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Decrease in doctor appointments, preventable hospital visits draw scrutiny

Medpage Today offers a pair of stories exploring Census findings regarding doctor visits in 2010 as well as MedPAC's interest in "preventable" hospital visits.

10 Oct 2012

High-fat Western diet could lead to development of atherosclerosis

Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers have found that a diet high in saturated fat raises levels of endothelial lipase (EL), an enzyme associated with the development of atherosclerosis, and, conversely, that a diet high in omega-3 polyunsaturated fat lowers levels of this enzyme.

10 Oct 2012

'Bold goals' needed to spur political action in fight against hunger

"Achieving the first Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of halving the prevalence of hunger in the world by 2015 is still within reach, but a strong, sustained acceleration of efforts is needed," U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva writes in a Reuters opinion piece.

10 Oct 2012

Researchers identify two new small 'chaperone' molecules that may treat Schindler/Kanzaki disease

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers, experts in revealing molecular structure by X-ray crystallography, have identified two new small "chaperone" molecules that may be useful in treating the inherited metabolic disorder known as Schindler/Kanzaki disease.

10 Oct 2012

Letters to U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator address global AIDS blueprint

The Center for Global Health Policy's "Science Speaks" blog reports on a letter sent by 12 organizations and institutions to U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby, detailing the ways a U.S. global AIDS blueprint, proposed by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during the XIX International AIDS Conference in July, can address the concerns of key populations, such as injection drug users and men who have sex with men.

10 Oct 2012

ASTRO names distinguished neurosurgeon as 2012 Honorary Member

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has named Mark P. Carol, MD, a distinguished leader in the fields of intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT), as its 2012 Honorary Member, which is the highest honor the Society bestows upon distinguished cancer researchers and leaders in disciplines other than radiation oncology, radiation physics or radiobiology.

10 Oct 2012

GlobalPost blog examines issue of HIV/AIDS in U.S. presidential election

GlobalPost's "Global Pulse" blog examines the issue of HIV/AIDS in the presidential election, writing, "This campaign season, the fight against HIV/AIDS has been absent from the press materials released by both President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Gov. Mitt Romney -- as well as from the conversation."

10 Oct 2012

Chemotherapy plus immunotherapy can enhance anti-tumor effects in patients with advanced cancer

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues at the University of South Florida and Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital in China have discovered that combining chemotherapy drugs and immunotherapy cancer vaccines results in an enhanced anti-tumor effect.

10 Oct 2012

Pakistan to become first south Asian country to introduce pneumococcal vaccine

"Pakistan is set to become the first country in south Asia to introduce the pneumococcal vaccine to protect children against pneumonia, one of the biggest killers of children under five in the developing world," the Guardian reports.

10 Oct 2012

Structured after-school activities improve children’s academic achievement

School-age children who participate in structured after-school activities improve their academic achievement, according to a new study from Southern Methodist University, Dallas.

10 Oct 2012

Telemedicine: Nantucket hospital's example demonstrates telemedicine's utility

When Sarah Cohen's acne drove her to visit a dermatologist in July, that's what she figured she'd be doing - visiting a dermatologist. But at the hospital on Nantucket, where her family spends summers, Ms. Cohen, 19, was perplexed.

10 Oct 2012

NACA could prevent or cure cataracts, macular degeneration and other eye conditions

Researchers at Missouri University of Science and Technology are working with an antioxidant that could prevent or cure cataracts, macular degeneration and other degenerative eye disorders.

10 Oct 2012

New rating system to focus on patient data provided by electronic health records

HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is developing a rating system for the growing amount of health information directed at patients. The agency's Health Information Rating System, discussed in a Federal Register posting, will focus especially on patient data provided by electronic health records.

10 Oct 2012

Boston Scientific initiates enrollment in Lotus Valve System clinical trial for aortic valve disease

Boston Scientific has enrolled the first patient in the REPRISE II clinical trial to evaluate the safety and performance of the Lotus Valve System in up to 120 patients with severe aortic valve disease.

10 Oct 2012

Regulatory approval service for hydroxyapatite users and manufacturers in the medical device industry launched by Ceram

Ceram, the international materials technology company, has launched a Regulatory Approval Service, designed to help hydroxyapatite users and manufacturers in the medical device industry gain FDA acceptance of their 510(k) submission.

10 Oct 2012

Pew poll: Obama's lead over Romney on health care issues narrowed, post-debate

Overall, the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press poll found that GOP presidential pick Mitt Romney wiped out President Barack Obama's advantage and took the lead by four percentage points.

10 Oct 2012

SRR intervention decreases unintended pregnancies, unprotected sex in adolescent girls

Adolescent girls participating in a sexual risk reduction (SRR) intervention study were more likely to practice abstinence and, if sexually active, showed substantial decreases in unprotected sex, number of partners, and unintended pregnancies, reports a research team led by principal investigator Dianne Morrison-Beedy, PhD, RN, WHNP-BC, FNAP, FAANP, FAAN, Senior Associate Vice President of USF Health and Dean of the College of Nursing at the University of South Florida.

10 Oct 2012

Number, proportion of world's hungry drop but remain too high, U.N. report says

The U.N. "revised down the number of the world's hungry on Tuesday to just under 870 million but slammed the figure as 'unacceptable' and warned that the fight against hunger was slowing down," Agence France-Presse reports.

10 Oct 2012

New screening method may lead to more efficient RNA drug development

Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a new method of screening more than three million combinations of interactions between RNA and small molecules to identify the best targets on RNA as well as the most promising potential drug compounds.

10 Oct 2012

Report: Health law will benefit many employers, but mid-size firms would see costs rise

According to an Urban Institute study, the health-coverage costs carried by small businesses will likely fall if the 2010 health law is completely implemented, but companies with 101 - 1,000 employees could experience a jump in their costs.

10 Oct 2012

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Decrease in doctor appointments, preventable hospital visits draw scrutiny

High-fat Western diet could lead to development of atherosclerosis

'Bold goals' needed to spur political action in fight against hunger

Researchers identify two new small 'chaperone' molecules that may treat Schindler/Kanzaki disease

Letters to U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator address global AIDS blueprint

ASTRO names distinguished neurosurgeon as 2012 Honorary Member

GlobalPost blog examines issue of HIV/AIDS in U.S. presidential election

Chemotherapy plus immunotherapy can enhance anti-tumor effects in patients with advanced cancer

Pakistan to become first south Asian country to introduce pneumococcal vaccine

Structured after-school activities improve children’s academic achievement

Telemedicine: Nantucket hospital's example demonstrates telemedicine's utility

NACA could prevent or cure cataracts, macular degeneration and other eye conditions

New rating system to focus on patient data provided by electronic health records

Boston Scientific initiates enrollment in Lotus Valve System clinical trial for aortic valve disease

Regulatory approval service for hydroxyapatite users and manufacturers in the medical device industry launched by Ceram

Pew poll: Obama's lead over Romney on health care issues narrowed, post-debate

SRR intervention decreases unintended pregnancies, unprotected sex in adolescent girls

Number, proportion of world's hungry drop but remain too high, U.N. report says

New screening method may lead to more efficient RNA drug development

Report: Health law will benefit many employers, but mid-size firms would see costs rise

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