News tagged with health care organizations
The environment and pharmaceuticals and personal care products: What are the big questions?
Researchers at the University of York headed a major international review aimed at enhancing efforts to better understand the impacts of chemicals used in pharmaceuticals or in personal care products, such as cosmetics, soaps, ...
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Theft of data on 4M patients part of wider problem
The theft of a computer containing information on more than 4 million patients of a major Northern California health care provider may be among the largest breaches of health care data in recent years, but it's far from ...
Nov 18, 2011 |
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Iraq, South Africa buck rising life expectancy
(AP) -- Average life expectancies are increasing steadily in most of the world, but men in Iraq and women in South Africa are bucking that trend with notable drops in their time on Earth.
May 13, 2011 |
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Worldwide interest as Canada drug program in court
(AP) -- The woman stands close to a mirror fingering her throat. Then, sweeping back a mane of red hair, she injects heroin into her jugular vein. A nurse keeps an eye on her from behind.
May 11, 2011 |
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Last-ditch method at fighting intestinal superbug
(AP) -- A superbug named C-diff is on the rise, a germ that so ravages some people's intestines that repeated tries of the strongest, most expensive antibiotic can't conquer their disabling diarrhea.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 13, 2010 |
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New public health goals tackle obstacles to breastfeeding success
For the first time, the barriers to breastfeeding are being addressed at the highest level of government. With the release today of Healthy People 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has targeted the new ...
Dec 03, 2010 |
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Number of HIV/AIDS cases in sub-Saharan Africa expected to greatly outpace resources
The number of people infected with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa is projected to far outstrip available resources for treatment by the end of the decade, forcing African nations to make difficult choices about how to allocate ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 29, 2010 |
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World Health Report 2010 balanced but incomplete account of how to achieve universal health coverage
With the financial crisis still hanging over many countries, this year's World Health Report from the World Health Organization, "Health Systems Financing: The Path to Universal Coverage" is timely and relevant to the question ...
Nov 22, 2010 |
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Strengthening health systems research to achieve health-related Millennium Development Goals
A major obstacle to achieving the health-related Millennium Development Goals is the weakness of the health systems in many low and middle income countries, and their struggle to effectively provide health care to populations ...
Nov 15, 2010 |
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WHO criticizes Amnesty report into NKorea health
(AP) -- The World Health Organization found itself Friday in the strange position of defending North Korea's health care system from an Amnesty International report, three months after WHO's director described medicine in ...
Jul 16, 2010 |
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WHO creates data base on use of child medicines
(AP) -- The World Health Organization on Friday issued its first-ever guidance on how to use more than 240 essential medicines for children under 13.
Medicine & Health / Medications
Jun 18, 2010 |
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ACR task force makes recommendations for improving relationships between radiologists and hospitals
The American College of Radiology's (ACR) Task Force on Relationships between Radiology Groups and Hospitals and Other Healthcare Organizations has proposed several steps that can help improve relationships between radiologists ...
Jun 01, 2010 |
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UCSF analyses detail tobacco industry influence on health policy
Three new UCSF studies describe the wide reach of the tobacco industry and its influence on young people, military veterans and national health care reform.
May 28, 2010 |
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New TB booster shows promise
A booster shot appears to improve tuberculosis (TB) resistance in previously vaccinated adults, according to new research in South Africa.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 16, 2010 |
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New test can help predict and diagnose preeclampsia
Researchers at Yale School of Medicine have developed a simple urine test to rapidly predict and diagnose preeclampsia, a common, but serious hypertensive complication of pregnancy.
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 04, 2010 |
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