Archive for the ‘Public Health’ Category
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
In response to recent tabloid media coverage on the standards of qualifications held by overseas trained doctors and the quality of care offered by these doctors, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) is calling for all international medical graduates to be supported to achieve the gold standard qualification ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Educating the public about nanotechnology and other complex but emerging technologies causes people to become more "worried and cautious" about the new technologies' prospective benefits, according to a recent study by researchers at North Carolina State University.A new study by researchers at North Carolina State University on public attitudes towards ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
In support of continued efforts to research and analyze the health impacts of climate change, the American Public Health Association (APHA) applauds today's release by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of a report that discusses the potential impacts of climate change on human health, human welfare and communities in ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
The U.S. spends twice as much on health care per capita than most other industrialized nations but ranks lower than those nations on a number of criteria, according to a report released on Thursday by the Commonwealth Fund, the New York Times reports (Abelson, New York Times, 7/17). For ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
The Senate on Wednesday voted 80-16 to approve legislation (S 2731) that would reauthorize the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief at $50 billion over five years and direct $2 billion of that total to American Indian health care and other programs, the AP/Google.com reports (Abrams, AP/Google.com, 7/17).Before approving the ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
The Massachusetts House on Wednesday approved legislation that aims to rein in health care spending, the AP/Boston Herald reports (AP/Boston Herald, 7/16). Members of the Massachusetts House Joint Committee on Health Care Financing on Tuesday removed a provision of the bill that would have banned pharmaceutical companies from providing gifts ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
The New York Times on Thursday examined the "sometimes blurry boundaries between medical research and patients' hope for lifesaving treatments," in which patients are sometimes denied treatments they helped develop. The Times reports that as an increasing number of patients or families work with pharmaceutical companies on treatments for ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
More than a quarter of a million women have been sold as wives and baby-makers in South East Asia, but they are getting a raw deal in health care and social inclusion.A PhD study undertaken by Queensland University of Technology nursing researcher Yung-Mei Yang has found that foreign wives often ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has released a report that discusses the potential impacts of climate change on human health, human welfare, and communities in the U.S. The report, entitled "Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems," also identifies adaptation strategies to ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Help the Hospices, the hospices movement's national charity, welcomed the publication of the first ever End of Life Care Strategy as a historic event in the delivery of future social and healthcare for patients and their families in England. David Praill, chief executive of Help the Hospices, commented: "Death is ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Welcoming the publication of the government's End of Life Care Strategy today, The King's Fund's chief executive Niall Dickson said: 'For too long our healthcare system has not done nearly enough to ensure that care at the end of life is the best it can be. Too many patients have ...
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Care Services Minister, Ivan Lewis, today announced new fundingarrangements for Third Sector organisations in health and social carethat will make funding more transparent and effective. The new system, known as the Third Sector Investment Programme,replaces the 'Section 64 General Scheme of Grants'. There will be twonew funding schemes for 2009/10, ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
A new national scorecard from The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System finds that the U.S. health care system has failed to improve overall and that scores on access have declined significantly since the first national scorecard in 2007. Despite spending more on health care than any ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Major drugs companies are using fierce lobbying tactics to protect a pharmaceutical patent system that is "simply morally unacceptable", a world-leading political philosopher told a major meeting of UK and European pharmacologists.Addressing an audience that will include senior figures from the pharmaceutical industry, Thomas Pogge, Professor of Philosophy and International ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
Over the last 10 years, the Dallas area has experienced "a tenfold increase in the number" of health clinics that are treating the "growing numbers of people without health insurance, especially [undocumented] immigrants who are fearful to use government-affiliated clinics or hospitals," the Dallas Morning News reports. According to a ...
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