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New e-SMART-HD program helps improve doctor-patient communications

While many young adults will share the details of their daily lives with friends on Facebook, communicating with their doctors about mental illness is another story. E-SMART-MH, developed at Case Western Reserve University, might improve those communications.

29 Oct 2010

New Ostomy Algorithm receives support of nurses

Quantitative and qualitative results of a study conducted with ostomy care nurses support the content validation of a new standardized algorithm for ostomy care, according to an article published this month in the journal Ostomy Wound Management.

29 Oct 2010

Healthcare costs expected to reach $191.6 billion in 2010

Total spending on health care in Canada is expected to reach $191.6 billion this year, growing an estimated $9.5 billion, or 5.2%, since 2009, according to new figures released today by the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI).

29 Oct 2010

Public health care supporters call for investigation of Copeman Healthcare Centre

Federal Health Minister Leona Aglukkaq's recent announcement of her department's investigation into the controversial Sentinelle Health Group in Ottawa has prompted public health care supporters in BC and Alberta to call for a similar review of the Copeman Healthcare Centre.

29 Oct 2010

Health plan costs may cause members to delay care, put families in financial jeopardy

Three million Californians are enrolled in high-deductible health plans, insurance policies that offer consumers a lower monthly premium in return for higher out-of-pocket spending for health care services, according to a new report from the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

29 Oct 2010

New wearable wireless sensors can improve healthcare

Members of the public could form the backbone of powerful new mobile internet networks by carrying wearable sensors. According to researchers from Queen's University Belfast, the novel sensors could create new ultra high bandwidth mobile internet infrastructures and reduce the density of mobile phone base stations.

29 Oct 2010

Pepsi Refresh grant helps in launching Rett syndrome drug development program

The International Rett Syndrome Foundation (IRSF) believes that accelerating the pace of meritorious research, supporting families, and raising awareness are the minimum effort necessary to successfully search for treatments and a cure for one of the most devastating neurological diseases to affect young girls. On October 1, IRSF became the recipient of a $250,000 grant from the Pepsi Refresh contest that was officially confirmed later in the month.

29 Oct 2010

New eight-month pilot program to advance standards of care for people with schizophrenia

The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare (National Council) today announced a new eight-month pilot program designed to advance standards of care for people living with schizophrenia. This initiative at 10 community behavioral health organizations nationwide is designed to improve the daily functioning of people with schizophrenia and raise expectations for what is achievable.

29 Oct 2010

Mary Ann Liebert launches Brain Connectivity journal

Mary Ann Liebert, Inc. announces the release of a new peer-reviewed journal in an expanding area of systems neuroscience, Brain Connectivity. This timely new journal is positioned to become the premier source of cutting-edge basic and clinical neuroscience research aimed at better understanding of structural and functional connections in the brain and how these connections are altered by neurological disorders.

29 Oct 2010

Memorial mass for former Loyola University Hospital cardiothoracic surgeon

A memorial Mass will be said on Friday, Nov. 12 for former Loyola University Hospital cardiothoracic surgeon Dr. Roque Pifarré, who performed the first heart transplant in Illinois.

29 Oct 2010

Inadequate payments prompt insurance companies to raise premiums, avoid low-income market

Millions of Medicare recipients have been forcibly reassigned to different prescription drug plans because Part D reimbursements to insurance companies covering low-income patients are lower than the actual costs incurred, according to a study released online today by Health Affairs. The report describes how a system designed to encourage competition and to subsidize care for low-income Medicare patients instead has led companies to raise their premiums in an effort to price themselves out of the low-income segment of the Part D market.

29 Oct 2010

VCU Massey receives grant to expand cancer research community program

Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center recently was awarded a two-year, $2.4 million grant from the Virginia Tobacco Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission (Tobacco Commission) to expand the breadth of the center's community involvement and to grow its state-of-the-art clinical research and cancer specialist delivery system.

29 Oct 2010

Miami Miller School receives grant to study impact of GenerationOne's mobile solution on heart failure patients

The James and Esther King Biomedical Research Program has awarded the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine Geriatrics Institute a $100,000 grant for a year-long study on the impact of GenerationOne's Mobile Heath Solution on heart failure patients.

29 Oct 2010

Health overhaul dominates some state, midterm races, but is ignored in others

Some races around the nation are being dominated by fighting over health issues and the health overhaul while others are ignoring it completely.

29 Oct 2010

Hospital group and physicians looking at ACOs; Harvard to open primary care education center

In an Oct. 27 letter to the CMS, the Federal Trade Commission and HHS inspector general's office, the Federation of American Hospitals offered comments on accountable care organizations.

29 Oct 2010

Prominent scientist in mitochondrial genetics joins Children's Hospital to establish CMEM

Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D., a pioneer and internationally prominent scientist in the field of human mitochondrial genetics, has joined The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia to continue his investigations into the role of mitochondrial energy in health and disease.

29 Oct 2010

PHARMABIZ.com examines India’s push for clearer definition of counterfeit, substandard medicines

India has taken the lead to get together a number of generic drug-producing nations to call for better definitions to ensure quality, strengthening of regulatory authorities in the respective countries, and bringing focus of the world to public health instead of intellectual property, PHARMABIZ.com writes in an article that examines the recent meeting of leaders from Brazil, India and South Africa on issues regarding counterfeit medicines.

29 Oct 2010

cbm marks 10 millionth cataract surgery

Today's cataract surgery of Joyce Kaaya, 57, in Moshi, Tanzania symbolically marks the 10 millionth cataract surgery in cbm-supported programs throughout the world.

29 Oct 2010

Nursing homes struggle to allow seniors use of medical marijuana

The New York Times: As states begin embracing medical marijuana they are also grappling with how they allow or don't allow seniors in nursing homes to use it. "The prospect has just begun to raise difficult questions for administrators and state regulators.

29 Oct 2010

New surgical centers open in Penn., faith-based clinic in Michigan

Stand-alone surgical centers in York County as well as the entire state have tripled in the past decade, according to a report released earlier this month by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council, The York Dispatch reports.

29 Oct 2010

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New e-SMART-HD program helps improve doctor-patient communications

New Ostomy Algorithm receives support of nurses

Healthcare costs expected to reach $191.6 billion in 2010

Public health care supporters call for investigation of Copeman Healthcare Centre

Health plan costs may cause members to delay care, put families in financial jeopardy

New wearable wireless sensors can improve healthcare

Pepsi Refresh grant helps in launching Rett syndrome drug development program

New eight-month pilot program to advance standards of care for people with schizophrenia

Mary Ann Liebert launches Brain Connectivity journal

Memorial mass for former Loyola University Hospital cardiothoracic surgeon

Inadequate payments prompt insurance companies to raise premiums, avoid low-income market

VCU Massey receives grant to expand cancer research community program

Miami Miller School receives grant to study impact of GenerationOne's mobile solution on heart failure patients

Health overhaul dominates some state, midterm races, but is ignored in others

Hospital group and physicians looking at ACOs; Harvard to open primary care education center

Prominent scientist in mitochondrial genetics joins Children's Hospital to establish CMEM

PHARMABIZ.com examines India’s push for clearer definition of counterfeit, substandard medicines

cbm marks 10 millionth cataract surgery

Nursing homes struggle to allow seniors use of medical marijuana

New surgical centers open in Penn., faith-based clinic in Michigan

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How industrial hygiene flow calibration supports defensible exposure data

How electrical engineering ensures accurate calibration and patient safety

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