The WHO said it sent six technical experts to assess a small outbreak of polio in Tajikistan, VOA News reports, adding that WHO "says this is the first importation of polio in the European region since Europe was certified as polio-free in 2002." They will investigate the seven cases to...
In this week's video round up, we feature recent discussions about the President Obama's pending announcement of a Supreme Court nominee. PBS' "NewsHour": On Wednesday's program, Gwen Ifill moderated a discussion with Georgetown University Law Center professor Emma Coleman Jordan, SCOTUSblog...
Reuters/The Washington Post: The federal government is turning to states to "to institute key components" of the health overhaul law, "some of which have never existed before." "Because the U.S. Congress used a maneuver known as 'reconciliation' to pass the final healthcare bill, it could not...
Reuters/The Washington Post: The federal government is turning to states to "to institute key components" of the health overhaul law, "some of which have never existed before." "Because the U.S. Congress used a maneuver known as 'reconciliation' to pass the final healthcare bill, it could not...
Reuters/The Washington Post: The federal government is turning to states to "to institute key components" of the health overhaul law, "some of which have never existed before." "Because the U.S. Congress used a maneuver known as 'reconciliation' to pass the final healthcare bill, it could not...
Kaiser Health News: "Starting today, states can choose to take the first steps toward the massive expansion of insurance coverage that is the health overhaul's chief goal. And for some states, that move could have the benefit of reviving funding for state-run programs that insure low-income...
The American Prospect, Boston Globe and Washington Post recently published opinion pieces and an editorial discussing how health reform legislation would affect health insurance coverage for abortion, prenatal care and other services that affect women. ~ Michelle Goldberg, American Prospect...
Since a major earthquake hit Haiti last month, "power has returned to nearly half" of the neighborhoods around Port-au-Prince, but the rebuilding of the country's power system "is starting almost from scratch," the Associated Press/New York Times writes in an article examining the prospects for...
Los Angeles Times: "California's largest health insurer is teaming with hospitals and doctors throughout the state to better share ways to improve patient safety and cut costs, leaders of the initiative said Tuesday. ... Woodland Hills-based Anthem Blue Cross is contributing $6 million toward" a...
Scientists have identified a group of proteins they say could form the basis of a malaria vaccine, Australia's ABC News reports. "However, they say more laboratory work and clinical trials need to be done, with a vaccine at least 10 years away," the news service reports (Macey, 1/19)...
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Scientists have identified a group of proteins they say could form the basis of a malaria vaccine, Australia's ABC News reports. "However, they say more laboratory work and clinical trials need to be done, with a vaccine at least 10 years away," the news service reports (Macey, 1/19)...
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Researchers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas are investigating what symptoms could help doctors better spot heart attacks and if certain symptoms might indicate different types of heart attacks. Their most recent work, "Relation of Nausea and Vomiting in Acute Myocardial Infarction...
Researchers at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas are investigating what symptoms could help doctors better spot heart attacks and if certain symptoms might indicate different types of heart attacks. Their most recent work, "Relation of Nausea and Vomiting in Acute Myocardial Infarction...
Several news outlets examined the global fight against HIV/AIDS ahead of World AIDS Day (December 1): The Associated Press explores how PEPFAR funds are being used to help connect patients living with the disease to treatment, provide support for families and educate the public about...
News outlets provide a variety of fact checks on health care reform. The Christian Science Monitor reports on four key issues - a public option, raising taxes and cutting costs, individual mandates and abortion - that may become points of major differences when expected debate begins Nov...
Reuters reports that as a new camp capable of hosting 10,000 to 12,000 refugees in Yemen will open in a few weeks, "[m]alnutrition and the risk of a cholera outbreak are threatening lives at Yemen's main camp [Masrak] for people fleeing fighting in the north." According to Thomas Davin, regional...
The Daily Monitor examines efforts underway to improve sanitation and promote hygiene in Ethiopia. According to the country's Ministry of Health, "sanitation coverage of Ethiopia has made progressive achievement reaching 54.8% in the current year from 11.5% in 2003," the newspaper reports...
I am 24, male straight . My gay male buddy ( also my roomate) is 25 . He came out of the closet last year. We are still best friends because he is such a great guy. He is a final year medical student. Once I had hamerroid around my a-n-a-l area. I told him and he suggests me some ways to get rid...