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U.S. military medical team supports Botswana HIV prevention efforts

In an article on the U.S. Department of Defense webpage, the American Forces Press Service reports on how a U.S. military medical team is helping the Botswana Defense Force "to promote Botswana's national program of education, HIV screening and male circumcision surgeries to stem what's become a national epidemic," according to Army Col. Michael Kelly, an Army Reserve surgeon deployed in Botswana from the Army Reserve Medical Command in Washington.

16 Aug 2012

Obama, Romney campaigns jockey for voter support in Medicare debate

Medicare clearly is a flashpoint in the presidential contest as both sides make claims and point fingers at the other.

16 Aug 2012

Gates looks to develop 'next-generation toilets' for developing world

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, on Tuesday "announced the winners of the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge -- an effort to develop 'next-generation' toilets that will deliver safe and sustainable sanitation to the 2.5 billion people worldwide who don't have it," according to a foundation press release.

16 Aug 2012

Report prompts close scrutiny of charity care at Calif. nonprofit hospitals

Nonprofit California hospitals will face a state Senate committee hearing Wednesday after an auditor's report found variance and leeway in just how much charity care the tax-exempt hospitals give.

16 Aug 2012

'Impatient Optimists' blog posts examines 'Reinvent the Toilet Fair' in Seattle

In this post in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, co-chair Bill Gates discusses the foundation's Reinvent the Toilet Fair, held this week in Seattle, which "brought together about 200 grantees, partners, and others who are passionate about creating safe, effective, and inexpensive sanitation services for people without access to flush toilets."

16 Aug 2012

It's not just Medicare: Ryan's Medicaid proposals emerge as campaign issue

News outlets report that the changes to Medicaid proposed by likely GOP vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan would have immediate and far-reaching consequences for millions of people, including poor seniors.

16 Aug 2012

Scientists researching Ebola virus say vaccine 'unlikely' due to funding restraints

"Scientists researching the lethal Ebola virus have told [BBC News] that a commercial vaccine to prevent the onset of infection may never be developed," the news service reports.

16 Aug 2012

India launches new laboratory for HIV vaccine research in collaboration with IAVI

India on Monday "opened a $12 million, government-backed laboratory whose mission is to create a new vaccine against HIV," Science Insider reports.

16 Aug 2012

Book provides up-to-date knowledge about mild cognitive impairment

At least one in ten adults over the age of 65 suffers from Mild Cognitive Impairment, or MCI. This condition, a state between the normal decline in cognition associated with aging and the more precipitous drop caused by a deadly dementia like Alzheimer's disease, has only recently begun to be studied; first identified by the Mayo Clinic in 1999, it was only given an official diagnostic code in late 2006.

16 Aug 2012

Ohio Medicaid readies new nursing home reimbursement; New nursing home database launched

Ohio's nursing home program in Medicaid -- the federal-state health care program for the poor -- is changing how nursing homes are paid to try to address their quality. In the meantime, ProPublica launches a nursing home inspection database.

16 Aug 2012

Medicago, IDRI receive FDA approval to commence Phase 1 H5N1 vaccine trial

The Infectious Disease Research Institute (IDRI), a Seattle-based non-profit research organization that is a leading developer of adjuvants used in vaccines combating infectious disease, and Medicago Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing highly effective and competitive vaccines based on proprietary manufacturing technologies and Virus-Like Particles (VLPs), announce that they have been cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a Phase 1 clinical trial for an H5N1 Avian Influenza VLP vaccine candidate.

16 Aug 2012

Maternal healthcare providers in developing world must be trained to show respect, compassion

"In teaching nurses and midwives in the developing world to care for their patients, a core tenet is that respectful care is quality care," Catherine Carr, senior maternal health advisor for the Jhpiego/MCHIP-Maternal and Child Health Integrated Program, writes in this post in Huffington Post's "Global Motherhood" blog.

16 Aug 2012

U.S. government releases first-ever strategy to prevent, respond to gender-based violence globally

"On Friday August 10, the U.S. Department of State and [USAID] released the first ever U.S. Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence Globally, including their implementation plans," Melanne Verveer, ambassador-at-large for global women's issues, writes in the department's "Dipnote" blog.

16 Aug 2012

Computer and web-based weight management programmes show promise against obesity

Computer and web-based weight management programmes may provide a cost effective way of addressing the growing problem of obesity, according to a team of seven researchers who undertook a Cochrane systematic review. The researchers, from Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, USA, found that delivering weight loss or weight maintenance programmes online or by computer helped overweight and obese patients lose and/or maintain weight.

16 Aug 2012

Computer-based partner violence screening does not improve QOL in women

In a study that included more than 2,700 women receiving care in primary care clinics, those who were screened for partner violence and received a partner violence resource list did not experience significant differences for several outcomes, including overall quality of life, general health, and recurrence of partner violence, compared to women who just received a partner violence resource list, according to a study in the August 15 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on violence and human rights.

16 Aug 2012

Viewpoints: Romney needs to explain his Medicare plan; Ryan plan would end Medicaid protections for spouses of nursing home patients'

Mr. Ryan's Path To Prosperity blueprint includes more than $700 billion in Medicare cuts over the next decade. Medicare would no longer function as an insurance program that directly pays medical bills for seniors. Instead, seniors would receive a fixed subsidy. The value of that subsidy almost certainly wouldn't keep up with health care costs, meaning seniors would pay more out of pocket. That might not play well in Boca Raton. Of course, Mr. Ryan's just the prospective V.P. What does the top of the ticket think?

16 Aug 2012

Market for EHR replacements is on the rise

Use of electronic health records is snowballing, and so is the number of unhappy users. Half of EHR systems sold to physician practices are now replacements, up from 30% last year, according to a recent study by research firm KLAS. The leading reason for switching systems, cited by 44% of practices, is product issues.

15 Aug 2012

GSA selects Penn professor as 2012 recipient of Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Productive Aging

The Gerontological Society of America (GSA) - the nation's largest interdisciplinary organization devoted to the field of aging - has chosen Mary Naylor, PhD, RN, FAAN, of the University of Pennsylvania as the 2012 recipient of the Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Productive Aging.

15 Aug 2012

How team Romney-Ryan is playing on the campaign trail

The Medicare plan advanced by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who has been tapped by GOP presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney to be his running mate, almost immediately emerged as a campaign flashpoint.

15 Aug 2012

CSIS report examines global polio eradication efforts

The Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS) on Monday released a report called "Eradicating Polio in Afghanistan and Pakistan." According to the report summary, efforts to eradicate the virus globally "have proved largely successful, in part thanks to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI), launched by the international community in 1988," and "[t]he number of new cases has dropped in the past decade, even in countries where the virus has never been eradicated."

15 Aug 2012

Health Care News and Research

U.S. military medical team supports Botswana HIV prevention efforts

Obama, Romney campaigns jockey for voter support in Medicare debate

Gates looks to develop 'next-generation toilets' for developing world

Report prompts close scrutiny of charity care at Calif. nonprofit hospitals

'Impatient Optimists' blog posts examines 'Reinvent the Toilet Fair' in Seattle

It's not just Medicare: Ryan's Medicaid proposals emerge as campaign issue

Scientists researching Ebola virus say vaccine 'unlikely' due to funding restraints

India launches new laboratory for HIV vaccine research in collaboration with IAVI

Book provides up-to-date knowledge about mild cognitive impairment

Ohio Medicaid readies new nursing home reimbursement; New nursing home database launched

Medicago, IDRI receive FDA approval to commence Phase 1 H5N1 vaccine trial

Maternal healthcare providers in developing world must be trained to show respect, compassion

U.S. government releases first-ever strategy to prevent, respond to gender-based violence globally

Computer and web-based weight management programmes show promise against obesity

Computer-based partner violence screening does not improve QOL in women

Viewpoints: Romney needs to explain his Medicare plan; Ryan plan would end Medicaid protections for spouses of nursing home patients'

Market for EHR replacements is on the rise

GSA selects Penn professor as 2012 recipient of Maxwell A. Pollack Award for Productive Aging

How team Romney-Ryan is playing on the campaign trail

CSIS report examines global polio eradication efforts

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