In the weeks leading up to Tuesday’s swearing-in ceremony, the 44th president began setting the stage for health reform.
Many health policy leaders praised his nomination of former South Dakota Sen. Tom Daschle to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services. Daschle, who is also leading the Obama administration’s newly created White House Office of Health Reform, is thought to have a solid grasp of health policy, having outlined his vision for Read the rest of this entry »
RealWomen on Health! Radio Show Launches to Support Women as Advocates
KC Healthcare Communications launches the first internet-based live talk radio show that creates a network of support and community for women around such areas such as sexual health, pelvic health, the change before the change, menopause transitions, caregiving, working women and stress, women's heart disease, weight management, evidence-based complementary medicine, mid-life Read the rest of this entry »
(Media-Newswire.com) – Ann Arbor, Mich. African American men are at a greater risk when it comes to battling cancer. On Saturday, Jan. 10, the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center will host a Mens Fellowship Breakfast. The event will focus on the importance of diet, weight and exercise and its relation to cancer.
The event will take place from 911 a.m. at the Marriott Conference Center at Eagle Crest, located at 1275 South Huron Read the rest of this entry »
Genetic engineering is not new in the plant world. For example, scientists have tricked crops into producing their own insecticides by inserting genes from other organisms that make the bug-killing substances. But for the first time, researchers from MIT have tinkered with plants’ own metabolic machinery to make new compounds that could become drugs to treat cancer or other diseases.
Sarah E. O’Connor, an associate professor of chemistry at MIT, Read the rest of this entry »
Disputing such underpayments is impractical and costly, physicians say, so they bill patients for the balance, hoping the patients’ complaints will prompt the HMO to pay in full.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger praised the ruling because it “reaffirms that patients should not be put in the middle of billing disputes between providers and health plans.”
Two years ago, Schwarzenegger directed his Department of Managed Health Care to adopt regulations Read the rest of this entry »
Federal agencies are collaborating to address a deadly aspect of the use of opioids to treat pain — the growing number of unintentional overdoses linked to this class of medications.
“We know that these drugs have important therapeutic uses,” said Douglas Throckmorton, MD, deputy director of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. “We also know that there’s abuse. There are overdoses. There’s diversion that we Read the rest of this entry »
LONDON (Reuters) – A Colombian woman has received the world’s first tailor-made trachea transplant, grown by seeding a donor organ with her own stem cells to prevent her body rejecting it, an international research team reported on Wednesday.
The success of the operation, performed in June using tissue generated from the woman’s own bone marrow, raises the prospect that transplanting other organs may be possible without drugs to dampen the immune Read the rest of this entry »
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Way back in 1996, my lola suffered a stroke because of uncontrolled high blood pressure. At that time, she was maintained on Perindopril 4 mg, a relatively weaker drug. I was just a resident at the time and I didn’t know Read the rest of this entry »
has received a $2 million donation from the family that runs the Coborn’s Inc. grocery chain.
The money will be used to expand the hospital and improve service at the cancer center named after the family, according to the hospital’s parent, CentraCare Health System.
The Coborn Cancer Center is meant to provide cancer treatment close to home for central Minnesotans.
A broader $225 million expansion at St. Cloud Hospital, slated for Read the rest of this entry »
Fat runs in families. Genes do play a role, but the psychological factors — emotions, traditions, and expectations — that govern every household are every bit as intricate, and just as powerful, as DNA.
Weight loss experts have long known this; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill researchers report that most women pack on almost 25 pounds during the first five years of marriage; men typically gain 30. And the likelihood of overweight Read the rest of this entry »