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"Covering All Kids: States Setting the Pace," National Health Policy Forum: The issue brief examines state efforts to expand health coverage, especially to children, in the absence of a national solution. The brief includes the history and status of state universal children's health coverage initiatives and profiles several states that appear to be leading efforts to expand coverage.
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The Tennessean on Thursday published an editorial and two opinion pieces about an FDA decision to publish online a quarterly list of drugs being investigated for potential safety risks. Summaries appear below.
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"Chronic diseases afflict 100 million Americans, cause seven out of 10 deaths and consume $2 out of every $3 spent on health care," but "much of the burden ... can be prevented with simple lifestyle choices" because a "major contributing factor is physical inactivity," HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt writes in a Lexington Herald-Leader opinion piece.
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Kamada (TASE:KMDA), a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development, manufacturing and marketing of specialty life-saving therapeutics, announced today positive data from its Phase II study evaluating inhaled Alpha-1 Antitrypsin (AAT) delivered via an Investigational eFlow® Nebulizer System (PARI Pharma GmbH), in the treatment of cystic fibrosis.
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Indiana institutions, companies and individuals with a common interest in cancer research, diagnosis and treatment will gather at a cancer/oncology summit Dec. 1-2 at the University Place Conference Center, IUPUI, in Indianapolis.
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The Harley Medical Group, the UK's largest cosmetic surgery provider, has announced that its surgeons are having to strongly recommend that patients opt for smaller doses of Botox and are even having to turn patients away who demand treatment they don't need.
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Rwanda's history-making women MPs united today to launch a campaign to reduce the number of mothers who die in childbirth. The women became the first in the world last week to outnumber their male counterparts in parliament, with 56% of the seats.
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Alhaja Roli Daniju, executive director of the nongovernmental organization Ajegunle Community Project, recently called on Nigerian government officials and other stakeholders to help reduce poverty in the country by empowering people living with HIV/AIDS, This Day/AllAfrica.com reports.
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Medical News Today has launched a diabetes information hub called All About Diabetes - a comprehensive information centre covering a wide range of aspects of the condition. The content consists of a mixture of texts, images and illustrations, and embedded videos, providing diseases/condition information for all audiences - from healthcare professionals to newly diagnosed patients.
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Thirty-five percent of the 2,000 to 2,500 new HIV infections in Spain last year occurred among immigrants, Daniel Zulaika, president of the AIDS Interdisciplinary Society of Spain, said Wednesday at the XI National Congress on AIDS in Cordoba, Spain's El Pais reports.
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Although Asian migrant women working in Arab countries generate significant economic benefits for both their home and host countries, many of them are at risk of HIV because of the unsafe conditions under which they migrate and live, according to a panel of experts organized by the United Nations Development Programme Regional Center in Colombo, Sri Lanka, The Hindu reports.
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In the most volatile parts of North Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), violence has reached its highest levels in years while assistance is hardly reaching those most in need, the international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said today.
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During an October 5, 2008 press conference at the French consulate in Jerusalem, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner made the following statement: "Officially, we have no contact with Hamas, but unofficially, international organizations working in the Gaza Strip - in particular, French NGOs - provide us information.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) today announced that beneficiaries, their caregivers, and family members can begin to review 2009 Medicare prescription drug plan and health plan information online through the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Finder and Medicare Options Compare at www.medicare.gov.
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The results of tests conducted at the Special Pathogens Unit, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) of the National Health Laboratory Service in Johannesburg, and at the Special Pathogens and Infectious Disease Pathology branches of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, USA, provi
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As HIV spreads beyond high-risk groups into China's general population, drug-resistant strains of the virus also are appearing in parts of the country, Chen Zhiwei of the AIDS Institute in Hong Kong said recently, Reuters reports.
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The Washington Post on Friday examined how mental health parity legislation, which was included in the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street firms that President Bush last week signed into law, is "a culmination of a decade of lobbying and negotiating among advocates for the mentally ill, the insurance industry, the business community ... and doctors' groups" (Jenkins, Washington Post, 10/10).
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The Medical Research Council (MRC) has awarded £3.7 million to develop a new centre aimed at reducing the risks of adverse drug effects. Scientists at the Universities of Liverpool and Manchester will work with leading pharmaceutical companies to improve understanding of adverse drug reactions and investigate how to improve the design, tailoring and selection of drugs.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved a new use for the blood product Kogenate FS to reduce the frequency of bleeding episodes and prevent joint damage in children with the most severe form of hemophilia. Hemophilia A is a rare, hereditary, bleeding disorder in which a protein needed to form blood clots, factor VIII, is missing or its level is reduced.
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Today the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched its food defense awareness training kit for first line food industry employees. The training targets these individuals because they can play an important role in helping to keep our nation's food supply safe, from the farm to the table.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved Rapaflo (silodosin) capsules for the treatment of symptoms due to benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), a condition also known as an enlarged prostate. BPH is a male disease wherein the prostate gland - located between the bladder, which stores urine, and the urethra, the tube through which urine exits the body - enlarges in men as they age.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today licensed for marketing the first product in the United States intended to protect people with hereditary angioedema (HAE), a rare and potentially life-threatening genetic disease. HAE affects about 6,000 to 10,000 individuals in the United States.
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The 1918 flu pandemic killed more than 40 million people worldwide and affected persons of all age groups.
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Health care - cost and coverage - has been a hot topic among presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama in the weeks leading up to the Nov. 4 election. But which candidate has a plan that likely voters believe will make the biggest impact on the toughest health care problems facing the nation? The answer: Obama. According to a report released today by the University of Michigan C.S.
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The following highlights initiatives and grants that seek to reduce racial and ethnic health disparities. Charles Drew University of Medicine and Science: NIH's National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities has given the school's Medical Sciences Institute $15 million to expand research and infrastructure projects that address health inequities.
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Reports of loss of vision after non-ocular surgery have been increasing over the last fifteen years and, though it is a relatively uncommon complication, experts are keen to understand why and how often it happens because of the devastating impact on a patient's quality of life and for the medicolegal implications for surgeons and patients alike. A new article, written by Molly E.
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Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Stroke Program has been certified as a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission, the nation's oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body in health care.
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Of those treated with the Endeavor® Resolute drug-eluting stent (DES) from Medtronic, Inc. (NYSE: MDT), in the RESOLUTE IDE trial only two patients required repeat procedures - a remarkably low 1.5 percent rate of target lesion revascularization (TLR) - at two years following implant, according to data released today at the Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) meeting.
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Results of a new international survey announced today highlighted a radical shift in women's attitudes towards osteoporosis, the bone-weakening disease. The traditional view of osteoporosis patients as frail and vulnerable women is shattered by an international survey of 500 doctors and 1,000 women in five countries.
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University of Leicester psychiatrist Dr Mohammed Al-Uzri flies to Iraq on 15th October for the third National Conference on Mental Health which aims to help to develop mental health strategy for the next five years.
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The following statistics were released today by the Department of Health: Report on the National Patient Choice Survey, May 2008, England, and provisional headline results of the July 2008 survey The main findings of the May survey are: -- The percentage of patients recalling being offered
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Solianis' multisensor system for non-invasive Continuous Glucose Monitoring is currently being tested by diabetic patients in the home and work environment. 12 patients have completed a 10-day trial aimed at assessing system reliability. Results indicate that the system tracks glucose in home-use settings and is sensitive to hypoglycemic glucose excursions.
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Alarmingly, nearly sixty per cent of Europeans have never heard of neuropathic pain (NeP), 1a a debilitating nerve condition that affects approximately 22 million people, 2,3 according to new surveys carried out amongst the general public and patients across Europe.
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Obese teenagers are much more likely to suffer from metabolic syndrome - which can lead to heart disease - if they live in Brazil than Italy, according to a study in the October issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Practice.
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Potentially life-lengthening cancer therapies could enter clinical trials and ultimately reach cancer patients dramatically faster thanks to legal contract language created by the CEO Roundtable on Cancer, a nonprofit group of cancer-fighting CEOs.
Treatment Of Bladder Pain Syndrome/Interstitial Cystitis 2008: Can We Make Evidence-Based Decisions?
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UroToday.com - BPS may be a heterogeneous spectrum of diseases rather than a single, easily identifiable disorder. It is still poorly defined, and different experts have varying perceptions as to what it is about.
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UroToday.com - One of the best studied 'naturally occurring' glycosaminoglycans in bladder pain syndrome has been chondroitin sulphate. Studies have indicated a deficit of this proteoglycan in the bladder uroepthelium in BPS.
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ROTATEQ® (rotavirus vaccine, live, oral, pentavalent), the pentavalent rotavirus vaccine from Merck & Co., Inc., that helps prevent rotavirus gastroenteritis in infants and children, has been awarded pre-qualification status by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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The inaugural Management in Practice Awards recognised the achievements of UK general practice managers and practice teams in providing an excellent standard of service to their patients. The awards ceremony took place during the Management in Practice Event at the Birmingham NEC on 8 October - see www.managementinpractice.com/awards.
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Current revenue recognition accounting principles continue to place unnecessary challenges on small and medium-sized biotechnology companies who enter into collaborative arrangements, according to an independent study released today by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO).
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Walgreens (NYSE:WAG)(NASDAQ:WAG) today announced that Jeffrey A. Rein, 56, is retiring as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and a director. Alan G. McNally, 62, lead director of the Walgreens Board, has been named Chairman and acting Chief Executive Officer. Mr. McNally previously served as chairman and CEO of Harris Bankcorp and has been a member of the Walgreens Board since 1999.
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Illustrator Barry Blitt does it againâ?¦ and again. Blitt, who drew so much attention in July for his satirical and controversial New Yorker cover illustration of Barack and Michelle Obama, created the cover for the new issue of Stanford Medicine magazine on politics and health care.
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A new survey out today on World Mental Health Day has revealed that whilst the credit crunch has understandably made many people a little more depressed and anxious, just 8% had become a lot more depressed and anxious.
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The NPA Interact Course for Medicines Counter Assistants (University Interact) has been adapted and is now included as a part of the undergraduate teaching for first year pharmacy students at Brighton University - a UK first. The theory learned at University will ease entry into the world of pharmacy when students apply their knowledge in term time placements and summer jobs.
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Leading UK fertility expert Professor Brian Lieberman has warned of an increased risk of fertility problems as more couples delay starting a family due to the credit crunch. With the cost of food, petrol and household bills rising at an alarming rate, IVF specialist Professor Lieberman says the added financial burden of having a baby may prove too much for potential parents.
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You receive an emergency call. A female has collapsed in the street. You arrive outside the nightclub to find a young female slumped against a wall. There is no other bystander in the area and the caller has left the scene. As you approach the patient you notice she is singing in a slurred fashion.
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Our Kid: Medical Manchester, 1948 - 2008 22 October - 29 November 2008 The foyer at Manchester Central Library A larger than life size figure is set to reveal the dramatic changes in Manchester's medical history like never before.
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PPD, Inc. (Nasdaq: PPDI) today announced that Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited reported that Takeda Global Research and Development Center, Inc., a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary, received notification that the U.S.
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Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation (NASDAQ: NYMX) is please to announce that the presentation of NX-1207 clinical study data at the AUA South Central Section annual meeting in Santa Ana Pueblo, NM was featured in the Urology Times, the widely distributed and most read publication of U.S. urologists.
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This year alone more than one in every 200 Americans will experience injury or death because of medications. Many of these problems occur in a place we least expect - our homes. The home is where the most medications are taken with the least amount of medical supervision.
Wisconsin's Biotechnology & Medical Device Association Applauds Historic Genomic Research Initiative
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The following is a statement by Jim Leonhart, executive director of the Wisconsin Biotechnology & Medical Device Association, regarding this morning's announcement by Gov. Jim Doyle of the Wisconsin Genomics Initiative.
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UroToday.com - Dr. Robert Nadler, of Northwestern University, wrote an excellent editorial in a recent issue of Cancer regarding the commencement of prostate cancer (CaP) screening at age 40. The National Comprehensive Cancer Care Network (NCCN) recommends an initial PSA at age 40 for men of all races. The frequency of subsequent PSA tests would depend on the initial level.
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UroToday.com - In the online edition of the International Journal of Impotence Research, Dr. R. Shabsigh and his associates presented a systematic review of testosterone therapy for hypogonadism and its relation to prostate cancer (CaP). The data did not suggest that testosterone therapy is associated with increased CaP risk in hypogonadal men nor demonstrate a consistent effect on PSA levels.
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UroToday.com - In the online version of The Prostate, Dr. Robert W. Veltri and his colleagues from Johns Hopkins University reported on the correlation of molecular pathways and progression-free survival (PFS) in prostate cancer (CaP).
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The United States (U.S.) Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has issued a ruling that affirms the preliminary injunction ordered by the U.S. District Court in Boston barring Roche from selling its pegylated-erythropoietin (peg-EPO) product MIRCERA in the U.S.
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The Pennsylvania Legislature on Wednesday failed to reach a compromise on legislation that would have expanded health coverage to more than 118,000 adults on a waiting list for Pennsylvania's adultBasic insurance program, the AP/Philadelphia Inquirer reports. The program provides health coverage for uninsured adults who do not qualify for Medicaid.
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Lev Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCBB: LEVP.OB) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Cinryze? (C1 inhibitor [human]) for routine prophylaxis against angioedema attacks in adolescent and adult patients with hereditary angioedema (HAE), also known as C1 inhibitor deficiency.
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Cyto Pulse Sciences, a leading producer of electric field based, intradermal DNA Vaccine delivery systems, today announced approval by Swedish regulatory authorities to begin a Phase I/II study of DNA vaccination in patients with recurring prostate cancer. The trial will investigate the safety of a xenogenic DNA vaccine delivered by the Derma Vax? intradermal electroporation system.
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This week Nature Nanotechnology journal (October 12th) reveals how scientists from the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN) at UCL are using a novel nanomechanical approach to investigate the workings of vancomycin, one of the few antibiotics that can be used to combat increasingly resistant infections such as MRSA.
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This week, as the world's attention turns to issues of good mental health for Friday's World Mental Health Day, BBC Learning's own mental health and wellbeing campaign - BBC Headroom - celebrates with the transmission of Alastair Campbell's moving film, Cracking Up, some new faces at bbc.co.uk/headroom and a dedicated action line: 08000 933 193[i].
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