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Medicare shortchanges hospitals on stroke therapy
• Public Health • • Stroke • Jan 13 12
Treating stroke patients with clot-busting drugs costs U.S. hospitals substantially more than Medicare pays, a new study finds.
The results are potentially concerning, researchers…
FDA sends user-fee recommendations to Congress
• Drug News • • Public Health • Jan 13 12
U.S. health regulators said on Friday they have submitted to Congress new recommendations for how manufacturers will help fund their review of new branded…
Study: We May Be Less Happy, But Our Language Isn’t
• Public Health • Jan 13 12
“If it bleeds, it leads,” goes the cynical saying with television and newspaper editors. In other words, most news is bad news and the…
Can electronic health records erase disparities?
• Public Health • Jan 10 12
Switching to electronic health records might help close health gaps between black and white Americans, researchers suggest in a new study.
They say government…
Tobacco Company Misrepresented Danger from Cigarettes
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 07 12
A new UCSF analysis of tobacco industry documents shows that Philip Morris USA manipulated data on the effects of additives in cigarettes, including menthol,…
Study finds e-cigarettes affect airways, and quickly
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Jan 05 12
The electronic cigarettes marketed as a safer alternative to the real thing produce immediate changes in users’ airways, a small study suggests.
Researchers in…
California sperm donor at odds with federal regulators
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Dec 21 11
An electronics company engineer who the U.S. government considers a one-man sperm bank has fathered an estimated 14 children through free donations of his…
States to weigh in on basic health coverage
• Public Health • Dec 17 11
U.S. health officials will allow states to select the basic set of medical benefits that must be offered by insurance plans participating in new…
Studies may have overestimated cellphone crash risk
• Public Health • • Trauma & Injuries • Dec 13 11
Increased risk of having a car crash attributed to cellphone use may have been overestimated in some past studies, a new analysis suggests.
So-called…
Big firms afraid to criticize Medco deal: senator
• Public Health • Dec 07 11
Major firms which oppose a proposed deal to merge Medco Health Solutions Inc and Express Scripts Inc feared retaliation and declined to publicly discuss…
China probe finds Coke yogurt poisoning likely
• Food & Nutrition • • Public Health • Dec 06 11
Chinese police believe a child who died after drinking a Coca Cola-made yogurt drink was probably the victim of deliberate poisoning, official media said…
Obama sets new U.S. goal on fighting AIDS
• AIDS/HIV • • Public Health • Dec 01 11
President Barack Obama vowed on Thursday to bolster U.S. efforts to fight AIDS, setting a new goal of providing treatment to 6 million people…
2 out of 3 medical students do not know when to wash their hands
• Infections • • Public Health • Dec 01 11
Only 21 percent of surveyed medical students could identify five true and two false indications of when and when not to wash their hands…
Interethnic marriage between African and Native Americans produced many children
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Dec 01 11
American Indians with African ancestry outdid ‘full bloods’ in reproductive terms in the early 1900s, despite the odds being against them, according to a…
Working moms multitask more and have worse time doing so than dads
• Gender: Female • • Public Health • Dec 01 11
Not only are working mothers multitasking more frequently than working fathers, but their multitasking experience is more negative as well, according to a new…
Food served in children’s hospitals rated largely unhealthy
• Food & Nutrition • • Public Health • Dec 01 11
Given the obesity epidemic among the nation’s young, one would hope that children’s hospitals would serve as a role model for healthy eating. But…
Study: No decline in running economy for older runners
• Public Health • Nov 29 11
Runners over the age of 60 are the fastest-growing group in the sport. A new study from the University of New Hampshire suggests that…
Athletes’ injury-prevention programs need time
• Public Health • • Trauma & Injuries • Nov 28 11
Programs aimed at preventing knee injuries among soccer players take time to make any lasting impact on the way athletes move, according to a…
States could see substantial savings with tobacco control programs
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 28 11
States that have shifted funds away from tobacco control programs may be missing out on significant savings, according to a new study co-authored by…
Short waits, long consults keep most patients very happy with their physicians
• Public Health • Nov 24 11
Patients overall in the United States are very satisfied with their physicians and with treatment they receive in outpatient settings, according to new information…
Zinc supplementation does not protect young African children against malaria
• Infections • • Public Health • Nov 23 11
A study led by Hans Verhoef, a researcher at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and…
Many above poverty line struggle to make ends meet
• Public Health • Nov 23 11
Nearly half of all Americans lack economic security, meaning they live above the federal poverty threshold but still do not have enough money to…
New York sues “roll your own” cigarette shops
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 22 11
New York City sued the city’s first “roll-your-own” cigarette business on Monday in its latest attempt to reduce smoking rates and retain revenue from…
Heart experts share some surprising findings
• Heart • • Public Health • Nov 21 11
A shot that could lower cholesterol, a connection between blood type and stroke, and how income affects heart health were among more than 4,000…
Philip Morris challenges Australia on plain pack
• Public Health • • Tobacco & Marijuana • Nov 21 11
Tobacco giant Philip Morris on Monday launched legal action against Australian laws forcing tobacco products to be sold in drab, plain packaging from late…