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Three million Western Europeans suffer from critical limb ischemia

A recent analysis published by THE SAGE GROUP concluded that 3 million people in Western Europe have critical limb ischemia (CLI). Reflecting the aging population, this number is projected to grow to 4 million by 2030.

16 Dec 2010

AMA commends President Obama for commitment to one-year delay of Medicare cut into law

"Today, President Obama signed into law a one-year delay of the looming Medicare physician payment cut that would have hurt seniors' health care. The AMA commends President Obama and bipartisan leaders in the Senate and House for their commitment to a year-long delay of the 25 percent cut. The AMA strongly advocated for this one-year delay to create a stable environment for seniors and their physicians.

16 Dec 2010

IPS examines NGOs' call to reform World Bank's funding for poorest countries

"With the World Bank expected to announce a new funding package for the world's poorest countries Wednesday, NGOs are making a last-minute appeal to donor countries to use their leverage to compel reforms at the institution," Inter Press Service reports in an article examining the changes being requested and considered.

16 Dec 2010

Study: People who believe in justice believe that tragedy gives the victim's life more meaning

Seeing bad things happen to other people is scary. One way to respond to this is to blame the victim-to look for some reason why it happened to them. But there's another common response, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The researchers found that people who believe in justice in the world also believe that a tragedy gives the victim's life more meaning.

16 Dec 2010

ADA supports FDA panel's recommendation for continuing review of existing, new scientific information

The American Dental Association today praised a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel's finding that the FDA acted appropriately when it ruled last year that dental amalgam is a safe and effective treatment option for the general population.

16 Dec 2010

EBRI report: Young people, minorities, and low-wage workers more likely to find financial incentives extremely useful

The overall percentage of people who think getting a financial incentive would be extremely or very useful for choosing a more effective treatment decreased from 61 percent in 2009 to 55 percent in 2010, according to new report released today by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute (EBRI).

16 Dec 2010

New study records show dementia residents seek hospice benefit

A new study of nursing home records shows more residents with dementia are seeking a hospice benefit and using it longer. The study also estimates that 40 percent of nursing home residents die with some degree of dementia.

16 Dec 2010

State roundup: Minn. to add more adults to Medicaid; Mass. Gov. seeks savings in pensions and health care costs; Ariz. bishop and hospital spar over control

Minnesota can add 95,000 low-income adults to its Medicaid rolls, vastly improving their medical care, at no additional cost to the state, two officials at the state Department of Human Services told legislators Tuesday (Wolfe, 12/15).

16 Dec 2010

Use of vitamin K antagonists is driven by availability of oral formulation

Arlington Medical Resources (AMR), a provider of premier market intelligence for the pharmaceutical and diagnostic imaging industries, finds that, in the treatment of atrial fibrillation, surveyed European cardiologists indicate that use of vitamin K antagonists, as a class, is primarily driven by the availability of an oral formulation, overall low cost and widespread inclusion on European medical society guidelines and hospital formularies.

16 Dec 2010

Arguments in twenty-state legal challenge to health law begin Thursday; Medicaid expansion central to action

Next step, Florida: On Thursday, arguments will be offered in the lawsuit brought by 20 states that seeks to invalidate the law's expansion of the Medicaid program.

16 Dec 2010

USAgainstAlzheimer's applauds House passage of National Alzheimer's Project Act

USAgainstAlzheimer's today applauded the passage by the House of Representatives of the National Alzheimer's Project Act and released statements from its Chairman and Founder George Vradenburg, its Scientific Advisory Board Chair and Nobel Laureate Stanley Prusiner and its ally in the Alzheimer's Movement, First Lady of California Maria Shriver.

16 Dec 2010

Opinions: Kangaroo care; NTDs, Women's health

New York Times contributing writer Tina Rosen, on the newspaper's "Opinionator" blog, examines the success of a system known as kangaroo care, which has helped to improve the survival rates of premature infants by using skin-to-skin contact with mothers in place of incubators in low-resource settings. The post notes the potential value of such a strategy in poor countries "where pregnant women are unlikely to get the food and care they need," and "low birth weight babies are very common."

16 Dec 2010

NIH grants $7.5 million for researchers to develop novel compounds in treating nicotine addiction

The Scripps Research Institute and the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine have been awarded approximately $7.5 million over five years to develop novel compounds that could eventually become drug candidates for the treatment of nicotine dependence, and possibly other drug addictions.

16 Dec 2010

CAMY reports 71% increase in youth exposure to alcohol ads

Youth exposure to alcohol advertising on U.S. television increased 71 percent between 2001 and 2009, according to a report released today by the Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

16 Dec 2010

Houston Endowment awards UH $5 million to increase number of doctoral student graduates

Houston Endowment Inc. has awarded $5 million to the University of Houston, which it will use to help increase the number of doctoral students it graduates annually, a key element in UH's mission to become a Tier One institution.

16 Dec 2010

Three-day African food security forum opens in Accra

The 26th Annual Meeting of the Food Crisis Prevention Network, "which serves as the platform for deliberation on food production and food security in Africa," opened on Tuesday in Accra, Ghana, the Ghana News Agency reports. The three-day forum will examine "the agricultural and food situation for the 2010/2011 cropping season and come out with measures on tackling food crises," according to the news service.

16 Dec 2010

Nation's leading health care systems collaborate to improve quality while reducing costs

Six of the nation's leading health care systems today announced a first-of-its-kind collaboration to improve health care quality while reducing costs.

16 Dec 2010

Tort reform legislation has not reduced physician concerns about malpractice lawsuits: Study

Physicians' fears of being sued for malpractice are out of proportion to their actual risk of being sued, according to a recent study by a University of Iowa researcher and colleagues.

16 Dec 2010

CRS report details regs issued since passage of health overhaul

The Congressional Research Service issued a new report examining the processes followed in the development of the new rules put in place since the passage of the health overhaul. Meanwhile, the omnibus spending bill now moving through Congress includes funds for Medicare and Medicaid fraud prevention.

16 Dec 2010

Tampa Hospital associates receive Transplant Excellence Award for lung transplant program

New Lung Associates PA and the Lung Transplant Program at Tampa General Hospital have received HealthGrades 2011 Organ Transplant Excellence Award. The award places Tampa General Hospital among the top three lung transplant programs in the nation.

16 Dec 2010

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Three million Western Europeans suffer from critical limb ischemia

AMA commends President Obama for commitment to one-year delay of Medicare cut into law

IPS examines NGOs' call to reform World Bank's funding for poorest countries

Study: People who believe in justice believe that tragedy gives the victim's life more meaning

ADA supports FDA panel's recommendation for continuing review of existing, new scientific information

EBRI report: Young people, minorities, and low-wage workers more likely to find financial incentives extremely useful

New study records show dementia residents seek hospice benefit

State roundup: Minn. to add more adults to Medicaid; Mass. Gov. seeks savings in pensions and health care costs; Ariz. bishop and hospital spar over control

Use of vitamin K antagonists is driven by availability of oral formulation

Arguments in twenty-state legal challenge to health law begin Thursday; Medicaid expansion central to action

USAgainstAlzheimer's applauds House passage of National Alzheimer's Project Act

Opinions: Kangaroo care; NTDs, Women's health

NIH grants $7.5 million for researchers to develop novel compounds in treating nicotine addiction

CAMY reports 71% increase in youth exposure to alcohol ads

Houston Endowment awards UH $5 million to increase number of doctoral student graduates

Three-day African food security forum opens in Accra

Nation's leading health care systems collaborate to improve quality while reducing costs

Tort reform legislation has not reduced physician concerns about malpractice lawsuits: Study

CRS report details regs issued since passage of health overhaul

Tampa Hospital associates receive Transplant Excellence Award for lung transplant program

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