Health Care News - 16th April 2009

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Hispanics appear to face poorer quality nursing home care
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48207
Nursing homes serving primarily Hispanic residents provided poorer quality care compared to facilities whose patients were mostly white, according to Brown University research.

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Stakeholders participate in regional White House forum on health care reform
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48182
At Monday's White House forum on health care reform held in Los Angeles, the discussion concerning how to fix our broken health care system and cover the 47 million Americans (6.8 million Californians) who are uninsured underscored the need for action now.

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Mexican health care program has reduced health care costs
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48095
In results from the largest health policy study of its kind, a Mexican health care program created in 2003 has been found effective in reducing crippling health care costs among poorer households.

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Large safety gaps identified between top and bottom performing hospitals
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48113
The 2009 HealthGrades Patient Safety Excellence Award™ recipients were identified in a report issued today by the leading independent healthcare ratings organization.

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Court of Appeal says women are free to pursue claims
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48063
Around 7,000 women will be free to pursue their claims for equal pay following a ruling in the Court of Appeal today in the cases of Hurst v Suffolk Mental Health Trust and Arnold and others v Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council.

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Major health care overhaul in China
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48060
Chinese officials have unveiled a health-care plan which promises to deliver to all its 1.3 billion citizens, fair and affordable health services by the year 2020.

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Disease/Infection News Update from News-Medical.Net - 16th April 2009

We'd like to remind you about our latest website launched late 2008, Talk Medical (http://talk.news-medical.net). Here you can post news from your organization or company, post events you are involved in or feel would be of interest to the wider community, blog to your heart's content on current health issues or simply just share any interesting health stories you may have. Featured Post Drinks may contribute more to obesity than food While the energy density of soft drinks, which are frequently highly calorific, needs to be considered differently from that of solid foods, recent research has demonstrated that consumption of soft drinks is likely to increase normal caloric intake. When people consume soft drinks, they do not recognise that they have taken in extra energy and compensate by reducing energy from elsewhere in their daily diet, or by expending additional energy; they simply add it on.… Continue

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Early HIV treatment decreases the risk of death
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48349
Begin treatment as early as possible: this general common sense rule seems to apply to most diseases except HIV-AIDS, which is only treated once a certain number of immune cells called "CD4+" cells have disappeared.

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New AIDS research training grants awarded for projects in 15 countries
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48321
The Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health has awarded seven grants totaling almost $2.7 million to train HIV/AIDS researchers in 15 low- and middle-income countries.

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Mutations that help HIV hide undermine the virus's ability to replicate
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48267
When HIV infects a cell, a complex of human immune proteins called HLA (short for human leukocyte antigen) alert killer T cells by displaying bits of the virus on the surface of the cell. The T cells recognize these HIV fragments and mobilize an attack.

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Dengue in Queensland on the decline at last - or is it?
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48248
During the current Dengue epidemic in the tropical north of Queensland, health authorities found more than 50,000 potential mosquito breeding sites in Cairns alone.

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Early administration of HIV antiretroviral therapy improves survival
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48199
The first antiretroviral treatments appeared in 1996. Since then, new and better drugs have been discovered that have almost turned AIDS into a chronic disease.

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Largest disease network database ever built
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48228
A team of researchers from Northeastern University and Harvard University has created a map summarizing disease associations expressed in a population of more than 30 million people.

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Rural AIDS and HIV expert comments on media campaign
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48176
A recent study revealed that the public's concern about the HIV/AIDS problem in the United States has lessened: In 1995, 44 percent of people surveyed considered HIV/AIDS the most urgent health problem, but only 5 percent of study participants reported feeling this way today, said William L. Yarber, senior director of the Rural Center for AIDS/STD Prevention at Indiana University.

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AIDS organizations endorse new HIV testing bill
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48070
Five AIDS service organizations have endorsed legislation proposed by State Senate Health Committee Chair Thomas Duane that would bring New York's HIV counseling and testing law up-to-date with the realities facing the epidemic today.

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HIV virus may have become more virulent
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48088
Damage to patients' immune systems is happening sooner now than it did at the beginning of the HIV epidemic, suggesting the virus has become more virulent, according to a new study in the May 1, 2009 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, now available online.

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Patient to patient transmission of hepatitis B virus:
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48064
Patient-to-patient transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) can occur as the result of routine clinical practices incorrectly thought to be risk-free.

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$45 million public awareness campaign on HIV/AIDS epidemic in U.S.
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48062
The U.S. government has announced a $45 million program to fight the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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FDA clears rapid test for the detection of influenza A/H5N1
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48052
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today cleared for marketing a new, more rapid test for the detection of influenza A/H5N1, a disease-causing subtype of the avian influenza A virus that can infect humans.

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Stanford study shows PEPFAR program saved a million lives
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48036
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, the ambitious U.S. government program begun in 2003, has cut the death toll from HIV/AIDS through 2007 by more than 10 percent in targeted countries in Africa, though it has had no appreciable effect on prevalence of the disease in those nations, according to a study from the Stanford University School of Medicine that is the first to evaluate these outcomes.

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Killing older mosquitoes is a more sustainable way to control malaria
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48004
Killing only older mosquitoes could be a more sustainable way of controlling malaria, and has the potential to lead to evolution-proof insecticides that never become obsolete, according to an article in this week's issue of PLoS Biology.

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Some of our committee members are a little excited over here today. You see, I am in the process of receiving word for a scheduled meeting with a local Assemblyman. We, the heads and members of the elementary school board, are dedicated to making that school an even better place to attend next year, and for the remainder of this year. In other related news, two of (6) teachers at the school aforementioned had found their pink slips to be rescinded. Good job and congratulations to the forerunners on that front. And, it all happened so quickly. My Hiatus is over. Duty calls. I*ll go on another soon. Wink *Authentically posted by SDRoads

The mountains look so stunningly beautiful again...

glistening in the sun as they are. *SDRoads



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