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CVS/pharmacy renews Medication Disposal for Safer Communities donation program

CVS/pharmacy announced today that is marking National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, September 27 by renewing its innovative community donation program to support local drug collection efforts by law enforcement.

25 Sep 2014

Colorado cancer researchers launch feasibility study to build nation's first carbon-ion radiotherapy facility

Colorado cancer researchers and medical doctors on Wednesday announced they are launching a $200,000 feasibility study as a key step to building the nation's first carbon-ion radiotherapy research and treatment facility in Aurora, where they and colleagues hope to investigate and provide to patients leading-edge radiation therapy that is effective against the deadliest cancers and now is available only in Europe and Japan.

25 Sep 2014

More reliable cardiorespiratory fitness data can be obtained using lean mass proportional measures

A recent study by the University of Eastern Finland shows that scaling maximal oxygen uptake and maximal workload by body weight confounds measures of cardiorespiratory fitness. It has been a common practice in exercise testing to scale the results by body weight and, according to researchers, this practice should be abandoned. More reliable data on cardiorespiratory fitness can be observed by using lean mass proportional measures.

25 Sep 2014

GuideWell, OSI partner to provide affordable, quality health care to growing Hispanic market

GuideWell Mutual Holding Corporation and Organizacion Sanitas Internacional have established a strategic alliance to create a new company with the purpose of offering a culturally relevant health delivery model that provides affordable and quality health care to the important and growing Hispanic market.

25 Sep 2014

AAC issues safety message to consumers about cold and flu medicines

As the countdown to cold and flu season begins, consumers are getting flu shots and increasing their purchases of cold and flu medicines. The Acetaminophen Awareness Coalition is issuing a safety message to consumers, reminding them to double check their medicine labels to avoid doubling up on medicines with acetaminophen when treating symptoms during the upcoming cold and flu season.

25 Sep 2014

Elsevier recognizes four nurse professionals in fourth annual Superheroes of Nursing Contest

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the 2014 Elsevier Superheroes of Nursing. Now in its fourth year, the program was created to honor real-life superheroes who perform outstanding work in the field of nursing.

25 Sep 2014

UI study offers good news for care givers, health care providers

A new University of Iowa study further supports an inescapable message: caregivers have a profound influence-good or bad-on the emotional state of individuals with Alzheimer's disease.

25 Sep 2014

Innovative partnership provides effective intervention program for substance-exposed babies, toddlers

Two decades after its initiation, the University of Miami Linda Ray Intervention Program for substance-exposed babies and toddlers demonstrates long-term success.

25 Sep 2014

Elsevier honored at BMA Medical Book Awards ceremony

Elsevier, a world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, announced today that 28 of its professional and scholarly products were honored at the British Medical Association's annual BMA Medical Book Awards ceremony at BMA House in London on Sept. 22, 2014.

25 Sep 2014

Fox Flight earns CAMTS Accreditation for fixed wing and medical escort services

Fox Flight Air Ambulance continues its pursuit of being the industry benchmark for customer satisfaction with its most recent professional accreditation.

25 Sep 2014

INTERTEL joins National Insurance Crime Bureau as strategic partner

The National Insurance Crime Bureau is pleased to announce that INTERTEL, Inc., one of the original providers of Medical Canvass Investigations, has joined the organization as a strategic partner.

25 Sep 2014

New NIH program awards $2.5 million to spur innovation in mobile health

A new NIH program is awarding nearly $2.5 million to spur innovation in mobile communication technologies and software applications used in biomedical research in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

25 Sep 2014

Study finds that majority of athletes return to play after having knee surgery for ACL injury

The majority of athletes included in a new study by researchers at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine were able to return to play after having knee surgery to repair an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury.

25 Sep 2014

First nationwide study to examine impact of holistic review across multiple health professions

On September 30, 2014, in Washington, DC, higher education and health leaders will release a report that is the first to examine nationwide the impact and use of holistic review-a university admissions process that assesses an applicant's unique experiences alongside traditional measures of academic achievement such as grades and test scores-for students pursuing careers in the health professions.

25 Sep 2014

UTHealth researchers awarded $1.3 million grant to study asthma risk in Texas health care workers

Researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School of Public Health have been awarded a four-year, $1.3 million grant by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to study how the risk of asthma has changed for health care workers in Texas over the last 10 years.

25 Sep 2014

Increased pain scores in surgery patients result in deceased sleep duration

Pain can make it difficult for some patients to get a good night's rest while recovering in the hospital following certain surgical procedures, often resulting in longer hospital stays, according to researchers at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

25 Sep 2014

Viewpoints: A 'success story' in McAllen, Texas; 'uniquely high prices' in health care

It may have been the most influential magazine article of the past decade. In June of 2009, the doctor and writer Atul Gawande published a piece in The New Yorker called "The Cost Conundrum," which examined why the small border city of McAllen, Tex., was the most expensive place for health care in the United States. ... Five years later, the situation has changed. Where McAllen once illustrated the problem of American health care, the city is now showing us how the problem can be solved, largely because of the Affordable Care Act that Mr. Obama signed into law in 2010 (Bob Kocher and Farzad Mostashari, 9/23).

25 Sep 2014

Treating prediabetes patients could help prevent severe complications associated with diabetes

Doctors at three leading research institutions and the American Diabetes Association report that treating patients with prediabetes as if they had diabetes could help prevent or delay the most severe complications associated with this chronic disease, which affects about thirty million people in the United States.

25 Sep 2014

State highlights: Calif. gov. signs rural telehealth bill; Louisiana's ex-health secretary indicted

States around the country are taking advantage of a once little-used policy that allows them to bill Medicaid for the healthcare expenses of prisoners who leave a correctional institution for treatment. Since 1997, states have been allowed to bill Medicaid for the care of inmates who required treatment at a hospital or nursing facility for longer than 24 hours. The provision has drawn new attention this year as millions of Americans, including those serving time in correctional institutions, have become newly eligible for Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Dickson, 9/23).

25 Sep 2014

New global health initiative focuses on improving public health

The American College of Sports Medicine has announced a new global health initiative called ActivEarth. With an innovative, global-scale, science-based and science-informed approach, ActivEarth will focus on improving public health, the environment and the economy through greater levels of physical activity, particularly active transportation.

25 Sep 2014

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CVS/pharmacy renews Medication Disposal for Safer Communities donation program

Colorado cancer researchers launch feasibility study to build nation's first carbon-ion radiotherapy facility

More reliable cardiorespiratory fitness data can be obtained using lean mass proportional measures

GuideWell, OSI partner to provide affordable, quality health care to growing Hispanic market

AAC issues safety message to consumers about cold and flu medicines

Elsevier recognizes four nurse professionals in fourth annual Superheroes of Nursing Contest

UI study offers good news for care givers, health care providers

Innovative partnership provides effective intervention program for substance-exposed babies, toddlers

Elsevier honored at BMA Medical Book Awards ceremony

Fox Flight earns CAMTS Accreditation for fixed wing and medical escort services

INTERTEL joins National Insurance Crime Bureau as strategic partner

New NIH program awards $2.5 million to spur innovation in mobile health

Study finds that majority of athletes return to play after having knee surgery for ACL injury

First nationwide study to examine impact of holistic review across multiple health professions

UTHealth researchers awarded $1.3 million grant to study asthma risk in Texas health care workers

Increased pain scores in surgery patients result in deceased sleep duration

Viewpoints: A 'success story' in McAllen, Texas; 'uniquely high prices' in health care

Treating prediabetes patients could help prevent severe complications associated with diabetes

State highlights: Calif. gov. signs rural telehealth bill; Louisiana's ex-health secretary indicted

New global health initiative focuses on improving public health

Advancing Menopause Care: Non-Hormonal Treatments for Vasomotor Symptoms

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

How Pulp Fixin Is Turning Paper into High-Performance Sustainable Labware

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