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European Medicines Agency Confirms Positive Benefit-Risk Balance For Rosiglitazone And Pioglitazone

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Finalising a review of the benefits and risks of the thiazolidinediones rosiglitazone (Avandia) and pioglitazone (Actos), the European Medicines Agency has concluded that the benefits of these antidiabetic medicines continue to outweigh their risks in the approved indications. However, the A ...

read more Finalising a review of the benefits and risks of the thiazolidinediones rosiglitazone (Avandia) and pioglitazone (Actos), the European Medicines Agency has concluded that the benefits of these antidiabetic medicines continue to outweigh their risks in the approved indications. However, the A read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

How Fair, Responsive, Safe And Effective Is The National Health Service? England

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According to Lord Ara Darzi, who wrote a Comment in this week's The Lancet, there is no quick and easy way to make the National Health Service fairer, more responsive, safer and more effective. Lord Darzi is from the UK Department of Health and was the lead author of a recent report into practice w ...

read more According to Lord Ara Darzi, who wrote a Comment in this week's The Lancet, there is no quick and easy way to make the National Health Service fairer, more responsive, safer and more effective. Lord Darzi is from the UK Department of Health and was the lead author of a recent report into practice w read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

First Joint Venture Medical Device Released By NTU And Insightra Medical Inc.

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Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Insightra® Medical of Irvine California first joint venture medical device, Ree-Trakt, is released for sale in the United States. This is the first medical device by NTU that has been developed and patented in accordance with design controls. [clic ...

read more Nanyang Technological University (NTU) and Insightra® Medical of Irvine California first joint venture medical device, Ree-Trakt, is released for sale in the United States. This is the first medical device by NTU that has been developed and patented in accordance with design controls. [clic read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Senate Committee Discusses Cutting MA Plan Payments To Prevent Physician Payment Cut

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Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) at a committee meeting on Wednesday outlined a $30 billion Medicare package that could prevent a scheduled 10% Medicare physician reimbursement rate cut and provide subsidies for rural and low-income seniors, CongressDaily reports (Johnson, ...

read more Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus (D-Mont.) at a committee meeting on Wednesday outlined a $30 billion Medicare package that could prevent a scheduled 10% Medicare physician reimbursement rate cut and provide subsidies for rural and low-income seniors, CongressDaily reports (Johnson, read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Nine SAGE Journals Participate In Global Theme Issue On Poverty And Human Development

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SAGE, the world's fifth largest journal publisher, is proud to be participating in a Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development launched by the Council of Science Editors.The CSE global theme issue aims to raise awareness and stimulate interest and debate on the crucial matters of poverty a ...

read more SAGE, the world's fifth largest journal publisher, is proud to be participating in a Global Theme Issue on Poverty and Human Development launched by the Council of Science Editors.The CSE global theme issue aims to raise awareness and stimulate interest and debate on the crucial matters of poverty a read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

PCT Performance Ratings: Re-Organisation Is Bad For Your Health

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The Healthcare Commission's announcement of NHS performance ratings for 2006/07 confirms the view of many frontline staff. Re-organisation is bad for your health. The Commission's report emphasises distinct differences in both quality of services and use of resources between those PCTs that were ...

read more The Healthcare Commission's announcement of NHS performance ratings for 2006/07 confirms the view of many frontline staff. Re-organisation is bad for your health. The Commission's report emphasises distinct differences in both quality of services and use of resources between those PCTs that were read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA) Signs-On To IMedicor

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Vemics, Inc.(PINK SHEETS:VMCI), a leading provider of hosted, real-time learning and productivity solutions, announces a partnership with the Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA) for the use of Vemics' iMedicorTM online portal - a unique patient information-sharing portal for physici ...

read more Vemics, Inc.(PINK SHEETS:VMCI), a leading provider of hosted, real-time learning and productivity solutions, announces a partnership with the Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA) for the use of Vemics' iMedicorTM online portal - a unique patient information-sharing portal for physici read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Call For Doctors To Become Members Of Parliament, UK

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In this week's BMJ, Steven Ford, a general practitioner in Northumberland, appeals for healthcare workers to stand as MPs and offer the electorate a better choice of health and other policies than those on offer from the established parties. He himself intends to stand at the next general election. ...

read more In this week's BMJ, Steven Ford, a general practitioner in Northumberland, appeals for healthcare workers to stand as MPs and offer the electorate a better choice of health and other policies than those on offer from the established parties. He himself intends to stand at the next general election. read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Health Questions In Need Of Leaders' Debate Answers, Australia

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AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said today that tomorrow night's Leaders' Debate from Parliament House must provide voters with some clarity and confidence about where the major parties are headed with health policy. Dr Capolingua said the Debate offers the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader ...

read more AMA President, Dr Rosanna Capolingua, said today that tomorrow night's Leaders' Debate from Parliament House must provide voters with some clarity and confidence about where the major parties are headed with health policy. Dr Capolingua said the Debate offers the Prime Minister and Opposition Leader read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Increasing Need To Improve Patient Care And Reduce Medical Errors To Boost European CPOE Markets

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Computerised physician order entry systems (CPOE) vendors in Europe face the challenge of implementing technologically advanced solutions in a constantly evolving healthcare environment. However, the rising rate at which regions are adopting healthcare IT is set to sustain market growth, as key deci ...

read more Computerised physician order entry systems (CPOE) vendors in Europe face the challenge of implementing technologically advanced solutions in a constantly evolving healthcare environment. However, the rising rate at which regions are adopting healthcare IT is set to sustain market growth, as key deci read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

WellPoint Partners With Zagat Survey To Create Physician Ranking Guide

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WellPoint by the end of March will release an online physician ranking guide based on patient input to more than one million members, USA Today reports. The WellPoint guide, developed with [click link for full article] ...

read more WellPoint by the end of March will release an online physician ranking guide based on patient input to more than one million members, USA Today reports. The WellPoint guide, developed with [click link for full article] read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

ACNM Launches Women's Health Expo In Conjunction With Acnm 53rd Annual Meeting, May 23-29, 2008

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The first American College of Nurse-Midwives Women's Health Expo will be held May 24, 2008, in Boston in conjunction with the ACNM 53rd Annual Meeting & Exposition. The consumer-focused Expo will include an interactive women's health experience promoted through the local and regional med ...

read more The first American College of Nurse-Midwives Women's Health Expo will be held May 24, 2008, in Boston in conjunction with the ACNM 53rd Annual Meeting & Exposition. The consumer-focused Expo will include an interactive women's health experience promoted through the local and regional med read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

Romantic Novels Commonly Include Passionate Romance In Emergency Medicine Settings

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Emergency medicine departments are popular venues for passionate romance in numerous romantic novels, according to a Correspondence in The Lancet, this week's issue. According to Dr Brendan Kelly, University College Dublin and Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland "Romantic fictio ...

read more Emergency medicine departments are popular venues for passionate romance in numerous romantic novels, according to a Correspondence in The Lancet, this week's issue. According to Dr Brendan Kelly, University College Dublin and Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

New Help Welcome For Rural Health - Australian Medical Association

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The AMA welcomes the Coalition's commitment to extend the Rural Medical Infrastructure Fund (RMIF) and to increase urgently needed support for rural medical practices. Chair of the AMA Rural Reference Group, Dr David Rivett, says the commitment to extend the fund beyond June 2008 when it was due to ...

read more The AMA welcomes the Coalition's commitment to extend the Rural Medical Infrastructure Fund (RMIF) and to increase urgently needed support for rural medical practices. Chair of the AMA Rural Reference Group, Dr David Rivett, says the commitment to extend the fund beyond June 2008 when it was due to read more Sun Oct 2007 Sun Oct 2007

UK Smokers Given More Help To Quit Since GP Performance Pay Introduced

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Smokers have been getting more support for quitting, and the numbers of smokers have reduced, since the introduction of performance-related incentives for UK general practitioners, according to new research published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal."Pay for performance" incentives, intro ...

read more Smokers have been getting more support for quitting, and the numbers of smokers have reduced, since the introduction of performance-related incentives for UK general practitioners, according to new research published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. read more Mon Jun 2007 Mon Jun 2007

Surgery By Satellite -- New Possibilities At Medicine's Cutting Edge

Categorie : Primary Care / General Practice
Robotic surgery may be coming to your town. Robots that perform surgery can be driven by surgeons who no longer stand by the patient, but direct the operation from a computer console. In most cases the surgeon is seated at a console within the theatre, only a few metres away from the patient. [click ...

read more Robotic surgery may be coming to your town. Robots that perform surgery can be driven by surgeons who no longer stand by the patient, but direct the operation from a computer console. In most cases the surgeon is seated at a console within the theatre, only a few metres away from the patient. [click read more Sun Jun 2007 Sun Jun 2007

E/Tablet Technology May Provide Benefits To Patients, Researchers

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The old wooden clipboard and pen that patients typically encounter when providing information in a doctor's office may soon be replaced by wireless, handheld notebook-and-pen-style computers called E/Tablets. [click link for full article] ...

read more The old wooden clipboard and pen that patients typically encounter when providing information in a doctor's office may soon be replaced by wireless, handheld notebook-and-pen-style computers called E/Tablets. [click link for full article] read more Sun Jun 2007 Sun Jun 2007

Institute Of Medicine Advisory: Public Health Physicians

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Physicians whose work focuses primarily on population issues, such as disease prevention and safe food supplies, are vital to improving public health. But the nation faces a critical shortage of these professionals, and many who are already in the field have not had adequate training to tackle curre ...

read more Physicians whose work focuses primarily on population issues, such as disease prevention and safe food supplies, are vital to improving public health. But the nation faces a critical shortage of these professionals, and many who are already in the field have not had adequate training to tackle curre read more Thu Jun 2007 Thu Jun 2007

Sen. Bennett Holds Field Hearing In Utah On FDA's Critical Path Initiative

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A field hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee held by Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) at the University of Utah on Friday discussed the FDA's Critical Path Initiative, intended to bridge the gaps between promising medical concepts and patient treatments, the [click link for full article] ...

read more A field hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee held by Sen. Bob Bennett (R-Utah) at the University of Utah on Friday discussed the FDA's Critical Path Initiative, intended to bridge the gaps between promising medical concepts and patient treatments, the [click link for full article] read more Thu Jun 2007 Thu Jun 2007

Military 'Struggles' To Find Sufficient Health Staff To Care For Troops, Families

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USA Today on Tuesday examined how months after "the problems revealed at [click link for full article] ...

read more USA Today on Tuesday examined how months after read more Thu Jun 2007 Thu Jun 2007

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