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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