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White House staff changes will tighten circle of health policy insiders

With President Barack Obama's reshuffling of White House personnel this week, the already small circle of administration officials driving the health policy has gotten even smaller and closer to the president - and to each other. That means most of the important health care policy decisions will continue to be primarily driven by two people: Nancy-Ann DeParle, deputy White House chief of staff, and Jeanne Lambrew, deputy assistant to the president for health policy.

13 Jan 2012

CHUMS project to measure outcomes of NHS care in children with neurodisabilites

An exciting new study that will help put children with neurodisabilites at the centre of evaluating their own care has received almost a quarter of a million pounds (£250,00) in funding. The CHildren's oUtcome Measurement Study (CHUMS) will assess how to capture the views and experiences of children with neurodisability and their families in order to measure the outcomes of the NHS care they receive.

13 Jan 2012

Gingrich, Romney abortion ads question conservative credentials

GOP presidential contenders Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney are trading blows on abortion with a series of ads that question each candidate's conservative credentials on the issue. In the meantime, Kaiser Health News looks at the differences among the GOP candidates in how they would reform Medicare.

13 Jan 2012

Four Loyola anesthesiologists have written chapters for Manual of Clinical Anesthesiology

Four Loyola anesthesiologists have written chapters for the Manual of Clinical Anesthesiology, a popular reference and teaching tool used in hospitals across the nation.

13 Jan 2012

Wildlife products smuggled into U.S. pose potential human health risk, study suggests

"In a new study published on Tuesday in the journal PLoS One, scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the EcoHealth Alliance, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other institutions reported on the first effort to identify new viruses in wildlife products that had been smuggled illegally into the U.S.," TIME's "Ecocentric" blog reports.

13 Jan 2012

Breaking down the issues related to outpatient medical errors

The attention paid over the past decade to reducing medical errors in the hospital setting has reduced deaths, infections and injuries caused by other surgical and hospital errors - and now there's a call for similar attention on outpatient procedures.

13 Jan 2012

Federal judge halts Calif. plan to cut Medicaid payments for medical transportation

A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Wednesday to halt a 10% Medi-Cal provider reimbursement cut to medical transportation services. It was the third time the state has lost in court on this issue. State officials said the state will appeal.

13 Jan 2012

State-level action on health exchanges draws political responses, control questions

Some Idaho Democrats say they may vote with the GOP against legislation to create a state-run exchange. In Ohio, Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor has control issues about health exchanges -- whether they are run by the state or by the federal government.

13 Jan 2012

Promoting new investments in global health workforce

In this post in the Public Health Institute's (PHI) "Dialogue4Health" blog, Jeff Meer, director of PHI's Washington-based advocacy on global health, reports on the Frontline Health Workers Coalition, launched Wednesday, which is "developing support for new investments in the global health workforce, particularly those working at the community level who are the first and often the only link to health care for millions of people."

13 Jan 2012

Melinda Gates, Nicholas Kristof answer more questions about Bangladesh, public health

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

13 Jan 2012

Complex PCI: Left Main and CTO Summit to be held Feb. 23-25, 2012

The Complex PCI: Left Main and CTO Summit is a three-day conference featuring state-of-the-art technologies, research findings and new developments in therapeutic procedures essential for interventional cardiologists to optimize success in chronic total coronary occlusions and left main coronary interventions.

13 Jan 2012

Supreme Court considers medical leave lawsuit

The high court heard oral arguments Wednesday in the case that will determine how the federal Family and Medical Leave Act applies to state government workers.

13 Jan 2012

Bangladesh works to vaccinate 500K children against polio in annual immunization drive

"Mobile health teams in Bangladesh are conducting 'child-to-child' searches to reach the remaining half million children not vaccinated during a nationwide polio immunization campaign launched on 7 January," IRIN reports.

13 Jan 2012

WHO to convene meeting on yaws eradication efforts based on study of oral treatment

"Findings that a one-time oral treatment to cure yaws, a neglected tropical disease, is as effective as the currently recommended penicillin injection have prompted the World Health Organization (WHO) to convene a meeting on how the disease may be wiped out," IRIN reports.

13 Jan 2012

Three Democratic Senators express concern over distribution of U.S. Haitian earthquake aid

"[O]n the eve of the two-year anniversary of the 7.0 quake in Haiti, three Senators wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and U.S. Agency for International Development head Rajiv Shah urging them to better facilitate distribution of U.S. aid to the country," CQ HealthBeat reports.

13 Jan 2012

Longer looks: Politicians play Whac-A-Mole with Medicare

Seven years later Robert was still mentally impaired and his personality far different than before the accident, but he knew his family, knew he had had a brain injury that upended their lives, and asked lots of questions. He carried with him at all times a reporter's notebook, in which he had written the information most important to him: his daughters' ages - 9 and 11 - and that he has "known my honey" 18 years.

13 Jan 2012

BU, SUNY Upstate develop educational program on heart attack for women

Heart attacks in women go largely unrecognized 30 to 55 percent of the time and those who miss the warning signs and fail or delay getting help, run the risk of death or grave disability. But researchers at Binghamton University and SUNY Upstate Medical University have developed an educational program they believe will shorten the time to treatment and ultimately, save lives.

13 Jan 2012

SciDev.Net reports on international forum on development aid models to take place in April

SciDev.Net reports on Forum 2012, an international meeting to take place in Cape Town, South Africa, in April, which "aims to shake up donor-recipient relations in a quest for more enduring health gains." The meeting, themed "Beyond Aid," "will consider a funding model in which poor countries develop their own contracts and partnerships, and use their own resources, and how donors can support that model rather than just provide development aid," the news service writes.

13 Jan 2012

Tips to avoid snowboarding and ski injuries

Even black-diamond skiers and snowboarders enjoying a weekend on the slopes can have their season spoiled by an injury that happens on the last run of the day. But the end-of-the-day tweaks and spills are more common than you'd think, says physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist Ed Laskowski, M.D., of Mayo Clinic.

13 Jan 2012

Study: Medicare Advantage Plans with perks like gym memberships attract healthier seniors

A new study, which was published by the New England Journal of Medicine, found 35.3 percent of new enrollees in a fitness membership benefit plan reported "excellent" or "very good" health, compared with 29.1 percent in the group without the gym membership benefit.

13 Jan 2012

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White House staff changes will tighten circle of health policy insiders

CHUMS project to measure outcomes of NHS care in children with neurodisabilites

Gingrich, Romney abortion ads question conservative credentials

Four Loyola anesthesiologists have written chapters for Manual of Clinical Anesthesiology

Wildlife products smuggled into U.S. pose potential human health risk, study suggests

Breaking down the issues related to outpatient medical errors

Federal judge halts Calif. plan to cut Medicaid payments for medical transportation

State-level action on health exchanges draws political responses, control questions

Promoting new investments in global health workforce

Melinda Gates, Nicholas Kristof answer more questions about Bangladesh, public health

Complex PCI: Left Main and CTO Summit to be held Feb. 23-25, 2012

Supreme Court considers medical leave lawsuit

Bangladesh works to vaccinate 500K children against polio in annual immunization drive

WHO to convene meeting on yaws eradication efforts based on study of oral treatment

Three Democratic Senators express concern over distribution of U.S. Haitian earthquake aid

Longer looks: Politicians play Whac-A-Mole with Medicare

BU, SUNY Upstate develop educational program on heart attack for women

SciDev.Net reports on international forum on development aid models to take place in April

Tips to avoid snowboarding and ski injuries

Study: Medicare Advantage Plans with perks like gym memberships attract healthier seniors

Advancing Motor Neuron Disease Diagnosis with Non-Invasive Ultrasound and AI

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

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