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WE-CARE project aims to create strategic plan to help reduce Europe's healthcare costs

EU-wide there is a clear and urgent need to curb healthcare costs. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-centred care have been given the task of coordinating a project to investigate how Europe's healthcare costs can be kept down whilst quality of care is maintained or even improved.

22 Oct 2013

State highlights: What makes former CMS head Berwick, now Mass. gov. candidate, tick; Calif. set to get health law long-term care money

A selection of health policy stories from Massachusetts and California.

22 Oct 2013

Dems, GOP ready to wage new budget fights, even inside their own parties -- and Medicare is in the mix

Democrats and Republicans aren't just fighting each other, they're also dealing with intra-party squabbles over the latest plan to come together to find an accord to fix the nation's budget woes. The decisions are sure to involve Medicare as a 29-member panel has until Dec. 13 to reach an agreement to present.

22 Oct 2013

Study finds no evidence that stem cell therapy improves vision for children with ONH

A study performed at Children's Hospital Los Angeles found no evidence that stem cell therapy improves vision for children with optic nerve hypoplasia. Their results are reported in the Journal of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus.

22 Oct 2013

Most parents want online options from kids' health care providers, but half say it should be free

Most parents would love to get an e-mail response from their kids' health care provider for a minor illness rather than making an office visit, but about half say that online consultation should be free, according to a new University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital National Poll on Children's Health.

22 Oct 2013

Buck Institute finds link between ApoE4 and anti-aging protein targeted by resveratrol in red wine

he major genetic risk factor for Alzheimer's disease (AD), present in about two-thirds of people who develop the disease, is ApoE4, the cholesterol-carrying protein that about a quarter of us are born with. But one of the unsolved mysteries of AD is how ApoE4 causes the risk for the incurable, neurodegenerative disease.

22 Oct 2013

President says website problems are 'unacceptable"; urges insurance shoppers to keep trying

President Obama said Monday that problems with the new health care website are unacceptable, but argued that the law overall will benefit millions of Americans. While Healthcare.gov "hasn't worked as as smooth as it was supposed to have worked," Obama said in a White House speech that thousands of once-uninsured Americans have signed up for coverage.

22 Oct 2013

Risk for breast cancer: Key prevention awareness tips for young women

Breast cancer prevention needs to become a shared conversation among women of all ages as it can strike at any age, and is generally more aggressive when diagnosed in women under the age of 50. With hopes to spark that discussion, Isabelle Mercier, PhD, a research assistant professor at University of the Sciences, compiled some key prevention awareness tips for young women.

22 Oct 2013

Learning mentally challenging skills may help improve memory in older people, says study

Seniors who step outside their comfort zones could be enhancing their memories beyond those who stick with what they know.

22 Oct 2013

Clinical trials will help to develop treatment and follow-up of COPD patients

Three major clinical trials will help to develop and target treatment and follow-up of patients suffering from COPD, lung cancer and rheumatoid arthritis in Norway.

22 Oct 2013

NeuroAiD reduces early cardiovascular events and deaths by 50% after stroke onset

NeuroAiD™, a treatment of post-stroke recovery containing natural extracts, reduces early cardiovascular events and deaths by nearly 50% on top of antiplatelet agents within three months after stroke onset, without an increase in bleeding rate and non-vascular deaths according to research published online in the journal Stroke.

22 Oct 2013

Viewpoints: HHS officials must tell Congress, citizens what is happening to marketplaces; 'rate shock' didn't materialize; problems with medical credit cards

The Affordable Care Act's botched rollout has stunned its media cheering section, and it even seems to have surprised the law's architects. The problems run much deeper than even critics expected, and whatever federal officials, White House aides and outside contractors are doing to fix them isn't working. But who knows? ... Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is even refusing to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in a hearing this coming Thursday. ... The department is also refusing to make available lower-level officials who might detail the source or sources of this debacle (10/18).

22 Oct 2013

Nanopharmaceutical drug shows promise for cancers that resist antiangiogenic drugs

The nanopharmaceutical drug CRLX101 is showing promise as a potential new treatment for cancers that develop resistance to antiangiogenic drugs and radiation therapy, according to clinical trial results presented here at the AACR-NCI-EORTC International Conference on Molecular Targets and Cancer Therapeutics, held Oct. 19 - 23.

22 Oct 2013

'Tech Surge' mounted to fix healthcare.gov

The Obama administration promised Sunday to enlist experts both inside and outside the government to solve the problems that have crippled healthcare.gov and caused consumers frustration as they attempt to shop for coverage. But some federal contractors worry the system may be weeks away from operating smoothly.

22 Oct 2013

Professor wins Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health from Institute of Medicine

The Institute of Medicine today awarded the 2013 Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health to William T. Carpenter, professor of psychiatry and pharmacology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore.

22 Oct 2013

Republicans see new political battleground because of bumpy health exchange rollout

Though the health law came through the most recent budget battle unscathed, its opponents view the problems with the website as a potential opportunity -- both in terms of the fight to derail the law and as an election issue for the upcoming campaign cycle.

22 Oct 2013

Study: Bottle feeding appears to increase risk of HPS in infants

Bottle feeding appears to increase the risk infants will develop hypertrophic pyloric stenosis (HPS), a form of stomach obstruction, and that risk seems to be magnified when mothers are older and have had more than one child, according to a study published by JAMA Pediatrics, a JAMA Network publication.

22 Oct 2013

URC leads new project to improve people's health status in Haiti

University Research Co., LLC is leading a new project in Haiti, a country with complex public health issues, including decentralization, HIV/AIDS, and cholera, to improve the population's health status.

22 Oct 2013

Researchers identify agricultural management practices that can reduce contamination risk in produce

Researchers from Cornell University have identified some agricultural management practices in the field that can either boost or reduce the risk of contamination in produce from two major foodborne pathogens: salmonella, the biggest single killer among the foodborne microbes, and Listeria monocytogenes.

22 Oct 2013

Breast milk may protect babies from acquiring HIV infection, say researchers

A substance in breast milk that neutralizes HIV and may protect babies from acquiring HIV from their infected mothers has been identified for the first time by researchers at Duke Medicine.

22 Oct 2013

Research News and Research

WE-CARE project aims to create strategic plan to help reduce Europe's healthcare costs

State highlights: What makes former CMS head Berwick, now Mass. gov. candidate, tick; Calif. set to get health law long-term care money

Dems, GOP ready to wage new budget fights, even inside their own parties -- and Medicare is in the mix

Study finds no evidence that stem cell therapy improves vision for children with ONH

Most parents want online options from kids' health care providers, but half say it should be free

Buck Institute finds link between ApoE4 and anti-aging protein targeted by resveratrol in red wine

President says website problems are 'unacceptable"; urges insurance shoppers to keep trying

Risk for breast cancer: Key prevention awareness tips for young women

Learning mentally challenging skills may help improve memory in older people, says study

Clinical trials will help to develop treatment and follow-up of COPD patients

NeuroAiD reduces early cardiovascular events and deaths by 50% after stroke onset

Viewpoints: HHS officials must tell Congress, citizens what is happening to marketplaces; 'rate shock' didn't materialize; problems with medical credit cards

Nanopharmaceutical drug shows promise for cancers that resist antiangiogenic drugs

'Tech Surge' mounted to fix healthcare.gov

Professor wins Rhoda and Bernard Sarnat International Prize in Mental Health from Institute of Medicine

Republicans see new political battleground because of bumpy health exchange rollout

Study: Bottle feeding appears to increase risk of HPS in infants

URC leads new project to improve people's health status in Haiti

Researchers identify agricultural management practices that can reduce contamination risk in produce

Breast milk may protect babies from acquiring HIV infection, say researchers

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