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Language skills are essential to a child’s ability to communicate and develop. These skills enable children to engage with other people and learn from their surroundings and in the classroom.

Researchers develop software tools to search and compare patient data at hospitals across Europe

By matching children with rare or life-threatening diseases and modelling potential disease progression, researchers hope to find new routes forward.

16 Nov 2009

UT physicians treat Iraqi girl with myasthenia gravis

Plagued by a growing weakness that left her unable to walk, talk and even take a normal breath, 11-year-old Iraqi Aram Ali was a shell of the bright little girl she used to be.

16 Nov 2009

El Camino Hospital moves into new, technologically and seismically advanced facility

El Camino Hospital, the hospital of Silicon Valley, today completed its move into the new, technologically and seismically advanced facility. After completing several practice runs led by the activation team, hospital officials report all patients were safely transferred to the new facility.

16 Nov 2009

Democrats finding little common ground on abortion language in health legislation

Reaction to the amendment restricting abortion in the House health reform bill, passed more than a week ago, continued to reverberate through news outlets today.

16 Nov 2009

Health reform: Senate facing controversies on coverage numbers, abortion language

The Wall Street Journal: "When the Senate unveils its health-care bill, all eyes will be on the price tag. But an equally significant number may be how many people get health insurance under the legislation."

13 Nov 2009

Health Insurer tells its employees to directly lobby U.S. Senators for weaker health reform and higher insurer profits

The nation's largest health insurance company, United Healthcare, launched a new push this week to get employees to directly lobby U.S. Senators for weaker health reform and higher insurer profits. The new campaign, in an e-mail sent to all employees Nov. 10, offers employees template letters to send from company computers on company time and urges them to write grassroots-style letters to the editor to local newspapers. Consumer Watchdog, which obtained the letters, called on the Senate and newspapers to reject this deceptive corporate-directed campaign.

13 Nov 2009

NQF releases the QDS framework for defining data necessary to measure performance in patient care

The National Quality Forum (NQF) announced today the release of the Quality Data Set (QDS), a common technological framework for defining clinical data necessary to measure performance and accelerate improvement in patients' quality of care. The QDS framework provides a standardized set of data that should be captured in patients' electronic health records and is applicable to all care settings a patient is likely to use in his or her lifetime.

13 Nov 2009

DFG to strengthen its support for young researchers, approves establishment of 11 new Research Training Groups

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) has intensified its efforts to strengthen its support of young researchers. At its fall session in Bonn, the responsible Grants Committee of Germany's central research funding organisation approved the establishment of eleven new Research Training Groups. In these groups, doctoral researchers can earn their doctorates in a structured research and qualification programme.

13 Nov 2009

Abortion rights groups unite in fight against coverage restrictions

Politico reports that abortion-rights "advocates are calling in the cavalry to help fight off an anti-abortion provision House Democratic leaders swallowed in order to win passage of their health care reform bill."

12 Nov 2009

IACC to include vaccine research studies in the objectives of the updated Strategic Plan for Autism Research

Autism Speaks is encouraged by yesterday's decision of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee (IACC) to include vaccine research studies in the objectives of the updated Strategic Plan for Autism Research. The new language, approved unanimously, calls for studies to determine if there are sub-populations that are more susceptible to environmental exposures such as immune challenges related to naturally occurring infections, vaccines or underlying immune problems.

12 Nov 2009

ADOA praises APHA for passing landmark Elimination of Asbestos Resolution

The Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) applauds the American Public Health Association (APHA), the largest and most diverse public health organization in the world.

12 Nov 2009

SC Johnson announces its first commitment to CGI, rolls out a new anti-Malaria IEC program

In its continuing initiatives around Doing What's Right, SC Johnson, A Family Company, recently announced its first commitment as part of its involvement in the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). Founded by former President Bill Clinton in 2005, CGI brings world leaders from a variety of backgrounds together to create partnerships that result in innovative and measurable solutions to some of the world's most pressing challenges.

12 Nov 2009

Video to improve patient-doctor communication

Amid growing concerns about racial, ethnic and language disparities in health care, The Joint Commission and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights have released a video, entitled “Improving Patient-Provider Communication,” which supports language access in health care organizations.

12 Nov 2009

Health debate breaks uneasy peace on abortion policy

Politico: "After months of dodging high-profile confrontations over abortion, Democrats — including President Barack Obama — find themselves faced with a stark set of alternatives: Support a bill that imposes limits on access to abortion or demand one that might, however indirectly, fund the procedure with taxpayer money. It's the kind of decision point the White House and Democratic leaders have consistently attempted to avoid.

11 Nov 2009

Poor access to interpreters can compromise doctor-patient communication in cancer care

In a new survey of physicians who treat breast cancer patients, only one-third said they had good access to trained medical interpreters or telephone language-interpretation systems when they needed it. Poor access to interpreters can compromise physician-patient communication that is critically important in cancer care.

11 Nov 2009

Immigrant and refugee violence: Experts recommend preventive and intervention strategies

Last year, the United States provided asylum and resettlement assistance for nearly 80,700 people from other countries, an increase from 71,300 individuals in 2007, according to the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. University of Missouri health experts say the increase has made issues of immigrant and refugee violence and the need for effective intervention strategies more apparent.

11 Nov 2009

Key Senators could influence – even halt – action on health bill

In anticipation of the full Senate debate on health reform, news organizations are keeping tabs on lawmakers who could become players - or obstructers - when the bill hits the floor.

11 Nov 2009

Abortion clash moves to Senate as Centrists seek House-like provision in health bill

Roll Call reports that the impending fight has also sparked the attention of the abortion-rights lobby. "Abortion-rights advocates, who were outmaneuvered in the House's health care reform vote, are banking on tougher Senate rules and targeted lobbying to keep restrictive abortion language out of that chamber's bill."

10 Nov 2009

First Edition: November 10, 2009

As the focus of health overhaul efforts move to the Senate, abortion issues have become hot topics.

10 Nov 2009

Study: Patients with difficult to treat hepatitis C are half as likely to initiate treatment

A new study by Mount Sinai researchers has for the first time found that patients with more difficult to treat forms of hepatitis C are half as likely to initiate treatment for the disease, when compared to patients with hepatitis C that is easier to treat. Marital status also affected whether patients chose treatment, as did whether or not they had other diseases.

10 Nov 2009

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Researchers develop software tools to search and compare patient data at hospitals across Europe

UT physicians treat Iraqi girl with myasthenia gravis

El Camino Hospital moves into new, technologically and seismically advanced facility

Democrats finding little common ground on abortion language in health legislation

Health reform: Senate facing controversies on coverage numbers, abortion language

Health Insurer tells its employees to directly lobby U.S. Senators for weaker health reform and higher insurer profits

NQF releases the QDS framework for defining data necessary to measure performance in patient care

DFG to strengthen its support for young researchers, approves establishment of 11 new Research Training Groups

Abortion rights groups unite in fight against coverage restrictions

IACC to include vaccine research studies in the objectives of the updated Strategic Plan for Autism Research

ADOA praises APHA for passing landmark Elimination of Asbestos Resolution

SC Johnson announces its first commitment to CGI, rolls out a new anti-Malaria IEC program

Video to improve patient-doctor communication

Health debate breaks uneasy peace on abortion policy

Poor access to interpreters can compromise doctor-patient communication in cancer care

Immigrant and refugee violence: Experts recommend preventive and intervention strategies

Key Senators could influence – even halt – action on health bill

Abortion clash moves to Senate as Centrists seek House-like provision in health bill

First Edition: November 10, 2009

Study: Patients with difficult to treat hepatitis C are half as likely to initiate treatment

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