Public Strongly Supports Action on Health Care Reform, But Majority Think It Can Be Done Without Additional Spending
MENLO PARK, Calif., Feb. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As economic conditions continue to worsen, the public is increasingly worried about the affordability and availability of care, with many postponing or skipping treatments due to cost in the past year and a notable minority forced into serious financial straits due to medical Read the rest of this entry »
Taking hormones after menopause appears to accelerate loss of brain tissue in women over 64, which may explain why the therapy had previously been linked to an increased risk of dementia and mental decline in elderly women.
The brain-volume findings, published in today’s issue of Neurology, are the latest from the Women’s Health Initiative, a landmark government study of postmenopausal women. Over the last six years, it has firmly established that, Read the rest of this entry »
There are fewer things more dreaded than the New Year's resolution.
For millions of Americans each year, that means deciding to drop a few–or tens –of pounds. It also means picking a diet from a number of confusing programs: low-fat, low-carb, high-protein, pre-made, points-counting, and so on. The options can be exhausting and once committed, it is hard to start over if the diet is less than compatible with your habits–and your bank account. Read the rest of this entry »
Mexico’s descent into bloody lawlessness continued to intensify over the
weekend, as another nine bodies were discovered in the border city of
Tijuana—taking the body count to nearly 50 in just seven days—and the mayor
of a popular tourist town was shot dead by hooded gunmen.
The violence comes amid a civil war between the drug cartels that control much
of the country, exacerbated by an almost total collapse in police authority,
a Read the rest of this entry »
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Monday 6th October, 2008 (IANS)
Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama Monday left his residence in this Himachal Pradesh hill town for New Delhi, where he will undergo another medical examination, his aide said.He has been undergoing repeated medical tests since August and cancelled some trips outside India.
‘On the advice of his personal physicians, he is going to Delhi for a routine medical examination… no need to worry,’ Read the rest of this entry »
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For Obama, no rest in an 18-hour campaign day
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — “Hey, mom, how are you?” Barack Obama yelled into somebody’s cell phone, complying briefly but happily with yet another star-struck stranger’s request to impress a far-off friend or relative. This time it was from inside a barber shop, but this sort of thing happens to Obama many times each day, just one illustration of the near-phenomenon that is his campaign to capture Read the rest of this entry »
Aetna’s PHR, available to approximately six
million Aetna members, is pre-populated with a wide variety of health
information gathered from across the health care spectrum – such as
physician offices, labs, diagnostic treatments and pharmacies. That
information is combined with user-entered information such as family
health history or allergies, and housed in a secure, online location. In
addition, it Read the rest of this entry »
, which protects against some of the HPV viruses that cause cervical cancer. By the last few months of last year, 25% of teenage girls had received at least one dose of the vaccine, which is given in a three-dose series.
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Higher vaccination rates for other vaccines suggest there’s room for growth for Gardasil (and for GlaxoSmithKline’s competing HPV vaccine, if/when that makes it to market in this country).
More than 70% of teens Read the rest of this entry »
Two hospital executives have been indicted for allegedly paying homeless people for unnecessary medical treatment as part of an ongoing investigation into a scheme to bilk government health programs out of millions of dollars.
Robert Bourseau, 74, who was chairman of City of Angels Medical Center, was arrested at his Los Angeles home Friday by federal investigators. Dante Nicholson, the hospital’s former senior vice president, is scheduled to appear Read the rest of this entry »