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Quebec reimburses VIDAZA for treatment of blood cancer

Quebec patients with serious blood cancers (intermediate-2 and high-risk myelodysplastic syndrome and acute myeloid leukemia) now have publicly funded access to a new innovative therapy, VIDAZA® (azacitidine). Following a priority review and subsequent positive recommendation from the Conseil du medicament, patients now have the potential to significantly extend survival.

18 Jan 2011

Hamilton Academy of Medicine launches campaign to increase awareness about smoking cessation

In honour of National Non-Smoking Week, The Hamilton Academy of Medicine is proud to introduce, It's Hamilton's Time to Quit, a campaign designed to increase awareness about local quitting resources and tools to help the community understand the support that is available, and encourage people to seek the assistance they need to stop smoking.

18 Jan 2011

eCareSoft's eCS receives Complete Inpatient EHR Certification

eCareSoft's eCS has received Complete Inpatient EHR Certification deeming the electronic health record (EHR) software capable of enabling hospitals and their affiliates to meet the Stage 1 meaningful use measures required to qualify for funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).

18 Jan 2011

Palomar Medical introduces Artisan Aesthetic System to provide laser skin resurfacing treatment

Palomar Medical Technologies, a leading researcher and developer of lasers and pulsed-light systems for aesthetic treatments, is pleased to announce that the Artisan Aesthetic System is now being shipped.

18 Jan 2011

Time constraints, patient embarrassment prevent full-body skin cancer examinations

Time constraints, other illnesses and patient embarrassment may prevent dermatologists, internists and family practitioners from conducting full-body skin examinations, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. However, dermatologists are significantly more likely than internists and family practitioners to conduct such screenings.

18 Jan 2011

6.3% of surgeons report suicidal thoughts

As many as one in 16 surgeons reported having suicidal thoughts in the previous year, but few sought help from a mental health clinician, according to a report in the January issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

18 Jan 2011

American Heart Association honors SBUMC with Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award

Stony Brook University Medical Center has received the 2009 American Heart Association/American Stroke Association's Get With The Guidelines Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award.

18 Jan 2011

Women's Health Congress to explore mammography controversy

The ongoing controversy about the appropriate age, frequency, and patient benefit of mammography will be explored at the upcoming 19th Annual Congress on Women's Health, April 1-3, 2011 in Washington DC.

18 Jan 2011

Media look at what's ahead for South Sudan

"This week's independence referendum in southern Sudan marks an apparent victory for U.S. foreign policy in east Africa - one that has secured for Washington a deeper advisory role in what is expected to be the birth of a new, impoverished nation," according to a Wall Street Journal article looking at the issues facing the U.S. in south Sudan after voting concludes.

18 Jan 2011

Safely Home program helps police find and return individuals with dementia to their homes

Wandering, one of most dangerous side effects of Alzheimer's disease, recently took the life of a 66-year-old woman who was found frozen to death near her Scarborough home.

18 Jan 2011

AHRQ reports 1 in 5 Americans have no usual source of medical care

Roughly 60 million people -- 1 in 5 Americans -- have no usual source of medical care, such as a family doctor or clinic, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

18 Jan 2011

Researchers present new findings on role of relationship between patient and therapist

This study published in the last 2010 issue of Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics suggests that therapist and patient ratings of therapeutic alliance predict therapeutic progress.

18 Jan 2011

Report recommends new approaches for fighting world hunger

A new report from the Worldwatch Institute, a research organization, recommends focusing on new approaches to address world hunger, Nature's blog "The Great Beyond" reports.

18 Jan 2011

GOP views repeal vote as only the first part of its health strategy

With the House preparing to vote this week on whether to repeal the health care law, the chamber's new Republican majority already confronts a far more delicate task: forging its own path to expand health coverage and curb medical costs.

18 Jan 2011

Poll shows opposition to health law softening; GOP and Dems gird for repeal vote

Ahead of a vote on repeal in the GOP-led House this week, strong opposition to the law stands at 30 percent, close to the lowest level registered in AP-GfK surveys dating to September 2009. ... The law expands coverage to more than 30 million uninsured, and would require, for the first time, that most people in the United States carry health insurance.

18 Jan 2011

McNeil Consumer Healthcare initiates voluntary recall

In consultation with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, McNeil Consumer Healthcare, Division of McNEIL-PPC, Inc. is voluntarily recalling, at the wholesale level, certain lots of TYLENOL® 8 Hour, TYLENOL® Arthritis Pain, and TYLENOL® upper respiratory products, and certain lots of BENADRYL®, SUDAFED PE®, and SINUTAB® products distributed in the United States, the Caribbean, and Brazil.

18 Jan 2011

Opinions: U.S. HIV funding; Global fund accountability; World food supply

President Barack Obama's Global Health Initiative is "pitting AIDS against other diseases by making investments in new areas of global health contingent on flat funding for efforts to fight the HIV epidemic," HIV/AIDS advocate and Yale College student Gregg Gonsalves writes in a Washington Post opinion piece.

18 Jan 2011

ETP introduces online epilepsy diary management tool to advance patient care

The Epilepsy Therapy Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating new therapies for people living with epilepsy and seizures and the parent organization of epilepsy.com, today announced that it has expanded the use of its online epilepsy diary management tool with the launch of a new app developed to run on the Android mobile operating system.

18 Jan 2011

SEIU enters two new tentative contract agreements with Watsonville Community Hospital

Watsonville Community Hospital announced today that it has reached two new tentative contract agreements with the Service Employees International Union Healthcare Workers-West.

18 Jan 2011

New study finds nurses' work schedule can impact patient outcomes

A new study has found that patient deaths from pneumonia and acute myocardial infarction were significantly more likely in hospitals where nurses reported schedules with long work hours.

18 Jan 2011

Healthcare News

Quebec reimburses VIDAZA for treatment of blood cancer

Hamilton Academy of Medicine launches campaign to increase awareness about smoking cessation

eCareSoft's eCS receives Complete Inpatient EHR Certification

Palomar Medical introduces Artisan Aesthetic System to provide laser skin resurfacing treatment

Time constraints, patient embarrassment prevent full-body skin cancer examinations

6.3% of surgeons report suicidal thoughts

American Heart Association honors SBUMC with Get With The Guidelines-Stroke Gold Plus Performance Achievement Award

Women's Health Congress to explore mammography controversy

Media look at what's ahead for South Sudan

Safely Home program helps police find and return individuals with dementia to their homes

AHRQ reports 1 in 5 Americans have no usual source of medical care

Researchers present new findings on role of relationship between patient and therapist

Report recommends new approaches for fighting world hunger

GOP views repeal vote as only the first part of its health strategy

Poll shows opposition to health law softening; GOP and Dems gird for repeal vote

McNeil Consumer Healthcare initiates voluntary recall

Opinions: U.S. HIV funding; Global fund accountability; World food supply

ETP introduces online epilepsy diary management tool to advance patient care

SEIU enters two new tentative contract agreements with Watsonville Community Hospital

New study finds nurses' work schedule can impact patient outcomes

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