Health Care News - 24th 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 Critical reforms of IMF policies demanded Earlier this month the Group of Twenty (G-20) leaders had announced a USD 1.1 trillion booster-dose into the world economy by the end of 2010 through multilateral institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Health advocates believe that critical reforms are needed for IMF policies to prevent disastrous fallouts like rising tuberculosis (TB) incidence in countries that might receive IMF funding. .… Continue

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Many people skipping health care in the past year
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48745
As economic conditions remain poor, a majority of the public continues to say that they or a member of their household have delayed or skipped health care in the past year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation's April health tracking poll.

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Palliative care skills training needed for health-care staff in sub-Saharan Africa
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48723
A new study, led by Lucy Selman and colleagues from King's College London, has found that patients with incurable, progressive diseases and their family carers in sub-Saharan Africa often do not receive enough information about the patient's disease and its management, which impacts negatively on their ability to cope with illness.

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Continuity of care for older adults from outpatient to hospital is low, and decreasing
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48637
The proportion of Medicare patients experiencing continuity of care between outpatient and inpatient settings decreased substantially between 1996 and 2006, with decreases occurring in all areas of the country and in all types of hospitals, according to a study in the April 22/29 issue of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Medicare recipients see declines in continuity of care
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48652
According to a study by researchers at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, elderly Medicare recipients transitioning from outpatient to hospital settings were more likely to experience lapses in continuity of care in 2006 than 1996.

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New drug use screening tools for physicians
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48595
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, today unveiled its first comprehensive Physicians' Outreach Initiative, NIDAMED, which gives medical professionals tools and resources to screen their patients for tobacco, alcohol, illicit, and nonmedical prescription drug use.

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$1.4 million raised to support local cancer care, research at Wilmot
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48540
More than 800 people and local corporations demonstrated their support for the James P. Wilmot Cancer Center at Saturday's 10 th annual Discovery Ball.

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Surgical education programs have demand for physician assistants and nurse practitioners
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48613
New research published in the April issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons indicates that large numbers of physician assistants and nurse practitioners - collectively known as physician extenders (PEs) - have been hired by general surgery residency programs in the last five years to enable the resident education experience, and these professionals continue to be in demand.

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Healthcare reform should start with paying evidence-based financial incentives to doctors
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48567
Healthcare Reform should start with "evidence-based reimbursement", structuring physician payment incentives around existing empirical evidence of clinical benefit, which would improve quality and reduce the cost of healthcare, says a commentary written by two cardiologists and published in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes .

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U.S. nursing shortage highlights need for retention programs
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48395
The recent health care summit at the White House spotlighted the nursing shortage, which threatens the quality of patient care throughout the nation's hospitals.

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Disease/Infection News Update from News-Medical.Net - 24th 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 Critical reforms of IMF policies demanded Earlier this month the Group of Twenty (G-20) leaders had announced a USD 1.1 trillion booster-dose into the world economy by the end of 2010 through multilateral institutions like the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Health advocates believe that critical reforms are needed for IMF policies to prevent disastrous fallouts like rising tuberculosis (TB) incidence in countries that might receive IMF funding. .… Continue

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Malaria death in Zambia decline by 66%
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48746
Malaria deaths reported from health facilities in Zambia have declined by 66%. This result along with other supporting data indicates that Zambia has reached the 2010 Roll Back Malaria target of a more than 50% reduction in malaria mortality compared to 2000.

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Scientists identify dozens of proteins the dengue fever virus depends upon
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48730
By painstakingly silencing genes one at a time, scientists at Duke University Medical Center have identified dozens of proteins the dengue fever virus depends upon to grow and spread among mosquitoes and humans.

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Researchers create chemicals that kill the most deadly malaria-causing parasite
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48721
Researchers at the University of Leeds have developed chemicals which kill the most deadly malaria-causing parasite, Plasmodium falciparum - including those resistant to existing drugs.

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Why an effective vaccine for HIV has proven so elusive
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48704
Some 25 years after the AIDS epidemic spawned a worldwide search for an effective vaccine against the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), progress in the field seems to have effectively become stalled.

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New Dengue virus discovery could lead to development of anti-dengue drugs
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48689
Doctors have no specific drugs to treat dengue fever, a viral illness spread by mosquitoes that sickens 50 million to 100 million people worldwide each year. Instead, the only treatments they can recommend for this painful and sometimes fatal illness (20,000 deaths globally each year) are fluids, rest and non-aspirin pain and fever reducers.

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Improved medical ultrasounds
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48663
A key part of a medical ultrasound scanner is the transducer probe used to convert sound waves to electrical signals and vice versa.

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New insights into how to combat avian flu
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48643
An in-depth analysis of blood from patients recovering from the H5N1 avian influenza virus has provided important insights into how to combat the potentially lethal virus.

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Early treatment for hepatitis C offers a good chance of a cure
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48624
Australian researchers say as many as 70% of hepatitis C carriers can possibly be cured of the disease with early treatment - this is excellent news as hepatitis C, if left untreated can lead to serious liver disease.

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Humanized mouse infected with HIV vaginally and rectally allows testing
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48576
The "humanized mouse" developed by Dr. J. Victor Garcia-Martinez has allowed the University of Texas Southwestern physician-scientist to conduct HIV/AIDS studies that would have been impossible without such a small animal model of HIV infection.

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An African child dies every 30 seconds from Malaria
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48442
An African child dies every 30 seconds from this same disease; nearly a half billion people become ill because of it. About 1 million children under the age of 5 die each year from malaria -- a disease that is entirely preventable.

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South Australian hospital battles to contain superbug VRE
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48429
The cancer ward at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) in South Australia is currently battling to cope with an antibiotic-resistant bacteria called Vanocomycin-resistant Enterococci (VRE), a form of bacteria which lives in the gut.

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NIH grants will strengthen fight against HIV/AIDS-tuberculosis
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48425
The Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health today announced it will award $11.75 million over five years in grants to institutions to strengthen the fight against HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis in Haiti, Uganda and China and establish a new program in Tanzania.

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New updated clinical guidelines for HIV-associated opportunistic infections
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48424
The first complete update in five years of the U.S. guidelines for preventing and treating HIV-associated opportunistic infections has been released by the National Institutes of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in cooperation with the HIV Medicine Association of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).

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Tijuana injection drug users on collision course for HIV and tuberculosis
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48416
A study by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with Mexican researchers and health officials, shows that as many as 67 percent of injection drug users in Tijuana test positive for tuberculosis (TB) infection.

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Federal funding for partnership to combat infectious diseases
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48403
Oregon Health & Science University and the University of Washington, along with a number of partner institutions across the Northwest, have received federal funding to form a regional research center aimed at combating emerging or re-emerging infectious diseases that pose a serious threat to human health.

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Prenatal exposure to influenza virus shown to reduce intelligence in adulthood
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48406
The Hong Kong flu pandemic was responsible for more than 700,000 deaths worldwide in the late 1960s, with major disease outbreaks in Europe in the winter of 1969-1970.

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Major breakthrough in understanding of Hendra virus
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48394
Groundbreaking CSIRO research into how the deadly Hendra virus spreads promises to save the lives of both horses and humans in the future.

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Discovery of a new target for novel HIV treatment strategy
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=48388
The AIDS-causing HIV specifically counteracts the mechanisms of human cells that protect these against viral infections - a special viral protein marks protective cellular proteins for their rapid destruction and thus diminishes the cell's supply.

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Down Memory Lane...of a different city...

Colorado Springs private investigator who has worked on the JonBenet Ramsey case for almost a decade says he’s asking the district attorney and police to take another look at a one-time suspect who he thinks could be a threat to other girls. Ollie Gray, who initially was hired by the Ramseys and has worked independently on the case for years alongside retired Colorado Springs homicide detective Lou Smit, said Saturday that he believes John Mark Karr has sent a new e-mail indicating he has targeted other girls, that he has killed and will kill again.

Karr, 43, was arrested in Bangkok, Thailand, on Aug. 15, 2006, after he implicated himself in JonBenet’s death. Karr was released about two weeks later after Boulder County District Attorney Mary Lacy announced that his DNA didn’t match evidence from the crime scene. But Gray said he received an e-mail Friday — which marked 12 years since JonBenet’s body was found in the basement of her family’s University Hill home — that he believes was originally sent from Karr to an acquaintance that tells of his lurid plans. “I will kill again,” an excerpt from the message states. “It will not atone for her death but it will honor it.” The message, which Gray said he forwarded to the Boulder County District Attorney’s Office and the Boulder Police Department, was signed by the pseudonym “Daxis.” Police have said Karr used the name in a series of e-mails that led to his arrest two years ago.



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Meetings Meetings Meetings!

The committee gals and I are starting to get confused as to when all of our differing meetings are. LoL Lots of rescheduling, you know. *SDRoads P.S. Our assistant vice principle WE INTERRUPT THIS POST WITH A ROUSING GAME OF PERSON BY PERSON was just making the morning announcements. He was stating a stint on our Pizza Night at Shakey*s. It was a crack. Now, I happen to know through working with him that he likes food, a lot. Now, don*t get me wrong. HE TOLD US GALS SO. It was so hilarious. During the announcement, he near lost himself in his love affair with food when mentioning the pizza parlour. I could only imagine the look on his face through the loudspeaker. LoL LoL Oh, he snapped out of it. wink Aaahh, morning joys. *SD