Infectious Disease
Use Shot that Targets 13 Strains of Pneumococci (CME/CE)
Giving kids the new 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine may further decrease disease burden, researchers have found.
Categories: Infectious Disease, Western Medicine
Texas Earthquake Study Cites 'Plausible Cause'
A study of seismic activity near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport by researchers from Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Austin reveals that the operation of a saltwater injection disposal well in the area was a "plausible cause" for the series of small earthquakes that occurred in the area between Oct. 30, 2008, and May 16, 2009...
Non-Profit Operations Plugging Health Care Gap In Chicago
Medill Reports presents a story on community health centers in Chicago that try to fill access-to-care gaps for people too sick to get health care coverage or too poor to afford other care. "Community health centers ... are private, non-profit operations that fill a gap between for-profit health systems and free public health clinics...
Comparative Research Lags Far Behind Approval-Driven Evaluations
A new study has found that few drug evaluations compare treatments in ways that help doctors make better decisions, Reuters reports...
Lifesaving Bills Filed In Florida Legislature To Guarantee Patient Safety Improvements
National Nurses Organizing Committee-Florida and National Nurses United today announce that the Florida Hospital Patient Protection Act of 2010 has been filed in the state legislature by authors Rep. Oscar Braynon and Sen. Tony Hill and will be known as HB 1283 and S 2316...
Economic Models And Health State Utility Values
Although health care decision making is reliant on quality of life measurements, there is currently very little research and limited guidance on the most appropriate techniques to apply these data in economic models used to inform policy decisions Researchers at the University of Sheffield explored the potential difference on policy decisions based on cost per QALY thresholds ...
The Dangers Of Daylight Savings Time
Daylight Savings Time can be hazardous for your health. On average, people go to work or school on the first Monday of Daylight Savings after sleeping 40 fewer minutes than normal. And recent studies have found there's a higher risk of heart attacks, traffic accidents and workplace injuries on the first Monday of Daylight Savings...
Physicians Click Their Way To Better Prescriptions
Is it time for all community-based doctors to turn to e-prescribing to cut down on the number of medication errors? According to Rainu Kaushal and colleagues from the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, electronic prescriptions can dramatically reduce prescribing errors up to seven-fold...
Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality News And Numbers: Patients Admitted To Hospitals On A Weekend Wait For Major Procedures
Of the 8 million patients who were admitted to U.S. hospitals on weekends in 2007, approximately one-third received needed major procedures on the day of admission, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In comparison, patients who were admitted on weekdays received 65 percent of all major procedures on their first day in the hospital...
Integration Provides Better Health Outcomes - Pharmaceutical Society Of Australia
The Government's new hospital funding package is a welcome first step in the health reform process, but will be better served when complemented through implementation of a preventive health strategy to help minimise hospitalisations, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia says...
British Medical Association Response To Announcement On Doctors' Pay
Commenting on the Health Secretary's announcement on doctors' pay, Dr Hamish Meldrum, Chairman of Council at the BMA, said: "The BMA is disappointed that the government has chosen to overrule some of the recommendations of the independent pay review body...
Care Improving, Cost Saving Indiana Network For Patient Care Expands
The Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), one of the highest volume health information exchanges in the United States, is expanding beyond central Indiana to serve patients from southwestern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Ind...
Electronic Drug Information System "AiDKlinik" Reduces The Number Of Adverse Drug Interactions And Adverse Events
To get life-threatening diseases under control, patients in the intensive care unit usually are administered many medications at the same time. Even for experts, it is difficult to keep track of the variety of possible side effects and interactions. The team headed by Dr...
Press Release: ‘CDC Analysis Provides New Look at Disproportionate Impact of HIV and Syphilis Among U.S. Gay and Bisexual Men’
A data analysis released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention underscores the disproportionate impact of HIV and syphilis among gay and bisexual men in the United States.
ACF Announces The Availability Of $42 Million In Competitive Grant Funding For Native American Communities And Organizations
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Administration for Native Americans (ANA) announces the availability of $42 million in competitive grant funding for fiscal year 2010 for community-based projects that promote economic and social self-sufficiency and cultural preservation for American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and other Native American Pacific...
Kids' Flu Shots Stop Community Transmission (CME/CE, with audio)
Vaccinating healthy kids effectively protects the entire community against flu, a prospective randomized trial affirmed.
Categories: Infectious Disease, Western Medicine
Fashion And IT
Consider this T-shirt: It can monitor your heart rate and breathing, analyze your sweat and even cool you off on a hot summer's day. What about a pillow that monitors your brain waves, or a solar-powered dress that can charge your ipod or MP4 player? This is not science fiction - this is cotton in 2010...
Male Batterers Consistently Overestimate General Rates Of Violence Toward Partners
Men who engaged in domestic violence consistently overestimated how common such behavior is, and the more they overestimated it the more they engaged in abusing their partner in the previous 90 days, according to new research conducted at the University of Washington...
Medical Miracles More Likely, But At What Cost?
The Fiscal Times reports on medical miracles and their place in the national health care reform debate with a likely subheading: high health care costs. "The idea of foregoing heroic efforts and new technologies to save dying patients is anathema for most Americans...
New York Times Examines Factors Affecting VBAC Rates As NIH Conference Begins
The New York Times on Tuesday examined efforts to increase rates of vaginal births after caesarean sections at the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corporation, a small hospital run by the Navajo Nation and financed partially by the Indian Health Services...
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- Money from Bill and Melinda Gates will help beat Dengue fever in Australia
- Australian scientists win funds for new research
- South Carolina health coverage, cigarette tax bill stalls in state Senate
- Supporters, opponents of comparative effectiveness research 'gearing up' to clash over planned efforts, New York Times reports
- Survey examines wait times for appointments with specialists in 15 U.S. cities
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- Phenotypic and Functional Characterization of HIV-1-Specific CD4+CD8+ Double-Positive T Cells in Early and Chronic HIV-1 Infection.
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