WEDNESDAY, Feb. 18 (HealthDay News) — New tobacco company marketing campaigns that target women and girls are the most aggressive in more than a decade, a new report concludes.
That marketing needs to be curbed by giving the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority over tobacco products, according to the report, released Wednesday by a coalition of major U.S. public health organizations.
Campaigns launched in recent years by the nation’s two Read the rest of this entry »

Dallas workout groups combine fun, fitness
11:33 AM CST on Monday, January 12, 2009
By ELSA K. SIMCIK / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
When it’s time to exercise, you could grab your iPod, head outside and go for a run. You might even consider it your “me time,” a chance to be alone with your own thoughts. But if you were to go to, let’s say, soccer practice for your workout or meet up with your inline skating Read the rest of this entry »

Health organisations have welcomed the warts and all view of the health system offered by the National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission’s (NHHRC) interim report.
The peak body representing the nation’s public hospitals, area health services and public aged care providers, says the report, released in Canberra on Monday, has revealed years of underfunding.
Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association (AHHA) executive director Prue Power Read the rest of this entry »

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Dr. Steven Teitelbaum, a pathology and immunology professor at
, said scientists there were enthused about the prospect of advancing research with embryonic stem cells but also shared a word of caution about expectations.
“We want to see the promise of this therapy move forward,” he said Friday. “But we have to be careful about expectations. This is not a clinical trial to test whether embryonic stem cells will work therapeutically. Read the rest of this entry »

With a leafleting, lobbying, and letter-writing blitz, healthcare groups are urging Governor Deval Patrick to use expected federal bailout money to shore up health programs slashed this fall because of the state’s budget crisis.
A coalition of three dozen social service, healthcare, labor, and legal groups – dubbed Put Patients First – is mailing 100,000 Boston area voters a flier about the specific effect of recent cuts to Boston Medical Center Read the rest of this entry »

ALBANY – Giving a nod to President Obama’s call to overhaul the health care system, St. Peter’s Health Care Services, Northeast Health and Seton Health announced Wednesday they’re affiliating.
The move has the potential to reshape our health care landscape.
“We can’t keep doing things the same old way and expect a different outcome,” said Northeast Health President and CEO Dr. James Reed.
That’s why, with some 12,000 employees and 125 facilities Read the rest of this entry »

A coalition of health groups, including some that are backed by the pharmaceutical industry, have joined the heated lobbying battle over the next FDA commish by sending a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary-designate Tom Daschle urging him to pick a person familiar with the industry,
reports.
The newly formed FDA Commissioner Coalition is made up of 34 patient and research organizations, most of which receive funding from drugmakers, Read the rest of this entry »

Today, Nov. 18
Children’s Support Group,
4 p.m. Peitz Cancer Support House, 315 Powers St. For children with parents or family members with cancer. Facilitator: Carol Havner, social worker. 508-1442.
Diabetes Support Group,
6 p.m. Marion County Senior Center, State Highway 202, Flippin. (870) 449-6363.
Growing Through Grief,
6 p.m. Baxter Regional Medical Center Home Health and Hospice building, 701 Burnett Drive. For those who have lost Read the rest of this entry »

OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. — Two hospital groups are opposing a decision by Memphis, Tenn.-based Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare to seek direct approval from the Mississippi Legislature for a new $151 million acute care hospital in Olive Branch.
Alliance HealthCare System and Baptist Memorial Health Care, two area hospital groups, say Le Bonheur shouldn’t be allowed to bypass the state Health Department’s licensing process.
In a recently released Read the rest of this entry »

Vol. XXII, No. 109
Monday, January 5, 2009 | MANILA, PHILIPPINES
HEALTH CARE INDUSTRY associations expect a delayed impact of the cheaper medicines law on retail prices due to certain market factors.
For one, multinational drug companies are expected to match cheaper imported drugs through several promotions that would, however, not entail lower prices, Drugstore Association of the Philippines (DSAP) national president Josephine P. Inocencio Read the rest of this entry »