Posted on January 29th, 2011 by Health News
Marriage does not only increase male and female longevity, but also tends to benefit wives mentally and husbands physically, researchers from Cardiff University, Wales, wrote in the BMJ (British Medical Journal. The authors include both the “smug marrieds” and those in long-term committed relationships. Authors David Gallacher and John Gallacher wrote: “. . …
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Posted on January 29th, 2011 by Health News
Jack Ludmir, MD, professor and chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Pennsylvania Hospital, and vice chair of obstetrics and gynecology and director of obstetrical services at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia is the 2011 chair of the American Hospital Association’s (AHA) Section for Maternal and Child Health…
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Bishop Thomas Olmsted’s decision to revoke St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center’s Catholic status in December “is a bellwether of a profound disagreement that is playing out at many Catholic hospitals around the country,” New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. The loss of the hospital’s Catholic status is related to its authorization of an [...]
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During the inaugural meeting of U.N. Women’s executive board this week, Executive Director Michelle Bachelet laid out a 100-day action plan for the newly-launched agency, Inter Press Service reports. The creation of U.N. Women, which merged four formally distinct U.N…
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As more women give birth over the age of 35, public health messages about contraception need to be put into perspective with information on family planning and age-related reproductive risk, says a new review in The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist (TOG) today. The mean age of childbearing has risen over the last 40 years from 23 [...]
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A new study questions the controversial U.S. Preventative Service Task Force recommendations for breast cancer screening, with data that shows starting at a younger age and screening more frequently will result in more lives saved. The study analyzed the same data looked at by the task force, which issued its guidelines on mammography screening in [...]
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(MedPage Today) — GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The FDA should continue to regulate electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) machines as high-risk devices for treating depression and most other conditions for which ECT is typically used, members of the agency’s Neurological Devices Advisory Committee agreed.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — President Obama delivered a thank-you speech Friday to the group that was one of his closest and most stalwart allies in the healthcare reform effort — Families USA.
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(MedPage Today) — Minorities comprise a disproportionately high number of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients but a disproportionately low number of those training to treat them, according to a study of national registries.
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WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) — The American College of Physicians (ACP) is pushing for legislation that would give federal assistance to states that pilot “health courts” as an alternative to taking medical malpractice cases to court.
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