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31/12/2008 06:38 pm
Primary Health Care director sells 29k shares on-market... 31 Dec 2008 18:38 PM ...
31/12/2008 04:00 pm
Everybody is familiar with the stereotypes of medical education from the student perspective: grueling hours, little recognition, and even less glory. Now a novel Brandeis study published in Academic Medicine this month pulls back the curtain on the dominant environment of academic medicine from the ...
30/12/2008 11:00 am
By SALLY C. PIPES People are policy. And now that President-elect Barack Obama has fielded his team of Tom Daschle as secretary of Health and Human Services and Melody Barnes as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, we can predict both the strategy and substance of the new administrat ...
29/12/2008 11:35 am
Ramsay Health Care directors awarded rights... 29 Dec 2008 11:35 AM ...
25/12/2008 01:15 am
AP - President Dmitry Medvedev vowed Wednesday to push ahead with plans to improve housing, education and health care despite the economic crisis and new warnings that the government will face a budget deficit next year for the first time in a decade. ...
23/12/2008 04:00 pm
The maternal health care issues facing women in eastern Myanmar (formerly Burma) are widespread and underreported, according to surveys by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The researchers report that more than 88 percent of women had a home delivery during their la ...
23/12/2008 04:00 pm
Clinical pharmacy services can significantly reduce the cost of prescription drugs and save money elsewhere in the health care system, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. ...
23/12/2008 04:00 pm
Brown University professors Amal Trivedi and Vincent Mor have discovered that more patients with mental illness will seek follow-up care after a hospitalization if their co-payments for mental health care are as affordable as for their primary care. ...
22/12/2008 04:00 pm
Access to maternal health care is extremely limited and poor nutrition, anemia and malaria are widespread in eastern Burma, which increases the risk of pregnancy complications, says new research published in the open access journal PLoS Medicine. ...
19/12/2008 04:49 am
By MATT MAURA NASSAU – Officials at the Ministry of Health have proposed to implement a Mobile Pharmacy Service at its Primary Health Care Facilities throughout New Providence "early next year" as ... ...
18/12/2008 12:46 pm
UK healthcare recruitment and on-hire specialist Medacs has acquired Sydney-based medical recruitment company Qantum. ...
18/12/2008 11:40 am
Queensland healthcare organisation Blue Care has signed a five-year managed services deal with Dimension Data and simultaneously announced ex-Queensland health director of e-Health Wendy Balachandran as its new chief information officer. ...
18/12/2008 11:00 am
The new president must put universal coverage and quality first, writes LESLEY RUSSELL ...
18/12/2008 11:00 am
Topics such as asthma, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, depression. This year's report, Use and costs of medications and other health care resources: Findings from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health , draws on Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule (PBS) and Medicare data. HealthInsit ...
18/12/2008 03:28 am
Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing, Peter Dutton, today visited the Dayboro Medical Centre and met with general practitioners and practice staff to discuss the challenges they are facing as frontline health care providers. ...
18/12/2008 02:15 am
einer writes "Facing a budget shortfall, New York State Governor David Paterson crafts a budget that taxes iPod music downloads and other 'digitally delivered entertainment services.' On the chopping block is $700 million in school aid and $3.5 billion in health care subsidies." Re ...
17/12/2008 10:46 am
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Health care and emergency services workers who might help sick people during an influenza pandemic should take antiviral drugs throughout the epidemic, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said in new guidance released on Tuesday. ...
17/12/2008 07:21 am
Health-care player confident of refinancing... 17 Dec 2008 07:21 AM ...
16/12/2008 04:00 pm
Pregnant women who experience intimate partner violence before, during or after pregnancy often suffer adverse health effects, including depression, post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety and chronic mental illness. Now, University of Missouri researchers have found that women who experience intima ...
16/12/2008 04:00 pm
Surgery to treat obesity could be avoided if GPs and health care trusts put more time and money into early stage weight management programs, a senior clinical researcher will say today, Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2008. ...
16/12/2008 12:00 am
When Wall Street began to melt down as giant financial firms unthinkably crashed John McCain declared that it was terrible, all the result of those greedy fat cats, ignoring the contribution those people (George Bush called them the "have-mores", and his "base") had made to his o ...
12/12/2008 03:50 pm
US president-elect Barack Obama has handed Tom Daschle the gigantic assignment: overhauling the US health care system. ...
12/12/2008 11:00 am
This report presents the results of a critical evaluation of Australian data collections relating to general practice services. It describes the usefulness of these data collections for meeting priority information needs, and recommends strategies to address data gaps and limitations. ...
12/12/2008 06:55 am
Health care organisations widely welcome former Senate leader's nomination. 12 Dec 2008 6:55 AM ...
12/12/2008 06:38 am
Primary Health Care's Ed Bateman has dodged more than a few financial bullets on his way to building the Westfield of Australian medicine. ...
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