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Aragon Pharmaceuticals being acquired by Johnson and Johnson

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:03:46 -0400

WASHINGTON - Healthcare products conglomerate Johnson Johnson is buying privately-held Aragon Pharmaceuticals in a near $1 billion deal to gain control of its experimental drugs for prostate cancer. The acquisition of Aragon Pharmaceuticals includes its androgen receptor antagonist program targeting the treatment of prostate cancer, including its primary product candidate in phase 2 ...

Family Mandela is Doing Very Well

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:15:18 -0400

The daughter of former South African president Nelson Mandela says he is "doing very well" as he recovers in the hospital from a lung infection. Zenani Mandela-Dlamini, South Africa's ambassador to Argentina, spoke Monday to reporters gathered outside of the Pretoria hospital where her father is being treated. On Sunday, President Jacob Zuma said the 94-year-old anti-apartheid icon remains ...

MERS Coronavirus Kills Four More in Saudi Arabia

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:15:08 -0400

DUBAI Four more people have died and three more have fallen ill in Saudi Arabia from the new SARS-like coronavirus MERS-CoV, the Saudi Health Ministry said on Monday. The ministry said the four deaths were among previously registered cases. The new infections were in Eastern Province, in the capital Riyadh and in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. Saudi Arabia has been the country ...

Medicare Cost-saving changes coming for diabetics

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:27:38 -0400

WASHINGTON -- Medicare begins a major change next month that could save older diabetics money and time when they buy crucial supplies to test their blood sugar - but it also may cause some confusion as patients figure out the new system.On July 1, Medicare opens a national mail-order program that will dramatically drop the prices the government pays for those products but patients will have to ...

Doctors Don’t Talk About Sexual Health Often Enough With Teen Boys

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:17:46 -0400

new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health finds. Doctors especially need to start bringing up these topics more with young men. Nearly one in five sexually active boys report that they’ve never heard anything about condoms or contraceptives from their teachers or their doctors. National guidelines for medical professionals already stipulate that doctors must discuss these type of ...

Punjab govt introduces new software for doctors

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:01:14 -0400

Even though the emails were never sent, govt prosecutors argue that they help establish a pattern of Apple serving as a "ringleader" in a conspiracy with the publishers to force the retail book industry to adopt higher prices of ...

Health department requests help for controlling mosquito population

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 13:10:53 -0400

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (KSDK) - The St. Charles County Division of Environmental Health and Protection is asking homeowners to help reduce mosquitoes breeding areas and curtail incidences of the winged pest other biting insects. According to the health department, the county's mosquito control program only sprays when residents notify staff that mosquitoes are a problem in their neighborhood. ...

Health Minister Praises HRH Premiers Directives to Alleviate the Suffering of Sickle Cell Patients

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:57:35 -0400

Manama, June 18. (BNA) -- Health Minister Dr. Sadeq Al-Shehabi has praised the directives of His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa to devise an effective system to reduce the waiting time of sickle cell patients and enable those in severe pain to receive urgent and proper treatment, in line with his keenness to shorten waiting time of those patients at Salmaniya ...

World Health Organization Marketing Junk Food To Kids Has Been ‘Disastrously Effective’

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:55:11 -0400

The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday sharply criticized the food industry’s decision to market its unhealthy products to children, saying that strategy has been ...

Medicare program eliminates 30 out-of-state suppliers

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:55:27 -0400

The federal Medicare program has dropped nearly a third of the companies chosen to continue supplying home medical equipment to beneficiaries statewide, leaving even fewer suppliers as part of its controversial competitive bidding program set to kick off in Tennessee in less than two weeks. The contracts were voided because those 30 out-of-state suppliers that had won didn't meet Tennessee ...

Call to keep Medicare Local CEO Mark Foster

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:53:47 -0400

See your ad here HUNTER Medicare Local staff and members are calling on the board to reinstate outgoing chief executive officer Dr Mark Foster whose contract is not being renewed.It is understood that 250 staff and members have signed a petition asking for the return of Dr Foster, who has been CEO for six years.His contract was due to expire on June 30 and the board's decision not to renew ...

New Doctors Asked To Seek God’s Face

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 08:42:26 -0400

Dr Kwame Addo-Kufuor has charged newly qualified medical doctors from the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to make God their partners in their practice. Addressing the first batch of final year medical students of the university, Dr Addo-Kufuor said "my personal experience as a Christian doctor practising for almost four and a half decades, I can testify it is God's blessing that makes ...

Assaulted doctors to receive financial assistance in China

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:31:16 -0400

/enpproperty--> A national doctor association has set up a fund to help doctors assaulted by patients, Beijing Times reported on Monday. The Chinese Medical Doctor Association will invest 10 million yuan ($1.63 million) into the fund every year for the next five years. Doctors assaulted by patients and who are financially challenged can apply for grants from the fund to support themselves in ...

White House vows to veto restrictive new abortion bill

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:02:00 -0400

The White House promised to veto a bill in the Republican-controlled House that would ban abortions in the United States after 22 weeks of pregnancy. "Forty years ago, the Supreme Court affirmed a woman's constitutional right to privacy, including the right to choose," the White House said in a statement. "This bill is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade and shows contempt for ...

Abu Dhabi shows the way with free vaccinations UAE Paper

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 02:54:37 -0400

WAM ABU DHABI, June 18th, 2013 (WAM) -- The rotavirus is a highly infectious pathogen that strikes vulnerable young children, afflicting most with severe diarrhoea, vomiting and fever. It can lead to dehydration, discomfort and distress, making for a miserable illness for children, caregivers and parents alike, said a UAE paper. "Rotavirus is highly contagious, particularly where children ...

The California Nurses Association and health care “militancy”

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:31:38 -0400

Within the United States, health care workers have come under relentless attack by large hospital corporations, which have sought to slash benefits, reduce wages and increase workloads. This has been stepped up as mergers and acquisitions have led to a greater monopolization of the industry and staffing levels have been cut as part of the cost-cutting measures at the heart of President ...

Federal Jury Finds Brookfield Podiatrist Guilty of Medicare Fraud

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:10:00 -0400

Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; Susan J. Waddell, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General for New England; and Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found Samir Zaky, 38, of Brookfield, guilty of 14 counts ...

Another 4 die in Saudi Arabia from SARS-like coronavirus

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:16:51 -0400

A health worker walks out of a hospital in the eastern Saudi Arabia city of Khobar, on June 17, 2013. Four more people have died in Saudi Arabia from SARS-like coronavirus, Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry said, bringing to 32 the number of death from the desease in the kingdom, 49 the number of infection. (Xinhua/Wang ...

Health Minister says seniors arent being nickel and dimed

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:47:22 -0400

6/17/2013 B.C's Health Minister says wheelchair fees in long term residential care homes are not unusual and are administered fairly, including exempting those who can't afford it. Terry Lake says it boils down to if a senior has the means then they have to foot the bill for their wheelchair. Lake says those that don't will have a wheelchair provided. He says the issue is ...

Doctors Hiker will take a month to recover

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:23:33 -0400

DOCTORS are predicting that Bissoondaye Geeta Seenath will take at least a month to recover from injuries sustained during her seven-day ordeal in the Toco ...

Doctors plead for cuts to refugee health coverage to be reversed

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 22:17:50 -0400

Protesters on Parliament Hill, Monday demonstrate against cuts to refugee medical coverage. Health workers staged protests in 19 cities on Monday to highlight the problems they say were created a year ago when the government eliminated all medical coverage for some asylum seekers and cut the supplemental benefits Supporters against federal government cuts to refugee health services protest on ...

Luncheon meat hamburger steak pork increase diabetes risk

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:38:06 -0400

There is more evidence luncheon meat, hot dogs, hamburger, steak and pork increase the risk of type 2 diabetes over the long-term, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Frank B. Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues tracked 26,357 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study from 1986-2006, 48,709 women in the Nurses' Health Study from 1986-2006 and 74,077 women in the ...

Vic prison nurses hold stop work meeting

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:09:00 -0400

Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin are meeting on the sidelines of the G8, as Russia faces criticism from other nations over its stance on ...

NAFDAC seizes drugs for Ojudu free health programme

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 20:07:47 -0400

National Agency for Foods, Drugs Administration and Control has seized drugs meant for free health mission organised by Senator Babafemi Ojudu for his ...

Dr. Margaret Mahood fought for Medicare in Saskatchewan

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:04:06 -0400

Dr. Margaret Mahood was the deputy superintendent of the North Battleford Mental Hospital when she was recruited to work at the new Saskatoon Community Clinic. As a socialist and a psychiatrist, Dr. Mahood supported the Medicare plan and relocated to Saskatoon. She put on her general practitioner's hat and set up her practice at the so-called "commie" clinic. The idealistic ...

Doctors’ Group May Classify Obesity As A ‘Disease’ To Encourage Better Health Coverage For It

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:49:39 -0400

weighing whether or not to officially classify obesity as a ';disease.'; While that move wouldn’t carry any legal ramifications, medical authorities speculate that it could encourage more private and public health insurance programs to offer health benefits for obesity as a standalone condition — and not just for obesity-related health problems, as many do now. In 2004, the ...

Dallas to spray some areas for West Nile virus

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:41:57 -0400

DALLAS (AP) -- Health authorities in North Texas will begin spraying for West Nile virus after detecting a "significant" increase in the type of mosquito that primarily carries the ...

Books In What Doctors Feel Pain Is Not Just the Realm of Patients

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:29:41 -0400

In her new book, ...

Global Health H.I.V. Tests Urged for 800 Million in India

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 15:13:11 -0400

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Health officials very disappointed that most doctors and nurses declined flu vaccinations last winter

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:35:27 -0400

The majority of doctors, nurses and front line health workers were not vaccinated against flu last winter, official figures have ...

If Primary Care Doctors Could Treat Mental Health Issues More Americans May Get The Help They Need

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:35:46 -0400

Public health advocates and doctors from the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center have begun work on an ambitious new project in which mental health experts will electronically train primary care doctors how to identify and treat mental and substance abuse disorders. The groups say the initiative will help more Americans — particularly those living in rural and medically ...

Canadian doctors staging day of action to protest refugee health care cuts

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:36:35 -0400

Doctor Nora McBean of the South East Ottawa Community Centre joins fellow protesters as they rally against planned cuts to the refugee medical program on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, on Monday, June 18, 2012. (Sean Kilpatrick / THE CANADIAN ...

West Nile virus found in Yakima mosquitoes

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:31:24 -0400

YAKIMA, Wash. — West Nile virus has turned up in two samples of mosquitoes collected in Yakima County. The state Health Department says the virus turned up almost a month earlier than in previous years. The virus is spread by mosquito bites, so people are advised to wear insect repellant outdoors and remove standing water where mosquitoes breed. The department says most people bitten by ...