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Out-sourcing and cash incentives may increase healthcare access in low income countries

Contracting private providers of healthcare services and giving cash incentives to patients are two strategies that have been proposed to increase access to healthcare in low income countries.

7 Oct 2009

Pre-Visit Patients are more engaged and empowered to take action and influence others

Online individuals who have a scheduled appointment with a doctor – also known as Pre-Visit Patients™ – hold a range of traits and behaviors that make them of deep interest to health-related advertisers, according to an analysis of two surveys conducted separately by Manhattan Research and HealthGrades, the leading independent healthcare ratings company.

7 Oct 2009

HRT may increase urinary incontinence in postmenopausal women

Grappling with the risks and benefits of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is nothing new for postmenopausal women. Researchers have now added more fuel to the fire, with evidence that HRT could play a role in incontinence.

7 Oct 2009

GTRI researchers to test the affect of RFID systems on implantable and wearable medical devices

Radio frequency identification (RFID) systems are widely used for applications that include inventory management, package tracking, toll collection, passport identification and airport luggage security. More recently, these systems have found their way into medical environments to track patients, equipment assets and staff members.

7 Oct 2009

Social factors, including housing, income and education, affect health

Besides insurance coverage, several others factors such as racial differences, zip code, education level and income, have an even bigger effect on health.

7 Oct 2009

Multiple intervention programs can reduce teen pregnancies

When teenagers receive health education and information about contraception, the number of them having unintended pregnancies decreases, finds a large new review.

7 Oct 2009

Insurers push back against the Finance Committee's softened individual mandate penalties

Hospitals and insurance companies are not happy with amendments to the Senate Finance Committee's health bill that softened penalties on individuals who don't comply with the mandate to purchase insurance.

7 Oct 2009

Opinion piece responds to 'skeptics' of development aid

After a recent trip to Africa, "to see firsthand the region's fight against malaria," Tachi Yamada, the president of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, writes in a CNN opinion piece that a visit to a pediatric hospital ward in Zanzibar that did not have "a single patient" was the "single most memorable image of the trip."

7 Oct 2009

House Democrats question their reform role while Republicans plan meeting with Secretary Sebelius

In the House, members are questioning if their version of the bill even matters, Politico reports. "With the media following every turn of the Senate negotiations, some House Democrats have started to ask themselves whether all of the work crafting a House bill will even make a difference in the end, or whether they'll simply get steamrolled by a White House so eager for a compromise that the president will just use the Senate bill as the template" (O'Connor, 10/6).

7 Oct 2009

$4.8 million grant from CDC to establish Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics

Researchers from Indiana University and the Regenstrief Institute, with its world-renowned medical informatics research group and regional health information exchange, have been awarded a $4.8 million grant by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to create the Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics, one of only four such centers in the nation.

7 Oct 2009

Minorities support reform ad campaign, although immigrants may get little relief from legislation

Analysts suggest that health reform legislation may do little to help Hispanics -- many of whom could remain uninsured due to immigration restrictions and costs -- as well as other immigrants. Meanwhile, African-American and Hispanic groups unite with an advertising campaign to push for health care reform.

7 Oct 2009

New cases of H1N1 worldwide up 24,000 in two weeks

The number of H1N1 (swine flu) cases reported in WHO regions worldwide has grown by at least 24,000 in two weeks to cross the 340,000 mark since the virus was first detected in mid-April, the CDC reported Monday, according to Agence France-Presse.

7 Oct 2009

Cardiorespiratory training can improve walking in stroke patients

An updated Cochrane review finds that stroke patients who participate in a post-stroke walking program walk faster, longer and more independently than non-exercisers.

7 Oct 2009

For one senior, Medicaid provides model care

Also as part of the "Are You Covered?" series, NPR's Jeff Brady profiles Gracie Scarrow, 94. She was diagnosed with congestive heart failure she didn't have the money to pay for the care she needed.

7 Oct 2009

Get vaccinated against both H1N1 flu and the seasonal flu, advises Chief Nurse of the American Red Cross

With the first doses of the H1N1 (swine) flu vaccine being shipped and seasonal flu shots underway, people should be getting vaccinations when they can for these flu viruses, said Sharon Stanley, Chief Nurse of the American Red Cross.

7 Oct 2009

Health officials spray Indonesian city to prevent diseases; news outlets examine other natural disasters

News outlets explored the health implications of natural disasters in Indonesia, the Philippines, Tonga, Samoa and India:

7 Oct 2009

Health experts examine maternal mortality in Africa at conference

Inter Press Service reports on a discussion among health experts at the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics' (FIGO) 19th World Congress of Gynecology and Obstetrics in Cape Town, South Africa, about maternal mortality rates in Africa. More than 2,000 gynecologists, obstetricians and other health workers are attending the conference, which runs from Oct. 4-9.

7 Oct 2009

African leaders gather to discuss ways to bolster continent's drug, diagnostic development

Business Day examines efforts currently underway in Africa to bolster the continent's ability to develop new drugs and diagnostics.

7 Oct 2009

$16 million federal stimulus funds establish Seattle as national hub for cancer research

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Group Health Research Institute and the University of Washington schools of Public Health and Pharmacy have been selected to lead four projects backed by approximately $16 million in federal stimulus funding for comparative-effectiveness research in cancer.

7 Oct 2009

Developing countries lobby for more voting power in World Bank, IMF

Developing countries Monday at a meeting in Istanbul said they should get larger percentages of the vote at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the Associated Press reports.

7 Oct 2009

Health Care News and Research

Out-sourcing and cash incentives may increase healthcare access in low income countries

Pre-Visit Patients are more engaged and empowered to take action and influence others

HRT may increase urinary incontinence in postmenopausal women

GTRI researchers to test the affect of RFID systems on implantable and wearable medical devices

Social factors, including housing, income and education, affect health

Multiple intervention programs can reduce teen pregnancies

Insurers push back against the Finance Committee's softened individual mandate penalties

Opinion piece responds to 'skeptics' of development aid

House Democrats question their reform role while Republicans plan meeting with Secretary Sebelius

$4.8 million grant from CDC to establish Indiana Center of Excellence in Public Health Informatics

Minorities support reform ad campaign, although immigrants may get little relief from legislation

New cases of H1N1 worldwide up 24,000 in two weeks

Cardiorespiratory training can improve walking in stroke patients

For one senior, Medicaid provides model care

Get vaccinated against both H1N1 flu and the seasonal flu, advises Chief Nurse of the American Red Cross

Health officials spray Indonesian city to prevent diseases; news outlets examine other natural disasters

Health experts examine maternal mortality in Africa at conference

African leaders gather to discuss ways to bolster continent's drug, diagnostic development

$16 million federal stimulus funds establish Seattle as national hub for cancer research

Developing countries lobby for more voting power in World Bank, IMF

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