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Cancer center will offer state-of-the-art services
• Public Health • Nov 05 04
Sutter Health Network’s plans to rebuild, replace, and expand part of Northern California’s health-care infrastructure have come to Solano County.
Representatives from the health-care…
6,000 flu shots offered to most vulnerable North Coast residents
• Public Health • Nov 05 04
About 6,000 North Coast residents who are most vulnerable to the flu will be inoculated against the virus this weekend at five clinics stretching…
A founder of James Graham Brown Cancer Center dies
• Public Health • Nov 05 04
Joseph S. Chalfant, a founder of the James Graham Brown Cancer Center, died Thursday at his home in New Albany, Ind., after a…
Scant progress seen on cutting medical errors
• Public Health • Nov 04 04
Five years after a major report describing an epidemic of medical errors in the U.S. health care system shocked patients, policy makers and physicians,…
U.S. moves to clarify rules for supplement makers
• Public Health • Nov 04 04
U.S. health officials announced steps on Thursday aimed at clarifying the way regulators police the safety and advertising claims of vitamins, herbs and other…
Abortion foes hail gains in new US Congress
• Public Health • Nov 04 04
Opponents of abortion said Thursday they expect that, led by a re-elected President George Bush, the new Congress that will be sworn in next…
Doctors urged to push flu vaccine for seniors
• Public Health • Nov 04 04
The number of seniors vaccinated for flu and pneumococcal infections rose in most of the United States last year, but remained below the government’s…
IBM says it’s encouraged by health study it commissioned
• Public Health • Nov 04 04
A study of 126,000 IBM employees commissioned by the world’s largest computer company found that workplace conditions did not cause cancer or other…
Medicare boosts payments for doctors, hospitals
• Public Health • Nov 03 04
U.S. physicians, as well as hospitals that provide outpatient services, will receive higher payments next year from the Medicare health insurance program, government officials…
FDA delays response to prescription drug lawsuit
• Public Health • Nov 03 04
The Food and Drug Administration has postponed its response to Vermont’s first-in-the-nation lawsuit seeking to overturn the FDA’s ban on the importation of prescription…
Dutch close 140 livestock farms over dioxin scare
• Public Health • Nov 03 04
The Dutch agriculture ministry on Wednesday temporarily shut 140 cattle, pig, sheep and goat farms after cancer-causing dioxin was discovered in milk produced by…
Cholera kills 1,663 in Africa so far this year
• Public Health • Nov 03 04
Cholera outbreaks have hit three more African countries, bringing the number of people killed by the disease across the continent this year to 1,663,…
California voters back $3 billion stem cell measure
• Public Health • Nov 03 04
A controversial California ballot measure that would fund a decade of stem cell research with $3 billion in state money was headed for a…
Shortage of 200,000 doctors predicted in US
• Public Health • Nov 02 04
Over the next two decades, the US could find itself short of 200,000 doctors unless steps are taken to curb current trends, according to…
Flu shots available for high-risk adults
• Public Health • Nov 02 04
Montgomery County, Md., recently held a lottery to distribute 800 unused doses of flu vaccine to high-risk candidates.
About 20,000 names were put in…
French Doctors Treating Arafat Rule Out Leukemia
• Public Health • Nov 02 04
A French hospital treating Yasser Arafat said Tuesday that the Palestinian leader’s condition was improving with treatment and ruled out leukemia.
Flu vaccine summit set to deal with threat of pandemic
• Public Health • Nov 01 04
The World Health Organization has called an unprecedented summit meeting of flu vaccine makers and nations to expand plans for dealing with the growing…
Despite vaccines, whooping cough creeps back
• Public Health • Nov 01 04
Whooping cough is making a comeback 40 years after most industrialized countries started vaccinating children, and the culprit seems to be weakening effects of…
FDA checking out French flu shot producer
• Public Health • Oct 30 04
U.S. regulators told Illinois officials Friday they will examine a flu vaccine manufactured in France before clearing it for use by state residents.
A…
Some antibiotic resistance threat in hospitals could yield to hand washing
• Public Health • Oct 30 04
Johns Hopkins researchers report potentially life-threatening hospital infections with bacteria resistant to the antibiotic methicillin can occur even if patients havent been treated with…
Kentucky health departments receive more flu vaccine
• Public Health • Oct 29 04
Kentucky health departments were among the first to receive an additional supply of flu vaccine to compensate for the vaccine that was taken off…
U.S. finds 5 million more flu shot doses - HHS
• Public Health • Oct 29 04
The United States has found 5 million doses of influenza vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline Plc in Germany and ID Biomedical in Canada and is trying…
Arafat collapses, health worsens
• Public Health • Oct 28 04
Yasser Arafat collapsed Wednesday night, was unconscious for about 10 minutes and remained in a “very difficult situation,” Palestinian officials said. A team of…
Bush wants more information about governor’s vaccine plan
• Public Health • Oct 28 04
The acting commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said his agency will not approve Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s plan to buy the flu…
CDC advisers recommend FluMist for kids
• Public Health • Oct 28 04
MedImmune’s FluMist nasal influenza vaccine should be included in the U.S. government’s Vaccines for Children program, federal advisers said on Thursday.
MedImmune said the…