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Women with alcoholic partners may benefit from Internet-based interactive support program

Women married to men with alcohol abuse problems can face a slew of problems themselves, with finding support for their situation near the top of the list.

4 Mar 2015

Springer brings out new open access journal: International Journal of Implant Dentistry

Springer has launched a new open access journal, the International Journal of Implant Dentistry. Sponsored by the German Association of Dental Implantology and the Japanese Socieities of Oral Implantology, and published by SpringerOpen, the journal is dedicated to the exchange and discussion of new research in the field of implant dentistry.

4 Mar 2015

Direct effects of stress increases mortality, ill-health among unemployed people

Research from the ESRC International Centre for Lifecourse Studies at UCL suggests direct biological effects of stress during unemployment may help explain the increased mortality and morbidity among jobseekers.

4 Mar 2015

Screening tool can help identify nations' vulnerability to Ebola

Public health experts can identify nations that are vulnerable to the occurrence and impact of future outbreaks of Ebola or other emergencies by using a screening tool that evaluates a nation's strengths across a wide range of measures such as political strength and health care capabilities, according to a new analysis from the RAND Corporation.

4 Mar 2015

Researchers find no significant change in smokers' habits after smoking ban

Smokers have become accustomed to stepping outside at bars and restaurants. But has the change in rules governing enclosed public places inspired enough of them to smoke less behind their own closed doors or maybe even quit altogether?

4 Mar 2015

Prime Therapeutics recognized with PBMI's 2015 Rx Innovation Award

Prime Therapeutics LLC received the Pharmacy Benefit Management Institute's 2015 Rx Innovation Award today in recognition of its innovative "Specialty Drug Watch List."

3 Mar 2015

New poll reveals U.S. public's perceptions of causes of health problems

A new NPR/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation/Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health poll finds that more than six in ten people living in the U.S. (62%) are concerned about their future health. Nearly four in ten (39%) said that they had one or more negative childhood experiences that they believe had a harmful impact on their adult health.

3 Mar 2015

Loss of funding for THC program could disrupt training of medical residents in underserved areas

The shortage of primary care doctors could worsen if funding for the Teaching Health Centers, a program to train medical residents in underserved areas, is eliminated. Loss of funding - which has already been drastically reduced - could disrupt the training of 550 current medical residents and cut off the pipeline of future primary care residents, says a new report conducted by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative at Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University.

3 Mar 2015

Health systems in developing world need to be strengthened to stop Ebola-style outbreak

Health systems throughout the developing world need to be strengthened to prevent another Ebola-style outbreak, or worse, warns Save the Children in its new report "A Wake Up Call: Lessons from Ebola for the World's Health Systems."

3 Mar 2015

Chrono Therapeutics gets support to develop SmartStop device for smoking cessation

Chrono Therapeutics, a pioneer in digital drug products, today announced an investment by Rock Health, the leading seed fund in digital health, to support the advancement of Chrono's SmartStop programmable transdermal drug delivery system and real-time behavioral support program for smoking cessation.

3 Mar 2015

KaVo Kerr Group plans to present new products at IDS 2015

KaVo Kerr Group, a global portfolio of leading dental brands, plans to present 35+ new products at the 36th International Dental Show (IDS) in Cologne. KaVo Kerr Group delivers products and solutions to 99% of dental practices worldwide, making IDS — the world's leading trade fair for the dental industry — the ideal stage to share the latest KaVo Kerr Group has to offer.

3 Mar 2015

Tian Ge, Xi He collaborate to develop new mobile health management platform

Tian Ge Interactive Holdings Limited, the largest "many-to-many" live social communities platform in China, announced that the Company has agreed to invest approximately RMB24 million (~USD$3.8 million) in exchange for approximately 34.47% equity interest in Hangzhou Xi He Technology Co., Ltd., a market leader in providing health management software to hospitals and physical check-up clinics in China, on a fully-diluted basis.

3 Mar 2015

Global trends in health inequalities among young people related to income inequality

Health inequalities in young people have grown alongside socioeconomic disparities between the rich and poor.

3 Mar 2015

New standardized approach for feeding infants in NICU improves growth of babies

A new standardized approach for feeding infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) helps babies attain full oral feeds sooner, improves their growth and sends them home sooner.

3 Mar 2015

Some health plans violate federal law requiring equal benefits for mental health care

One-quarter of the health plans being sold on health insurance exchanges set up through the Affordable Care Act offer benefits that appear to violate a federal law requiring equal benefits for general medical and mental health care, according to new research led by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

3 Mar 2015

Survey: Only 53% of primary care physicians use state's prescription drug monitoring programs

In a new survey, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health found that physicians report relatively high awareness of state databases that track drug prescriptions but more than one-fifth indicated they were not aware of their state's program at all.

3 Mar 2015

NYU Langone becomes first center in New York City to start outpatient hip replacement program

NYU Langone Medical Center in January became the first academic medical center in the New York City area to initiate an outpatient hip replacement program after successfully discharging a patient the same day of surgery.

3 Mar 2015

NYU initiative to bring college education to incarcerated students at Wallkill Correctional Facility

New York University has launched an initiative to bring college education to incarcerated individuals at the Wallkill Correctional Facility, a medium-security prison in New York State's Ulster County.

3 Mar 2015

New model of care decreases likelihood of serious illness after discharge from ICU

The Critical Care Recovery Center care model -- the nation's first collaborative care concept focusing on the extensive cognitive, physical and psychological recovery needs of intensive care unit survivors -- decreases the likelihood of serious illness after discharge from an ICU, according to a new study from the Regenstrief Institute and the Indiana University schools of medicine and nursing.

3 Mar 2015

Study findings raise questions about additional value of cancer care in the U.S.

Despite sharp increases in spending on cancer treatment, cancer mortality rates in the United States have decreased only modestly since 1970, Samir Soneji, PhD of Dartmouth's Norris Cotton Cancer Center and The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy & Clinical Practice has found.

3 Mar 2015

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Women with alcoholic partners may benefit from Internet-based interactive support program

Springer brings out new open access journal: International Journal of Implant Dentistry

Direct effects of stress increases mortality, ill-health among unemployed people

Screening tool can help identify nations' vulnerability to Ebola

Researchers find no significant change in smokers' habits after smoking ban

Prime Therapeutics recognized with PBMI's 2015 Rx Innovation Award

New poll reveals U.S. public's perceptions of causes of health problems

Loss of funding for THC program could disrupt training of medical residents in underserved areas

Health systems in developing world need to be strengthened to stop Ebola-style outbreak

Chrono Therapeutics gets support to develop SmartStop device for smoking cessation

KaVo Kerr Group plans to present new products at IDS 2015

Tian Ge, Xi He collaborate to develop new mobile health management platform

Global trends in health inequalities among young people related to income inequality

New standardized approach for feeding infants in NICU improves growth of babies

Some health plans violate federal law requiring equal benefits for mental health care

Survey: Only 53% of primary care physicians use state's prescription drug monitoring programs

NYU Langone becomes first center in New York City to start outpatient hip replacement program

NYU initiative to bring college education to incarcerated students at Wallkill Correctional Facility

New model of care decreases likelihood of serious illness after discharge from ICU

Study findings raise questions about additional value of cancer care in the U.S.

Advancing Menopause Care: Non-Hormonal Treatments for Vasomotor Symptoms

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