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BSD-500 Hyperthermia System installed at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital

BSD Medical Corporation announced today the purchase, installation and acceptance of a BSD-500 Hyperthermia System (BSD-500) by Fort Belvoir Community Hospital (Fort Belvoir).

19 Mar 2012

First international podoconiosis initiative launched

The Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases' "End the Neglect" blog highlights "the first-ever international podoconiosis initiative, Footwork," launched on March 15.

19 Mar 2012

Gender gap in medication management

There is a wide gender divide when it comes to how men and women are prescribed and adhere to their medications. According to a new study, while women use more prescription drugs than men, they are less likely to be prescribed drugs according to clinical guidelines and are not as good about adhering to the medications they are prescribed.

19 Mar 2012

First Edition: March 19, 2012

Today's headlines reflect the anticipation and anxiety that surrounds the Supreme Court's upcoming health law oral arguments.

19 Mar 2012

RBCC's new agreement with n3D could help develop stem-cell therapies

As global demand for innovative new stem-cell therapies grows by the day, Rainbow BioSciences' new agreement with n3D Biosciences could help to bring these therapies to market faster than ever before.

19 Mar 2012

AstraZeneca CEO to take part in panel discussion on Ethical Practices in the Pharmaceutical Sector

David Brennan, CEO of AstraZeneca, will take part in the plenary session panel discussion on "Ethical Practices in the Pharmaceutical Sector" at the EuroMeeting 2012 in Copenhagen on Monday 26 March.

19 Mar 2012

GOP plans for Medicare, health reform repeal draw scrutiny

Political observers are noting challenges for Republican lawmakers in upcoming budget, health law and Medicare debates.

19 Mar 2012

Sides counting down to Supreme Court health reform arguments

Can the government really tell us what to buy? Federal judges have come down on both sides of the question, leaving it to the Supreme Court to sort out. The justices are allotting an unusually long period, six hours over three days, beginning March 26, to hear arguments challenging the law's constitutionality. Their ruling, expected in June, is shaping up as a historic moment in the century-long quest by reformers to provide affordable health care for all.

19 Mar 2012

HCLA supports impending vote on medical liability reform

The Health Coalition on Liability and Access today sent the following letters to Speaker John Boehner and Congressman Phil Gingrey, in support of the impending vote on medical liability reform:

17 Mar 2012

Greater Than AIDS, SiriusXM OutQ to launch SpeakOUT

SiriusXM OutQ, the nation's first and only 24/7 LGBT radio channel, and Greater Than AIDS, a national movement to respond to AIDS in America, announced today the launch of SpeakOUT: Real Talk about AIDS in Gay America, a limited-run series of live, call-in shows that will connect listeners across the country with medical experts, people living with HIV and notable members of the LGBT community to have an honest and challenging dialogue about the current state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the gay community as well as the country at large.

17 Mar 2012

WHO releases global report on Mortality Attributable to Tobacco

A global report published by the WHO, titled "Mortality Attributable to Tobacco," "provides information by country on the proportion of adult (age 30 years and above) deaths attributable to tobacco by major communicable and non-communicable causes by age and sex," the agency's website states.

17 Mar 2012

Feds begin funding cuts to Texas Women's Health Program

Federal officials said they would begin to phase out their 90-percent portion of the Texas Women's Health Program as they had promised to do after Texas lawmakers banned Planned Parenthood from the program. CMS officials said the reductions would be gradual.

17 Mar 2012

U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator discusses AIDS 2012 conference

"For the first time in over 20 years, the biennial International AIDS Conference will be hosted on American soil," U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby writes in this post in the AIDS.gov blog.

17 Mar 2012

HHS proposes options for contraception coverage rule

The Obama administration on Friday suggested a number of ways it might arrange for insurers to pay for the contraception of employees of religious organizations without using any premium money from those groups.

17 Mar 2012

Partnerships critical to stopping HIV/AIDS, GBV among women

"For the past two weeks, the buzz in Washington, D.C., and at the White House is all about women and girls," Roxana Rogers, director of the USAID Office of HIV/AIDS, writes in this "IMPACTblog" post. She highlights a recently announced initiative, funded through PEPFAR, "to help local communities and grassroots organizations fight HIV/AIDS and gender-based violence.

17 Mar 2012

House Republicans slow fight against birth control coverage rule

And, on the Senate side, a group of Republicans introduced a bill that would end traditional Medicare and allow seniors to join the insurance plans that are available to members of Congress.

17 Mar 2012

People of faith can work together to make water safe worldwide

"We don't honor God when 4,500 children die every day -- but they do -- from the lack of something so simple, each of us takes it for granted: a safe glass of water," Rabbi Jack Bemporad, executive director of the Center for Interreligious Understanding, and journalist Susan Barnett write in Huffington Post's "Religion" blog.

17 Mar 2012

CBO report: Employer-based health insurance could decline under health law

A new Congressional Budget Office report about employer-based health insurance coverage is generating controversy, and the CBO's director is weighing in.

17 Mar 2012

Indian Finance Minister's budget includes 58% increase for malnutrition programs

Indian Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee's "budget includes a big boost in spending on reducing malnutrition," with an increase for malnutrition programs of "58 percent in fiscal 2012-13 to 158 billion rupees, or about $3 billion," the Wall Street Journal's "India Real Time" blog reports.

17 Mar 2012

ApolloMed signs service agreement with Care1st

Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc., a leading provider of hospitalist, critical care and integrated medical management services in California, today announced that ApolloMed Hospitalists, one of its affiliated medical groups, signed a service agreement with Care1st Health Plan to provide inpatient care services to its members at 15 hospitals throughout Los Angeles County.

17 Mar 2012