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| Studies Examine Health Care Use, Quality | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| News outlets offered a variety of articles about health care use and quality. The New York Times: A new study finds "that more than half of the 354 million doctor visits made each year for acute medical care, like for fevers, stomachaches and coughs, are not with a patient's primary physician, and that more than a quarter take place in hospital emergency rooms... | |
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| AHRQ Releases New Spanish Language Guides For Patients | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality today released a series of free evidence-based guides designed to help Spanish speakers understand and compare the risks, benefits and side effects of treatments for eight health conditions. The guides provide valuable information that patients can use in talking with their clinicians... | |
| Sometimes A Hospital Stay Does Not Mean You're Admitted | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| This Kaiser Health News story by Susan Jaffe, produced in partnership with The Washington Post, looks at an increasing use of hospital observation care for Medicare beneficiaries rather than admission as an inpatient. "After Ann Callan, 85, fell and broke four ribs, she spent six days at Holy Cross Hospital in Silver Spring... | |
| Hospitals Hire To Keep Up With Growing Diversity, Tech Challenges | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| "As more immigrants crowd its waiting rooms, Elmhurst Hospital is joining a growing number of hospitals in New York and across the country that are going beyond hiring interpreters and offering translated paperwork and are adopting practices intended to improve care for an increasingly diverse patient population," The New York Times reports... | |
| H1N1 2009 Swine Flu Complications No Worse Than Seasonal Flu, US | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| A US study of flu cases in adults and children living in Wisconsin concluded that the risk of serious complications from 2009 H1N1 swine flu was no higher than the risk of serious complications from recent seasonal flu strains. You can read about the study in the 8 September issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, JAMA... | |
| Canada, US Immigrants Have Less Health Care Access Than Natives | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| In spite of Canada's universal medical coverage, immigrants to that country have less access to health care than native-born Canadians for certain procedures, a new study finds. In fact, immigrants have about the same access as immigrants to the United States who depend on private health insurance or Medicaid and who have less access than native-born Americans... | |
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| Paying For Long-term Care | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| The September Policy Brief by Ricardo Rodrigues and Andrea Schmidt aims to present information on the current picture of public and private expenditure on long-term care for older people and to discuss the challenges of financing care. Moreover it provides preliminary results on potential redistribution effects of home care benefits (based on SHARE data)... | |
| Antibiotics, Longer Treatment Times That Benefit Children May Cost Society | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| The likelihood that the treatment of a middle ear infection will fail is slightly higher for a child who is given a shorter course of antibiotics, according to a new Cochrane Systematic Review. The results are conclusive, but the researchers say there are other factors that must be considered when the drugs are prescribed... | |
| Childhood Obesity Awareness Month | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| Virginia Commonwealth University has experts available in pediatric obesity, psychology, medicine and fashion to discuss a variety of topics including healthy eating, physical activity, lifestyle programs and strategies, trends and causes related to childhood obesity during the month of September. A Growing Problem Daphne Bryan, M.D... | |
| NIH To Launch Gulf Oil Spill Health Study; BP Will Provide Additional Funds For Research | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| The National Institutes of Health will launch a multi-year study this fall to look at the potential health effects from the oil spill in the Gulf region. The Gulf Worker Study, announced by NIH Director Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., in June, is in response to the largest oil spill in U.S. history, caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon offshore drilling oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico... | |
| Is Hand Washing Enough To Stop The Spread Of Disease? | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| Not drying your hands thoroughly after washing them, could increase the spread of bacteria and rubbing your hands whilst using a conventional electric hand dryer could be a contributing factor... | |
| Analyzing Traffic Pollution: New Method For Infrared Remote Sensing | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| Scientists at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) are testing infrared remote sensing technology to evaluate the pollutant emissions associated with motor vehicle traffic which allows for analysis of all the gases of environmental interest with one sole instrument in a sole measurement... | |
| More Than A Quarter Of All Acute Care Visits In US Now Made To Emergency Departments | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| Only 45 percent of the 354 million annual visits for acute care in the United States are made to patients' personal physicians, as Americans increasingly make busy emergency departments, specialists or outpatient care departments their first point of contact for treatment of new health problems or a flare up of a chronic condition like asthma or diabetes... | |
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| Addressing Negative Thoughts Most Effective In Fighting Loneliness | Wed, 08 Sep 2010 |
| Changing how a person perceives and thinks about others was the most effective intervention for loneliness, a sweeping analysis of previous research has determined. The findings may help physicians and psychologists develop better treatments for loneliness, a known risk factor for heart disease and other health problems... | |
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| Hospital Funding First Step Only To Rural Health Fix, Australia | Tue, 07 Sep 2010 |
| The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) has welcomed the re-election of the Gillard Government, and has welcomed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's announcement that the next round of federal hospitals funding will be available for regional and rural hospitals... | |
| RSPH Announces New Qualifications In Pest Management, UK | Tue, 07 Sep 2010 |
| Following extensive consultation with the pest control industry, RSPH is pleased to announce that the following qualifications have received their accreditation from Ofqual, the regulatory body for qualifications, and can now be offered by approved centres: Level 2 Award in Pest Management Level 2 Certificate in Pest Management Level 3 Diploma in Pest Management The RSPH ha... | |
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| Katter Misses Health Mark By Country Mile - Rural Doctors Association Of Australia | Tue, 07 Sep 2010 |
| Bob Katter has shown a lack of understanding of the health needs of rural Australians, with country hospitals and health services barely getting a look-in on his 20 point wish list. Dr Nola Maxfield, President of the Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA), said she was extremely disappointed with the low priority he has given rural health... | |
| Intradermal (ID) Flu Vaccine Available Now For The First Time In The UK | Tue, 07 Sep 2010 |
| Reliable intradermal (ID) flu vaccination1, amplifying the immune response of older vulnerable people, will help to protect them from flu and its complications during this year's flu season.2,3,4,5 Available now in the UK, the Intanza®15µg micro-needle injection system* is simple for healthcare practitioners to use, with a narrow (30G), short (1... | |
