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Draft Medicare plan to cover implantable defibrillators

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today proposed to expand coverage of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs), a move expected to save thousands of lives a year.

29 Sep 2004

IT for patient care varies widely across U.S. physician practices

While there's wide enthusiasm for harnessing the power of information technology (IT) to improve U.S. medical care, fewer than a quarter of physicians in 2001 could generate electronic treatment reminders for use during patient visits and only about 10 percent could write electronic prescriptions

29 Sep 2004

Charles Darwin University is responding to claims that Australians are now among the fattest people on earth

Australia's Charles Darwin University is responding to claims that Australians are now among the fattest people on earth with a health program targeting childhood obesity.

29 Sep 2004

Australian Medical Association says Labor’s Medicare Gold policy looks good in theory

Australian Medical Association Vice President, Dr Mukesh Haikerwal, said today that Labor’s Medicare Gold policy is a genuine attempt to provide the long-awaited and much-needed links between hospital care, community care and aged care to ensure that older Australians have access to the right type of care in the right environment when they most need it.

29 Sep 2004

Last year over 36,000 Americans died from exposure to the flu

Another 200,000 people were hospitalized with symptoms of the illness. The flu and pneumonia (the most common complication of the flu) combined are the fifth leading cause of death among Americans age 65 and older.

29 Sep 2004

Scotland's doctors unite in calls for smoke free public places

As part of the BMA's 'Breathe better in Scotland' campaign, senior doctors today (Wednesday 29 September) delivered 1000 letters from doctors in Scotland calling on the First Minister, Jack McConnell, to legislate for smokefree public places.

29 Sep 2004

Brand-conscious customers necessitate robust supply chain management in custom procedure tray markets

End users such as surgeons and operating room (OR) staff are very brand conscious, and the inability of custom procedure tray (CPT) vendors to provide a desired brand may result in loss of business and inability to maintain healthy customer relations.

29 Sep 2004

Complete laparoscopic skills training curriculum based entirely in the laboratory

A pilot in training doesn’t fly a plane at his first lesson. And so it goes for surgeons in training. To learn such complex skills, it’s safer and more effective to practice first on a simulator.

29 Sep 2004

Cancer Research Technology and The Institute of Cancer Research complete licence with Vernalis

Cancer Research Technology Limited (CRT) and The Institute of Cancer Research announce that Vernalis plc has licensed exclusive worldwide rights to an anti-cancer Hsp90 inhibitor programme.

29 Sep 2004

On-line campaign asks, where does all the breast cancer research money go?

Barbara Ehrenreich and Breast Cancer Action (BCA) have launched an online Flash movie and email campaign that exposes the lack of coordination among more than 30 federal agencies and dozens of private foundations and pharmaceutical companies funding research on breast cancer.

28 Sep 2004

Novel and cost-effective answer to family planning

A color-coded string of beads, called Cycle Beads, are used to help women keep track of the days of their menstrual cycle and see which days they are likely to get pregnant if they had unprotected intercourse.

28 Sep 2004

$1 Million in free cosmetic dental services to survivors of domestic violence

October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. More than five million people are battered every year in the United States. Seventy-five percent of women who are in an abusive relationship receive battering to the face and head area, and are not financially able to correct the injuries suffered.

28 Sep 2004

Shoppers misled by minced meat fat content labelling

Britain's Food Standards Agency has found that shoppers are often being misled by minced meat labels which claim that the product contains less fat than it actually does.

28 Sep 2004

West Nile virus detected in blood donor

A Jackson County blood donor is the second person in Oregon to test positive for West Nile virus, according to public health and American Red Cross officials.

28 Sep 2004

Researchers have decoded the genome of Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria responsible for Legionnaires' disease

Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have decoded the genome of Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria responsible for Legionnaires' disease, and have found a few surprises in the bug's 3,000 genes.

28 Sep 2004

Schools Health Education Unit tracks trends in physical activity

New figures from the Schools Health Education Unit show that since 1991, there has been a decline in the numbers of 12-15 year olds that report playing pool and snooker.

28 Sep 2004

Chiron CEO to appear before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging

Chiron Corporation announced that president and chief executive officer Howard Pien will appear before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging in Washington, D.C., today in a hearing titled, "Combating the Flu: Keeping Seniors Alive."

28 Sep 2004

BMA calls for total ban of smoking in enclosed public places

In his speech today, at the BMA's fringe meeting at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, BMA Chairman, Mr James Johnson, called upon the Health Secretary, John Reid, to introduce a total ban of smoking in enclosed public places and emphasised that a ban must include pubs and restaurants.

28 Sep 2004

Australian Medical Association backs Labor’s commitment to focus on mental health

Dr Choong-Siew Yong, Psychiatrist and Chair of the AMA’s Public Health and Ethics Committee, today welcomed Labor’s commitment to focus on mental health as a national health priority

28 Sep 2004

Should medical knowledge be extended to enhance the lives of those who are already healthy?

This question and others are addressed in three articles about cosmetic neurology in the September 28 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology.

28 Sep 2004

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Draft Medicare plan to cover implantable defibrillators

IT for patient care varies widely across U.S. physician practices

Charles Darwin University is responding to claims that Australians are now among the fattest people on earth

Australian Medical Association says Labor’s Medicare Gold policy looks good in theory

Last year over 36,000 Americans died from exposure to the flu

Scotland's doctors unite in calls for smoke free public places

Brand-conscious customers necessitate robust supply chain management in custom procedure tray markets

Complete laparoscopic skills training curriculum based entirely in the laboratory

Cancer Research Technology and The Institute of Cancer Research complete licence with Vernalis

On-line campaign asks, where does all the breast cancer research money go?

Novel and cost-effective answer to family planning

$1 Million in free cosmetic dental services to survivors of domestic violence

Shoppers misled by minced meat fat content labelling

West Nile virus detected in blood donor

Researchers have decoded the genome of Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria responsible for Legionnaires' disease

Schools Health Education Unit tracks trends in physical activity

Chiron CEO to appear before the U.S. Senate Special Committee on Aging

BMA calls for total ban of smoking in enclosed public places

Australian Medical Association backs Labor’s commitment to focus on mental health

Should medical knowledge be extended to enhance the lives of those who are already healthy?

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