicare as as a defined-contribution, rather than a defined-benefit program 'vouchercare,' and say that repealing the health law would spur innovation.

7 Sep 2012

Report: N.Y. public employees face $250B gap in covering retiree health care costs

A new report has found a gaping $250 billion hole in what New York state and local governments have promised to public employees to help pay for their retiree health care costs -- a $45 billion increase since 2010.

7 Sep 2012

Expert panel discusses changing dynamics of global health at science forum in Norway

"Basic science plays a critical role in the quest to improve global health, but it's only one part of a multi-pronged effort that includes changing the dynamics of global health so that developing nations have a more leading role in fulfilling their health care needs," a panel of experts concluded at the 2012 Kavli Prize Science Forum in Oslo, Norway, held this week, according to a Kavli Foundation press release.

7 Sep 2012

Kansas Blue Cross executive pitches one of his plans to define 'essential benefits' benchmark

An executive with Blue Cross Blue Shield in Kansas is stumping for one of his company's plans to become the measure by which other plans' "essential benefits" are judged.

7 Sep 2012

History of TB policy shows need for care, investment equity in developed, developing countries

In a 200th anniversary article for the New England Journal of Medicine, Salmaan Keshavjee of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Paul Farmer of Partners in Health "seek to elucidate the reasons for the anemic response to drug-resistant tuberculosis [TB] by examining the recent history of tuberculosis policy," they write.

7 Sep 2012

Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation to hold Transform 2012 symposium

The Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation is holding Transform 2012, its fifth symposium on redesigning how health care is experienced and delivered.

7 Sep 2012

Health Care News and Research

Lack of support hinders evidence-based nursing

First Edition: September 7, 2012

George Washington University receives two grants for medical and health research

Clemson’s bioengineering senior design team wins NCIIA BMEStart competition for AssureFit

NFL donates $30 million for research on brain injuries

U.S. announces additional $21M in humanitarian aid to Syria

Policymakers agree to water monitoring initiative, U.N. official says

Washington Post examines India's efforts against TB amid fears of drug resistance

Capsules: Study: Decision aids show promise in reducing medical procedures

HHS Global Health Strategy helps protect Americans, 'all persons worldwide'

Democratic speakers rally around health law

Maternal posttraumatic stress, depression and anxiety common after prenatal diagnosis of CHD

Rwanda to host regional conference on social health protection in East Africa

Clinton skewers GOP on Medicare, offers strong defense of Obama on health law

Conservatives say Dems' characterization of GOP Medicare plan is 'misleading attack'

Report: N.Y. public employees face $250B gap in covering retiree health care costs

Expert panel discusses changing dynamics of global health at science forum in Norway

Kansas Blue Cross executive pitches one of his plans to define 'essential benefits' benchmark

History of TB policy shows need for care, investment equity in developed, developing countries

Mayo Clinic Center for Innovation to hold Transform 2012 symposium

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