This week 3,000 people joined the U.S. Ambassador to Kenya, Michael E. Ranneberger, Kenya Minister of Medical Services The Honorable Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o, Jhpiego, and its partners to officially open a new Maternal Child Health/FP and Comprehensive Care Clinic (CCC) at Embu Provincial General Hospital (EPGH) in Kenya. […]
The Australian Medical Students’ Association congratulated the federal government on their decision to boost funding to a program that will encourage more medical trainees to undertake a career in general practice. The Pre-Vocational General Practice Placement Program (PGPPP) is a scheme that gives junior doctors an opportunity to experience general practice […]
UNAIDS Executive Director Peter Piot on Thursday encouraged the Chinese government to provide compensation and medical care to thousands of people who contracted HIV through the government-supported blood transfusions in the late 1990s and early 2000s, AFP/AsiaOne News reports.
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Lawmakers and witnesses on Thursday at a House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing discussed several proposals to reform the U.S. health care system, CQ HealthBeat reports. Subcommittee Democrats said that the current economic downturn increased the need for health care reform.
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The “electorate would be the loser” if issues such as abortion, same-sex marriage and the relationship between church and state “play as significant a role this year as they have in recent presidential races,” a Los Angeles Times editorial says. According to the Times, the most “significant” difference between Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama […]
Concerns about keeping immunization rates at adequate levels have prompted the nation’s leading medical and advocacy groups to join together to raise the public’s confidence in vaccines. The Immunization Alliance calls on policymakers, public health agencies, physicians, and the public to work together to preserve the health of the nation’s children through immunization.
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A proposed HHS regulation to require that “any health care entity that receives federal financing — whether it’s a physician in private practice, a hospital or a state government — certify in writing that none of its employees are required to assist in any way with medical services they find objectionable” does not “even address […]
The following summarizes coverage of efforts that seek to reduce racial health disparities. Chicago: A version of the “Got Milk” campaign, which includes a mobile tour bus that will visit several locations to educate Hispanics on the importance of drinking milk and maintaining a healthy weight, began on Friday, […]
Scientists at TCT 2008 - Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics - the global annual scientific symposium of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation - will present a variety of new data that promises to advance the field of interventional cardiology.
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It has long been thought that virus infections can cause cardiac arrhythmia. But why has not been understood. Ulrike Lisewski, Dr. Yu Shi, Michael Radke and Professor Michael Gotthardt of the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, Germany, have now discovered the molecular mechanism.
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