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Medicare Enhances Consumer Information On Hospital Care

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced important additions to the Hospital Compare consumer Web site (http://www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov) that will give consumers even better insight into the quality of care provided by their local hospitals.

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24.08.2008 09:00:00 - Health News from Medical News Today

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SAMHSA Awards More Than $16 Million To Tribes/Tribal Organizations For Youth Suicide Prevention And Early Intervention Programs

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced the award of 12 grants totaling more than $16 million over three years to support suicide prevention efforts undertaken by tribes/tribal organizations. This grant program is authorized under the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act, which provides funding for programs to combat suicide.

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24.08.2008 09:00:00 - Health News from Medical News Today

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A New Biopesticide For The Organic Food Boom

With the boom in consumption of organic foods creating a pressing need for natural insecticides and herbicides that can be used on crops certified as "organic," biopesticide pioneer Pam G. Marrone, Ph.D., is reporting development of a new "green" pesticide obtained from an extract of the giant knotweed in a report presented at the 236th national meeting of the American Chemical Society.

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24.08.2008 09:00:00 - Health News from Medical News Today

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Early Nanotechnology: Air-Purifying Church Windows

Stained glass windows that are painted with gold purify the air when they are lit up by sunlight, a team of Queensland University of Technology experts have discovered. Associate Professor Zhu Huai Yong, from QUT's School of Physical and Chemical Sciences said that glaziers in medieval forges were the first nanotechnologists who produced colours with gold nanoparticles of different sizes.

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24.08.2008 09:00:00 - Health News from Medical News Today

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Medical Debt Or Problems Paying Medical Bills Experienced By 79 Million US Adults

The high cost of care and inadequate insurance is leading more adults to delay or avoid getting treatment. Working-age Americans are spending more of their income on out-of-pocket costs.

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24.08.2008 09:00:00 - Health News from Medical News Today

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Diatom Reduces Red Tide's Toxicity

It's estimated that the red tide algae, Karenia brevis, costs approximately $20 million per bloom in economic damage off the coast of Florida alone. Scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found that a diatom can reduce the levels of the red tide's toxicity to animals and that the same diatom can reduce red tide's toxicity to other algae as well.

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24.08.2008 09:00:00 - Health News from Medical News Today

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Cervical Cancer Prevention In U.S. Should Focus On Vaccinating Adolescent Girls And Revising Screening Policies

The cost-effectiveness of vaccination in the United States against human papillomavirus (HPV), a sexually-transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer, will be optimized by achieving universal vaccine coverage in young adolescent girls, by targeting initial "catch-up" efforts to vaccinate women youn

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24.08.2008 09:00:00 - Health News from Medical News Today

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Healthcare Watchdog Keeps Up The Pressure To Improve Learning Disability Services, UK

The Healthcare Commission announced that it will visit 48 specialist inpatient learning disability services to examine progress made since its national audit in 2007. The visits are part of a concerted push by the Commission and other regulatory bodies to raise the standard of care provided to people with learning disabilities.

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24.08.2008 09:00:00 - Health News from Medical News Today

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Trial Finds Alexander Technique Helps Reduce Backpain

The results of an Alexander technique study suggests the method can provide long-term benefit for people with chronic or recurrent low back pain, one of the most common conditions seen by general practitioners. The results are published in the British Medical Journal. Until now there has been no solid evidence that the Alexander technique can help to alleviate back pain.

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24.08.2008 09:00:00 - Health News from Medical News Today

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Aegis Therapeutics To Present At The "13th Annual Drug Delivery Summit" In New Brunswick, NJ, September 22-23, 2008

Aegis Therapeutics, a drug delivery technology licensing company and leader in transmucosal drug delivery, will present a talk entitled: "New Technologies Expanding Practical Clinical Uses of Peptides, Proteins, and Other Macromolecular Therapeutics" at Insight's "13th Annual Drug Delivery Summit." The conference will be held on September 22-23, 2008 at the Hyatt Regency, New Brunswick, NJ. Dr.

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24.08.2008 09:00:00 - Health News from Medical News Today

Health News from Medical News Today

Medicare Enhances Consumer Information On Hospital Care

SAMHSA Awards More Than $16 Million To Tribes/Tribal Organizations For Youth Suicide Prevention And Early Intervention Programs

A New Biopesticide For The Organic Food Boom

Early Nanotechnology: Air-Purifying Church Windows

Medical Debt Or Problems Paying Medical Bills Experienced By 79 Million US Adults

Diatom Reduces Red Tide's Toxicity

Cervical Cancer Prevention In U.S. Should Focus On Vaccinating Adolescent Girls And Revising Screening Policies

Healthcare Watchdog Keeps Up The Pressure To Improve Learning Disability Services, UK

Trial Finds Alexander Technique Helps Reduce Backpain

Aegis Therapeutics To Present At The "13th Annual Drug Delivery Summit" In New Brunswick, NJ, September 22-23, 2008

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