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New screening tool to help reduce workplace accidents and illnesses

An international team of sleep researchers has developed the world's first screening tool to help reduce workplace accidents and illnesses, including cardiovascular disease and cancer, caused by shift work.

4 Dec 2012

The Leapfrog Group honors Northwestern Memorial and Lake Forest with 'A' Hospital Safety Score

Memorial Hospital and Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital have been selected as 2012 Top Hospitals by The Leapfrog Group, an organization that provides the only national, public comparison of hospitals across safety, quality and efficiency dimensions. Northwestern Memorial and Northwestern Lake Forest are honored among an elite group of only 92 hospitals selected out of nearly 1,200 surveyed.

4 Dec 2012

Mercury pollution in marine environment contaminates seafood

In new research published in a special issue of the journal Environmental Health Perspectives and in "Sources to Seafood: Mercury Pollution in the Marine Environment"- a companion report by the Dartmouth-led Coastal and Marine Mercury Ecosystem Research Collaborative (C-MERC), scientists report that mercury released into the air and then deposited into oceans contaminates seafood commonly eaten by people in the U.S. and globally.

4 Dec 2012

State department's 'DipNote' blog publishes pieces surrounding World AIDS Day

In recognition of World AIDS Day on December 1, the U.S. Department of State's "DipNote" blog published several posts examining HIV/AIDS around the world. The following summarize those posts.

4 Dec 2012

Questions raised over cost of, funding for Obama administration's AIDS blueprint

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday announced the Obama administration's "President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation", which calls for a combination of prevention strategies including widespread treatment, "male circumcision, condom distribution and stopping transmission from mother to child," NPR's "Shots" blog reports.

4 Dec 2012

Hospital news: Mergers, acquisitions and delivery of care make news around nation

Hospitals in California, New York and across the nation deal with mergers, acquisitions, delivery of care and fines in the marketplace. In the meantime, doctors whose practices were purchased by hospital chains feel increasing pressure to meet financial goals.

4 Dec 2012

GlobalPost examines HIV/AIDS in Asia, Africa

As part of its series titled "The State of HIV/AIDS," GlobalPost published two stories examining the epidemic in different regions of the world. In one article, the news service looks at the spread and control of HIV in Asia, writing, "No generalized epidemic has broken out across the region, HIV infection rates have stabilized in many countries, and more and more people are receiving antiretroviral medication."

4 Dec 2012

Blogs address global AIDS issues following World AIDS Day, release of U.S. blueprint

The following blog posts address global AIDS issues, following World AIDS Day on December 1 and the release of the Obama administration's "President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Blueprint: Creating an AIDS-free Generation" on November 29.

4 Dec 2012

Viewpoints: Disputing Obama's and GOP's commitment to cutting spending and avoiding fiscal cliff

President Obama has said he wants to reform entitlements eventually, someday, after Republicans raise taxes. Republicans want the President to sign on to serious reform now as part of any deal, since AARP and the left will kill anything that isn't passed immediately. Given the political difficulty of reforming entitlements, Republicans are right to try to get Mr. Obama's fingerprints on such a deal this year.

4 Dec 2012

Study examines effectiveness of German mammography screening program

How effective is the German mammography screening program? This is the question examined by Oliver Heidinger of the Epidemiological Cancer Registry North Rhine-Westphalia and his co-authors in the first study on this subject in Germany, in Deutsches -rzteblatt International.

4 Dec 2012

Political, policy decisions swirl around state plans to implement health exchanges, Medicaid expansion

Even as the Department of Health and Human Services releases regulations offering guidance for the health law's online insurance marketplaces, these health exchanges -- as well as the overhaul's Medicaid expansion -- continue to be hot topics.

3 Dec 2012

Colleges and universities should implement new or improved flu vaccine strategies

College football and basketball games may provide more than a way for students to show school spirit - they could help prevent the flu.

3 Dec 2012

Study compares mental health-related ED visits between children with and without ASD

In the first study to compare mental health-related emergency department (ED) visits between children with and without autism spectrum disorders (ASD), researchers found that ED visits are nine times more likely to be for psychiatric reasons if a child has an ASD diagnosis.

3 Dec 2012

Roundup: Iowa Gov. proposes insurance premium hike for state workers; Mental health care fund questioned in Calif.

Proposition 63, which voters approved in 2004, was touted as a way to address serious mental illnesses in California, but in the years since, critics -- including some of the original supporters -- have argued that it has gone off the rails in its implementation.

3 Dec 2012

American Heart Association's Charlotte Chapter receives $20,000 from AT&T

AT&T today donated $20,000 to the American Heart Association's Charlotte chapter, the largest donation thus far to the organization's 2013 campaign.

3 Dec 2012

Hospice Compassus publicly reveals patient quality data

Hospice Compassus, a Nashville, Tenn.-based company that operates a nationwide network of hospice programs, has become the first hospice provider in the U.S. to publicly reveal patient quality data.

3 Dec 2012

Bry-Air and Bhartiya Jagriti Manch organize free eye camp

A free eye camp was organized by Bry-Air and Bhartiya Jagriti Manch, Moga. Patients from Moga and its surrounding villages, viz. Chande Wala, Charik, Bhadai, Chugawan, Rauli, Dala, etc. came to the camp for free eye check-up.

3 Dec 2012

'Fiscal Cliff' talks morphing into high-stakes game of political chicken

White House negotiators and GOP lawmakers remain at odds over a deficit-reduction plan with only weeks to go before automatic spending cuts and tax increases are triggered.

3 Dec 2012

McHenry County Caregivers Conference to be held on April 6, 2013

McHenry County Caregivers Conference, Saturday, April 6, 2013, presented by Elderwerks has pulled together professionals, care agencies and service organizations who help relieve and assist the caregiver.

3 Dec 2012

First Edition: December 3, 2012

For years, King/Drew provided emergency, trauma and inpatient care to residents from throughout South Los Angeles. After a series of medical errors resulted in patient deaths, Los Angeles County closed it in 2007. County officials promised the community a better, safer new medical center in a few years.

3 Dec 2012

Healthcare News

New screening tool to help reduce workplace accidents and illnesses

The Leapfrog Group honors Northwestern Memorial and Lake Forest with 'A' Hospital Safety Score

Mercury pollution in marine environment contaminates seafood

State department's 'DipNote' blog publishes pieces surrounding World AIDS Day

Questions raised over cost of, funding for Obama administration's AIDS blueprint

Hospital news: Mergers, acquisitions and delivery of care make news around nation

GlobalPost examines HIV/AIDS in Asia, Africa

Blogs address global AIDS issues following World AIDS Day, release of U.S. blueprint

Viewpoints: Disputing Obama's and GOP's commitment to cutting spending and avoiding fiscal cliff

Study examines effectiveness of German mammography screening program

Political, policy decisions swirl around state plans to implement health exchanges, Medicaid expansion

Colleges and universities should implement new or improved flu vaccine strategies

Study compares mental health-related ED visits between children with and without ASD

Roundup: Iowa Gov. proposes insurance premium hike for state workers; Mental health care fund questioned in Calif.

American Heart Association's Charlotte Chapter receives $20,000 from AT&T

Hospice Compassus publicly reveals patient quality data

Bry-Air and Bhartiya Jagriti Manch organize free eye camp

'Fiscal Cliff' talks morphing into high-stakes game of political chicken

McHenry County Caregivers Conference to be held on April 6, 2013

First Edition: December 3, 2012

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

How Pulp Fixin Is Turning Paper into High-Performance Sustainable Labware

A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

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