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Ontario researchers develop evidence-based recommendations for lung cancer screening

Lung cancer is the most common cause of cancer death in Ontario. Screening for lung cancer using low-dose computed tomography has been the subject of many research studies since the 1990s. The National Lung Screening Trial compared LDCT with chest radiograph in high-risk populations and found a 20 percent reduction in lung cancer mortality at 6 years with LDCT after an initial scan and two annual rounds of screening.

5 Sep 2013

Putting seniors in the hospital under 'observation' may cost them thousands

Many seniors think Medicare made a mistake when they find out they were never officially admitted to the hospital despite a several-day stay.

5 Sep 2013

Mount Sinai researchers to study why African Americans less likely to receive CRC screenings

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have received a multi-year National Institutes of Health grant to determine factors which may influence why African Americans are less likely than others to receive colorectal cancer screenings, despite having the highest CRC incidence and mortality of any ethnic/racial group in America.

5 Sep 2013

Michigan gives final green light to Medicaid expansion

The Republican-led Michigan House gave final approval on Tuesday to a bill that would expand the Medicaid health program for the poor under Democratic President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law. Representatives voted 75-32 to concur with modifications of a bill that they had approved in June and agreed to send it to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, a Republican who has backed the expansion of the Medicaid program (Bailey, 9/3).

5 Sep 2013

HeartIT receives $2.5M NIH grant to develop Cloud Based Corelab of the Future

HeartIT, the global leader that pioneered the first FDA approved zero-footprint medical imaging workstation, announced today that it has received a $2.5M grant from the NIH in order to develop the "Cloud Based Corelab of the Future."

4 Sep 2013

Health Project announces Dell as winner of 2013 C. Everett Koop National Health Award

Adults spend a majority of their waking hours on the job and with health care spending growing at an unsustainable rate, forward-thinking employers are leveraging the workplace as a setting for improving the health of the U.S. population and reducing avoidable costs.

4 Sep 2013

First Edition: September 4, 2013

Todays headlines include reports about how the Balitmore Ravens will be part of the effort to raise public awareness about Maryland's health exchange.

4 Sep 2013

Indicators of poor preoperative health predict risk of major medical complications

For older adults undergoing surgery for spinal stenosis, some simple indicators of poor preoperative health predict a high risk of major medical complications, reports a study in the September 1 issue of Spine. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.

4 Sep 2013

National Sleep Foundation releases 2013 International Bedroom Poll

The National Sleep Foundation released its first international poll today, the 2013 International Bedroom Poll, comparing sleep times, attitudes, habits and bedtime routines of those in the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Germany and Japan between the ages of 25 and 55 years old.

4 Sep 2013

Dakota Laboratories banned from manufacturing and distributing drugs

Dakota Laboratories LLC and its president, Charles L. Voellinger, Sr., are prohibited from manufacturing and distributing drugs until they correct their ongoing violations of the drug manufacturing laws.

4 Sep 2013

Radiologists train military physicians to remove foreign bodies with ultrasound-guided techniques

William E. Shiels II, DO, chief of the Nationwide Children's Hospital Department of Radiology and president of Children's Radiological Institute, Inc., is leading a team of radiologists for the training of military physicians to remove shrapnel foreign bodies from warfighters with ultrasound-guided techniques that he originally developed, with subsequent improvements made by the full team of Nationwide Children's Hospital interventional radiologists.

4 Sep 2013

Money & Medicine: Pay differential for women docs grows, big employers see health costs jump, Rx coupons are no bargain

News outlets covered various studies about health costs and doctor earnings. Female physicians in the U.S. continue to earn less than their male counterparts, with the pay gap widening during the past two decades to more than $50,000 annually in 2010, researchers said.

4 Sep 2013

UT faculty members, students working together to improve disaster preparedness in Clay County

In Clay County, Kentucky, clean water is hard to come by. If a tornado hit the area, shelter and medical treatment also would be hard to find. A group of faculty members and students at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is trying to change this situation.

4 Sep 2013

State highlights: Calif. bill to expand nurse role in health care dies; Ohio senior housing developer turns eye to primary care; examining Miss. trauma care costs

A selection of health policy stories from California, Ohio, Mississippi and Washington. An effort to ease a shortage of primary-care doctors in some California communities by letting nurse practitioners operate more independently has flat-lined in the Legislature after a fierce lobbying battle. A bill by Sen.

4 Sep 2013

Student nurses need better role model for infection prevention and control

100 percent of student nurses surveyed observed lapses in infection prevention and control practices during their clinical placements, according to a British study published in the September issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

4 Sep 2013

Medicare news: When nursing home benefits run out; reforming doc pay fix more costly than repeal

News outlets examine what options nursing home patients have when their Medicare benefits run out and the latest challenge to reforming how doctors are paid by the program -- the price tag.

4 Sep 2013

Wolters Kluwer Health and APTA join to publish the Journal of Acute Care Physical Therapy

Wolters Kluwer Health and the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA) today announced an agreement to publish the Journal of Acute Care Physical Therapy, Official Journal of the Acute Care Section of the APTA, effective with the September 2013 issue.

4 Sep 2013

Viewpoints: Shortages of drugs persist; number of Medicare doctors is growing; Obamacare undermines health savings accounts

As was the case during the last debt-ceiling debacle, in 2011, playing politics with the nation's creditworthiness is irresponsible and unnecessary. Leave aside the ObamaCare obsession, because Republicans have zero chance of persuading the president to kill one of his defining achievements.

4 Sep 2013

Researchers evaluate association between body weight and health-related quality of life

Scientists from the Institute of Health Economics and Health Care Management (IGM) and from the Institute of Epidemiology II (EPI II) discovered that weight gain leads to deterioration in physical health.

4 Sep 2013

Rural poor likely to feel the pinch of state decisions not to expand Medicaid

Economist says half of the rural poor who would be aided by expansion live in states that have opted not to take that step.

4 Sep 2013

Healthcare News

Ontario researchers develop evidence-based recommendations for lung cancer screening

Putting seniors in the hospital under 'observation' may cost them thousands

Mount Sinai researchers to study why African Americans less likely to receive CRC screenings

Michigan gives final green light to Medicaid expansion

HeartIT receives $2.5M NIH grant to develop Cloud Based Corelab of the Future

Health Project announces Dell as winner of 2013 C. Everett Koop National Health Award

First Edition: September 4, 2013

Indicators of poor preoperative health predict risk of major medical complications

National Sleep Foundation releases 2013 International Bedroom Poll

Dakota Laboratories banned from manufacturing and distributing drugs

Radiologists train military physicians to remove foreign bodies with ultrasound-guided techniques

Money & Medicine: Pay differential for women docs grows, big employers see health costs jump, Rx coupons are no bargain

UT faculty members, students working together to improve disaster preparedness in Clay County

State highlights: Calif. bill to expand nurse role in health care dies; Ohio senior housing developer turns eye to primary care; examining Miss. trauma care costs

Student nurses need better role model for infection prevention and control

Medicare news: When nursing home benefits run out; reforming doc pay fix more costly than repeal

Wolters Kluwer Health and APTA join to publish the Journal of Acute Care Physical Therapy

Viewpoints: Shortages of drugs persist; number of Medicare doctors is growing; Obamacare undermines health savings accounts

Researchers evaluate association between body weight and health-related quality of life

Rural poor likely to feel the pinch of state decisions not to expand Medicaid

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