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New study shows that exercise does not worsen pain associated with fibromyalgia

For many people who have fibromyalgia, even the thought of exercising is painful. Yet a new study from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center shows that exercise does not worsen the pain associated with the disorder and may even lessen it over time.

3 May 2013

Concerns surround medical records privacy issues

The sharing of Americans' health information is set to explode in coming years, with millions of patients' medical records converted to electronic form and analyzed by health-care providers, insurers, regulators and researchers.

3 May 2013

Early rate requests from insurers provide few clues for small businesses attempting to determine costs

The Associated Press reports that, because many steps remain in the rate setting process, the initial rates announced by insurers do not offer "clarity."

3 May 2013

The Guardian examines new reports on nutrition spending

The Guardian examines two new reports on nutrition spending. "Ambitions to eradicate world hunger will not be realized if aid for basic nutrition remains at only 0.4 percent of total official development assistance (ODA), according to the research group Development Initiatives (DI)," the newspaper writes.

2 May 2013

Fluoride in drinking water and oral-care products prevents tooth decay, shows research

In an advance toward solving a 50-year-old mystery, scientists are reporting new evidence on how the fluoride in drinking water, toothpastes, mouth rinses and other oral-care products prevents tooth decay.

2 May 2013

First Edition: May 2, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about a new study detailing how expanded Medicaid access impacts beneficiaries' utilization of health care services and their overall physical health.

2 May 2013

May issue of WHO Bulletin available online

The May issue of the WHO Bulletin features an editorial examining policy coherence for improved medical innovation and access, a public health news roundup, several research papers on maternal and child health, and a review of 12-month antiretroviral therapy outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, among other articles (May 2013).

2 May 2013

To reach 'FP2020' goal, targets must be re-examined

Participants at the 2012 London Family Planning Summit "pledged $2.6 billion dollars in additional funding to achieve a worthy goal: provide 120 million new women who have 'unmet need' with family planning products and services by 2020 in 69 of the world's poorest countries," a movement dubbed "FP2020," Christopher Purdy, executive vice president of DKT International, writes in the Huffington Post's "Global Motherhood" blog.

2 May 2013

UNICEF, partners step up measles immunization campaign in Middle East; U.K. provides funding for WFP work in region

UNICEF and its partners "have stepped up vaccination campaigns in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey amid measles outbreaks in a region already struggling to provide humanitarian assistance to millions of people affected by ongoing conflict in Syria," the U.N. News Centre reports (4/30).

2 May 2013

U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Goosby to visit India this week

Ambassador Eric Goosby, head of the U.S. State Department's Office of Global Health Diplomacy and the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator, "is travelling to India this week to recognize the successful health partnership between the two countries, an official statement said," the Press Trust of India/Business Standard reports.

2 May 2013

PLOS 'Q&A' blog post highlights PLOS Medicine series

In the latest installment of the PLOS "Speaking of Medicine" blog's Q&A series, Pamela Collins, director of the Office for Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health at the National Institute of Mental Health and "the corresponding author of a series of Policy Forum articles in PLOS Medicine that provides a global perspective on integrating mental health," answers questions "about some of the topics discussed in the new series, which will be published in PLOS Medicine weekly for the next five weeks, starting with the publication [on Tuesday] of a Policy Forum article discussing integration in research, policy, and practice."

2 May 2013

Survey: Half of U.S. plastic surgeons use social media platforms in their professional practice

Half of U.S. plastic surgeons are using Facebook, Twitter and other social media platforms in their professional practice, according to a survey in the May issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons.

2 May 2013

PEPFAR reauthorization 'rests with Congress,' OGAC official says

Speaking at a briefing on Tuesday at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C., Deputy Global AIDS Coordinator Julia Martin said "[t]he decision about whether to reauthorize [PEPFAR] 'rests with Congress. ... Whether we move in that direction is yet to be fully determined but PEPFAR will continue at the will of Congress,'" CQ HealthBeat reports.

2 May 2013

New study examines injuries to children related to amusement rides

A new study by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital examined injuries to children related to amusement rides, which included rides at amusement parks (fixed-site rides), rides at fairs and festivals (mobile rides) and rides found at local malls, stores, restaurants or arcades (mall rides).

2 May 2013

Opinion pieces address Global Vaccine Summit

Project Syndicate last week published two opinion pieces addressing the Global Vaccine Summit, held in Abu Dhabi from April 24-25, which was hosted by His Highness General Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, in partnership with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

2 May 2013

Researchers awarded grant to reduce higher rates of stroke among underserved populations

UCLA researchers and their partners across Los Angeles County have been awarded an $11 million grant to fund research on community-based interventions to reduce the higher rates of stroke and death from stroke among disadvantaged Hispanics, African Americans and Asian-Americans.

2 May 2013

MSF, GAVI Alliance vaccine discussion shows complications in global health programs

Writing in the American Public Health Association International Health Section's "IH-Blog," Jessica Keralis, IH Communications Committee chair, highlights three recently released advocacy videos by Médecins Sans Frontières discussing child vaccines and a subsequent conversation between MSF and the GAVI Alliance over vaccine pricing.

2 May 2013

ABA honors Loyola's Burn & Shock Trauma Institute director with President's Leadership Award

Richard L. Gamelli, MD, FACS, senior vice president and provost of the Health Sciences Division at Loyola University Chicago, has been awarded the President's Leadership Award from the American Burn Association.

2 May 2013

Grand Challenges Canada funds innovative ideas to solve global health problems

"Grand Challenges Canada just announced grants of $100,000 for 102 imaginative new ideas to tackle health problems in resource-poor countries," Inter Press Service reports, noting, "Of these, 59 grants went to researchers in 13 low- and middle-income nations worldwide."

2 May 2013

New study suggests that rural communities need different CPR recommendations

Hands-only CPR (CPR without mouth-to-mouth resuscitation), may not be the best method for rural or remote areas or for anyone who has to wait more than a few minutes for an ambulance, a new study suggests.

2 May 2013

Healthcare News

New study shows that exercise does not worsen pain associated with fibromyalgia

Concerns surround medical records privacy issues

Early rate requests from insurers provide few clues for small businesses attempting to determine costs

The Guardian examines new reports on nutrition spending

Fluoride in drinking water and oral-care products prevents tooth decay, shows research

First Edition: May 2, 2013

May issue of WHO Bulletin available online

To reach 'FP2020' goal, targets must be re-examined

UNICEF, partners step up measles immunization campaign in Middle East; U.K. provides funding for WFP work in region

U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Goosby to visit India this week

PLOS 'Q&A' blog post highlights PLOS Medicine series

Survey: Half of U.S. plastic surgeons use social media platforms in their professional practice

PEPFAR reauthorization 'rests with Congress,' OGAC official says

New study examines injuries to children related to amusement rides

Opinion pieces address Global Vaccine Summit

Researchers awarded grant to reduce higher rates of stroke among underserved populations

MSF, GAVI Alliance vaccine discussion shows complications in global health programs

ABA honors Loyola's Burn & Shock Trauma Institute director with President's Leadership Award

Grand Challenges Canada funds innovative ideas to solve global health problems

New study suggests that rural communities need different CPR recommendations

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