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Uninsured Latino children more likely not to get medical care

Writing in the September issue of Pediatrics, Dr. Flores, one of the country's foremost experts on multicultural health care issues, sought to identify the risk factors for and consequences of being uninsured in Latino children.

5 Sep 2006

New rapid diagnostic tests for Neisseria meningitidis

Over a million people each year, most of them in the "meningitis belt" in Africa, contract bacterial meningitis, a potentially deadly infection of tissues that line the brain and spinal cord.

4 Sep 2006

New drug improves blood flow in diseased arteries

A new drug has been shown to improve blood flow in diseased arteries, reducing the risk of high blood pressure and heart attacks, a Monash University study published today reveals.

4 Sep 2006

Record morbidity in Africa from Borreliosis, or relapsing fever

Borreliosis, or relapsing fever, is a disease provoked by bacteria of the genus Borrelia. Two of these are encountered in tropical Africa: Borrelia crocidurae in the Sahara and Sahel, Borrelia duttoni in East Africa.

4 Sep 2006

Improvements needed in China heart care

Inequitable and cost-inefficient allocation of scarce resources has been found to be a key problem in the management of heart attack and severe angina patients in China, according to the results of a study announced today at the World Congress of Cardiology in Barcelona, Spain.

4 Sep 2006

Women have a greater risk of death from long-term oxygen therapy compared with the men

Among patients on long-term oxygen therapy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), women are more likely to die from the disease than men.

4 Sep 2006

Eastern Europe, Middle East has highest rates of cardiovascular disease deaths

Eastern European and Middle Eastern patients with diseased blood vessels have the highest rates of heart attacks and strokes, and the highest rates of death from those conditions, compared with similar patients in other regions of the world.

4 Sep 2006

Sanofi pasteur begins shipping influenza vaccine

Sanofi pasteur, the vaccines business of the sanofi-aventis Group, began shipping influenza vaccine (Fluzone, Influenza Virus Vaccine) to the U.S. market for the 2006-2007 season.

4 Sep 2006

Nature to change study reporting method of creating stem cells without destroying embryos

Officials from the journal Nature have said they plan to change a paper published in the journal's Aug. 24 edition describing a technique that could derive human embryonic stem cells without destroying the embryo to further clarify that none of the embryos used in this particular study survived the experiment, the Chicago Tribune reports.

4 Sep 2006

Colombian cardinal threatens physicians who perform abortions with excommunication

A Colombian news report on Tuesday "sparked controversy" after reporting that a Vatican official threatened to excommunicate physicians who perform abortions in the country, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports (AP/San Francisco Chronicle, 8/30).

4 Sep 2006

STIs cause infertility, social stigma in sub-Saharan Africa

Sexually transmitted infections are the main cause of infertility in sub-Saharan Africa, where the condition often brings stigma and social consequences to women who do not have children, according to Helen Pilcher, author of a article published in the Aug. 31 issue of the journal Nature, PRI's "The World" -- a production of BBC World Service, PRI and WGBH Boston -- reports.

4 Sep 2006

Massachusetts Gov. Romney reiterates support for state's new embryonic stem cell research regulations

Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) on Thursday said the state's newly adopted restrictions on human embryonic stem cell research are intended to prevent an "Orwellian" future, Reuters reports (Reuters, 8/31).

4 Sep 2006

Ho Chi Minh City to convert detoxification center into hospital that will provide no-cost HIV/AIDS care

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, beginning Sept. 1 will convert a detoxification center administered by the Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Department into a hospital that provides HIV/AIDS treatment and care at no cost, the Vietnam News Brief Service reports.

4 Sep 2006

South Africa to distribute 3 million female condoms

South Africa's Department of Health last Thursday announced that it has allocated about $5 million this year to help achieve the goal of distributing three million female condoms in 2006, the SAPA/iafrica.com reports.

4 Sep 2006

Kaiser highlights recently published Journal of Infectious Diseases studies

Summaries of studies recently published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

4 Sep 2006

Georgia Medicaid, PeachCare beneficiaries enroll HMOs despite concerns over partial rollout

Georgia's Medicaid and PeachCare programs has enrolled hundreds of thousands of beneficiaries in HMOs "despite complaints that the program has become an administrative and medical nightmare in areas where it has been tried so far," the Florida Times-Union reports.

4 Sep 2006

Debate over specialty hospitals will continue

"The battle over so-called specialty hospitals is set to make headlines again" because of a recent CMS decision, a Washington Times editorial states (Washington Times, 8/31).

4 Sep 2006

Pennsylvania starts the Pace Plus Medicare program

Pennsylvania on Friday began the Pace Plus Medicare program, under which the Medicare prescription drug benefit will provide primary coverage for low-income residents and the state PACE and PACENET programs will fill any gaps in coverage, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

4 Sep 2006

U.S. Magistrate recommends end of oversight of Hawaii adult mental health division by Federal Court

U.S. Magistrate Kevin Chang last week recommended in his 12th and final report to U.S. District Judge David Ezra that the court end oversight of the Adult Mental Health Division of the Hawaii Department of Health because of significant improvements in mental health services provided by the division.

4 Sep 2006

Palestinian Health Ministry facing growing financial and humanitarian crisis

The Palestinian Health Ministry is facing a growing financial crisis as well as a humanitarian crisis, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned ahead of the Stockholm donor conference on the humanitarian situation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

4 Sep 2006

Health Care News and Research

Uninsured Latino children more likely not to get medical care

New rapid diagnostic tests for Neisseria meningitidis

New drug improves blood flow in diseased arteries

Record morbidity in Africa from Borreliosis, or relapsing fever

Improvements needed in China heart care

Women have a greater risk of death from long-term oxygen therapy compared with the men

Eastern Europe, Middle East has highest rates of cardiovascular disease deaths

Sanofi pasteur begins shipping influenza vaccine

Nature to change study reporting method of creating stem cells without destroying embryos

Colombian cardinal threatens physicians who perform abortions with excommunication

STIs cause infertility, social stigma in sub-Saharan Africa

Massachusetts Gov. Romney reiterates support for state's new embryonic stem cell research regulations

Ho Chi Minh City to convert detoxification center into hospital that will provide no-cost HIV/AIDS care

South Africa to distribute 3 million female condoms

Kaiser highlights recently published Journal of Infectious Diseases studies

Georgia Medicaid, PeachCare beneficiaries enroll HMOs despite concerns over partial rollout

Debate over specialty hospitals will continue

Pennsylvania starts the Pace Plus Medicare program

U.S. Magistrate recommends end of oversight of Hawaii adult mental health division by Federal Court

Palestinian Health Ministry facing growing financial and humanitarian crisis

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