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Loyola earns recognition for pathology research

Loyola University Medical Center tied for fourth place in a recent research competition for pathologists-in-training that included 100 academic medical centers worldwide.

25 Mar 2011

AACP selects Maryland professor for Pharmacy Educator Award

The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy has selected innovative educator and mentor Robert Beardsley, RPh, PhD, MS, to receive the group's prestigious 2011 Robert K. Chalmers Distinguished Pharmacy Educator Award.

25 Mar 2011

Viewpoints: Sebelius, Vilsack, Weiner defend reform law; pro/con on seniors' access to health care

As former governors from states with large rural populations, we cheered this new health-care law. We knew that it would give Americans more freedom in their health-care choices, lower costs and improve the quality of care, especially for those in rural communities.

25 Mar 2011

First Edition: March 24, 2011

In today's headlines, more reports about how supporters and opponents of the health law are staking out positions and taking action to advance their causes. Meanwhile, a South Dakota abortion law becomes a flashpoint.

24 Mar 2011

JWOCN joins with CAET to expand its position within global community of nursing

The Journal of Wound, Ostomy and Continence Nursing has affiliated with the Canadian Association for Enterostomal Therapy, expanding its position within the global community of wound, ostomy and continence nursing.

24 Mar 2011

Daily Report Global Health Conversations: National security and global health

Lawmakers who are pushing for foreign aid budget cuts and placing global health and food security programs outside the realm of national security are focused on "very short-term financial gains" and, in turn, are discounting the long-term benefits of helping societies cut their disease burdens, Julie Fischer, head of the Stimson Center's Global Health Security project, said in an interview Tuesday with the Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report's Jaclyn Schiff.

24 Mar 2011

SGIM honors BUSM professor with Clinician Investigator Award for quality of care research

Adam Rose, MD, MSc, an assistant professor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine, has accepted the Society of General Internal Medicine's New England Region 2011 Clinician Investigator Award for his contributions to quality of care research.

24 Mar 2011

Food safety lawyer calls on Palmyra to pay medical expenses incurred by E. coli outbreak victims

Food safety lawyer Fred Pritzker is calling on Palmyra Bologna Company, Inc., maker of Seltzer's Lebanon bologna products, to pay medical expenses and other costs incurred by victims of a multistate E. coli O157:H7 outbreak in New Jersey, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.

24 Mar 2011

Astellas announces financial support to Japan for earthquake relief work

The Astellas European Foundation has today announced financial support to the Japanese Red Cross Society for their work to assist those impacted by the earthquake and tsunami on Friday, 11th March. The Japanese Red Cross Society is working with the local government of the affected region and the support will help provide aid to the local population.

24 Mar 2011

Pharmacists seek delay of rule limiting amount of dispensed drugs

The National Community Pharmacists Association is pressuring Medicare officials to delay a regulation that they say will drive up labor costs for drug stores and increase the potential for dispensing errors. The proposed rule is expected to be finalized and take effect on Jan. 1, 2012.

24 Mar 2011

Scott Brown goes on record against efforts to choke planned parenthood funding

Brown joins Republican Sens. Susan Collins, of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski, of Alaska, in opposing the measure. The Republican-controlled House voted last month to pass the proposal, which would cut all federal funding to Planned Parenthood and eliminate a program called Title X, which provides aid for family planning and reproductive health.

24 Mar 2011

ASAM issues white paper to halt medical marijuana use

Citing the dangers of marijuana, the lack of clinical research on a controlled substance with a high potential for abuse, and the physician's oath to "first, do no harm," the American Society of Addiction Medicine today issued a white paper recommending a halt to using the weed as a medicine in states where it has been declared legal.

24 Mar 2011

News reports discuss Japan's disaster preparedness, health situations on the ground

According to a report published in the Lancet on Tuesday, Japan's medical and aid response to the earthquake and tsunami is being challenged by "the sheer scale of the devastation, widespread damage to supply routes and concerns about radiation leaks from a stricken nuclear power plant".

24 Mar 2011

HighRoads survey provides insights into how acute health systems respond to ACA

A HighRoads survey of hospital industry employers shows 2011 health care costs for both hospital employers and employees are increasing, and hospitals are looking at leaner budgets and further cost control, as a result.

24 Mar 2011

CCA: Incentives needed to control health care demands

Incentives to work smarter, not more money, is what's needed to curb escalating health care demands on the federal purse, said the Canadian Chiropractic Association today in response to the release of the Federal Budget.

24 Mar 2011

Lack of laws governing newborn screening programs in Australia threaten public trust

The absence of specific laws which define the ownership, storage and use of blood drops taken from every Australian baby since 1971 could threaten public trust in newborn screening (NBS) programs in Australia, a University of Melbourne academic has warned.

24 Mar 2011

Money matters: Some of the health law's big winners, possible costs emerge

MarketWatch reports that insurance companies appear to be coming out in the win column. Meanwhile, a new industry report details some of the health law's "hidden" costs.

24 Mar 2011

Loyola to open new nursing center for Collaborative Learning

Loyola University Chicago will break ground for the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing Center for Collaborative Learning from 4-6 p.m., Saturday, April 9, at the health sciences campus at 2160 S. First Ave., Maywood, Ill.

24 Mar 2011

Restricting sodium consumption important in lowering blood pressure among sedentary people

The more physically active you are, the less your blood pressure rises in response to a high-salt diet, researchers reported at the American Heart Association's Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism/Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention 2011 Scientific Sessions.

24 Mar 2011

Most clinicians feel systems and procedures for preventing hospital readmissions ineffective

More than nine out of ten clinicians believe that reducing readmissions is an important topic, but few have the resources at hand to tackle it, according to a new study from QuantiaMD®, the leading mobile and online physician community, and the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM).

24 Mar 2011