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Blog examines connection between environment, agriculture, food security

Monday's "celebration of Earth Day is an opportunity to remind ourselves and our partners of the connection between our environment, agriculture, and food and nutrition security and how we can work together to end world hunger and undernutrition," Jonathan Shrier, acting special representative for global food security and deputy coordinator for diplomacy for Feed the Future, writes in the initiative's blog.

24 Apr 2013

FSMB to explore new system to increase efficiency in the licensing of physicians

The House of Delegates of the Federation of State Medical Boards has approved a resolution calling for the FSMB to formally explore the creation of a new system that would utilize an "interstate compact" to increase efficiency in the licensing of physicians who practice in multiple states.

24 Apr 2013

Methodist Hospital will soon have new brain and pituitary tumor treatment center

Brain and pituitary tumor patients will soon have access to a state-of-the-art facility at The Methodist Hospital, a result of a $10 million dollar commitment from a Houston oil executive.

24 Apr 2013

Bill Gates reflects on Global Vaccine Summit in foundation blog

"This week I'm going to Abu Dhabi to attend the Global Vaccine Summit to celebrate the tremendous progress the world has made in ending polio and immunizing children," Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, writes in the foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog.

24 Apr 2013

Pediatric nurse scientist awarded AACN Impact Research Grant

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses recently awarded a $50,000 AACN Impact Research Grant to Martha A.Q. Curley, RN, PhD, FAAN, a leading clinical scientist in pediatric critical care nursing.

24 Apr 2013

AMSSM awards Founders Award to Western Washington University physician

Warren Howe, MD, was awarded the Founders Award on Saturday, April 20, 2013, at the 22nd annual meeting of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine in San Diego, Calif.

24 Apr 2013

Supreme Court rejects tobacco industry challenge regarding graphic cigarette labels

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a tobacco-industry challenge to a 2009 federal law that requires graphic warning labels on cigarettes and expanded marketing restrictions on tobacco products.

24 Apr 2013

Viewpoints: Time to confirm Tavenner; 'Self-defeating' GOP plan for prevention fund; Parents need insurance too

The Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to hold a long-overdue vote on Tuesday on President Obama's nominee to lead the embattled agency responsible for overseeing Medicare, Medicaid and the implementation of health care reforms.

24 Apr 2013

State roundup: S.F. looks into allegations of patient dumping

San Francisco will investigate allegations that Nevada has bused hundreds of indigent people with mental illnesses out of state, including to the Northern California city.

24 Apr 2013

Study finds health care spending will rebound when economy picks up

The analysis by The Kaiser Family Foundation says the slowdown in health spending over the past several years was largely driven by the economic malaise.

24 Apr 2013

Johns Hopkins study finds that medical interns spend just 12% of time with patients

Medical interns spend just 12 percent of their time examining and talking with patients, and more than 40 percent of their time behind a computer, according to a new Johns Hopkins study that closely followed first-year residents at Baltimore's two large academic medical centers.

24 Apr 2013

AACN awards Impact Research Grant to Detroit palliative care expert

The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses recently awarded an AACN Impact Research Grant to Margaret "Meg" Campbell, RN, PhD, FAAN, a nationally known expert in hospital-based palliative care and end-of-life issues.

24 Apr 2013

Some Boston Marathon bomb victims will face insurance coverage limits

ayments for prosthetics, rehabilitation and a range of other treatments may fall outside some insurance limits and could continue long into the future.

24 Apr 2013

Researchers examine impact of Allies Against Asthma initiative on health care use

Children living in areas where there was wide-ranging and active support for improving outcomes for their chronic asthma were hospitalized less and made fewer visits to the emergency room, when compared with those in other communities.

24 Apr 2013

UAB research shows ACE unit lowers costs, readmission rates for geriatric patient

It costs less to care for a geriatric patient hospitalized in a specialized Acute Care for Elders unit than it does for patients hospitalized in a more usual care setting, according to new research from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

24 Apr 2013

Proposal would require insurers to report health law taxes

The measure's sponsor, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, bills it as a way to educate consumers about how the health law's benefits are funded.

24 Apr 2013

Next stage of health law triggers concern, confusion

News outlets report on the confusion that continues to surround the health law, especially as key provisions are about to take effect. Meanwhile, officials and activists strategize about how to educate consumers about their options.

24 Apr 2013

Home-based health education about diseases most effective, finds study

In the first study of its kind, lay health workers increased screening rates for hepatitis B virus (HBV) and knowledge about the disease among a group of Asian Americans, known as the Hmong, UC Davis researchers have found.

24 Apr 2013

Psychedelics continue to be widely used in US, researchers say

In their article "Over 30 million psychedelic users in the United States", Teri S Krebs and P-l--rjan Johansen from the Department of Neuroscience at Norwegian University of Science and Technology, use data from a randomly-selected sample of over 57,000 individuals surveyed for the 2010 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, to estimate lifetime prevalence of psychedelic use.

24 Apr 2013

Hospitals send immigrant patients to their home countries to curb costs

In interviews with immigrants, their families, attorneys and advocates, The Associated Press reviewed the obscure process known formally as "medical repatriation," which allows hospitals to put patients on chartered international flights, often while they are still unconscious.

24 Apr 2013

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Blog examines connection between environment, agriculture, food security

FSMB to explore new system to increase efficiency in the licensing of physicians

Methodist Hospital will soon have new brain and pituitary tumor treatment center

Bill Gates reflects on Global Vaccine Summit in foundation blog

Pediatric nurse scientist awarded AACN Impact Research Grant

AMSSM awards Founders Award to Western Washington University physician

Supreme Court rejects tobacco industry challenge regarding graphic cigarette labels

Viewpoints: Time to confirm Tavenner; 'Self-defeating' GOP plan for prevention fund; Parents need insurance too

State roundup: S.F. looks into allegations of patient dumping

Study finds health care spending will rebound when economy picks up

Johns Hopkins study finds that medical interns spend just 12% of time with patients

AACN awards Impact Research Grant to Detroit palliative care expert

Some Boston Marathon bomb victims will face insurance coverage limits

Researchers examine impact of Allies Against Asthma initiative on health care use

UAB research shows ACE unit lowers costs, readmission rates for geriatric patient

Proposal would require insurers to report health law taxes

Next stage of health law triggers concern, confusion

Home-based health education about diseases most effective, finds study

Psychedelics continue to be widely used in US, researchers say

Hospitals send immigrant patients to their home countries to curb costs

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