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Peter Munk Cardiac Centre doctors perform renal denervation in first Canadian patient

Doctors at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre today performed a minimally invasive surgical procedure to treat high blood pressure, called renal denervation, for the first time in Canada. The procedure can significantly reduce high blood pressure in patients who cannot effectively treat their hypertension through drugs. These patients, numbering approximately 250,000 Canadians, have to endure an especially high risk of heart attacks and stroke, which continues to kill thousands of Canadians every year.

18 Jan 2012

Researchers to anticipate and track risk for infectious disease outbreak at London Olympics

A research team led by St. Michael's Hospital's Dr. Kamran Khan is teaming up with British authorities to anticipate and track the risk for an infectious disease outbreak at the London Olympics this summer.

18 Jan 2012

Will the health law's future be decided by the high court or the election?

Media outlets weigh the various scenarios and where the ultimate muscle exists to advance or undo the health law.

18 Jan 2012

Viewpoints: Health care is a civil right; A Medicare strategy based on Lenin

Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy is one of progress toward a better life for every American, including equal opportunity in voting, housing, education, and employment. Reflecting on his legacy also means recognizing the steps we must take to address the inequalities that persist. Many of these involve health care. Poor and minority Americans suffer from more preventable diseases on average, lower-quality care, fewer treatment options, and less health insurance coverage.

18 Jan 2012

St. Baldrick's Foundation awards $47,000 to help kids with cancer

It takes life-saving research and access to clinical trials to help children with cancer. The St. Baldrick's Foundation, a volunteer-driven charity dedicated to raising money for childhood cancer research, awarded an infrastructure grant of $47,000 to the Biopathology Center (BPC), housed in The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

18 Jan 2012

California single-payer system has another go before Senate committee

A proposal to institute a single-payer health care system in California has found its way to a key state Senate committee. The proposal, which would cover all Californians through a state-run health insurance program, died in the Senate Appropriations Committee in California last year.

18 Jan 2012

S.D., Wisc. wrestle with health exchange implementation

While Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker faces a dilemma regarding his state's Early Innovator Grant, South Dakota Gov. Dennis Daugaard announced his state wouldn't try to pass health exchange legislation because "there is too much uncertainty."

18 Jan 2012

GlobalPost blog reports on roundtable discussing country ownership of development aid

GlobalPost's "Global Pulse" blog reports on a roundtable held on Thursday and organized by the Ministerial Leadership Initiative for Global Health (MLI) -- a "five-year project funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation" -- at which "U.S. officials, developing country leaders, and heads of non-governmental organizations that do tens of millions of dollars of work in health around the world" discussed country ownership with respect to development aid.

18 Jan 2012

Making doctor notes more accessible to patients

The Houston Chronicle reports that Texas physicians are leading this trend. Meanwhile, KHN offers advice to help patients better understand what they might be reading.

18 Jan 2012

PCORI to meet this week to release national priorities for medical effectiveness research

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, an independent board established by the health law, will meet this week to set priorities for "comparative effectiveness research." In other news related to the health law, the News Hour reports on how the overahul has impacted pediatric cancer patients and the New York Times reports on the law's provisions related to screening kids for obesity and providing them counseling.

18 Jan 2012

WHO's Chan urges new approach to preventing, fighting diseases at Executive Board meeting

"Countries need to change their current mindset to successfully tackle non-communicable diseases (NCDs), the head of the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday, adding that governments will need to explore new approaches to prevent and treat these diseases, which have quickly become one of the most pressing issues in public health," the U.N. News Centre reports.

18 Jan 2012

Obama's plans for SOTU address

The president has been using the refrain "Change is . . . " to catalogue a list of actions - including rescuing the auto industry, enacting health care reform and ending the war in Iraq - he hopes will increase his reelection chances.

18 Jan 2012

Ore. Governor proposes 'coordinated care organizations' to reform state's Medicaid program

Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber is proposing to change the state's iteration of Medicaid by ending its fee-for-service model and instituting "coordinated care organizations" to manage patients' chronic care to keep them out of hospital rooms.

18 Jan 2012

U.S. readies plan to fight Alzheimer's

The government is setting what it calls an ambitious goal for Alzheimer's disease: Development of effective ways to treat and prevent the mind-destroying illness by 2025. The Obama administration is developing the first National Alzheimer's Plan to find better treatments for the disease and offer better day-to-day care for those afflicted.

18 Jan 2012

India applauded for marking one year without polio, but urged to also focus on other diseases

In this post in the Center for Global Development's (CGD) "Global Health Policy" blog, Victoria Fan, a research fellow at CGD, and Rachel Silverman, a research assistant at the center, respond to India's marking of one-year since a case of polio was found in the country, writing, "While we applaud India for its commitment to reaching this milestone, let us not allow this recent success obscure the sorry state of vaccination in India."

18 Jan 2012

Survey provides valuable information to tackle global nursing shortage

If organisations want to retain qualified nurses they need to tackle the different work factors that are important to the three key age groups and build on the strong attachment that many nurses feel to the profession.

18 Jan 2012

U.N.'s Somalia official says 'tens of thousands' of Somalis died from malnutrition over last year

Mark Bowden, the U.N.'s official in Somalia, on Sunday said "tens of thousands of people will have died over the last year" in the country's famine, adding that the rates of malnutrition are "amazingly high," BBC News reports.

18 Jan 2012

Bloomberg examines effects of financial crisis on global health

Bloomberg examines the effects of the global financial crisis and a resulting stall in development aid for global health programs, writing, "Governments struggling to curb deficits from Spain to the U.S. have cut or slowed the growth of their contributions to the World Health Organization and disease-fighting funds that prop up health services in the world's poorest countries, according to a report by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, a research unit at the University of Washington in Seattle."

18 Jan 2012

Gates, Kristof answer questions about Bangladesh, public health in final installment of blog series

Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof continue to answer readers' questions in this third and final installment of the series on Kristof's "On the Ground" blog.

18 Jan 2012

U.S. to provide nearly $1B over five years to Bangladesh for poverty, health, agriculture programs

A U.S. Embassy statement on Saturday said the U.S. would provide nearly $1 billion to Bangladesh over the next five years "towards alleviating poverty and malnutrition, as well as family planning and the fight against infectious diseases," Reuters reports.

18 Jan 2012

Healthcare News

Peter Munk Cardiac Centre doctors perform renal denervation in first Canadian patient

Researchers to anticipate and track risk for infectious disease outbreak at London Olympics

Will the health law's future be decided by the high court or the election?

Viewpoints: Health care is a civil right; A Medicare strategy based on Lenin

St. Baldrick's Foundation awards $47,000 to help kids with cancer

California single-payer system has another go before Senate committee

S.D., Wisc. wrestle with health exchange implementation

GlobalPost blog reports on roundtable discussing country ownership of development aid

Making doctor notes more accessible to patients

PCORI to meet this week to release national priorities for medical effectiveness research

WHO's Chan urges new approach to preventing, fighting diseases at Executive Board meeting

Obama's plans for SOTU address

Ore. Governor proposes 'coordinated care organizations' to reform state's Medicaid program

U.S. readies plan to fight Alzheimer's

India applauded for marking one year without polio, but urged to also focus on other diseases

Survey provides valuable information to tackle global nursing shortage

U.N.'s Somalia official says 'tens of thousands' of Somalis died from malnutrition over last year

Bloomberg examines effects of financial crisis on global health

Gates, Kristof answer questions about Bangladesh, public health in final installment of blog series

U.S. to provide nearly $1B over five years to Bangladesh for poverty, health, agriculture programs

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