Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Health News
The New York Times on Tuesday examined how former Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) came to concede that a campaign against Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) in the Democratic primary “would be a brutal fight dominated by endless debates about when he began paying taxes as a New Yorker and the sincerity of his support for gay [...]
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Filed under: Women's Health
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Health News
UNAIDS on Tuesday launched a five-year initiative to help tackle gender inequalities and human rights violations that increase the vulnerability of women worldwide to HIV/AIDS, BBC reports (3/3)…
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Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Health News
In a press conference Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) signaled that House Democrats might be willing to accept the Senate’s language on abortion coverage and health insurance for immigrants, Roll Call reports…
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Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Health News
California governors of the past two decades “deserve praise for funding a wide array of programs aimed at combating teen births,” a Sacramento Bee editorial states. The editorial notes that California is “bucking a national trend” of rising teen births. The number of births to California teens ages 15 through 19 dropped to 35.2 per [...]
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Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Health News
Women are saying they face roadblocks to care when they seek treatment at Veterans Affairs hospitals, even as they return in record numbers from battlefields in Iraq and Afghanistan, ABC News reports…
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Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Health News
Health Dialog, a leading provider of healthcare analytics and decision support, today announced that its decision support tools for prostate cancer screening have been made available for the month of March as a public service offering…
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Filed under: Men's Health
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Health News
Members of America’s Prostate Cancer Organizations are concerned that the issuance this morning of yet another set of new guidelines on screening for prostate cancer is only adding to the confusion most men already feel about whether they should or shouldn’t be tested for the most common form of cancer in American men…
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Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Health News
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The FDA said today that it expects to recall multiple food products made with a common flavor enhancer, after one plant’s supply was found to contain Salmonella.
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Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Health News
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The FDA and manufacturer of the HomeChoice and HomeChoice PRO dialysis systems notified patients of a class I device recall — the FDA’s most severe — after a number of reported injuries and one death.
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Filed under: Pharmacy News
Posted on March 5th, 2010 by Health News
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The FDA approved prefilled injection pens of the endogenous growth hormone disorder drug somatropin (Norditropin) for adult and youth patients.
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