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80 House GOP members urge Boehner to defund Obamacare

House Speaker John Boehner floated the idea of a short-term spending bill to avoid a government shutdown in October. But conservatives in his caucus expressed opposition, insisting that funds be stripped from the health care law even if that forces a government shutdown.

26 Aug 2013

Loyola's Advanced Procedure Education Classroom offered first ASSET course on August 17

Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine's Advanced Procedure Education Classroom offered its first Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma course on Saturday, August 17 at the Maywood campus.

26 Aug 2013

HEALTHY FUTURES project aims to address risk of outbreaks, transmission of VBDs

Important outputs are starting to arise from the HEALTHY FUTURES (Health, environmental change and adaptive capacity) project, which aims to address the risk of outbreaks and transmission of three water-related vector-borne diseases (VBDs) in eastern Africa. HEALTHY FUTURES is now past its halfway point, with less than eighteen months of the project remaining.

26 Aug 2013

Researchers request all countries to record smoking on death registries

Researchers today [Friday 23 August] call for official death registries in all countries to record whether the dead person was a smoker, in a research Article published in The Lancet.

23 Aug 2013

First Edition: August 23, 2013

Today's headlines include reports on what's becoming of the potential for a deficit deal, as well as the political posturing related to the House GOP efforts to block health law funding even if it means shutting down the government.

23 Aug 2013

UCLA-led study points to simple solution that could save Medicare dollars for patients

As everyone knows, medications are expensive, and even with insurance coverage, patients' out-of-pocket drug costs can be quite hefty. This holds true for individuals with Medicare Part D, also known as the prescription drug benefit, which subsidizes the cost of medications for about 28 million Medicare beneficiaries.

23 Aug 2013

Millions of Chinese face risk of chronic arsenic poisoning

Since the 1960s, it has been known that groundwater resources in certain provinces of China are contaminated with arsenic. Estimates of the numbers of affected people have risen year by year. In the most recent survey - conducted by the Chinese Ministry of Health between 2001 and 2005 - more than 20,000 (5%) of the 445,000 wells tested showed arsenic concentrations higher than 50 -g/L.

23 Aug 2013

WHO hand-hygiene compliance strategy easy for health-care workers to practise

WHO's strategy for improving hand hygiene is easy for health-care workers to practise, according to a new study published today in "Lancet Infectious Diseases". Health care-associated infections are a major threat to patient safety worldwide and transmission in these settings is mainly from the hands of health-care workers.

23 Aug 2013

Tufts Health Plan provides positive coverage decision and in-network provider status to bioTheranostics

bioTheranostics, a leading provider of molecular diagnostic solutions for cancer, has received a positive coverage decision and in-network provider status from Tufts Health Plan for its CancerTYPE ID molecular cancer classifier.

23 Aug 2013

Birth control mandate could cause health law's speedy Supreme Court return

ObamaCare's birth control mandate is putting the president's signature legislative issue on a fast track back to the Supreme Court.

23 Aug 2013

Experts test new tool for providing tailor-made health care to elderly

Providing health care modulated on the specific needs of elderly for re-orienting national health systems toward a change of approach with patients. This should become the reference health strategy for the European Union, if it wants to achieve effective and efficient therapeutic goals, lowering costs while ensuring all appropriate health services, in particular when addressing the paramount issue of population progressive aging.

23 Aug 2013

Effective management of free time has greater impact on retiree's quality of life

Retirees should be masters of their own destiny, and actively manage and plan their free time to ensure a happy and fulfilling retirement. This is the advice of Wei-Ching Wang of the I-Shou University in Taiwan, leader of a study published in Springer's journal Applied Research in Quality of Life.

23 Aug 2013

Ultimate DIY book for laboratory chemists in search of next generation medicines

Pharmaceuticals of the future will be fashioned using the human body's own chemical substances, proteins and peptides. And now, University of Copenhagen chemists have published the ultimate DIY book for laboratory chemists in search of this next generation of medicines.

23 Aug 2013

State highlights: Health plan settles with D.C. over payments; Ga. judge won't stop contract despite UnitedHealthcare concerns; Calif. voters know little on Obamacare

A selection of health policy stories from the District of Columbia, Georgia, California, New York, Montana, Oregon and Pennsylvania.

23 Aug 2013

Longer looks: Gunshot season for surgeons; Hispanic teen suicide; the economics of pregnancy

Every week reporter Ankita Rao selects interesting reading from around the Web.

23 Aug 2013

New studies indicate the law's first year will be marked by slightly higher costs, more wellness incentives

As American workers prepare for the first open enrollment season of the Obamacare era, hints are surfacing about what awaits them - higher deductibles, more incentives for staying well and premium hikes that continue to out-strip wages, albeit by more moderate amounts than in the past. For coverage in 2014, the first year in which key parts of the Affordable Care Act's healthcare reforms take effect, premium increases will be about 5 percent, according to two studies (Pinsker, 8/21).

23 Aug 2013

Healthy and obese kids who participated in lifestyle modification program show improved heart health

A UCLA School of Nursing study has found that both healthy-weight and obese children who participated in an intensive lifestyle modification program significantly improved their metabolic and cardiovascular health despite little weight loss.

23 Aug 2013

NYU Langone Medical Center announces opening of new wound healing center

NYU Langone Medical Center announces the opening of the new Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Hyperbaric and Advanced Wound Healing Center at 240 East 38th Street. One of only two Hyperbaric Centers in Manhattan providing treatment to patients with chronic non-healing wounds, patients now have access to surgical and non-surgical expertise within one location.

23 Aug 2013

Viewpoints: Health spending driving U.S. recovery; time to get rid of the insurance middle man

Here is the most interesting fact about the economy that you've never heard: Without health-care spending, the rest of the economy is barely producing more than it did in late 2007, just before the start of the Great Recession.

23 Aug 2013

Report finds number of doctors accepting Medicare patients is up

The number of physicians accepting new Medicare patients rose by one-third between 2007 and 2011 and is now higher than the number of physicians accepting new private insurance patients, according to a Department of Health and Human Services report obtained by USA TODAY. In 2007, about 925,000 doctors billed Medicare for their services. In 2011, that number had risen to 1.25 million, according to the report by the HHS Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (Kennedy, 8/22).

23 Aug 2013

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80 House GOP members urge Boehner to defund Obamacare

Loyola's Advanced Procedure Education Classroom offered first ASSET course on August 17

HEALTHY FUTURES project aims to address risk of outbreaks, transmission of VBDs

Researchers request all countries to record smoking on death registries

First Edition: August 23, 2013

UCLA-led study points to simple solution that could save Medicare dollars for patients

Millions of Chinese face risk of chronic arsenic poisoning

WHO hand-hygiene compliance strategy easy for health-care workers to practise

Tufts Health Plan provides positive coverage decision and in-network provider status to bioTheranostics

Birth control mandate could cause health law's speedy Supreme Court return

Experts test new tool for providing tailor-made health care to elderly

Effective management of free time has greater impact on retiree's quality of life

Ultimate DIY book for laboratory chemists in search of next generation medicines

State highlights: Health plan settles with D.C. over payments; Ga. judge won't stop contract despite UnitedHealthcare concerns; Calif. voters know little on Obamacare

Longer looks: Gunshot season for surgeons; Hispanic teen suicide; the economics of pregnancy

New studies indicate the law's first year will be marked by slightly higher costs, more wellness incentives

Healthy and obese kids who participated in lifestyle modification program show improved heart health

NYU Langone Medical Center announces opening of new wound healing center

Viewpoints: Health spending driving U.S. recovery; time to get rid of the insurance middle man

Report finds number of doctors accepting Medicare patients is up

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