NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – People with type 2 diabetes may be able to improve their health-related quality of life by getting fit, new research shows.
Dr. Wendy L. Bennett, at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, and her colleagues investigated whether reduced fitness or increased fatness account for the decrease in health-related quality of life seen in type 2 diabetics.
The researchers looked at people participating in Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Frustrated by the political bickering that has blocked U.S. health care reform for years, a coalition of business and labor groups has joined with an advocacy group for the elderly to try to break the gridlock and achieve success under the next president.
For more than a year, the nearly 40 million-member senior citizens group AARP, the Business Roundtable, the National Federation of Independent Businesses, and the Service Read the rest of this entry »
Consumers now have a new tool to organize and share their family health histories.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday released an updated version of its “My Family Health Portrait.”
After spending 15 to 20 minutes completing an online profile, people can more easily pass information along to relatives or physicians who can use it to personalize care, officials said.
The free tool is available at https://familyhistory.hhs.gov. Read the rest of this entry »
A major behavioral health company in Georgia has added another local psychiatric facility with the purchase of a Lawrenceville hospital.
The deal for the 76-bed hospital, SummitRidge Center for Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine, will give Universal Health Services a wider coverage area in metro Atlanta.
SummitRidge “has never been fully developed,” said Matt Crouch, regional vice president for Universal Health Services, based in Read the rest of this entry »
Two Tampa, Fla., women
last month after an acquaintance allegedly injected them with a product believed to be a homemade combination of commercial silicone gel and saline, apparently to enhance the appearance of their buttocks, according to police reports.
Sharhonda Lindsay, 32, of Tampa, who is not a doctor, surrendered to police Wednesday morning after they issued a warrant Monday to arrest her for practicing medicine without a license.
According Read the rest of this entry »
A LAST-DITCH meeting between senior specialists and bureaucrats
yesterday failed to bring about a reprieve for the 20-bed women’s
health ward at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, which will close on
November 1. Medical groups say this is a first step towards reining
in state health costs ahead of the mini-budget on November 11.
The three doctors who attended the meeting with the hospital’s
executive director, Di Gill, and administrator, Roy Donnelly, Read the rest of this entry »
The Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex has hired commercial real estate veteran Andrea Faush to head its leasing efforts, a move that will allow its top executive to concentrate attention on building a domed stadium and entertainment district.
Faush, formerly of Birmingham’s Corporate Realty, joined the BJCC in November and will focus primarily on leasing office space in the BJCC Medical Forum, a 10-story office tower on Richard Arrington Boulevard Read the rest of this entry »
– The Partnership for Prescription Assistance (PPA) helps qualifying
patients who lack prescription coverage receive the medicines they need
through public or private programs. Many of these programs are offered by
individual pharmaceutical companies. PPA is sponsored by the Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA), doctors, other health care
providers, patient advocacy organizations and community groups. There is no
cost Read the rest of this entry »
(Ivanhoe Newswire) — Newer drugs used to treat benign prostatic
hyperplasia (BPH), otherwise known as an enlarged prostate, don’t
appear to raise the risk for a hip fracture.
That’s the key finding from researchers who compared outcomes
from about 7,000 men who had suffered a hip fracture with those
experienced by about 7,000 who had not. Results showed men who had
taken a 5-beta reductase inhibitor — a class of drugs that
includes the medications Read the rest of this entry »
ATLANTA (MyFOX Atlanta) — Brian Nichols’ cousin testified drugs and alcohol destroyed their family. The New Jersey woman is asking jurors to spare the Fulton County Courthouse shooter’s life.
Brian Nichols was found guilty of shooting and killing Judge Rowland Barnes, court reporter Julie Ann Brandau, Fulton County Sheriff’s Deputy Hoyt Teasley, and federal agent David Wilhelm in a shooting rampage that began at the Fulton County Courthouse Read the rest of this entry »