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Consumer groups, economists and members of Congress oppose Medicare's bidding system

As Medicare expands a controversial "competitive" bidding program for home medical equipment and services, economists, consumer groups, and members of Congress have gone on record to oppose that program citing reduced patient access to care, flaws in the program design, and impact on local jobs.

20 Aug 2011

UHC report outlines ways to combat high cost of care through supply chain purchasing process

While health care reform looks at ways to combat the high cost of care, many of the nation's top hospitals have already found ways to eliminate unnecessary costs through the supply chain purchasing process.

20 Aug 2011

Research on why and how malaria parasites go undetected in the placenta of pregnant women

Collaborative research between LSTM and the University of Copenhagen, published last week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have answered a long standing mystery, why and how malaria parasites go unnoticed by the immune defences of pregnant mothers.

20 Aug 2011

Automated navigation support reduces effort and injuries for surgeons

The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society congratulates Dietrich Manzey, Maria Luz, Stefan Mueller, Andreas Dietz, Juergen Meixensberger, and Gero Strauss on receiving the 2011 Human Factors Prize for their article, "Automation in Surgery: The Impact of Navigated-Control Assistance on Performance, Waorkload, Situation Awareness, and Acquisition of Surgical Skills."

20 Aug 2011

AHF: Gilead's campaign for FDA approval of Truvada leads to black marketing in Florida

Today AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) decried the fact that the recent campaign by Gilead Sciences Inc. to obtain approval by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for Truvada as PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) has led to a "black market" for the drug in Florida.

20 Aug 2011

Study examines how gay and lesbian couples promote each other's unhealthy habits

For better or for worse, in sickness and in health - there's a long line of research that associates marriage with reducing unhealthy habits such as smoking, and promoting better health habits such as regular checkups.

20 Aug 2011

Deficit panel has 'extraordinary power' but will face 'bumpy' start

The LA Times reports on some of the challenges ahead for the "super committee" and explores the panel's chances for success. Meanwhile, one GOP member of this select group vows that there will be no cuts to entitlement benefits.

20 Aug 2011

High cigarette price, economic factors appear to reduce smoking rates among African-American youth

A new report in the American Journal of Public Health suggests that increasing cigarette prices combined with other social and economic factors appear to be behind the steep decline in smoking rates among African-American youth that occurred between 1970s and the mid-1990s.

20 Aug 2011

Trend of hospitals hiring doctors could drive up health care costs

According to a new study by the Center for Studying Health System Change, the pattern isn't new but is picking up speed in the quest to increase market share and revenue.

20 Aug 2011

Researchers to generate new knowledge about brain's complex communication system

Researchers at the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Copenhagen have collaborated with the company NeuroSearch to generate new knowledge about an important part of the brain's complex communication system.

20 Aug 2011

U.S. offers North Korea flood assistance, considering food aid separately

"The United States has offered North Korea up to $900,000 in emergency flood assistance but has made no decision yet on a broader request for humanitarian food aid for the isolated country, the State Department said on Thursday," Reuters reports.

20 Aug 2011

New findings on cancer stem cells

In cancer, tumors aren't uniform: they are more like complex societies, each with a unique balance of cancer cell types playing different roles. Understanding this "social structure" of tumors is critical for treatment decisions in the clinic because different cell types may be sensitive to different drugs. A common theory is that tumors are a hierarchical society, in which all cancer cells descend from special self-renewing cancer stem cells.

20 Aug 2011

SVEFCU approves a merger with McGraw-Hill Federal Credit Union

Following a vote of its membership on August 18, St. Vincent's Employees Federal Credit Union (SVEFCU) has approved a merger with McGraw-Hill Federal Credit Union.

20 Aug 2011

South Africa should heed recommendations of HRW report on maternal abuses

"If the moral test for a society is the way in which it treats its most vulnerable citizens, then the release of a new report by Human Rights Watch (HRW) marks a sad day for South Africa," a Lancet editorial states.

20 Aug 2011

Annual oral rabies vaccination program in eight western Pennsylvania counties

The annual oral rabies vaccination program, which helps control the spread of rabies in wild animals, is underway in eight western Pennsylvania counties.

20 Aug 2011

Violence and displacement in Yemen exacerbate child malnutrition

UNICEF has warned that "continuing fighting in various parts of Yemen, which has recently displaced thousands of people especially in Abyan Governorate and the Arhab District of Sana'a, could compromise the nutritional status of those affected … potentially increaseing morbidity and mortality rates, especially among children under five," IRIN reports.

20 Aug 2011

RFT releases Smart ID location detection system

RF Technologies, a leading provider of radio frequency identification monitoring systems and healthcare security solutions, announces the release of its Smart ID location detection technology.

20 Aug 2011

Disease mapping could help control and eliminate loiasis, other NTDs, study says

In this End the Neglect blog post, Linda Diep, communications and grassroots assistant with the Global Network for Neglected Tropical Diseases, discusses how "mapping of Loa Loa Filariasis could help in the innovation of new strategies to eliminate and control onchocerciasis and lymphatic filariasis (LF), according to a recently released article from the open-access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases."

20 Aug 2011

NHLBI selects U-M Congenital Heart Center for clinical research

The University of Michigan Congenital Heart Center has been selected as a new Pediatric Heart Network core site for clinical research. Created and funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, the Pediatric Heart Network is a cooperative network of pediatric cardiovascular clinical research centers that conducts studies in children with congenital or acquired heart disease.

20 Aug 2011

Planned Parenthood to cut back abortion services in Ariz.

Planned Parenthood, the state's largest abortion provider, announced a sweeping cutback of abortion services in Arizona on Thursday, saying it will no longer offer the procedure in communities outside metro Phoenix and Tucson. The organization had been offering abortions at 10 of its 13 Arizona locations. Starting today, that will drop to three.

20 Aug 2011

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Consumer groups, economists and members of Congress oppose Medicare's bidding system

UHC report outlines ways to combat high cost of care through supply chain purchasing process

Research on why and how malaria parasites go undetected in the placenta of pregnant women

Automated navigation support reduces effort and injuries for surgeons

AHF: Gilead's campaign for FDA approval of Truvada leads to black marketing in Florida

Study examines how gay and lesbian couples promote each other's unhealthy habits

Deficit panel has 'extraordinary power' but will face 'bumpy' start

High cigarette price, economic factors appear to reduce smoking rates among African-American youth

Trend of hospitals hiring doctors could drive up health care costs

Researchers to generate new knowledge about brain's complex communication system

U.S. offers North Korea flood assistance, considering food aid separately

New findings on cancer stem cells

SVEFCU approves a merger with McGraw-Hill Federal Credit Union

South Africa should heed recommendations of HRW report on maternal abuses

Annual oral rabies vaccination program in eight western Pennsylvania counties

Violence and displacement in Yemen exacerbate child malnutrition

RFT releases Smart ID location detection system

Disease mapping could help control and eliminate loiasis, other NTDs, study says

NHLBI selects U-M Congenital Heart Center for clinical research

Planned Parenthood to cut back abortion services in Ariz.

Building quality into drug development for safer, faster medicines

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A new method to measure intracellular water in biological systems

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