Public Hospitals Look to Overhaul Affiliations With Medical Schools
nytimes - 09/03/2010 06:20
New York City’s hospital system wants to renegotiate longstanding contracts that allow medical schools to manage physicians.
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The Bay Citizen: I.R.S. Looks at Finances of Planned Parenthood
nytimes - 09/03/2010 04:40
The criminal division of the Internal Revenue Service is looking into the finances of Planned Parenthood Golden Gate in Oakland, CA, which has also begun its own investig...
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Employers Push Costs for Health on Workers
nytimes - 09/03/2010 04:40
Employers passed all of the increases in insurance premiums this year to their employees, a survey found.
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Cheap And Accurate Tuberculosis Test Gives Results In Under Two Hours
medicalnewstoday - 09/03/2010 04:20
A tuberculosis test, called Xpert® MTB/RIF, can successfully identify 98% of all culture-confirmed TB cases, including more than 90% of those with smear-nega...
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Osteoporosis drugs may raise throat cancer risk
msnbc - 09/03/2010 01:40
Researchers say new findings shouldn't affect patients taking bisphosphonates, but said the medicines should be watched closely. Other studies have been divided over wh...
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Friend groups can help change health behaviors
msnbc - 09/03/2010 01:00
Study's findings could be useful at a time when policymakers need to shift health care focus to preventing disease, rather than treating it.
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Organic Strawberries Have More Antioxidants And Vitamin C But Less Potassium And Phosphorus
medicalnewstoday - 09/02/2010 23:20
Organic strawberries were found to have more vitamin C and antioxidants than non-organic ones, and they also had a nicer taste, but are 13.4% smaller and have conside...
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theGrio: Why the FDA must curb cough syrup abuse
msnbc - 09/02/2010 23:00
YouTube search the term "DXM." You'll find thousands of videos that chronicle the adventures teenagers "robotripping," or getting high on dextromethorphan.
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No Pampers link to rash cases, safety groups say
msnbc - 09/02/2010 23:00
Two agencies investigating claims that Procter & Gamble Co's Pampers Dry Max gave children severe diaper rash reported Thursday that they have found no specific cause lin...
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Text messages little help in remembering the Pill
msnbc - 09/02/2010 22:20
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A cell phone text message -- and the buzz or beep that signals its arrival -- may not help a woman remember to pop her birth control pill, a n...
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The Face Of An Infant's Suffering; Can It Be Sugarcoated?
medicalnewstoday - 09/02/2010 22:20
When your newborn infant is crying with uncomfortable teething or otherwise obviously suffering, feeding sugar to the little one has been a home remedy for years based on...
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Orexigen Partners With Takeda To Commercialize Obesity Drug Contrave (Naltrexone SR/Bupropion SR)
medicalnewstoday - 09/02/2010 21:40
Contrave (naltrexone SR/bupropion SR), an investigational drug aimed at combination therapy to address both biological and behavioral drivers of obesity, will be develope...
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Short Sleep And Chronic Insomnia Linked To Four-Fold Risk Of Early Death In Men
medicalnewstoday - 09/02/2010 21:40
US researchers found that short sleep and insomnia was linked to a four times higher risk of early death in men; they urged public health policy makers to emphasize earli...
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Double hand transplant patient can 'wiggle fingers'
msnbc - 09/02/2010 20:40
The transplant recipient made his first appearance on Thursday, about a week after he underwent a nearly 18-hour transplant procedure at a hospital.
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Starting periods early tied to greater asthma risk
msnbc - 09/02/2010 20:40
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Women who start menstruating early may be at increased risk of asthma and poor lung function, new research shows.
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Infrared Detects E. Coli In Beef Within An Hour Instead Of A Week Protecting Public Health More Efficiently
medicalnewstoday - 09/02/2010 20:40
Where's the beef? Rather, where are the Escherichia coli (commonly referred to and spelled as E. coli) in my beef? It has been found that infrared spectroscopy detects E....
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Testing the Bonds of Doctor and Patient
nytimes - 09/02/2010 19:40
For Dr. Ruth Bergren and her colleagues taking care of HIV patients in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina presented the ultimate test of the doctor-patient relationship.
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Several West Nile Virus Infections And Deaths In Greece, Other Parts Of Europe Also Affected
medicalnewstoday - 09/02/2010 19:40
Cases of human infection of West Nile virus (WNV) have been reported in Greece where 13 people have died and at least 140 have become ill, according to the Hellenic Centr...
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Just getting to work is an ordeal for staff members, who have also had to face chanting protesters in their emergency room.
Linda Bruno called her Pennsylvania cat rescue the land of milk and tuna. It thrived for years as people sent pets they couldn't care for from hundreds of miles away - un...
A new study suggests that at least one in seven home kitchens would flunk the kind of health inspection commonly administered to restaurants.
Dr. Ruth Berggren was among a team of nurses and doctors that stayed with patients during Hurricane Katrina.
They have more antioxidants and vitamin C than their conventional counterparts, a study says. But they come up short by other measures — potassium and phosphorus, f...