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Collaborative care improves depression and anxiety outcomes

Collaborative care, a model that involves multiple clinicians working with a patient, significantly improves depression and anxiety outcomes compared to standard primary care treatment for up to two years, finds a new review by The Cochrane Library.

19 Oct 2012

Longer looks: A Nobel for the economist behind the National Resident Matching Program; Helping Charlie end his life

A noted economist at Harvard, (Al) Roth was responsible for algorithms that matched medical students with their residency programs, children with their schools in Boston, and more recently, compatible kidney donors and transplant patients in paired donations.

19 Oct 2012

Zimbabwe to allow trained nurses to prescribe, administer ARVs

PlusNews examines challenges and concerns over an announcement by the Zimbabwean government that it plans to train nurses to prescribe and administer antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) to people living with HIV in the country.

19 Oct 2012

Kids with ADHD tend to feel that they benefit from medications

Children living with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) tend to feel that they benefit from medication to treat the condition and do not feel that the medication turns them into 'robots', according to a report published today. In fact, they report feeling that medication helps them to control their behaviour and make better decisions.

19 Oct 2012

Jersey Shore University Medical Center recognized as Baby-Friendly hospital

Jersey Shore University Medical Center has received an international designation as a Baby-Friendly hospital. Baby-Friendly USA, Inc. is the U.S. authority for the implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative, a global program sponsored by the World Health Organization and the United Nations Children's Fund.

18 Oct 2012

Social Security payments to rise 1.7% but higher Medicare premium may offset increase

The average senior will get about $21 more per month, but federal officials note that some of that will be needed to cover the increase in Medicare premiums, which will be announced next month.

18 Oct 2012

Soccer scores hat-trick for hypertensive men

Soccer training can significantly reduce blood pressure and improve aerobic fitness in hypertensive middle-aged men, researchers say.

17 Oct 2012

Study: Premium support plan could raise seniors' costs in many areas of country

A Kaiser Family Foundation study released Monday found that almost six in 10 Medicare beneficiaries would pay higher premiums under a hypothetical privatized system similar to that proposed by GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

17 Oct 2012

People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness

People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness than the general population, there being a particularly salient connection between writing and schizophrenia. This according to researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, whose large-scale registry study is the most comprehensive ever in its field.

17 Oct 2012

State roundup: Many states, cities cut retiree health benefit budgets; Feds to decide Georgia's benchmark benefits plan

As cash-strapped U.S. cities and states struggle to address gaping budget holes, a long-honored benefit for public-sector workers has come into the cross-hairs of budget cutters: retiree health insurance. A growing number of states and cities are eliminating or reducing health coverage for retirees, a benefit that has long fallen by the wayside for most private-sector workers.

16 Oct 2012

Nine Sydney researchers to receive funding for biomedical research projects

The Ramaciotti Foundations will award nearly $645,000 in grants to nine Sydney researchers at a gala dinner tonight, to support continued outstanding biomedical research. The Ramaciotti Foundations will award over $1.6 million to 23 recipients at the annual awards evening in Brisbane.

16 Oct 2012

IMS develops review on weight gain at the menopause

To mark World Menopause Day (18th October) the International Menopause Society has developed a state-of-the-science review on weight gain at the menopause. This report is published in the peer-reviewed journal, Climacteric.

16 Oct 2012

Simulation training can vastly improve trainee surgeons' skills prior to live procedures

In a paper published today in Archives of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery entitled "Criterion-Based Training to Improve Surgical Performance," researchers at Montefiore Medical Center have demonstrated that current requirements for surgical proficiency, including the performance of a fixed number of surgeries, insufficiently assesses surgical capabilities and does not take into consideration individual learning differences.

16 Oct 2012

Computerized checklist helps physicians to prevent dangerous venous thromboembolisms or PE

A computerized checklist system designed to help physicians identify and use the best methods of preventing potentially deadly blood clots in hospitalized trauma patients dramatically reduced the number of these dangerous venous thromboembolisms (VTEs), new Johns Hopkins research suggests.

16 Oct 2012

Higher health care premiums could wipe out social security increases; Medicare enrollment begins

Social Security recipients shouldn't expect a big increase in monthly benefits come January. Preliminary figures show the annual benefit boost will be between 1% and 2%, which would be among the lowest since automatic adjustments were adopted in 1975.

16 Oct 2012

Roundup: Health care construction boom in Texas; Some Ga. schools, state authorities weigh leaving employee health plan

The Dallas-Fort Worth area is in the midst of an unprecedented health care building boom. You can see the most visible evidence in the Dallas medical district. There, several blocks apart, construction cranes signal more than $2 billion worth of new hospitals - the $1.27 billion replacement for Parkland Memorial Hospital and an $800 million replacement hospital at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

16 Oct 2012

Breast cancer… do you know who diagnoses you?

Australian women have a 1 in 9 lifetime risk of developing breast cancer and 1 in every 100 breast cancers occurs in men. In 2012, it is estimated that 14,610 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, making it the most common cancer affecting women in Australia. However, despite this, few people realise that pathologists arguably play the most important role in the detection and treatment of breast cancer.

16 Oct 2012

GE Healthcare launches new online patient and caregiver resource for Parkinson's disease

As part of GE Healthcare's ongoing commitment to provide resources for those living with movement disorders, the company announced today a new online patient and caregiver resource - www.Move2Answers.com.

15 Oct 2012

First Edition: October 15, 2012

Today's headlines include the latest developments and polling news from the presidential campaign trail as well as details about how Medicare and other health issues are shaping up in House and Senate races.

15 Oct 2012

Type 2 diabetes screening: an interview with Dr Simon Griffin, MRC Epidemiology Unit at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge

Type 2 diabetes is a condition in which the body does not make sufficient insulin or the insulin it makes doesn’t work sufficiently well to maintain a normal level of blood glucose and so the blood glucose rises.

12 Oct 2012

Doctor News and Research

Collaborative care improves depression and anxiety outcomes

Longer looks: A Nobel for the economist behind the National Resident Matching Program; Helping Charlie end his life

Zimbabwe to allow trained nurses to prescribe, administer ARVs

Kids with ADHD tend to feel that they benefit from medications

Jersey Shore University Medical Center recognized as Baby-Friendly hospital

Social Security payments to rise 1.7% but higher Medicare premium may offset increase

Soccer scores hat-trick for hypertensive men

Study: Premium support plan could raise seniors' costs in many areas of country

People in creative professions are treated more often for mental illness

State roundup: Many states, cities cut retiree health benefit budgets; Feds to decide Georgia's benchmark benefits plan

Nine Sydney researchers to receive funding for biomedical research projects

IMS develops review on weight gain at the menopause

Simulation training can vastly improve trainee surgeons' skills prior to live procedures

Computerized checklist helps physicians to prevent dangerous venous thromboembolisms or PE

Higher health care premiums could wipe out social security increases; Medicare enrollment begins

Roundup: Health care construction boom in Texas; Some Ga. schools, state authorities weigh leaving employee health plan

Breast cancer… do you know who diagnoses you?

GE Healthcare launches new online patient and caregiver resource for Parkinson's disease

First Edition: October 15, 2012

Type 2 diabetes screening: an interview with Dr Simon Griffin, MRC Epidemiology Unit at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge

Bringing real-time analytics to downstream bioprocess monitoring

Designing fluidic architecture for scalable diagnostic platforms

Evaluating new approaches for rare disease genomics

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