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$2.9 million to reduce colorectal cancer screening disparities in Vietnamese Americans

The Vietnamese REACH for Health Initiative coalition, under the leadership of the Northern California Cancer Center was recently awarded a $2.9 million grant from the National Institute of Health to evaluate the effectiveness of a colorectal cancer lay health worker and media intervention in increasing colorectal cancer screening among Vietnamese Americans aged 50-74 in Santa Clara County, California.

7 Apr 2008

UAB at the forefront of diabetes research and training

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has designated the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) one of only six Diabetes Research and Training Centers (DRTC) in the country, putting UAB at the forefront in the development of new methods to treat, prevent and, ultimately, cure diabetes and its complications.

4 Apr 2008

Patients prefer to challenge nurses rather than doctors about safety issues related to their care

The results showed that patients were far more likely to ask factual questions of all healthcare professionals, such as the length of their hospital stay, than they were to pose questions that might be perceived as challenging clinical abilities, such as whether that healthcare professional had washed his/her hands.

4 Apr 2008

Healthcare providers who discuss intimate piercings earn patients' trust

On April 2, 2008, UC San Diego Medical Center-Hillcrest celebrated the opening of an expanded Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) designed for the 24-hour specialized care of premature infants and newborns with complications.

4 Apr 2008

Free vascular health checks for the over 40's promises to save 2,000 lives each year

A scheme whereby everyone between the age of 40 to 74 will be given free health screening for vascular diseases is to be introduced in Britain next year.

3 Apr 2008

Torres Strait nurses go back to work

A special industrial relations meeting to try and resolve the crisis in the Torres Strait has had some success.

3 Apr 2008

New $98 million Bathurst Hospital a problem - mayor calls for return of community based hospital board

Following the submission of a 54-page list of complaints by nurses regarding Bathurst hospital, the mayor of the city has called for return to community based hospital boards.

2 Apr 2008

Majority of U.S. physicians favor national health insurance

The largest survey ever of American physicians' opinions on health-care financing has found that 59 percent of doctors support government legislation to establish national health insurance while only 32 percent oppose it.

2 Apr 2008

No end in sight for Torres Strait island nurses dispute

A meeting between the Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) and Queensland Health has failed to deter nurses in the Torres Strait from withdrawing their labour.

31 Mar 2008

Australian public health on the brink of collapse and in need of urgent treatment

With nurses in far north Queensland walking off the job and now New South Wales Nurses Association (NSWNA) also confessing to wanting to do the same, it is clear that all is not well with some public health systems in Australia.

31 Mar 2008

Townsville Hospital left minus a heart surgeon after surgeon quits

In a month that has seen Queensland Health appear to lurch from crisis to crisis a public hospital in north Queensland which services a large area has been left without a working cardiac surgeon.

31 Mar 2008

New Master's specialization for teaching in health care professions

The University of Rochester will offer a new specialization within the current Master of Science in Teaching and Curriculum program for doctors, nurses and other health care professionals who want to teach or who want to expand their educational skills.

27 Mar 2008

U.S will have a severe shortage of nurses soon

The United States health care system needs to brace for a severe shortage of nurses, according to findings by Peter Buerhaus, Ph.D., of Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Douglas Staiger, Ph.D., from Dartmouth University, and David Auerbach, Ph.D., of the Congressional Budget Office.

26 Mar 2008

Australian blood expert calls for changes in the way blood is stored

A leading Australian haematologist is renewing his call for changes in the way blood is stored and used for transfusions.

25 Mar 2008

AMA not happy with proposed national register of doctors

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) says a national register of doctors to protect patients from rogue practitioners may do more harm than good.

25 Mar 2008

Australia's seniors to be moved out of hospitals

The Rudd government has promised funding to enable elderly patients to be moved out of high-care hospital wards.

25 Mar 2008

Nurses meet to discuss Torres Straits working conditions

The Queensland Nurses Union (QNU) met today with Queensland Health officials to discuss working conditions for medics working in the Torres Strait and other remote communities.

25 Mar 2008

Hospitals that participate in clinical trials may provide better patient care

Hospitals that participate in clinical trials appear to provide better care for patients with heart attacks or other acute heart events and have lower death rates than hospitals that do not participate in clinical trials, according to a report in the March 24 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

25 Mar 2008

Hospitals in NSW accused of 'cooking the books'

As a result of allegations that triage times had been altered to meet department targets, Gosford Hospital, on the central coast, and Ryde Hospital, in Sydney's north-west have both been audited by the Health Department.

24 Mar 2008

New poll debates quality U.S. health care system

A recent survey by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harris Interactive, as part of their ongoing series, Debating Health: Election 2008, finds that Americans are generally split on the issue of whether the United States has the best health care system in the world (45% believe the U.S. has the best system; 39% believe other countries have better systems; 15% don't know or refused to answer) and that there is a significant divide along party lines.

24 Mar 2008