Health Briefs

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Families Anonymous meetings planned Families Anonymous meetings will be Mondays from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Aug. 4, 11, 18 and 25 in Woodward rooms A and B at The Finley Hospital. Submitted by: kailash | Visited 2 times | Comments 0

♦ Health Program is Touted

1 vote	In an effort to reduce health-care costs, increase health happiness and save tax dollars, Utah County has implemented a new health program for employees. The application, created by Health Behavior Innovations, is called The Apple Program. Submitted by: inter1 - Visited 6 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Detroit Families to Share Health Care Stories at Roundtable With Health Insurance Plans

1 vote	DETROIT, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -Detroit families and community leaders will share their health care stories and their priorities for health care reform at a roundtable today with representatives from the health insurance industry. Submitted by: Illum - Visited 11 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Health Varies Widely Across Different Regions Of Mexico

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The study is by researchers at Harvard University, the World Health Organization (WHO), and Mexico's National Institute of Public Health. Gretchen Stevens (Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA, and the WHO, Geneva, Switzerland) and colleagues estimated deaths and loss of healthy life years caused by various diseases and injuries for Mexico and its states using data from death registers, censuses... Submitted by: bangalore - Visited 20 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Healthy Life Style

1 vote	Healthy Life Style - Always priorities your health, learn how to take care of your health read our great articles related to health care. health, fitness, life style, health care... Submitted by: pogikbrown - Visited 8 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ India children's health 'ignored'

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More than half of Indian children under the age of five do not get the health care they need, according to a report by Save the Children. It ranks India alongside Ghana when it comes to providing basic health care to its children under five years of age. The annual report looks at whether developing countries are delivering health care effectively to children. Submitted by: quickfingers - Visited 6 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Vaccination plan puts health care workers first

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Essential health care workers would be immunized first if a flu pandemic broke out in the United States, the government said on Wednesday. The Department of Health and Human Services released long-awaited details on who would get vaccinated if and when a pandemic -serious global influenza epidemic -emerged. The plan puts a million health care workers, such as emergency room staff and nurses... Submitted by: bobber4143 - Visited 4 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Study into health impact of MRI

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The Health Protection Agency (HPA) study is likely to focus mainly on the impact on health workers who regularly operate the machines. MRI scans have been hailed as a significant step forward in the diagnosis of medical conditions. But there is concern exposure to the magnetic fields they create may produce adverse long term health effects. Sir William Stewart, HPA chairman... Submitted by: wowla_123 - Visited 2 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Home Testing Kits and Medical Checks

1 vote	Home health monitoring kits and home testing diagnosis kits. Home health monitoring kits and home testing. diagnosis kits.Home health monitoring kits and home testing diagnosis kits. Home health monitoring kits and home testing diagnosis kits. Submitted by: searchpros - Visited 6 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Poll: More than 2/3 of Massachusetts residents support health reform law

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BOSTON, MA Two years after the implementation of a health care reform law aimed at providing health coverage for nearly all Massachusetts residents, public support for the law remains high. According to a new poll by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation, over two-thirds (69%) of Massachusetts residents support the law. Submitted by: shade88 - Visited 1 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Mentally ill face extra-long ER waits

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Psychiatric patients who need hospitalization wait for hours in emergency departments for admission because hospitals are dropping mental health units and beds are scarce, a new survey says. Nearly 80% of hospitals said mentally ill patients sometimes wait four hours or more to be admitted, says the American College of Emergency Physicians, which surveyed 328 emergency medical directors. Submitted by: GoWithABC - Visited 6 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Precision Blood Pressure Measurement To Improve Heart Health

1 vote	ScienceDaily (Jun. 16, 2008) — A University of Queensland researcher is trialling new, cutting-edge technology for measuring blood pressure and the health of the heart. The study, led by Dr James Sharman from the School of Medicine, aims to determine the effectiveness of measuring central blood pressure. Submitted by: wowla_123 - Visited 6 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Global Health Progress Joins WHO and DNDi to Call For Increased Commitments to Fighting Neglected Tr

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TOYAKO, Japan, July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -"The worldwide pharmaceutical industry is joining the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi) in calling on the G-8 to recognize the importance of neglected diseases as a global health threat and a major strain on the economic viability and educational development of communities worldwide. Submitted by: Ariestoteles - Visited 2 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Firms back campaign against health bill

1 vote	When Tony Clement, the Health Minister, agreed last week to revamp a contentious health-products bill, he cited an opposition movement that had spread virus-like across the Internet, garnered broad and sympathetic media attention and spawned protests from Penticton to Parliament Hill. Submitted by: peacenlove - Visited 1 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Trusts 'ignoring' IVF guidelines

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Thousands of infertile couples are missing out on the recommended level of IVF on the NHS because health trusts are refusing to fund it. Only nine out of 151 English health trusts offer three IVF cycles, despite guidelines issued four years ago. Campaigners said many are using unfair criteria to deny couples treatment. The Department of Health said more trusts now paid for at least one IVF cycle... Submitted by: Evilboy - Visited 2 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Mental hospitals going smoke-free

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The smoking ban is being extended to the buildings and grounds of mental health hospitals in England. The sites were given an extra year to bring the smoking ban into effect to help patients quit the habit. The Department of Health says the law goes "towards ending an unacceptable health inequality". MIND, the mental health charity... Submitted by: dans107 - Visited 5 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Bold Evolution Transforms National Jewish Medical and Research Center to National Jewish Health

1 vote	DENVER, July 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -Signaling a bold evolution and expansion beyond traditional boundaries of respiratory medicine into exciting new areas of science and health, National Jewish Medical and Research Center will become National Jewish Health, effective immediately. Submitted by: andly - Visited 1 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Adults still risk vitamin D deficiency

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Susan Tellem learned she was vitamin D deficient by accident. "I went in for an allergy issue, and a blood test showed my vitamin D was at an all-time low," says Tellem, 62, of Malibu, Calif. Tellem's D level was 7 ng/mL (nanograms/milliliter), well below the deficiency mark of 20 ng/mL or lower. A normal reading is 30 ng/mL or higher. According to the National Center for Health Statistics... Submitted by: seoenhancer - Visited 2 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ USANA Honored By Utah Department of Health for Smoking Cessation Programs

1 vote	USANA Health Sciences, Inc. was recognized on Thursday by the Utah Department of Health (UDOH) for its worksite programs to help employees quit tobacco. Submitted by: mhmtozek - Visited 3 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Mass. pioneering health plan turns 1

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Wendy Rodriguez, of Jamaica Plain, Mass., sits with her her nephew Jason Portillo, 10 and her 23-month-old daughter Shahana Ahmed in the waiting room before her daughter's appointment at the Revere Family Health Center. July 1 marks a year since all residents of Massachusetts were to have signed up for health insurance coverage, which has signed up many low-income uninsured residents... Submitted by: maiahost - Visited 4 - Comments 0 - Write first comment

♦ Natural health industry 'scaring people'

1 vote	Health Minister Tony Clement says the natural health products industry is scaring consumers unnecessarily with claims that the government plans to outlaw popular homeopathic medicines and herbal remedies. Submitted by: fastdomains - Visited 1 - Comments 0 - Write first comment