World / Health & Beauty
'Baby Basics' delivers information, literacy
01.07.2008 22:17
usatoday.com
One month before her baby was due, Ebony Perry developed a violent stomach flu and abdominal cramps. Although Perry was frightened, ...
USA
Health & Beauty
Study: Needle-poked newborns in need of pain relief
01.07.2008 22:16
usatoday.com
Newborns in intensive care units may get hundreds of painful or stressful procedures usually without painkillers, a study reports ...
USA
Health & Beauty
Video shows patients, workers watch woman die on hospital floor
01.07.2008 22:16
usatoday.com
New York City hospital officials promised reforms at a Brooklyn psychiatric ward where surveillance footage captured a woman ...
USA
Health & Beauty
Conn. plan aims to enroll uninsured, but not mandate universal coverage
01.07.2008 22:16
usatoday.com
Mariana Luari would like to provide her 12 employees at the Town Line Diner with health insurance, but she and her husband can't ...
USA
Health & Beauty
Hard to swallow: the truth behind the health myths
01.07.2008 20:12
telegraph.co.uk
Health has long been an area beset by superstition and spurious claims, and despite our medical advances, some common myths persist. By Johanna Leggatt
Great Britain
Health & Beauty
NHS dentistry reforms 'failing'
01.07.2008 20:03
bbc.co.uk
Changes designed to improve NHS dental services have not been successful, a House of Commons committee report suggests.
World
Health & Beauty
Child food 'poor' at attractions
01.07.2008 20:03
bbc.co.uk
UK theme parks, museums and other holiday sites are serving up child meals loaded with sugar, salt and fat, a survey finds.
World
Health & Beauty
EU plans cross-border healthcare
01.07.2008 20:03
bbc.co.uk
More patients across Europe may seek treatment abroad if new EU healthcare proposals are adopted.
World
Health & Beauty
CMS Proposes Payment, Policy Changes For Physicians' Services In 2009
01.07.2008 19:12
medicalnewstoday.com
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed new efforts to promote access to higher quality and more efficient health care delivered by the nation's physicians to people with Medicare under the 2009 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule (MPFS). "We are taking a multi-pronged approach to improve how Medicare pays for health care services for our nation's seniors," said CMS acting administrator Kerry Weems.
World
Critical Care Medicine & Anesthesiology
Mortality Lower For HIV Infected Individuals Since Introduction Of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy
01.07.2008 19:11
medicalnewstoday.com
In industrialized countries, HIV positive individuals who acquired the disease sexually experience rates of mortality similar to the general population in the first five years following infection, though the risk of death continues as the duration of the infection becomes longer than this period. These results were published in an article released on July 1, 2008 in JAMA.
World
HIV/AIDS
Delay In Presentation In Men With Peyronie's Disease: Reasons And Predictors
01.07.2008 18:18
medicalnewstoday.com
ORLANDO, FL (UroToday.com) - A presentation by Drs. Judy Choi, Byron Alex and John Mulhall examined predictors and reasons for the delay in presentation in Peyronie's disease that is invariably seen. The mean duration of symptoms prior to presentation was 17 months.
World
Urology
MSF Calls Upon South African Authorities To Immediately Stop Deportation Of Zimbabweans
01.07.2008 18:17
medicalnewstoday.com
The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) expressed alarm at the deportation of approximately 500 Zimbabweans, including women and children, from a detention center in Musina, South Africa, at the border with Zimbabwe. South African authorities in Musina told MSF that they had increased patrols along the border during Zimbabwe's run-off election period.
World
First Aid
People with HIV living longer, study shows
01.07.2008 17:01
reuters.com
LONDON (Reuters) - People with HIV in the developed world are no more likely to die in the first five years following infection than men and women in the general population, British researchers said on Tuesday.
World
Health & Beauty
Cells in blood may help cancers spread
01.07.2008 17:01
reuters.com
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Normal cells in the blood that play a role in healing wounds may also be creating the right conditions for cancer cells to spread, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday.
World
Health & Beauty
Los Angeles Daily News Examines Connection Between High Number Of Minority Children In Foster Care System, Drug Tests Given To Minority Mothers
01.07.2008 16:19
medicalnewstoday.com
Some health care officials maintain that the high population of minority children in the foster care system can be attributed in part to hospitals and welfare agencies disproportionately administering drug tests to low-income, pregnant minority women who seek public health care, the Los Angeles Daily News reports.
World
Harmful Habits
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