The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on Tuesday profiled the advocacy group

In honor of National Patient Safety Awareness Week, March 2-8, 2008, ECRI Institute, an independent, nonprofit organization that researches the best approaches to improving patient care, is provid

Post-election violence in Kenya has prevented 2,391 HIV-positive people from accessing antiretrovirals, the country's National AIDS Control Council recently said,

Malawi has drafted a law to prevent traditional healers from claiming that they can cure HIV/AIDS and religious leaders from advising their congregations to give up treatment for prayer, Mary Sha

The presidential candidates assume that universal health insurance means universal health care and that once the law enables or requires everyone to buy health insurance, everyone will have ad

The San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday published two opinion pieces that discuss issues related to Medicare. Summaries appear below.Spyros Andreopou

Summaries of two recent opinion pieces about issues related to health care reform appear below.Joseph Dorsey/Donald Berwick,

The Australian Medical Students' Association (AMSA) called on Medicines Australia, the peak representative body for prescription pharmaceutical companies in Australia, to regulate the interaction

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Monday announced the launch of a new, $60 million electronic health record sy

AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, warned that Australia risked squandering the benefits of the increased numbers of medical students now in the system unless governments put in place greater t

FDA needs an expanded budget of about $375 million in fiscal year 2009 to reverse longtime funding shortfalls, the agency's

About 99,000 physicians -- or about 16% of those eligible to participate in the Medicare quality reporting program -- submitted reports at least once during the 2007 reporting period, acting

The health insurance industry has begun efforts to defuse a growing furor over retroactive policy cancellations that have saddled some patients with big medical bills and sparked lawsuits, the

Advanced Medical Technology Association officials on Tuesday announced qualified support for a bill that would require medical dev

Leaders of the House and Senate Budget committees on Tuesday said that they might use the fiscal year 2009 budget reconciliation process to pass a Medicare bill with a provision to prevent a sche

Three Democratic governors on Tuesday called on Congress to block a Bush administration directive that has made it difficult for states to expand their SCHIP programs, the

The Des Moines Register on Monday profiled the increasing diversity of courses off

Presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Monday endorsed a Colorado ballot proposal that would define a fertilized embryo as a person and extend to it rights and prot

Postmenopausal women taking combined hormone replacement therapy have only a slightly higher risk of developing breast cancer, but there are much greater chances they will experience the worry o

Veridex, LLC announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an expanded clearance for the CellSearch™ System to be used as an aid in the monitoring of metastatic pros

These days there's a consumer group to fight our cause in almost every walk of life. Now a remarkable group of people are using their own experience to help shape pioneering research into the medi

Overweight Hispanic children with normal blood glucose (sugar) levels showed elevated markers for blood vessel inflammation that may predispose them to developing both type 2 diabetes and cardiova

Are cataract rates on the decline? Should glaucoma patients seeking alternative therapies trust what they find online? Are seatbelts still important to protect eyes in auto accidents, now that mos

We have identified a key connection of signaling pathways in the cascade of events leading to sepsis. This defines a crucial point where the immune system spirals out of control to cause severe s

Their study, which appears this week in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), may re-energize attempts to create a preventive/therapeutic v

The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases' Childhood Influenza Immunization Coalition (CIIC) is pleased to support today's vote by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC)

With a persistent new strain of flu affecting workers nationwide, employers may need to be more assertive to help keep the workplace healthy at the height of flu season, according to CCH, a l

MedImmune, the manufacturer of FluMist(R) (Influenza Virus Vaccine Live, Intranasal), lauded the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) Advisory Committee on Immunization Pra

Veridex, LLC announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted an expanded clearance for the CellSearch(TM) System to be used as an aid in the monitoring of metastatic pros

Mayo Clinic researchers have found that capsule endoscopy can provide a magnified view of the intestinal damage caused by celiac disease. This new information can help physicians detect and di