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11 Mar 2010 at 8:00am
A study of seismic activity near Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport by researchers from Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Austin reveals that the operation of a saltwater injection disposal well in the area was a "plausible cause" for the series of small earthquakes that occurred in the area between Oct. 30, 2008, and May 16, 2009...
11 Mar 2010 at 7:00am
Medill Reports presents a story on community health centers in Chicago that try to fill access-to-care gaps for people too sick to get health care coverage or too poor to afford other care. "Community health centers ... are private, non-profit operations that fill a gap between for-profit health systems and free public health clinics...
11 Mar 2010 at 7:00am
A new study has found that few drug evaluations compare treatments in ways that help doctors make better decisions, Reuters reports...
11 Mar 2010 at 7:00am
National Nurses Organizing Committee-Florida and National Nurses United today announce that the Florida Hospital Patient Protection Act of 2010 has been filed in the state legislature by authors Rep. Oscar Braynon and Sen. Tony Hill and will be known as HB 1283 and S 2316...
11 Mar 2010 at 6:00am
Although health care decision making is reliant on quality of life measurements, there is currently very little research and limited guidance on the most appropriate techniques to apply these data in economic models used to inform policy decisions Researchers at the University of Sheffield explored the potential difference on policy decisions based on cost per QALY thresholds ...
11 Mar 2010 at 6:00am
As computer-based decision modeling has become more sophisticated, policymakers have increasingly incorporated them into their assessment of potential policy measures in public health and medicine...
11 Mar 2010 at 5:00am
Daylight Savings Time can be hazardous for your health. On average, people go to work or school on the first Monday of Daylight Savings after sleeping 40 fewer minutes than normal. And recent studies have found there's a higher risk of heart attacks, traffic accidents and workplace injuries on the first Monday of Daylight Savings...
11 Mar 2010 at 5:00am
Betty Isaacs of Boone, N.C., knows all about the chronic pain of osteoarthritis and the impact it has on her life. "The pain in my knee was so bad, I would just sit around," Isaacs said. Last year, Isaacs participated in the Walk with Ease program administered through the UNC Thurston Arthritis Research Center and developed by the Arthritis Foundation...
11 Mar 2010 at 5:00am
A Perspective piece in the New England Journal of Medicine calls for change in the way researchers and pharmaceutical companies collect and report adverse symptom information in clinical trials submitted to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and how the FDA represents this information on drug labels...
11 Mar 2010 at 4:00am
Is it time for all community-based doctors to turn to e-prescribing to cut down on the number of medication errors? According to Rainu Kaushal and colleagues from the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, electronic prescriptions can dramatically reduce prescribing errors up to seven-fold...
11 Mar 2010 at 3:00am
Of the 8 million patients who were admitted to U.S. hospitals on weekends in 2007, approximately one-third received needed major procedures on the day of admission, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In comparison, patients who were admitted on weekdays received 65 percent of all major procedures on their first day in the hospital...
11 Mar 2010 at 3:00am
The Government's new hospital funding package is a welcome first step in the health reform process, but will be better served when complemented through implementation of a preventive health strategy to help minimise hospitalisations, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia says...
11 Mar 2010 at 3:00am
Commenting on the Health Secretary's announcement on doctors' pay, Dr Hamish Meldrum, Chairman of Council at the BMA, said: "The BMA is disappointed that the government has chosen to overrule some of the recommendations of the independent pay review body...
11 Mar 2010 at 2:00am
The Indiana Network for Patient Care (INPC), one of the highest volume health information exchanges in the United States, is expanding beyond central Indiana to serve patients from southwestern Indiana and southeastern Illinois. Good Samaritan Hospital in Vincennes, Ind...
11 Mar 2010 at 2:00am
To get life-threatening diseases under control, patients in the intensive care unit usually are administered many medications at the same time. Even for experts, it is difficult to keep track of the variety of possible side effects and interactions. The team headed by Dr...
