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Gates blog examines potential impact of improving access to contraceptives globally

In this post in the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's "Impatient Optimists" blog, Max Kamin-Cross, a self-proclaimed political junky and youth activist, writes that by improving access to contraceptives, "we could lift millions of people of all races and both genders out of poverty throughout the world," "we could significantly decrease the number of premature deaths, as well as the number of lives claimed by deadly infections like HIV," and "the quality of life for millions more people would be drastically improved."

24 Aug 2012

Proposed U.S. legislation would 'set the standard' for global efforts to combat counterfeit drugs

In this Forbes opinion piece, John Lechleiter, president and chief executive officer of Eli Lilly and Company, examines the business of counterfeit medicines, writing, "With global sales last year estimated as high as $200 billion, counterfeit medicine is big business, and it's growing."

24 Aug 2012

IRIN examines efforts of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to end country's dependence on food aid

Noting the death of Ethiopia's prime minister on Monday, IRIN "looks at his legacy in promoting food self-sufficiency and fighting rural poverty in a country historically associated with drought and environmental stress," writing, "During his two decades in power, Meles Zenawi committed himself to ending Ethiopia's dependence on food aid."

24 Aug 2012

Views on Akin and abortion: Both parties energized by candidate's remarks on rape, but does it clarify abortion debate?

There's something off -- something a bit cowardly, actually -- about the positions of both parties in the abortion debate refueled by the asinine remarks of Rep. Todd Akin (R-Mo.). Akin's comments have left Republicans scrambling to avoid the politically unpalatable implications of the anti-abortion views central to their party.

24 Aug 2012

Racial differences persist in prostate cancer surgical care

A study led by investigators from Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), Nashville, Tenn., finds that black men with prostate cancer receive lower quality surgical care than white men. The racial differences persist even when controlling for factors such as the year of surgery, age, comorbidities and insurance status.

24 Aug 2012

Views on Ryan's Medicare plan: A change from 'petty' politics; 'Creative approach' to solving the problem; Time for a 'serious national debate'

By picking Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney introduced Medicare into his campaign for the presidency. Veterans of the entitlement wars immediately said that in doing so Gov. Romney was suiciding his candidacy.

24 Aug 2012

OUP, prestigious Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene journals announce partnership

The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene's two prestigious journals will join the Oxford University Press (OUP) collection in a new partnership announced between the organizations.

24 Aug 2012

Roundup: Ore. lawmakers examine 'disclosure' as way to limit malpractice claims; $2.8M in fraudulent public assistance given in Mass.; Md. exchange announcement Thursday

Lawmakers are expected to take up tort reform when the Oregon Legislature convenes next February. To get those discussions moving, a Patient Safety and Defensive Medicine Workgroup is developing draft legislation that includes issues such as confidentiality, mediation, dispute resolution, litigation, discovery and patient safety. Disclosure -- informing patients when a serious medical event has occurred in a hospital setting -- is also on the table.

24 Aug 2012

Food insecure HIV-infected poor people more likely to visit ERs

UCSF researchers found that poor HIV-infected individuals living in San Francisco are significantly more likely to visit emergency rooms and to have hospital stays if they lack access to food of sufficient quality and quantity for a healthy life.

23 Aug 2012

Women with heart attack symptoms receive lower quality of care than men

A new study published recently in the American Journal of Medicine, conducted by researchers in the Cardiac and Vascular Institute at NYU Langone Medical Center, found there was significantly lower quality of care and worse outcomes in women compared to men - particularly young women under age 35 who had heart attack symptoms.

23 Aug 2012

Agenda now available for Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics symposium

TCT 2012 (Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics), the annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation will provide significant clinical research updates to technologies and practices in interventional cardiology that will directly affect patient care.

23 Aug 2012

The Beryl Companies, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas launch CultureIQ

Paul Spiegelman, chief executive officer of The Beryl Companies, and Britt Berrett, president of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, have launched the CultureIQ score.

23 Aug 2012

SAMHSA announces 2012 Minority Fellowship Program grant

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's (SAMHSA) Administrator Pamela S. Hyde today announced the award of a minority fellowship grant of up to $1.6 million to expand the behavioral health workforce in order to reduce health disparities and improve health care outcomes for traditionally underserved populations.

23 Aug 2012

First Edition: August 23, 2012

Today's headlines offer more coverage of how Medicare and abortion issues are emerging both in the presidential campaign and congressional races.

23 Aug 2012

CMS announces participation of PCPs in Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

The American College of Physicians (ACP) today praised the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for its announcement of primary care practices to participate in a historic public-private partnership to strengthen primary care, the Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative (CPCI).

23 Aug 2012

Hospitals tackle variety of health law issues

News outlets report on a variety of issues including the slow acceptance of ACOs and a legal set-back for doctor-owned facilities.

23 Aug 2012

Australian doctors in training spend significantly less time consulting with children

Australian doctors-in-training spend significantly less time consulting with pediatric patients than they do with adults, according to a new study published in the journal Australian Family Physician.

23 Aug 2012

Guardian examines road safety in Bangladesh

The Guardian examines road safety in Bangladesh, writing, "Road crashes disproportionately affect poor families, and cost Bangladesh almost as much as it receives in foreign aid."

23 Aug 2012

Blog examines Nicaragua's national deworming program

This post in the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases' "End the Neglect" blog, part of a six-part series of blog posts covering interesting elements of the Nicaragua experience highlighted in the case study entitled "Worms and WASH(ED)," examines how the country's "history in ensuring a national deworming program has shed light on the potential for success."

23 Aug 2012

'ESASO Course Series’ for ophthalmologists

In the new book series 'ESASO Course Series', the essentials of the courses of the European School for Advanced Studies in Ophthalmology (ESASO) are made available to interested ophthalmologists, optometrists, technicians and residents all over the world.

23 Aug 2012

Healthcare News

Gates blog examines potential impact of improving access to contraceptives globally

Proposed U.S. legislation would 'set the standard' for global efforts to combat counterfeit drugs

IRIN examines efforts of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi to end country's dependence on food aid

Views on Akin and abortion: Both parties energized by candidate's remarks on rape, but does it clarify abortion debate?

Racial differences persist in prostate cancer surgical care

Views on Ryan's Medicare plan: A change from 'petty' politics; 'Creative approach' to solving the problem; Time for a 'serious national debate'

OUP, prestigious Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene journals announce partnership

Roundup: Ore. lawmakers examine 'disclosure' as way to limit malpractice claims; $2.8M in fraudulent public assistance given in Mass.; Md. exchange announcement Thursday

Food insecure HIV-infected poor people more likely to visit ERs

Women with heart attack symptoms receive lower quality of care than men

Agenda now available for Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics symposium

The Beryl Companies, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas launch CultureIQ

SAMHSA announces 2012 Minority Fellowship Program grant

First Edition: August 23, 2012

CMS announces participation of PCPs in Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative

Hospitals tackle variety of health law issues

Australian doctors in training spend significantly less time consulting with children

Guardian examines road safety in Bangladesh

Blog examines Nicaragua's national deworming program

'ESASO Course Series’ for ophthalmologists

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

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A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

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