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Medicare reimbursement incentive less than effective
• Public Health • Sep 05 12
Record-keeping for a patient complication used by Medicare to determine how much hospitals get reimbursed is not comprehensive or accurate, undermining the policy’s value,…
U.S. officials sound worldwide alert for Yosemite hantavirus risk
• Infections • • Public Health • Sep 05 12
U.S. health officials have sent warnings to 39 other countries that their citizens who stayed in Yosemite National Park tent cabins this summer may…
Yosemite officials say 1,700 visitors risk disease
• Public Health • Aug 29 12
The rustic tent cabins of Yosemite National Park _ a favorite among families looking to rough it in one of the nation’s most majestic…
NYU-Poly Researchers Set Record for Detecting Smallest Virus, Opening New Possibilities for Early Disease Detection
• Public Health • Aug 29 12
Researchers at Polytechnic Institute of New York University (NYU-Poly) have created an ultra-sensitive biosensor capable of identifying the smallest single virus particles in solution,…
Driver’s seat safer than sidewalk for older adults
• Aging and Gerontology • • Public Health • Aug 23 12
Driving gets more dangerous with age, but older adults may be more vulnerable while walking on the sidewalk than behind the wheel, says a…
30 minutes of daily exercise does the trick
• Public Health • Aug 23 12
Forty percent of Danish men are moderately overweight. For thirteen weeks, a research team at the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences followed 60…
Nearly half of physicians report symptoms
• Public Health • Aug 21 12
A national survey of physicians finds the prevalence of burnout at an “alarming” level, says a study out Monday.
While the medical profession prepares…
Improving water quality can help save coral reefs
• Public Health • Aug 19 12
Research from the University of Southampton and the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton has found that an imbalance of nutrients in reef waters can increase…
“Alarming” smoking habits found in poorer countries
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Aug 17 12
Two fifths of men in developing countries still smoke or use tobacco, and women are increasingly starting to smoke at younger ages, according to…
Smelling a skunk after a cold
• Public Health • Aug 13 12
Has a summer cold or mold allergy stuffed up your nose and dampened your sense of smell? We take it for granted that once…
Catholic business owners win temporary halt to Obama birth control mandate
• Public Health • Jul 30 12
A Colorado business owned by a Catholic family does not have to comply with President Barack Obama’s new healthcare mandate that private employers provide…
Petition to waive ethanol mandate may come next week
• Public Health • Jul 28 12
At least one of four states hoping to ease requirements on adding grain-based ethanol to gasoline is expected to petition the federal government as…
Widespread use of prescription steroids draws worry
• Public Health • Jul 26 12
Many Americans are on oral steroids for years without getting therapy to minimize the extra fracture risk that accompanies the potent drugs, according to…
Steroid stanozolol mimics testosterone, boosts muscle
• Public Health • Jul 26 12
Greek high jumper Dimitris Chondrokoukis has tested positive for doping with an anabolic steroid which has featured in several Olympic positive dope tests in…
Medicaid expansion in U.S. states found to cut death rates
• Public Health • Jul 26 12
State expansions of the Medicaid health insurance program for poor Americans reduced adult mortality rates by more than 6 percent compared to states that…
Inactivity ‘killing as many as smoking’
• Public Health • Jul 19 12
A lack of exercise is now causing as many deaths as smoking across the world, a study suggests.
The report, published in the Lancet…
A stronger doctor-patient relationship for the costliest patients
• Public Health • Jul 18 12
Patients who are frequently hospitalized account for a disproportionate amount of health care spending in the United States. Working with a $6.1 million grant,…
Meditation, exercise may cut sick days from colds
• Public Health • Jul 18 12
Meditating or exercising could drastically cut the number of days people feel sick and miss work due to respiratory illnesses like colds and the…
Twenty percent of US women were uninsured in 2010, up from 15 percent in 2000
• Gender: Female • • Public Health • Jul 14 12
Twenty percent of U.S. women (18.7 million) ages 19-64 were uninsured in 2010, up from 15 percent (12.8 million) in 2000, according to a…
Public favors posthumous reproduction, with consent
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Jul 14 12
Many Americans may think it’s OK to retrieve sperm or eggs from a dead or dying spouse in order to have children in the…
India to give free generic drugs to hundreds of millions
• Public Health • Jul 05 12
India has put in place a $5.4 billion policy to provide free medicine to its people, a decision that could change the lives of…
GlaxoSmithKline settles healthcare fraud case for $3 billion
• Public Health • Jul 02 12
GlaxoSmithKline Plc has agreed to plead guilty to misdemeanor criminal charges and pay $3 billion to settle what government officials said on Monday is…
Could your favorite beach make you sick?
• Public Health • Jun 29 12
Bacterial contamination from stormwater runoff and sewage helped make 2011 one of the worst years in more than two decades for health-related closings and…
Online tool helps U.S. beachgoers avoid dirty waters
• Public Health • Jun 28 12
If you plan on hitting the beach this summer, a new report recommends first checking your local water quality online before packing your bags…
China dairy recalls hundreds of cartons of tainted milk
• Public Health • • Nutrition and Food Safety • Jun 28 12
A Chinese dairy company has recalled hundreds of cartons of milk after a mechanical error tainted the batch with alkaline water, the latest blow…