Healthcare News
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Since the midterm victories that put both the House and Senate under GOP majorities, U.S. President Barack Obama’s lame-duck status has been popularly viewed as a foregone conclusion coloring every speech and initiative he has presented in 2015.
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As part of the improvements in hospitals to minimize the rate of healthcare acquired infections affecting patients, healthcare workers have been told to frequently wash their hands. One downside is an increase in skin conditions.
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A new study shows that patients react better to drugs they believe cost more than an equally effective drug that's cheaper, even when the medication is a placebo.
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U.S. President Obama has requested $215 million infunding in order to launch his push for personalized clinical care. This means medicines tailor made for individual patients.
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Glasgow -
A nurse who has just returned from West Africa to the U.K. has been diagnosed with Ebola. The healthcare worker is being treated in hospital in Glasgow, Scotland. This is the U.K.'s second Ebola case.
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Toronto -
A new report from Accreditation Canada titled "Building a stronger health system through leadership" argues that "Health care leaders must work together to strengthen the Canadian health care system and bridge the leadership gap."
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Bejing -
China will stop its controversial practice of using executed prisoners as a source of transplant organs from next month, a Chinese newspaper reported Thursday, a promise it has made repeatedly in the past.
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Leeds -
A new study by UK researchers has discovered that hand-driers are much more prone to spreading germs than good old fashioned paper towels.
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A new report suggests that obesity is costing the world $2 trillion dollars per year — that's comparable to the impact of war and terrorism.
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Toronto -
“Preventing Falls: From Evidence to Improvement in Canadian Health Care” is the title of a new initiative, designed to promote health in Canada among the elderly.
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Home health-care workers in California will be eligible for overtime and minimum wage pay on January 1, 2015. The Obama administration has delayed the enforcement of the new rule for six months, nationwide.
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A new study says that Alzheimer's patients continue to feel emotion associated with events even after they have forgotten those specific happenings.
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Patients who hate receiving medication through injections are in luck. According to a recent study by MIT, a newly-developed drug capsule bypasses the need for shots by injecting medicine directly into a patient's organs.
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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are an "unprecedented number of medical staff infected with Ebola.”
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Our nation needs a welfare system that people will benefit from, not chain them to the system of which they can never escape. A revised system created of four branches could correct, accelerate and improve the process by doing just a few simple things.
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Boston -
While health apps hold substantial future promise in fulfilling the goals of greater wellness and healthcare delivery, much will depend on issues of trust, utility, and convenience.
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Beijing -
As she nears retirement along with millions of other Chinese, He Xiangying is too busy sending her son money and raising a stranger's child to worry about who will eventually look after her.
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Toronto -
The organization that reviews oncology medicines in Canada is unnecessarily delaying approvals according to a new study released by the Fraser Institute.
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This week Republicans introduced a rather useless bill to answer the Democrat’s response on the highly unpopular Hobby Lobby decision passed down by the Supreme Court earlier this month.
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The proverbial "golden years" aren't so golden for an alarming and growing number of seniors in the United States today.
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Something big happened on June 30; something that will affect employees of companies like Hobby Lobby in ways that have angered a lot of people.
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The insurance industry is picking a fight with companies over the rising cost of specialty drugs. They say the high prices are raising healthcare costs for insurance companies and everyone else.
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Simon Stevens, the new CEO of the NHS (National Health Service) in England has said smaller community hospitals will start to play a bigger role in the country. The comment will signal a move away from larger centralized hospitals.
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Washington -
While Medicare allows for free preventive screenings for colon cancer, seniors are hit with unexpected bills if doctors take preventive action like removing a polyp, according to U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH).
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After more than 55 failed attempts by the House, Speaker John Boehner finally conceded that Obamacare is here to stay. Boehner’s admission comes only three weeks after he vowed the House would continue to try to repeal the law.
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Merrick -
Social media methodologies and marketing strategies in preventative medicine proved their value in an interview with Jamie Rockwin, president of Therapeutic Solutions Physical Therapy.
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Barack Obama is the most web-savvy American president ever. His campaigns heavily used social media to connect to and interact with voters, especially the younger ones, and up until this year's Oscars, he had the most popular tweet on Twitter ever.
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The Obama administration said on Friday Verizon Communications Inc's Terremark unit will remain under contract as host of the federal website HealthCare.gov to better ensure a smooth end to Obamacare's open enrollment period on M...
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Paris -
Investigations in nine European countries have given statistical backing to claims that patients' lives may be at risk when nurses are overworked, specialists said on Wednesday.Published in The Lancet, the study touches on a sensitive topic in countrie...
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Frankfurt -
Fresenius Medical Care, a leading supplier of dialysis machines and treatment, said on Tuesday its profit fell last year due to US healthcare budget cuts.
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Crowdsourcing pioneers Jeff Howe and Rahaf Harfoush joined Saint Elizabeth's President and CEO Shirlee Sharkey for "What crowdsourcing can do for health innovation"
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CohIT: The healthcare IT industry in Berlin
Dozens gathered on the steps of San Francisco's City Hall to demand that a Community Benefits Agreement be added to the contract with the City before the $2 million new hospital can be built.
Doctor Examines Patient National Cancer Institute
Diagram of the Four Pillars of Linkage for PPPs in PRS
The infographic shows a comparison of air in a toilet washroom after hand-drying by different methods. University of Leeds
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CohIT: the healthcare IT industry in Berlin
Left and Right squared off at the Intelligence Squared debate at New York University.
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