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Prostate cancer: Surgery in county hospitals, radiation or hormone therapy in private facilities

Researchers at Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego and colleagues have found that prostate cancer treatments varied significantly between county hospitals and private providers. Patients treated in county hospitals are more likely to undergo surgery while patients treated in private facilities tend to receive radiation or hormone therapy. These findings were published online by the journal Cancer on January 25.

25 Jan 2010

Bill Gates' annual letter highlights innovations aimed at combating disease, hunger and poverty

Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, today released his second annual letter -- a personal appraisal of the foundation's efforts to date and how innovation impacts priorities of the foundation.

25 Jan 2010

SEIU proposes a 44% increase in companies’ contributions to family health care coverage

First, these janitors are paid significantly higher wages and benefits than their counterparts in other major Midwestern cities. Second, their compensation package includes excellent health care coverage for which they pay less than 6% of the costs. Third, the union proposed un-affordably high pay increases in excess of 15% and other significant benefit changes, including, for example, a 44% increase in the companies’ contributions to family health care coverage.

25 Jan 2010

Former union officials attempt to stop 29 elections

After months and months of saying they wanted union elections held immediately at hospitals and nursing homes in California, former SEIU-UHW officials who were ousted from the union are now trying to stop 29 elections that are ready to proceed for more than 4,000 workers.

24 Jan 2010

Isha Foundation wins the coveted $1mm online competition

On Thursday night, people from all over Southern India rallied to bring out the vote for Isha Foundation’s race to win the Chase Community Giving charity contest hosted on line by Facebook. The Isha Foundation, an international non-profit humanitarian social organization with U.S. headquarters in middle-Tennessee and international headquarters in Tamil Nadu, India worked tirelessly to win the coveted $1mm first place prize.

24 Jan 2010

Democrats float ideas on future of health reform

Politico: "Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have begun considering a list of changes to the Senate bill in hopes of making it acceptable to liberal House members, according to sources familiar with the situation.

24 Jan 2010

Connecticut relief agencies join forces to deliver medical aid

Save the Children and AmeriCares have partnered to bring medical aid to more than 85,000 Haitians affected by the earthquake. Westport-based Save the Children's emergency response team in Haiti has distributed more than 16.5 tons of medical supplies in the town of Leogane and at the general hospital in Port-au-Prince – supplies donated by AmeriCares, the global health and disaster relief organization based in Stamford, Conn.

24 Jan 2010

Democrats suggest efforts on health reform will continue

Politico has a compilation of comments by Washington officials on the Sunday morning talk shows, including discussions about the health care overhaul legislation, which is facing a serious challenge following the election last Tuesday of Republican Scott Brown to the Senate seat of the late Sen. Edward Kennedy.

24 Jan 2010

Organ donation saves lives

A record number of Ontarians donated organs and tissues in 2009. Investment from the provincial government, implementation of the Organ Donation Strategy, improvements in donation performance and increased public awareness of organ and tissue donation have resulted in more lives saved through transplantation.

23 Jan 2010

Partners In Health reports latest developments in Haiti

In spite of the recent aftershocks, which have caused temporary evacuations at medical facilities in some locations, the PIH team reports having gotten 24 operating rooms up and running, providing urgent care 24 hours per day, including 12 at the central University Hospital in Port-au-Prince (HUEH) and seven at four of our medical facilities outside the capital.

23 Jan 2010

University of Kentucky's fast-track protocol reduces risk of death in heart attack patients

Heart attack patients won't go to the emergency room as part of a new University of Kentucky plan designed to reduce those patients' risk of dying by nearly 8 percent for every half hour shaved off the time between the ambulance and treatment at the hospital.

23 Jan 2010

New book on fraud and abuse laws and regulations affecting health care industry published

BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, announced today the publication of the 2009 Cumulative Supplement to Health Care Fraud and Abuse: Practical Perspectives, Second Edition.

23 Jan 2010

Haiti earthquake: ReachMD to broadcast report on health impact and medical response

ReachMD, the nation’s fastest growing media communications provider for medical professionals, will broadcast a special report on the health impacts of the Haiti earthquake with specific focus on the medical response throughout the week of January 25, 2010. The special program was recorded on Wednesday, January 20th and can be previewed here – http://www.ReachMD.com/haiti.

23 Jan 2010

ACF and SAMHSA notify that TANF funds can be used to help families treat short term mental health

In the face of growing need for mental health and substance abuse treatment, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) are notifying states about how Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds can be used to help families in their communities in need of short term mental health or substance use treatment services.

23 Jan 2010

Renowned heart specialists to discuss new cardiovascular treatment and patient care at public forum

World-leading cardiovascular specialists, researchers, family physicians and the public will learn what's new in cardiovascular treatment, patient care and research at the second annual Peter Munk Cardiovascular Symposium, Partnerships in Integrative Patient Care, on January 29 and 30 at the Toronto Metropolitan Hotel.

23 Jan 2010

New findings suggest trauma patients are insulated from ‘weekend effect’

People who are in car crashes or suffer serious falls, gunshot or knife wounds and other injuries at nights or on weekends do not appear to be affected by the same medical care disparities as patients who suffer heart attacks, strokes, cardiac arrests and other time-sensitive illnesses during those "off hours," according to new research from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

23 Jan 2010

Insurance policy that allows acceleration of benefits to pay for critical health care needs

What if life insurance was designed to help policy owners live their lives, not just ease the financial burden at life's end? Quality of Life... Insurance(SM) from American General Life and Accident Insurance Company (AGLA) has taken this bold approach, which is paying off despite a volatile economy and a polarizing healthcare debate.

23 Jan 2010

Jewish General Hospital nurses to embark for Haiti

A group of nurses from the Jewish General Hospital is about to embark for Haiti to offer volunteer assistance in medical facilities that are treating victims of the devastating January 12 earthquake.

23 Jan 2010

U.S. blood banks have sufficient blood to meet the needs of Haiti victims

The AABB Interorganizational Task Force on Domestic Disasters and Acts of Terrorism has determined that the current blood supply in the United States is adequate to fill any requests received to support the present needs of Haitian hospitals, though ongoing infrastructure and transportation issues in Haiti could delay receipt of those supplies to patients.

23 Jan 2010

UK Gill Heart Institute offers individualized fitness program for heart patients

How do you change health habits among a population with some of the highest heart disease rates in the world? Tackling heart disease in Kentucky - an epicenter of heart health problems - the University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute Cardiac Rehabilitation Program is helping high-risk patients make radical, lasting changes to improve their heart health.

23 Jan 2010

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Prostate cancer: Surgery in county hospitals, radiation or hormone therapy in private facilities

Bill Gates' annual letter highlights innovations aimed at combating disease, hunger and poverty

SEIU proposes a 44% increase in companies’ contributions to family health care coverage

Former union officials attempt to stop 29 elections

Isha Foundation wins the coveted $1mm online competition

Democrats float ideas on future of health reform

Connecticut relief agencies join forces to deliver medical aid

Democrats suggest efforts on health reform will continue

Organ donation saves lives

Partners In Health reports latest developments in Haiti

University of Kentucky's fast-track protocol reduces risk of death in heart attack patients

New book on fraud and abuse laws and regulations affecting health care industry published

Haiti earthquake: ReachMD to broadcast report on health impact and medical response

ACF and SAMHSA notify that TANF funds can be used to help families treat short term mental health

Renowned heart specialists to discuss new cardiovascular treatment and patient care at public forum

New findings suggest trauma patients are insulated from ‘weekend effect’

Insurance policy that allows acceleration of benefits to pay for critical health care needs

Jewish General Hospital nurses to embark for Haiti

U.S. blood banks have sufficient blood to meet the needs of Haiti victims

UK Gill Heart Institute offers individualized fitness program for heart patients

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