1 Studies Examine Health Care Use, Quality
News outlets offered a variety of articles about health care use and quality. The New York Times: A new study finds "that more than half of the 354 million doctor visits made each year for acute medical care, like for fevers, stomachaches and coughs, are not with a patient's primary physician, and that more than a quarter take place in hospital emergency rooms... Source: Medical News Today
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2 Health Highlights: Sept. 7, 2010
Title: Health Highlights: Sept. 7, 2010 Category: Health News Created: 9/7/2010 10:10:00 AM Last Editorial Review: 9/8/2010 Source: MedicineNet.com
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3 Studies examine health care use, quality
The New York Times: A new study finds "that more than half of the 354 million doctor visits made each year for acute medical care, like for fevers, stomachaches and coughs, are not with a patient's primary physician, and that more than a quarter take place in hospital emergency rooms. The authors of the study, which was published Tuesday in the journal Health Affairs, said it highlighted a ... Source: News-Medical-Net
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4 Interactive Websites Aid Sexual Health
After a comprehensive review of several studies, researchers determine interactive computer-based interventions (ICBIs) help improve knowledge about sexual health. Such interventions can include interactive websites that walk people through a sexual health tutorial. Cochrane researchers believe the findings could be extrapolated to include computer-based approaches to tackle problems such as ... Source: Psych Central
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5 Health care reform: is there a doctor in the house?
Health reform will put insurance cards in the hands of tens of millions of previously uninsured Americans. Many will need physicals, immunizations, preventive screening tests and care for chronic health conditions. Source: 14 WFIE Evansville
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6 Top Women's Health Site to Support and Fund Women's Health Research Through a Global Web Campaign -- Calls on 1 ...
SCOTTSDALE, AZ--(Marketwire - September 9, 2010) - Top 10 women's health site EmpowHER today launched what is expected to be the largest online movement for women's health in the next year -- the 1000Women campaign. Source: Marketwire
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7 Health Min. assigns DCGI to review provision linking expiry date of APIs with formulations
The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare would soon look into a demand from the pharma industry to review a provision in the Drugs and Cosmetics Rules, 1945, limiting the expiry date of the finished dose formulation based on the period of expiry of active ingredients, it is learnt. Source: PharmaBiz
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8 South Africa: Health Exposé 'Would Be a Crime' Under Information Bill
The decision last week by activists to publicise confidential government reports on provincial health departments would have been a crime if the proposed Protection of Information Bill were in force, activists warned yesterday. Source: AllAfrica.com
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9 Study Finds Higher Education Predicts Better Cardiovascular Health Outcomes In High-Income Countries, But Not In Low ...
In one of the first international studies to compare the link between formal education and heart disease and stroke, the incidence of these diseases and certain risk factors decreased as educational levels increased in high-income countries, but not in low- and middle-income countries. Researchers - who reported their study in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association - also found ... Source: Medical News Today
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10 Health Care Wastefulness Is Detailed in Studies
A heavy reliance on emergency rooms care is seen as an indicator of weaknesses in the primary health care system that could become more critical under the new health care law. Source: New York Times
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