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NASA study predicted outbreak of deadly virus
• Public Health • Feb 17 09
An early warning system, more than a decade in development, successfully predicted the 2006-2007 outbreak of the deadly Rift Valley fever in northeast Africa,…
McMaster researchers discover new mode of how diseases evolve
• Infections • • Public Health • Feb 17 09
Researchers of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research have discovered a new way that bacteria evolve into something that can make…
White Patients Have Better Surgical Survival than Blacks in Teaching Hospitals
• Public Health • • Surgery • Feb 16 09
Elderly patients who undergo surgery at teaching-intensive hospitals have better survival rates than at nonteaching hospitals, but these better survival rates apparently occur…
Retail Clinics in Line with Obama’s Health Reform
• Public Health • Feb 14 09
President Barack Obama is committed to pursuing significant healthcare reform in 2009. Dean Lin, chief executive officer of Careworks Convenient Healthcare™ retail clinics, sees…
Bribes help workers kick the habit
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 13 09
Not only does it pay to stop smoking because your health improves, you’re more likely to quit if you get paid well to do…
Smoking Prevention Campaign Saving Billions in Smoking-Related Care
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Feb 13 09
Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the American Legacy Foundation have estimated that truth®, the nations’ largest youth…
School-based health program boosts kids’ activity
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Feb 11 09
Primary schools are suitable settings for promoting healthy lifestyles to students, say researchers in the United Kingdom.
Over a 10-month period, students attending schools…
Thirty minutes a day of exercise? Better think 50
• Public Health • Feb 10 09
Greater amounts of physical activity than currently recommended may be necessary to prevent people from gaining weigh, and to help them lose weight…
Children’s Hospital study finds African-Americans more distrusting of research than whites
• Public Health • Feb 03 09
Distrust toward medicine and research plays a significant role in African-Americans’ lack of participation in clinical trials, according to a study by researchers at…
Educating Patients Before They Leave the Hospital Saves Money
• Public Health • Feb 03 09
Patients who have a clear understanding of their after-hospital care instructions, including how to take their medicines and when to make follow-up appointments, are…
What Are the Secrets of a Long and Healthy Life?
• Public Health • Feb 02 09
More and more people are living longer, but living to extreme old age is unusual and tends to run in some families. A new…
Unmet Medical Needs Are Most Common Among Vulnerable Children
• Children's Health • • Public Health • Jan 26 09
Despite recent government efforts, the medical needs of about six million children in the United States are not being met, according to data from…
Nanotech gadget could diagnose any disease
• Public Health • Jan 19 09
A way to stuff a microchip full of detectors for a whole range of medical conditions has been developed by US chemists. They say…
More men than women die of COPD, study hints
• Public Health • • Respiratory Problems • Jan 19 09
Results of a study conducted in the Asia-Pacific region suggest that men with COPD are more likely to die or be hospitalized than women…
Alcohol taxes have clear effect on drinking
• Public Health • Jan 15 09
With many local and national governments currently debating proposals to raise alcohol taxes, a timely new study published online today in the February edition…
More Efficient Way to Manage Health Information
• Public Health • Jan 15 09
The days of scrambling to recall or find immunization dates or medication names and doses may be numbered. An electronic personal health record is…
Health group blasts inaction on tobacco control
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 14 09
U.S. leaders failed to take meaningful steps to reduce smoking over the past year, with a tobacco regulation bill stalling in Congress and a…
Family members of critically ill patients want to discuss loved ones’ uncertain prognoses
• Public Health • Dec 29 08
Critically ill patients frequently have uncertain prognoses, but their families overwhelmingly wish that physicians would address prognostic uncertainty candidly, according to a new study…
Tobacco company scientist gained access to WHO collaborating center
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Dec 23 08
A new study of previously confidential tobacco industry documents shows that a Philip Morris scientist established close connections with a WHO Collaborating Centre in…
Woman gives birth to mutant baby in Malaysia
• Pregnancy • • Public Health • Dec 22 08
The news of an unusual alien-like baby born in China has received an intensive coverage in the media recently. Ms. Li Hui-Ying, a village…
The six habits of highly respectful physicians
• Public Health • Dec 22 08
Recently, I asked a colleague about the quality of care her hospitalized mother was getting. “Well, you can at least have a conversation with…
Older Blacks Rate Own Health Less Positively Than Older Whites Do
• Public Health • Dec 18 08
When asked by health care professionals about their health, older African-American adults consistently report poorer health than whites of the same age do —…
Watching Water from Space Could Aid Disease Prevention in China
• Infections • • Public Health • Dec 18 08
Scientists are looking to outer space for help in their attempt to prevent new outbreaks of the tropical disease schistosomiasis in southern China.
Once…
Decrease Drug Costs—Go Generic
• Drug News • • Public Health • Dec 10 08
Today, more than ever, consumers can opt for generic equivalents of brand-name medications at substantial cost savings. According to the December issue of Mayo…
E-prescribing Systems Can Boost Drug Cost Savings
• Drug News • • Public Health • Dec 10 08
Electronic prescribing (e-prescribing) systems that allow doctors to select lower cost or generic medications can save $845,000 per 100,000 patients per year and possibly…