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CIBMTR report shows higher survival rate for patients treated at RPCI's BMT program

Outcomes for patients treated through the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program at Roswell Park Cancer Institute (RPCI) are among the highest in the nation. For the second consecutive year, a report compiled by the Center for International Blood and Marrow Transplant Research (CIBMTR) shows that the one-year survival rate for transplant patients treated at RPCI was significantly higher than expected, affirming RPCI's position among the elite of U.S. centers performing the procedure.

21 Mar 2012

Following health care's cash

Some know how much we pay for our own medical care, but many aren't aware of how immense an industry health care is in the U.S. Our trips to the doctor employ a lot of people, and our schools play an important role in preparing those people to take care of us.

21 Mar 2012

Reducing children's sugary beverage intake may help manage obesity

Sugary drinks are the single biggest contributor to the obesity epidemic in the United States, and according to the Centers for Disease Control, two-thirds of adults and one-third of the children in the U.S. are overweight or obese. Registered dietician Leah Holbrook, Coordinator of the Long Island Center for Pediatric Obesity Prevention in the Department of Family Medicine at Stony Brook School of Medicine, says that these sobering statistics and the fact that beverages account for nearly half of the added sugars in our diet are a wakeup call for Americans to reduce their sugary drink intake.

21 Mar 2012

Heart Failure Congress 2012 to take place from May 19-22

Four days of scientific sessions will be devoted to the latest advances and controversies in heart failure at this year's Heart Failure Congress 2012. The latest results from drugs and devices trials will be announced at the meeting.

21 Mar 2012

Health law oral arguments: Analyzing the moving parts

News reports explore the constitutional questions to be explored in the high court's review of the health law and the most likely potential outcomes.

21 Mar 2012

China's Ministry of Health reports about 900,000 cases of active TB in 2011

"About 900,000 cases of active tuberculosis (TB) were discovered and treated in China in 2011, including 423,000 infectious cases, the Ministry of Health (MOH) announced Monday at a press conference," Xinhua reports.

21 Mar 2012

Internal Medicine 2012 to take place from April 19 - 21 in New Orleans

More than 5,000 internal medicine physicians, or internists, subspecialists, medical students, and allied health professionals will meet in New Orleans for Internal Medicine 2012, the annual scientific meeting of the American College of Physicians (ACP), April 19 - 21 (Thursday - Saturday), at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Internists specialize in the prevention, detection, and treatment of illnesses in adults.

21 Mar 2012

Improving care for advanced illnesses can lead to reduced costs

A better approach to advanced illness, including fewer hospitalizations, could improve quality of life and satisfaction for the sickest patients - and save $25 billion in annual health-care costs, according to Gundersen Health System.

21 Mar 2012

Malpractice reform, IPAB repeal, NIH funding among hot topics on Capitol Hill

News outlets report on various legislative proposals and planned funding cuts, and what kind of reactions they are drawing.

21 Mar 2012

NAFC honors VUMC nurse practitioner with Rodney Appell Continence Care Champion Award

The National Association For Continence (NAFC) presented Margaret "Amy" Hull, RNC, MSN, WHCNP, with its Rodney Appell Continence Care Champion Award at the Society of Urologic Nurses and Associates (SUNA) annual awards luncheon on March 3, 2012 held during the 2012 SUNA Annual Symposium in San Francisco.

21 Mar 2012

New Ryan budget would transform Medicare and Medicaid

Kaiser Health News staff writer Marilyn Werber Serafini reports: The Republican chairman of the House Budget Committee surprised no one Tuesday when he released a spending blueprint that would drastically reshape the Medicare and Medicaid programs for the elderly and poor in an attempt to rein in their soaring costs.

21 Mar 2012

Center for Global Health Policy interviews TB expert in advance of World TB Day

The Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog interviews tuberculosis (TB) expert Lee Reichman, founding executive director of the New Jersey Medical School Global Tuberculosis Institute, in advance of World TB Day, to be observed on March 24.

21 Mar 2012

IRIN examines malnutrition in Chad

IRIN examines malnutrition in Chad, writing, "Hovering at around 20 percent in some places, Kanem Region in western Chad is well-known for having some of the world's highest continual severe acute malnutrition rates," and, "unless something is done to improve the country's 'dysfunctional' health system (as described by half a dozen interviewees), these malnutrition rates are unlikely to change significantly."

21 Mar 2012

Excluded from WHO targets, children at risk of being forgotten in global NCD agenda

Guardian health editor Sarah Boseley examines why children have been excluded from WHO targets on non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in this post in her "Global Health Blog," writing, "Children die from cancer, heart disease and other NCDs but they are in danger of being forgotten as global targets for action are drawn up, say health groups."

21 Mar 2012

State lawmakers consider abortion, contraception legislation; Other states deal with fallout

A bill in Arizona would allow employers to deny contraception coverage on religious grounds and a Tenn. bill would require the state publish the names of doctors who perform abortions.

21 Mar 2012

Roundup: States face new revenue downturn; Calif. county has disparities in life expectancy

Revenues in most U.S. states increased in the fourth quarter of 2011, but their recent surge is tapering off, as they grew just 2.7 percent from the final quarter of 2010, according to a report released on Monday. "This is a noticeable slowdown from the 11.1 (percent) and 6.1 percent year-over-year growth reported in the second and third quarters of 2011, respectively," the Rockefeller Institute, a think tank that closely watches states' revenues, said in the report.

21 Mar 2012

Marking the health law's second anniversary

News outlets report on what the future holds as the health law turns 2. Meanwhile, the Department of Health and Human Services steps up its messaging related to the measure's benefits.

21 Mar 2012

GOP coordinates renewed assault on health law as its two-year anniversary, court date near

The fight for public opinion is expected to intensify in the days ahead -- as the date of the health law's Supreme Court oral arguments closes in.

21 Mar 2012

Improving health outcomes with mHealth

"The use of cell phones by community health workers and other medical practitioners in low-income countries has been promoted as a potential revolution for health systems development," Sanjay Basu, a resident physician in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, writes in this GlobalHealthHub.org post.

21 Mar 2012

Six state Attorneys General to hear Supreme Court health law arguments, other state health law news

Attorneys general from six states will sit in the Supreme Court to hear the oral arguments over the health reform law. In the meantime, Pennsylvania lawmakers may offer a constitutional amendment to ban laws mandating people have health insurance.

21 Mar 2012

Healthcare News

CIBMTR report shows higher survival rate for patients treated at RPCI's BMT program

Following health care's cash

Reducing children's sugary beverage intake may help manage obesity

Heart Failure Congress 2012 to take place from May 19-22

Health law oral arguments: Analyzing the moving parts

China's Ministry of Health reports about 900,000 cases of active TB in 2011

Internal Medicine 2012 to take place from April 19 - 21 in New Orleans

Improving care for advanced illnesses can lead to reduced costs

Malpractice reform, IPAB repeal, NIH funding among hot topics on Capitol Hill

NAFC honors VUMC nurse practitioner with Rodney Appell Continence Care Champion Award

New Ryan budget would transform Medicare and Medicaid

Center for Global Health Policy interviews TB expert in advance of World TB Day

IRIN examines malnutrition in Chad

Excluded from WHO targets, children at risk of being forgotten in global NCD agenda

State lawmakers consider abortion, contraception legislation; Other states deal with fallout

Roundup: States face new revenue downturn; Calif. county has disparities in life expectancy

Marking the health law's second anniversary

GOP coordinates renewed assault on health law as its two-year anniversary, court date near

Improving health outcomes with mHealth

Six state Attorneys General to hear Supreme Court health law arguments, other state health law news

Advancing brain microphysiological systems (bMPS)

PhD researcher at LifeArc

Unveiling Hidden Potential: Organoids for Disease Modeling in Neuroscience Research

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