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PAF announces expansion of Colorectal Care Line

The Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF), a national non-profit resolving patient access to health care issues, medical financial limitations, insurance denials and multiple government program enrollments, including Medicaid and Social Security Disability Income announced today a significant expansion of its Colorectal Care Line (CCL), beginning September 13, 2010.

15 Sep 2010

Study suggests decentralized clinics can reduce cost by offering mobile health services

Families from rural Mexico who receive health care from centralized clinics run by the federal government pay up to 30 percent less in out-of-pocket expenses and utilize preventive services more often than those families who access decentralized clinics run by states, according to a study by researchers at the UCLA School of Public Health.

15 Sep 2010

Democrats who voted 'no' on health overhaul face campaign fire, calls to 'de-fund' reform grow louder

The Hill: Labor unions are living up to their pledge to target and spend campaign dollars against Democrats who voted against the health overhaul. "The Service Employees International Union (SEIU), for instance, has spent almost $300,000 on direct mail and other activities in support of union activist Mac D'Alessandro's primary challenge to Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-Mass.)." The primary in that race is Tuesday (Miller and D'Aprile, 9/14).

15 Sep 2010

Healthy lifestyle pattern reduces mortality

It is widely known that a healthy lifestyle that includes not smoking, limiting alcohol intake, and maintaining a proper weight reduces disease risk.

15 Sep 2010

Biomedical informatics is essential part of medical education

In an article published in the Sept. 15 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, (JAMA), author Edward H. Shortliffe, MD, PhD, points out that although information underlies all clinical work, and despite the growing role that information management and access play in healthcare delivery and clinical support, there is a dearth of informatics competency being developed in America's future corps of physicians.

15 Sep 2010

Survey reveals inadequate provision for women with secondary breast cancer

57% of breast care nurses who took part in a UK survey for the charity Breast Cancer Care feel that there is inadequate provision for women with secondary breast cancer, a progressive incurable disease that kills half a million women worldwide every year after the cancer spreads to other organs. Many said that they felt ill equipped to care for women with secondary breast cancer and that their time was dominated by meeting the needs of women with primary breast cancer.

15 Sep 2010

Pancreatic Cancer Action Network launches campaign to increase disease awareness

Lisa Niemi Swayze joins the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network to launch "Be a Hero in the Fight Against Pancreatic Cancer: Know it. Fight it. End it." campaign to increase awareness of the deadly disease that claimed the life of her husband, actor Patrick Swayze, one year ago.

15 Sep 2010

Burned-out medical students admit unprofessional conduct in relation to patient care

A Mayo Clinic study involving seven major medical schools shows a majority of medical students surveyed suffer from burnout and that those students were more likely to cheat or be dishonest in relation to patient care. The findings appear in this week's issue of JAMA.

15 Sep 2010

Depression and distress among medical students

Medical students with moderate to severe depression more frequently endorsed several depression stigma attitudes than nondepressed students and had a higher rate of suicidal thoughts, according to a study in the September 15 issue of JAMA, a theme issue on medical education.

15 Sep 2010

AAPCHO launches campaign to raise chronic hepatitis B awareness

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Minority Health, the Hepatitis B Foundation and the Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations (AAPCHO) today launched a new campaign to raise awareness of the epidemic of chronic hepatitis B among Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander heritage.

15 Sep 2010

USAID opens budget office, agency will assume more responsibility for its resources

USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah recently told agency staff "of the creation of the new USAID Office of Budget and Resource Management (BRM), to be led by his senior budgetary advisor Mike Casella," Foreign Policy's blog, "The Cable," reports, adding that this will "give USAID an increased role in developing and then justifying parts of its own budget going forward."

15 Sep 2010

EHSI applauds Sen. Specter's support for Stem Cell Research Advancement Act

Emerging Healthcare Solutions, Inc. cheered Sen. Arlen Specter's (D-Penn.) statement of support for the Stem Cell Research Advancement Act on Monday.

15 Sep 2010

Senate amendments to strike health reform tax reporting provision fail

The Associated Press/Bloomberg Business: "The Senate failed Tuesday to repeal or ease an arcane tax reporting provision of the new health care law. ...Tucked into the health law is a requirement that businesses file tax forms called 1099s with the Internal Revenue Service for every vendor that sells them more than $600 in goods.

15 Sep 2010

Danny Davis to discuss diabetes, obesity rates in U.S. at UIC Midwest Conference

U.S. Rep. Danny Davis (D-Chicago) will give opening remarks when the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies convenes a regional meeting Sept. 21 at the University of Illinois at Chicago to discuss the rapidly rising rates of diabetes and obesity in the U.S.

15 Sep 2010

Ricerca Biosciences collaborates with Instem to innovate drug safety studies

Ricerca Biosciences, is pleased to announce the successful result of a partnership with Instem, a leading provider of laboratory data and information management solutions. The collaboration resulted in the development of a novel approach to eliminating potential misdosing during drug safety studies.

15 Sep 2010

NBCA arms healthcare professionals to 'Stop the Clot'

The National Blood Clot Alliance (NBCA) is making available an easily accessible, no-cost online curriculum for nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and pharmacists to help increase understanding about the diagnosis and treatment of blood clots and blood clotting disorders.

15 Sep 2010

Hunger costs developing nations $450B per year, report says

"Reduced worker productivity, poor health and lost education caused by malnourishment" is costing poor nations $450 billion a year, according to a report by the aid agency ActionAid, Agence France-Presse reports (9/13). The number is "more than 10 times the estimated amount needed to meet the United Nations Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving global hunger by 2015, said the report" according to the U.K. Press Association, which added that hunger also results in premature deaths (9/13).

15 Sep 2010

Kansas Governor to head nursing home group after leaving office in January

Kansas City Star: "Parkinson, a Democrat, will be president and CEO of the American Health Care Association/National Center for Assisted Living, a non-profit, Washington-based trade and lobbying organization representing 11,000 nursing homes and assisted living centers." Before becoming lieutenant governor, Parkinson used to run a chain of long-term care facilities. He assumed the governor's job after Kathleen Sebelius left that post to become secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama (Klepper, 9/13).

15 Sep 2010

Optimer Pharmaceuticals to present fidaxomicin Phase 3 clinical trial data at ICAAC Conference

Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced the presentation of new data from its North American and European fidaxomicin Phase 3 clinical trials in patients with Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) at the 50th Annual Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) in Boston.

15 Sep 2010

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins enter into licensing agreement with CJAPS to provide PRS journal in Chinese

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW), part of Wolters Kluwer Health, is pleased to announce that it has entered into a licensing agreement with the Chinese Journal of Aesthetic and Plastic Surgery (CJAPS), to provide selected articles and abstracts from Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS), the official journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons, to be translated into Chinese and published in CJAPS.

15 Sep 2010

Healthcare News

PAF announces expansion of Colorectal Care Line

Study suggests decentralized clinics can reduce cost by offering mobile health services

Democrats who voted 'no' on health overhaul face campaign fire, calls to 'de-fund' reform grow louder

Healthy lifestyle pattern reduces mortality

Biomedical informatics is essential part of medical education

Survey reveals inadequate provision for women with secondary breast cancer

Pancreatic Cancer Action Network launches campaign to increase disease awareness

Burned-out medical students admit unprofessional conduct in relation to patient care

Depression and distress among medical students

AAPCHO launches campaign to raise chronic hepatitis B awareness

USAID opens budget office, agency will assume more responsibility for its resources

EHSI applauds Sen. Specter's support for Stem Cell Research Advancement Act

Senate amendments to strike health reform tax reporting provision fail

Danny Davis to discuss diabetes, obesity rates in U.S. at UIC Midwest Conference

Ricerca Biosciences collaborates with Instem to innovate drug safety studies

NBCA arms healthcare professionals to 'Stop the Clot'

Hunger costs developing nations $450B per year, report says

Kansas Governor to head nursing home group after leaving office in January

Optimer Pharmaceuticals to present fidaxomicin Phase 3 clinical trial data at ICAAC Conference

Lippincott Williams & Wilkins enter into licensing agreement with CJAPS to provide PRS journal in Chinese

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