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Competition key ingredient to success of state health exchanges

Stateline reports that even some of the strongest health exchange enthusiasts are concerned that some states will still only have limited insurance choices for consumers.

24 Apr 2013

McGraw-Hill publishes preeminent textbook for pulmonary physiology in Lange Physiology Series

The 8th Edition of PULMONARY PHYSIOLOGY by Dr. Michael G. Levitzky, Professor of Physiology, Anesthesiology, and Cardiopulmonary Science at LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans, was published this month by McGraw-Hill in its Lange Physiology Series.

24 Apr 2013

Children access to unlocked, loaded firearms remains problem

While gun control issues usually surface after major incidents like the fatal shooting of 20 elementary school students in Newtown, CT, a new study shows that children are routinely killed or injured by firearms.

24 Apr 2013

Adult day care centers tally big Medicaid costs

Not a wheelchair or walker was in sight at these so-called social adult day care centers. Yet the cost of attendance was indirectly being paid by Medicaid, under Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's sweeping redesign of $2 billion in spending on long-term care meant for the impaired elderly and those with disabilities.

24 Apr 2013

Physician receives $3M grant from NIAAA to validate teen alcohol-screening initiative

Hasbro Children's Hospital emergency medicine physician James Linakis, M.D., Ph.D, was recently awarded a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to validate a more efficient test to screen teenagers for future alcohol abuse and other risk behaviors.

23 Apr 2013

Tangiers Group launches individual travel medical insurance plan, group healthcare plan

Tangiers Group announce the formation of a product development and insurance underwriting subsidiary called Tangiers Global. The company's goal is to provide creative insurance solutions for workers, travellers, and volunteers living in or visiting dangerous places.

23 Apr 2013

Team-based care approach can improve patient care, practice workflows, and patient-physician satisfaction

In a team-based care approach, a diverse group of clinicians shares responsibility for a panel of patients and consults with each other regularly. This model of delivering primary care can improve patient care, practice workflows, and patient and physician satisfaction, according to a study published in Population Health Management, a peer-reviewed journal from Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers.

23 Apr 2013

Study: Primary care density correlated with lung cancer mortality in white population

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related deaths and is tied as the third leading cause of death overall in industrialized countries. Within the United States, several groups identified by race, sex, and socioeconomic status have been linked to increased cancer mortality, suggesting a disparity because of these characteristics.

23 Apr 2013

RUSM students to perform clinical training at Vanguard MacNeal Hospital

Ross University School of Medicine announced an agreement with Vanguard MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Ill. which enables RUSM students to perform clinical training in the Chicago-area teaching hospital.

23 Apr 2013

Senate immigration bill could boost healthcare workforce

News outlets report that the plan could make it easier for foreign-born doctors to come to the United States while reducing the dependence of newly legal immigrants on emergency rooms.

23 Apr 2013

Health experts are turning to HIA to predict the effects of gas drilling on local communities

As natural gas development expands nationwide, policymakers, communities and public health experts are increasingly turning to health impact assessments (HIA) as a means of predicting the effects of drilling on local communities, according to a new study from the Colorado School of Public Health.

23 Apr 2013

First Edition: April 23, 2013

Today's headlines include reports about immigrant patients' health care as well as the coverage limits that some victims of the Boston Marathon bombings might face.

23 Apr 2013

GeneCapture developing new device with one-hour pathogen testing capabilities

A company hatched as a partnership between The University of Alabama in Huntsville and chemical engineering professor Dr. Krishnan Chittur is in the design phase for a device that can provide physicians one-hour pathogen testing capabilities.

23 Apr 2013

USAID working to meet family planning needs of women in DRC

"More than 26 percent of married women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo want to avoid pregnancy but aren't using a modern method of family planning," Christopher Hook, program assistant for USAID's Office of Population and Reproductive Health, writes in the agency's "IMPACTblog," adding, "Furthermore, meeting this demand for family planning is not an easy task in the DRC, where deep-seated traditional and religious views exist around family size, gender roles and the use of contraception."

23 Apr 2013

Recruiting 'healthcare representatives' from prisoner population

A project to involve inmates in shaping health care led to 50 per cent higher prisoner contact with health services in an English prison and improved the working lives of prison staff.

23 Apr 2013

Two studies examine safety of nitrous oxide for surgical anesthesia

Giving nitrous oxide as part of general anesthesia for noncardiac surgery doesn't increase the rate of complications and death—and might even decrease the risk of such events, according to a pair of studies in the May issue of Anesthesia & Analgesia, official journal of the International Anesthesia Research Society.

23 Apr 2013

U.S. Supreme Court to hear oral arguments to decide fate of anti-prostitution pledge

"On Monday, the Supreme Court hears oral arguments in a case that will decide if recipients of government aid can be forced to oppose prostitution -- or potentially any other issue as a contingency of receiving U.S. funds," The Nation reports.

23 Apr 2013

U.K., international community should follow Africa's lead on efforts to stop FGM

"Last month the U.K. Department for International Development announced that £35 million [$53.3 million] would be provided to help eliminate female genital mutilation in Africa and elsewhere," Efua Dorkenoo, advocacy director of the FGM program for Equality Now, writes in the Guardian's "Global Development Professionals Network."

23 Apr 2013

Sound Physicians to provide hospitalist services to Bakersfield's San Joaquin Community Hospital

Sound Physicians, a leading hospitalist organization focused on driving improvements in quality, satisfaction and financial performance of inpatient healthcare delivery, announced today an agreement to provide hospitalist services at San Joaquin Community Hospital in Bakersfield, Calif.

23 Apr 2013

Tree nuts consumption helps improve health

Three new studies involving tree nuts (almonds, Brazil nuts, cashews, hazelnuts, macadamias, pecans, pine nuts, pistachios and walnuts) were presented this week at the Experimental Biology Meeting in Boston, MA.

23 Apr 2013

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Competition key ingredient to success of state health exchanges

McGraw-Hill publishes preeminent textbook for pulmonary physiology in Lange Physiology Series

Children access to unlocked, loaded firearms remains problem

Adult day care centers tally big Medicaid costs

Physician receives $3M grant from NIAAA to validate teen alcohol-screening initiative

Tangiers Group launches individual travel medical insurance plan, group healthcare plan

Team-based care approach can improve patient care, practice workflows, and patient-physician satisfaction

Study: Primary care density correlated with lung cancer mortality in white population

RUSM students to perform clinical training at Vanguard MacNeal Hospital

Senate immigration bill could boost healthcare workforce

Health experts are turning to HIA to predict the effects of gas drilling on local communities

First Edition: April 23, 2013

GeneCapture developing new device with one-hour pathogen testing capabilities

USAID working to meet family planning needs of women in DRC

Recruiting 'healthcare representatives' from prisoner population

Two studies examine safety of nitrous oxide for surgical anesthesia

U.S. Supreme Court to hear oral arguments to decide fate of anti-prostitution pledge

U.K., international community should follow Africa's lead on efforts to stop FGM

Sound Physicians to provide hospitalist services to Bakersfield's San Joaquin Community Hospital

Tree nuts consumption helps improve health

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