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Belly laugh best for venous leg ulcers

Forget technology. The best prescription for patients with venous leg ulcers is good quality nursing care - and the occasional belly laugh!

9 Mar 2011

Smart technology for healthy longevity

A national policy is required for the research, demonstration, commercialisation and wide-scale deployment of smart technology for ageing-in-place to ensure: a healthy, safe, secure and fulfilling future for the increasing aged population in Australia by enabling them to remain at home longer, by easing the strain on the national healthcare system and providing cost effective solutions to meet the needs of the growing number of elderly Australians.

9 Mar 2011

Jobless African-American men may face risk of depression

Jobless African-American men might be at a greater risk of suffering from depression, new research shows. More surprising, at the other end of the income spectrum, African-American men making $80,000 and upward are also among those at higher risk.

9 Mar 2011

Diabetes belt mapped out in the US

A government commissioned team of researchers has now identified a diabetes belt in the U.S. County-by-county mapping shows that the highest rates of diabetes cut two paths - one strung through Tennessee, Kentucky and West Virginia, and another running eastward from Louisiana through Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. This belt also touches parts of North Carolina, Virginia, Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Ohio and Pennsylvania. High-diabetes pockets crop up in Oklahoma, Michigan, Arizona, the Dakotas and elsewhere. The belt includes 644 counties in 15 states with the highest diabetes rates.

8 Mar 2011

CNIT fourth quarter revenues increase 94.1% to US$61.22 million

Information Technology, Inc., a leading total solutions provider of geographic information systems, digital public security technology and digital hospital information systems in China, today announced its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ended December 31, 2010.

8 Mar 2011

Vertos reports long-term safety and efficacy of mild in patients with LSS

Medical device company Vertos Medical Inc. has announced the release of clinical study data demonstrating the long-term safety and efficacy of mild as well as its superior durability over epidural steroid injections for treating lumbar spinal stenosis.

8 Mar 2011

New research finds OSS for health IT may be more secure than other systems

Globally the sale of health care information systems is a multibillion dollar industry. The vast costs, frequent failed systems, and inability of systems to talk to each other regularly attract media comment.

8 Mar 2011

New study represents major reversal in thinking about universal screening programs

Screening every woman who comes to a health care centre does increase the number who acknowledge they have been abused by their partners, a new study confirms.

8 Mar 2011

New review shows difficulty in delivering high-quality cancer care

A shortage of oncologists and rising costs of chemotherapy and radiation therapies and imaging tests, are making delivering quality cancer care increasingly difficult, according to a new review by researchers at RTI International and Eli Lilly and Company.

8 Mar 2011

New report highlights wide range of hazardous air pollutants emitted from power plants

The American Lung Association today released Toxic Air: The Case for Cleaning Up Coal-fired Power Plants, a new report that documents the range of hazardous air pollutants emitted from power plants and the urgent need to clean them up to protect public health.

8 Mar 2011

U-M receives Connections for Cardiovascular Health grant to expand 'Project Healthy Schools'

The AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation program, Connections for Cardiovascular Health, today announced a grant of more than $252,000 to the University of Michigan Health System to expand "Project Healthy Schools."

8 Mar 2011

Study: Residential treatment greatly improves smoking abstinence

In the March issue of Mayo Clinic Proceedings, researchers report that residential treatment for tobacco dependence among heavy smokers greatly improves the odds of abstinence at six months compared with standard outpatient treatment.

8 Mar 2011

George Brown College works with MEMOTEXT for developing new patient adherence program

George Brown College is collaborating with MEMOTEXT, a patient adherence and medication compliance company, to develop an inference-based telephone/short message service (SMS) based communications program for an overseas health stakeholder-based research project.

8 Mar 2011

Vegetables can help reverse or prevent cancers

Mothers around the world now collectively can say, "I told you so." Your vegetables are good for you, says a research review published by scientists from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in the journal Clinical Epigenetics.

8 Mar 2011

New grant for expanding Project Healthy Schools to reduce childhood obesity

The AstraZeneca HealthCare Foundation program, Connections for Cardiovascular HealthSM, today announced a grant of more than $232,000 to the University of Michigan Health System to expand Project Healthy Schools.

8 Mar 2011

UNICEF requests $1.4b to assist women, children in humanitarian crises worldwide

UNICEF on Sunday released the Humanitarian Action for Children Report, 2011 (.pdf) "requesting $1.4 billion in its appeal to donors to assist children and women caught in the throes of crises.

8 Mar 2011

FAO report says reducing gender gap in agriculture could help increase food supplies worldwide

Increasing women's access to land, technology and other agricultural resources could significantly reduce the number of hungry people worldwide, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said on Monday in a report, the Associated Press/FoxNews.com reports.

8 Mar 2011

Also in global health news: EU-India talks; China's health system funding; water in Ethiopia; nonprofit offering health services abroad to sell off assets; polio in India

BMJ News Examines Ongoing EU-India Trade Talks' Impact On Access To Affordable Medicines

8 Mar 2011

SMER28 can reduce beta-amyloid accumulation in patients with Alzheimer's disease

If you can't stop the beta-amyloid protein plaques from forming in Alzheimer's disease patients, then maybe you can help the body rid itself of them instead. At least that's what scientists from New York were hoping for when they found a drug candidate to do just that.

8 Mar 2011

Study reveals prevalence of overweight in Sweden schoolchildren

Researchers at the Sahlgrenska Academy - University of Gothenburg, Sweden - and Karolinska Institutet have carried out the first ever national study of the prevalence of overweight and obesity in schoolchildren.

8 Mar 2011

Education News and Research

Belly laugh best for venous leg ulcers

Smart technology for healthy longevity

Jobless African-American men may face risk of depression

Diabetes belt mapped out in the US

CNIT fourth quarter revenues increase 94.1% to US$61.22 million

Vertos reports long-term safety and efficacy of mild in patients with LSS

New research finds OSS for health IT may be more secure than other systems

New study represents major reversal in thinking about universal screening programs

New review shows difficulty in delivering high-quality cancer care

New report highlights wide range of hazardous air pollutants emitted from power plants

U-M receives Connections for Cardiovascular Health grant to expand 'Project Healthy Schools'

Study: Residential treatment greatly improves smoking abstinence

George Brown College works with MEMOTEXT for developing new patient adherence program

Vegetables can help reverse or prevent cancers

New grant for expanding Project Healthy Schools to reduce childhood obesity

UNICEF requests $1.4b to assist women, children in humanitarian crises worldwide

FAO report says reducing gender gap in agriculture could help increase food supplies worldwide

Also in global health news: EU-India talks; China's health system funding; water in Ethiopia; nonprofit offering health services abroad to sell off assets; polio in India

SMER28 can reduce beta-amyloid accumulation in patients with Alzheimer's disease

Study reveals prevalence of overweight in Sweden schoolchildren

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