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Good Samaritan Hospital of Los Angeles wins Paradigm Award for labor excellence

The Paradigm Award Committee announced that Good Samaritan Hospital of Los Angeles, a leading hospital based in Southern California, was recently selected to receive the prestigious Paradigm Award.

26 Nov 2010

Health ingredients Europe 2010 global event to be held in Spain

Health ingredients Europe 2010, the global event for the nutraceutical, functional health and natural ingredients industry exceeded all expectations. The decision to take the show to Spain brought high rewards, altering the landscape of the show and bringing exhibitors from over 40 countries and registered visitors from over 100 countries.

26 Nov 2010

Circle social enterprise to run Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust in Huntingdonshire

Circle, the employee-owned social enterprise, has today been chosen as the preferred partner to run Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust in Huntingdonshire.

26 Nov 2010

Canadian Red Cross announces First Responder Initiative for disaster response

The Canadian Red Cross is pleased to announce the First Responder Initiative, which increases the Red Cross' capacity to prepare for and rapidly respond to disasters and includes the ability to quickly deploy tented field hospitals.

26 Nov 2010

Study suggests less than 10% of UK adults with CAH receive specialist endocrine care

A new study suggests that less than 10% of the estimated 3,591 adults in the UK with the genetic condition congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) receive specialist endocrine care, and that there is no standard treatment for these patients.

26 Nov 2010

Study indicates high self-rated lifetime prevalence of depression among psychiatrists

This study addresses depression and burn-out among a sample of psychiatrists collected at a professional congress. Within several constraints, the results indicate an high self-rated lifetime prevalence of depression of 41.6% among the sample. Also noteworthy is that a fifth (20.3%) of the sample showed evidence of acute depressive symptoms.

26 Nov 2010

High-quality information will create new dynamic between patients and providers, say experts

Expectations are high that the public will use performance data to choose their health providers and so drive improvements in quality. But in a paper published today, two experts question whether this is realistic.

26 Nov 2010

Léger Marketing survey shows substance abuse problems are major concern for Quebecers

More than one in eight Quebecers think drug and alcohol dependency problems are public health issues of concern. In the Léger Marketing survey "Quebecers and Substance Abuse," released today as part of Drug Awareness Week, half of respondents say they are affected by substance abuse problems among those around them.

26 Nov 2010

Personalized oncology requires new paradigm for drug development, experts say

Millions of cancer patients worldwide may soon be able to receive more effective, personalized treatments for their disease thanks to developments in the understanding of cancer biology, experts will say at the Cancer Biology for Clinicians Symposium organized by the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) in Nice this week.

25 Nov 2010

Hospital errors in U.S. continue despite efforts: Study

A new study published Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) showed that all the efforts to make American hospitals error free and safe are inadequate.

25 Nov 2010

NSW emergency departments falling short on targets

According to the Bureau of Health Information’s latest Hospital Quarterly Figures emergency departments in New South Wales hospitals are still not meeting recommended waiting targets. The figures reveal that more than a third of patients transferred by an ambulance waited longer than the accepted 30 minutes to be taken into the care of emergency departments.

25 Nov 2010

Biomedical Market Newsletter announces 20th year in business

Biomedical Market Newsletter, Inc., a veteran medical industry information provider, has announced its 20th year in business.

25 Nov 2010

University of Liverpool and Laureate Online Education launch new Doctor of Education programme

The University of Liverpool, in partnership with Laureate Online Education, B.V. has announced the launch of its new Doctor of Education - Higher Education (EdD). The programme, which has a first intake date of 21 April 2011, will offer professional educators, administrators and academics the opportunity to earn their advanced degree from one of the leading institutions of higher education in the UK.

25 Nov 2010

New study finds no decrease in patient harm at hospitals

Despite concerted efforts, no decreases in patient harm were detected at 10 randomly selected North Carolina hospitals between 2002 and 2007, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement.

25 Nov 2010

Immunity-enhancing probiotics may be the best line of defense for good health

Good bacteria, bad bacteria, billions of bacteria—sounds downright germy. But the truth is that research in gut health is germinating more insight into the role bacteria, also known as "probiotics," play in our overall health and wellness.

25 Nov 2010

Laboratories obtain satisfactory scores in measuring heavy metals: Study

A new study which benchmarks the abilities of laboratories around the world to measure heavy metals (arsenic, cadmium, lead, mercury, methylmercury and inorganic arsenic) in seafood has been published today by the Joint Research Centre.

25 Nov 2010

Humanitarian benefits of rapid cholera vaccines deployment to at risk areas could be enormous

In the wake of devastating cholera outbreaks in refugee camps in earthquake-wracked Haiti, a group of leading experts from Harvard Medical School, George Washington University, and the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) have urged the United States to create an emergency stockpile of cholera vaccines for future humanitarian use.

25 Nov 2010

UMDNJ researchers develop comprehensive strategy for recovery from smoking addiction

Researchers at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ), following 10 years of studying tobacco use among smokers with mental illness, have developed a comprehensive strategy for recovery from smoking addiction that could serve as a nationwide model.

25 Nov 2010

New pediatric therapy centres in Westmount and Pointe Claire

Parents know the joy when their child begins to lift their head, starts to turn over, say their first word and begins to read. For the family of a child who suffers from a developmental delay or disorder what happens after this discovery is not always simple. In many cases seeing a professional can be challenging. Collage Pediatric Therapy launched private pediatric therapy centres in Westmount and Pointe Claire to provide families with this additional resource and means of accessing the expertise and answers they need to be able to intervene at the earliest stage in their child's development.

25 Nov 2010

Kids who feel part of the team are more likely to stay active and healthy

It's never fun riding the bench - but could it also make you less likely to be physically active in the future?

25 Nov 2010

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Good Samaritan Hospital of Los Angeles wins Paradigm Award for labor excellence

Health ingredients Europe 2010 global event to be held in Spain

Circle social enterprise to run Hinchingbrooke Healthcare NHS Trust in Huntingdonshire

Canadian Red Cross announces First Responder Initiative for disaster response

Study suggests less than 10% of UK adults with CAH receive specialist endocrine care

Study indicates high self-rated lifetime prevalence of depression among psychiatrists

High-quality information will create new dynamic between patients and providers, say experts

Léger Marketing survey shows substance abuse problems are major concern for Quebecers

Personalized oncology requires new paradigm for drug development, experts say

Hospital errors in U.S. continue despite efforts: Study

NSW emergency departments falling short on targets

Biomedical Market Newsletter announces 20th year in business

University of Liverpool and Laureate Online Education launch new Doctor of Education programme

New study finds no decrease in patient harm at hospitals

Immunity-enhancing probiotics may be the best line of defense for good health

Laboratories obtain satisfactory scores in measuring heavy metals: Study

Humanitarian benefits of rapid cholera vaccines deployment to at risk areas could be enormous

UMDNJ researchers develop comprehensive strategy for recovery from smoking addiction

New pediatric therapy centres in Westmount and Pointe Claire

Kids who feel part of the team are more likely to stay active and healthy

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