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Replacing short auto trips with bicycle trips would yield major health benefits

Cutting out short auto trips and replacing them with mass transit and active transport would yield major health benefits, according to a study just published in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives.

3 Nov 2011

UCSD, Rady Children's to host Building Sustainable Surgical Systems conference

UC San Diego School of Medicine and Rady Children's Hospital are hosting a joint Alliance for Surgery and Anesthesia (ASAP) and World Health Organization Global Initiative for Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (GIEESC) meeting November 9-11, 2011.

3 Nov 2011

OECD with Eurostat, WHO publishes manual on accounting practices for health service spending

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) "is urging all countries to meet a global standard in the way they account for their health service spending," BMJ reports, adding, "In October the OECD, in collaboration with Eurostat and the World Health Organization, published what it describes as a 'monster of a manual' called A System of Health Accounts.

3 Nov 2011

Nearly half of pregnant women in Southern China's poor areas do not get tested for syphilis, study shows

"Nearly half of pregnant women do not get tested for syphilis in poor areas of southern China where the sexually transmitted disease has seen a resurgence, researchers said Wednesday" in a study published in the WHO's November 2011 Bulletin, the Associated Press/Washington Post reports.

3 Nov 2011

Study highlights profound impact of maternal separation on infants

A woman goes into labor, and gives birth. The newborn is swaddled and placed to sleep in a nearby bassinet, or taken to the hospital nursery so that the mother can rest. Despite this common practice, new research published in Biological Psychiatry provides new evidence that separating infants from their mothers is stressful to the baby.

3 Nov 2011

Johns Hopkins Hospital receives NRC's Consumer Choice Award

For the 16th straight year, The Johns Hopkins Hospital has received the Consumer Choice Award from the National Research Corporation (NRC), a firm that specializes in health care performance measurement and improvement.

3 Nov 2011

Viewpoints: GOP intransigence on super committee; taxing health benefits would backfire; the need for care in defining essential benefits

There may be logic to Speaker John Boehner's insidious intransigence. Republicans keep saying no and Democrats keep offering more concessions. Super committee Republicans suggested instead a package based largely on cuts in Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, combined with magical hundreds of billions they say would be produced by slashing assistance to the elderly and the vulnerable, by selling off government assets, and by the growth sparked by tax cuts.

3 Nov 2011

UCC professor receives International Leadership Award from ACG

UCC's Professor Eamonn Quigley has been awarded an International Leadership Award from the American College of Gastroenterology, the first person to receive this award worldwide.

3 Nov 2011

CPM enters definitive merger agreement with HealthGrades

HealthGrades, the leading provider of information to help consumers make an informed decision about a physician or hospital and CPM, the leading provider of customer relationship management solutions for hospitals today announced a definitive agreement to merge the two companies.

3 Nov 2011

Bloomberg News examines how Latin American countries' abortion policies may hold lessons for Republican presidential candidates supporting abortion bans in U.S.

Bloomberg News examines abortion laws in Latin America and writes that the region, "home to the world's strictest abortion laws, may hold lessons for U.S. Republican presidential hopefuls who advocate a ban on the practice" in the U.S.

3 Nov 2011

New, poison-free approach to malaria control

With a new, poison-free approach to malaria control, researchers in the Solarmal project have expressed not only the hope to eliminate malaria in Africa at local level, but also to provide the local population with a source of sustainable energy. Research into this combined approach was facilitated due to a donation to Wageningen University Fund by the COmON foundation.

2 Nov 2011

StatLink announces upgrade for Med DataLink healthcare process management software system

Memphis-based process management technology company StatLink Systems has announced an upgrade for Med DataLink, its healthcare process management software system.

2 Nov 2011

Advocates push for integration of HIV/TB funding, programming in Kenya

This post in the Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog reports on a presentation at the Union World Conference on Lung Health in France on Saturday by Evelyne Kibuchi, a senior tuberculosis (TB) advocacy officer at the Kenya AIDS NGOs Consortium (KANCO), writing, "HIV stakeholders have been slow to embrace and adopt TB interventions, Kibuchi said, and resources for co-infection activities are modest.

2 Nov 2011

Prescription drug shortages: Endocrine Society calls for mandatory reporting by manufacturers

The Executive Order President Obama issued Monday directing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to take action to reduce prescription drug shortages is a commendable first step, but the White House could strengthen its directive and address the full scope of the problem by ordering mandatory reporting by manufacturers, which The Endocrine Society calls for in its Position Statement on drug shortages.

2 Nov 2011

First Edition: November 2, 2011

In today's headlines, reports about Tuesday's super committee hearing and the message communicated by bipartisan budget hawks to the panel -- raise revenue and revamp health programs.

2 Nov 2011

World population reaches 7 billion amid warnings about health, natural resources

"Countries around the world marked the world's population reaching seven billion Monday with lavish ceremonies for newborn infants symbolizing the milestone and warnings that there may be too many humans for the planet's resources," the Associated Press/MSNBC.com reports.

2 Nov 2011

Bacteria rapidly exchange genetic information related to human disease and antibiotic resistance

Much as people can exchange information instantaneously in the digital age, bacteria associated with humans and their livestock appear to freely and rapidly exchange genetic material related to human disease and antibiotic resistance through a mechanism called horizontal gene transfer (HGT).

2 Nov 2011

Study examines how perception of roles among ED staff can impact patient satisfaction

A study from Rhode Island Hospital examined how the perception of roles among emergency department staff can impact patient satisfaction. Through a web survey with embedded interventions, the researchers were able to determine where gaps exist in key indicators of patient satisfaction, while staff reported changing or reconsidering how these factors play into their roles.

2 Nov 2011

Hospitalized diabetic patients with acute kidney injury more likely to develop CKD

Findings from a recent University of Cincinnati (UC) and Cincinnati Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center study show that multiple episodes of acute kidney injury during hospital stays for patients with diabetes are associated with a risk for developing chronic kidney disease.

2 Nov 2011

Congress questions IRS on oversight of nonprofit hospitals

In August, the Illinois Department of Revenue moved to revoke the property tax exemptions enjoyed by three major nonprofit hospitals after a court ruling determined that a fourth hospital in the state did not provide enough charity care to justify the tax benefit.

2 Nov 2011

Healthcare News

Replacing short auto trips with bicycle trips would yield major health benefits

UCSD, Rady Children's to host Building Sustainable Surgical Systems conference

OECD with Eurostat, WHO publishes manual on accounting practices for health service spending

Nearly half of pregnant women in Southern China's poor areas do not get tested for syphilis, study shows

Study highlights profound impact of maternal separation on infants

Johns Hopkins Hospital receives NRC's Consumer Choice Award

Viewpoints: GOP intransigence on super committee; taxing health benefits would backfire; the need for care in defining essential benefits

UCC professor receives International Leadership Award from ACG

CPM enters definitive merger agreement with HealthGrades

Bloomberg News examines how Latin American countries' abortion policies may hold lessons for Republican presidential candidates supporting abortion bans in U.S.

New, poison-free approach to malaria control

StatLink announces upgrade for Med DataLink healthcare process management software system

Advocates push for integration of HIV/TB funding, programming in Kenya

Prescription drug shortages: Endocrine Society calls for mandatory reporting by manufacturers

First Edition: November 2, 2011

World population reaches 7 billion amid warnings about health, natural resources

Bacteria rapidly exchange genetic information related to human disease and antibiotic resistance

Study examines how perception of roles among ED staff can impact patient satisfaction

Hospitalized diabetic patients with acute kidney injury more likely to develop CKD

Congress questions IRS on oversight of nonprofit hospitals

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