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public_health
 9/9/2010 HHS Launches First Of Its Kind Consumer Focused Website In Spanish
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today unveiled CuidadodeSalud.gov, the first website in Spanish of its kind to help consumers take control of their health care by connecting them to new information and resources that will help them access quality, affordable health care coverage. Consistent with the mandate in the Affordable Care Act, CuidadodeSalud...
9/9/2010 Minister Brady Official Opens The Newly Refurbished Elphin Day Care Centre, Ireland
Aine Brady, T.D., Minister for Older People, officially opened the newly refurbished Elphin Day Care Centre. The Centre was established in 1994 by Elphin Social Services Committee, a voluntary group based in and around the town of Elphin. The Centre is based in the former boy's national school in the town. It currently operates five days a week and caters for up to 80 people per day...
9/9/2010 Key Pharmacogenomics Resource Expanded By NIH
To help advance research on how genes affect responses to medicines, the National Institutes of Health is spending $15 million over five years to expand a key resource, the Pharmacogenomics Knowledge Base (PharmGKB). The goal of pharmacogenomics is to use information about a patient's genetic make-up to optimize his or her medical treatment. As the field has grown, so has PharmGKB...
9/9/2010 Group Health Physicians Receives 2010 AMGA Acclaim Award
The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) announced that the recipient of the 2010 AMGA Acclaim Award is Group Health Physicians for "Reforming Our Delivery System: Internal Transformation to External Expansion," which embraces a system-wide implementation of the medical home model to improve care coordination and care management for their patient population...
9/9/2010 World Water Week: Urbanization, Irrigation, Global Food Security
"Global efforts to improve access to drinking water have been hampered by rapid urbanisation, with the proportion of people in urban areas with access actually declining, according to U.N. figures presented" at the World Water Week conference in Stockholm, Agence France-Presse reports...
9/9/2010 African And U.S. Universities Partner To Tackle Development Challenges Across Africa
USAID and Higher Education for Development announced that 11 innovative new partnerships between 22 universities in Africa and the United States have each been awarded up to $1.1 million for activities to address issues including food security and agriculture, solar energy, health care, education, and water in Africa. These partnerships will maximize the resources of U.S...
9/9/2010 Entomology 2010: Bed Bug Symposia To Address Public Health Concerns
Entomology 2010, the 58th Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA), will feature a full day of bed bug presentations by the nation's leading bed bug experts. The meeting will take place in San Diego, California, December 12-15, 2010...
9/9/2010 Health Reform Politics: GOP Campaigning Against Law; Dems Have Mixed Strategy
The Associated Press: "Even if Republicans succeed beyond any current predictions and capture both the Senate and the House, they wouldn't have enough GOP votes to overcome President Barack Obama's veto." But, they could exercise the "congressional power of the purse, denying the administration billions of dollars ...
9/9/2010 Hospitals Find New Ways To Serve Growing Senior, Immigrant, Suburban Populations
News outlets report on hospital industries in Houston, Texas; Irvine, Calif. and Madison County, La. The Houston Chronicle: "Options to address the unique health concerns of older adults are becoming increasingly common in Houston, thanks to the longevity of the oldest seniors and graying baby boomers...
9/9/2010 Today's Opinions: Helping Small Business Afford Health Care; Improving Hospital Infection Rates; Paying For End-Of-Life Planning
Boosting Health Insurance Access Kansas City Star Small business owners understandably are nervous about changes coming with health care reform. But then again, health care headaches are nothing new in their world. The good news is that recent studies suggest the new Affordable Care Act is likely to help people who work for small businesses...
9/9/2010 Medical Liability Costs In U.S. Pegged At 2.4 Percent Of Annual Health Care Spending
How much do medical liability costs-including the costs of malpractice insurance, claims and legal fees and doctors practicing "defensive medicine" to avoid being sued-add to overall medical costs? During the recent debates over federal health care reform, considerable attention focused on whether medical liability reform should be included in the package as a means of reducing costs...
9/9/2010 Practical Steps To Improve Indigenous Health, Australia
AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said today that all parties and Independents in the new Parliament have a unique opportunity to work together to make real improvements in health outcomes and living conditions for Indigenous Australians...
9/9/2010 Reading Food Labels, Combined With Exercise, Can Lead To Weight Loss
Nutritional science and food marketing has become so sophisticated in recent decades that a trip to the supermarket can require a complete nutritional re-education. The average consumer needs to be on guard against preservatives, added fat, colorings, and calories, false advertising, and sophisticated but misleading labels...
9/9/2010 High-Income Areas Experience Far Less Injuries Than Low-Income Neighborhoods
Penetrating injury rates were more than 20 times higher for persons living in the lowest income neighborhoods compared with those living in the highest income neighborhoods, according to a new study published in the August issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons...
9/9/2010 NIH Ramps Up Human Microbiome Project
The National Institutes of Health today announced it has awarded approximately $42 million to expand the scope of eight demonstration projects designed to link changes in the human microbiome to health and disease. The funds will also support investigators to develop innovative technologies to improve the identification and characterization of microbial communities of the human microbiome...
9/9/2010 Royal Society Response To Vince Cable's Speech On Science Funding, UK
"Science is an international enterprise where the UK is strong. Other nations, including the US, are raising their expenditure at the same time as our government plans to cut ours. This will make the UK less attractive to mobile talent. And it risks sending a signal to young people that the UK is no longer a country that aspires to scientific leadership...
9/9/2010 Drink-Driving: Decision-Making Deficits Related To Driving Under The Influence Are Often Undetected
Driving under the influence (DUI) of alcohol is a major public health problem. A study of people who had relapsed to DUI found subtle deficits in their decision-making abilities that tend to go undetected through conventional neuropsychological testing. Results will be published in the December 2010 issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research and are currently available at Early View...
9/9/2010 Medical Malpractice System Accounts For 2.4% Of America's Health Care Spending, $54.4 Billion Annually
A new report reveals that $54.4 billion is spent annually on medical malpractice systems; 2.4% of America's health care spending. America's health care has existed with two separate, but related crises - its high rates of medical errors, and dissatisfaction with the malpractice liability system...
9/9/2010 AAMC President Says New Doctors Are Key To Advancing Patient Safety
In an article published in the September issue of Health Affairs, AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., says the next generation of physicians will drive a culture of patient safety in health care and that residents are important agents of change, mentoring both peers and faculty...
9/9/2010 TPP Global Development Ltd Enters Into An Agreement With The University Of Edinburgh For Future Drug Development
TPP Global Development Ltd (TPP) announced an agreement with the University of Edinburgh to collaborate on the development of novel pre-clinical intellectual property originated within the University. TPP and the University of Edinburgh will focus on commercialisation opportunities in the areas of nervous system disorders, immunology/inflammation and oncology...
9/9/2010 ImmunoSolv Merges With Grampian BioConsultants & Secures Additional Funds, Scotland
ImmunoSolv, a leading Edinburgh-based private company developer of immunology platform technology, is pleased to announce that it has completed a merger with Aberdeen-based Grampian BioConsultants Limited (GBC). The merged company will retain the name ImmunoSolv Limited...
9/9/2010 State Roundup: Some Premiums Soar In Washington State; Building Boom For Denver Hospitals; Looking For Uninsured Kids
The Seattle Times: "Whopping rate increases are coming soon for many people with individual health-insurance policies. Most insurers offering individual policies in the state have asked for and been granted rate increases, effective Oct. 1, according to the state's insurance commissioner. Regence BlueShield's rate increase - an average 16.5 percent - was one of the highest...
9/9/2010 World Water Week Kicks Off With A Focus On Pollution, Quality
A group of over 2,500 leading water experts from 130 countries gathered in Stockholm on Sunday to kick off World Water Week, where they will focus on "increasing water pollution and dwindling water quality around the globe," Agence France-Presse reports (Larson, 9/5)...
9/9/2010 The Benefits Of Hormone Replacement Therapy Overstated And Harms Downplayed By Ghostwritten Articles
The first academic analysis of the 1500 documents unsealed in recent litigation against the pharmaceutical giant Wyeth (now part of Pfizer) reveals unprecedented insights into how pharmaceutical companies use ghostwriters to insert marketing messages into articles published in medical journals. Dr...
9/9/2010 Studies Examine Health Care Use, Quality
News outlets offered a variety of articles about health care use and quality. The New York Times: A new study finds "that more than half of the 354 million doctor visits made each year for acute medical care, like for fevers, stomachaches and coughs, are not with a patient's primary physician, and that more than a quarter take place in hospital emergency rooms...
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