WASHINGTON, Nov. 12 /PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE/ — Health care leaders today announced a national campaign to raise awareness about the 2009 Medicare prescription drug coverage open enrollment period, which runs from November 15 to December 31, 2008.
The campaign is designed to encourage seniors to sign up for prescription drug plans under Medicare's Part D program if they have not already done so, and to remind those seniors who are already Read the rest of this entry »

The Chinese government is likely to issue its long-awaited new plan on the reform of existing medical and drug operating system within this year after a final round of revision.
The revision will be based on suggestions to a draft plan, which the government put online (shs.ndrc.gov.cn/yg) on October 14 for a month-long public debate.
By 13:00 Friday, more than 27,000 comments and suggestions have been left on the website.
“The draft will be Read the rest of this entry »

February 6th was National Wear Red Day, also known as Go Red for Women Day, when people were asked to wear red in order to promote awareness of heart disease and stroke in women.
February is American Heart Month and February 6 is National Wear Red Day, a component of Go Red For Women, the American Heart Association’s national campaign to make women aware of their risk of heart disease and learn how to make heart-healthy choices every day.
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Wednesday, January 28th 2009, 10:24 AM
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– The plan is to give up almost everything they own to save their kids.
in a desperate attempt to finance medical care for their sick children.
That means their beds, kitchen table, washing machine. They are even throwing in their car.
The reason?
have three kids and two of them need constant medical care. One child, 7-year-old Ayla, has a rare debilitating form of arthritis, the other, 2-year Read the rest of this entry »

New York, NY — February 16, 2009 —
Dr. Beverly Malone, CEO of the National League for Nursing, will lend her professional stature to the latest phase of the renowned Harvard Nurses’ Health Study, joining the initiative’s select Advisory Committee by special invitation. As a champion of diversity in the nursing workforce, Dr. Malone’s endorsement means a great deal to the NHS III. Increasing the number of minority participants is vital to the Read the rest of this entry »

Craigan – groin trouble.
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Motherwell hope to have Stephen Craigan in their squad for Saturday’s Clydesdale Bank Premier League clash at Kilmarnock.
The defender missed Northern Ireland’s World Cup qualifying double header with a groin injury but his club will assess his fitness ahead of the Rugby Park trip.
Stephen Hughes should recover from a bug in time to play, while Brian McLean (knee) remains on the sidelines.
G Smith, Quinn, Read the rest of this entry »

, the FDA’s position would reverse the government’s current policy that certain groups — women of childbearing years, pregnant women, nursing mothers, infants and children — can be harmed by the mercury in fish and should limit their consumption.
, who in internal memos criticized them as “scientifically flawed and inadequate” and said they fell short of the “scientific rigor routinely demonstrated by EPA.”
The FDA sent its draft report, a copy Read the rest of this entry »

Although the finding seems obvious, the scientists hope that by showing the long-term results of healthy living, people will see lifestyle changes can reduce the risk of dying from diseases such as heart disease and cancer.
“Our findings suggest that the combination of lifestyle factors has a substantially larger impact on survival than any single factor,” said lead researcher Rob M. van Dam, an assistant professor of medicine at Channing Laboratory, Read the rest of this entry »

BEIJING (AP) — A 21-year-old woman in central China has been infected by the H5N1 strain of bird flu in the country’s eighth reported case of the disease this year, the Health Ministry said.
The woman, a farmer surnamed Shu in the central province of Hunan, fell ill Jan. 23 after handling poultry that died from virus, the ministry said on its Web site late Saturday without giving more details. She was in stable condition and recovering, it Read the rest of this entry »

FDA drug reviewers said in briefing documents Monday that they were not confident that the risks of vision loss associated with Ovation Pharmaceuticals Inc.’s investigational antiepileptic drug Sabril (vigabatrin) could be mitigated sufficiently by a safety plan proposed by the Deerfield, Ill.-based firm.
Sabril, an irreversible inhibitor of gamma-aminobutyric acid transaminase, currently is marketed in more than 50 countries worldwide, including Read the rest of this entry »