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The American Nurses Association (ANA) announces its endorsement of Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) in the 2008 Presidential Election. The ANA represents the interests of the nation's 2.9 million registered nurses. "As President, Barack Obama will bring real change to our health care system," said ANA President Rebecca M. Patton, MSN, RN, CNOR. "Nurses are consistently voted the most trusted profession by ...

University of Central Florida's medical school is offering four-year scholarships for tuition, fees, and living expenses for every member of the 40-person first-year class...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Two University of New Mexico Hospital employees have been fired for using their cell phone cameras to take photos of patients receiving treatment and then posting the images to a social networking Web site. Director of Public Affairs Sam Giammo said Sunday the photos — mainly close-ups of injuries being treated in the Albuquerque hospital's emergency room over ...

WASHINGTON - Medical experts told lawmakers Wednesday that new television advertisements for medical devices pose even greater risks to patients than ads for drugs, which have been scrutinized for years The Senate Aging Committee hearing was focused on whether new restrictions are needed on consumer-directed advertisements for artificial knees, heart devices and other medical implants. Magazine and TV spots have been ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Food and Drug Administration has recently hired more than 1,300 professional staffers in a move that officials hope will help it better protect the public health amid rapid technological and scientific change. "Every pay period, we have had more than 100 people walking through our doors," said Kimberly Holden, the senior manager directing the recruitment initiative. "We ...

NEW YORK (AP) — New data from a public registry that tracks health effects of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks suggest that up to 70,000 people developed post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the terror attacks. The new analysis released Wednesday from the World Trade Center Health Registry provides the most comprehensive picture yet of the health of people who ...

In the 1950s and '60s, most medical TV dramas realistically represented health-related story lines - in part because the American Medical Association struck agreements with NBC and ABC that gave it veto power over scripts in the name of medical accuracy. In exchange, the AMA's seal of approval was broadcast at the conclusion of each vetted show. Deals in which TV ...

AS THEY PACKED up for their summer break, congressional Democrats vowed to return this month and resume their fight to expand the Children's Health Insurance Program. They arrived back in town Monday, tanned and mellowed, and immediately chucked those plans. The fight likely would have been a loud but pointless fracas. President Bush has already vetoed two versions of a bill ...

Physician David Newman has written a book about the secrets your doctor keeps from you. But he's not talking about "secret cures" that sell books on alternative medicine. Instead, his new book, _Hippocrates' Shadow: Secrets From the House of Medicine_ (Scribner), is all about the secrets that hide in plain sight in medical journals and hospital hallways: • Doctors don't know ...

I need to come clean about something. I did take the little black doctor bag. Upon completing medical school, all the graduates were offered a free bag from a drug company. Since our class was full of semiradicals from the antiestablishment, war-hating tumultuous '60s, taking a free gift from "the man" was no small violation. But it was a cute little ...

CHICAGO - A government agency has dropped plans for a study of a controversial treatment for autism that critics had called an unethical experiment on children. The National Institute of Mental Health said in a statement Wednesday that the study of the treatment — called chelation — has been abandoned. The agency decided the money would be better used testing other ...

CAPE MAY COURT HOUSE, N.J. — A Pennsylvania dentist has been charged with the Jersey Shore's most serious beach-dumping case in two decades, medical waste that sullied the coast in a popular area and forced beach closures at the height of vacation season. Authorities said Friday that Thomas McFarland took his motorboat to Townsend Inlet near Avalon on Aug. 22 and ...

A California-based nurses' organization hasn't given up the fight to improve working conditions and nurse-to-patient ratios in Texas hospitals - and local nurses have taken up the cause. The National Nurses Organizing Committee, a union founded by the California Nurses Association, is pushing for legislation in Texas that would mandate certain nurse-to-patient ratios in hospitals. Local nurses who have joined the ...

WASHINGTON - Experts at an early August international AIDS conference in Mexico City were full of praise for the United States for having reversed a 15-year-old law banning HIV-positive people from entering the country. But nearly two months after President Bush signed that act into law, his administration has yet to take the steps needed to put the new law into ...

WASHINGTON - A company run by an ex-Bush administration official and hired by the government to provide medical care to Sept. 11 recovery workers has been slow to take up the job, workers and advocates say. Tommy Thompson was the Health and Human Services secretary for four years, and now is president of Logistics Health, Inc., which in June won an ...

A Coeur d'Alene pharmacist's pursuit of two suspects in a prescription-drug robbery spree Wednesday led to their arrests. Police hope the arrests of Hayden Lake residents Patrick Augerlavoie, 32, and Carrie Augerlavoie, 29, will slow a rash of holdups at pharmacies across the Inland Northwest. The husband and wife face robbery charges after witnesses at earlier crime scenes picked the pair ...

CHICAGO - Only 2 percent of graduating medical students say they plan to work in primary care internal medicine, raising worries about a looming shortage of the first-stop doctors who used to be the backbone of the American medical system. The results of a new survey being published Wednesday suggest more medical students, many of them saddled with debt, are opting ...

WASHINGTON - The cervical cancer vaccine Gardasil also works to prevent cancers of the vagina and vulva, federal health officials said Friday, as they approved expanding its use to protect against those diseases as well. The Food and Drug Administration first approved Gardasil in 2006 for the prevention of cervical cancer in girls and women ages 9 to 26. The vaccine ...

A Frenchman who claimed to be one of the world's leading cosmetic surgeons, but in fact left patients mutilated, has been sentenced to jail. The judge in the court in Marseille, France, said Michel Maure had "practised garage medicine - which is a sign of total disregard of others". Maure was sentenced to four years in prison - one of them ...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Trade Commission charged five companies with making false and misleading claims for cancer cures and said Thursday that it has reached settlements with six others. "As long as products have been sold there has been somebody out there selling snake oil to consumers," said Lydia Parnes, director of the FTC's bureau of consumer protection. She said the ...

Why do most of us send our credit-card bills to South Dakota or Delaware? The answer to that seemingly arcane question illustrates the dangers of replacing state regulation with no regulation at all. It also offers a cautionary tale about a little-underst

The television medical drama Grey's Anatomy apparently has more to offer than Patrick Dempsey's rakish smile and a good cry. A new survey reports watching the show also may increase a viewer's health smarts. Research released Tuesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation indicates many people who tune in to prime time's top-rated shows remember health messages in episodes. In one survey, ...

Collecting a blood sample at home to be sent to the laboratory for HIV testing may seem a little unusual. However, it could be one solution to help diagnose the 250,000 American’s that are HIV positive but are not aware that they are infected. Recent data released from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates that only 40.4% of ...

You're sick, in the hospital, or maybe even undergoing surgery. The last thing you want to contemplate is the thought that your doctor might be making fun of your toe rings while you're anesthetized....

WASHINGTON (AP) — New research further debunks any link between measles vaccine and autism, work that comes as the nation is experiencing a surge in measles cases fueled by children left unvaccinated. Years of research with the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine, better known as MMR, have concluded that it doesn't cause autism. Still, some parents' fears persist, in part because ...

WASHINGTON - The government on Friday began posting a list of prescription drugs under investigation for potential safety problems, in an effort to better inform doctors and patients. The first list is a bare-bones compilation naming 20 medications and the potential issue for each. It provides no indication of how widespread or serious the problems might be, leading some consumer advocates ...

Even if you don't have first aid training, there are simple things everyone can learn to do in emergency situations. "You really could save somebody's life," says Dr. Assaad Sayah, chief of emergency medicine at the Cambridge Health Alliance in Massachuse

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon is asking wounded, ill or injured service members and their families to rate their medical care in an anonymous poll that officials hope will encourage candor. The Defense Department on Thursday posted questionnaires on the website of the Military Health System, which has struggled to meet unprecedented demand because of the two ongoing wars on Iraq ...

When nurses tried to insert an IV into patient Linda Aron's hand, she was so anxious over the impending operation to fix her acid reflux that they simply had to stop. Instead of continuing to poke and prod Aron, nurses at Grinnell (Iowa) Regional Medical Center called in a massage therapist to rub her shoulders and arms to help her relax. ...

PARIS - Hospital officials in France say a 59-year-old woman has given birth to triplets after going abroad to get donated eggs. The Paris public hospital network says the two boys and a girl weighed between 2.09 and 2.4 kilograms (4 pounds 9 ounces and 5 pounds 5 ounces) and measured between 46 and 47 centimeters (18.1-18.5 inches). An official at ...

DENVER (AP) — The Army's top medical officer says commanders are looking to their counterparts in the Air Force and in civilian agencies for ways to cope with an alarming increase in suicides. "We work real closely with the Veterans Administration, who have for many years taken the lead in this," Lt. Gen. Eric B. Schoomaker, the Army's surgeon general, said ...

It's a one-two punch for many states. First comes the expense of adding thousands of unemployed to its Medicaid rolls. Then comes the decline in revenue that stems from a struggling economy. Together, the combination has dozens of states looking for some relief, preferably from the federal government. That relief appears unlikely to come soon. For example, in Nevada, officials projected ...

CHICAGO - A new coalition of 22 major medical groups says public confidence in vaccine safety needs to be restored to avoid risks for deadly disease outbreaks. Thursday's message comes from the Chicago-based American Medical Association, the American Academy of Pediatrics and 20 more of the nation's most influential health-related groups. Their concern stems from recent measles outbreaks in several U.S. ...

For the second time in two years, state legislators have passed legislation to require California's emergency medical technicians to undergo mandatory criminal background checks. In 2007, a similar bill was zapped by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who disliked last-minute changes that would have kept secret details about rescuer misconduct. Now, the governor is ready to sign, an aide said Wednesday, but only ...

Even as Hurricane Ike veered north Thursday, Victoria hospitals and assisted-living centers forged ahead with evacuation plans. Every patient who doctors deemed critical --and all nursing home residents --were sent away to areas outside Ike's path. County emergency managers did not lift the mandatory evacuation order placed on care centers, so Wednesday's initial plans did not change. So now, what? Local ...

Thousands of patients in the USA may face delays in getting key medical tests because of a global shortage of radioactive tracers, which are used to perform bone scans and to assess blood flow to the heart, experts say. The radiotracer in short supply, Mo-99, is mostly used to observe blood flow to the heart and in bone scans that assess ...

WHO and its partners urgently need US$ 4.2 million to provide health care for many of the 800 000 people - including children and pregnant women - affected by successive tropical storms in Haiti...

When dermatologist Anthony Gaspari first saw photos of Dede, the Indonesian fisherman who has come to be known worldwide as "the Treeman," he figured they must be a hoax. The photos are all over the Internet. They show a man in his mid-30s whose skin is covered with bark-like lesions. And instead of fingers or toes, he appears to have roots ...

BEIJING - China said Sunday the number of children sickened by baby formula tainted with the banned industrial chemical melamine has doubled to nearly 12,900 as the government confronts a scandal over widespread contamination of the milk supply. More than 80 percent of the 12,892 children hospitalized in recent weeks were 2 years old or younger, the Health Ministry said in ...

TRENTON, N.J. — Just about every segment of the medical community is piling on the pharmaceutical industry these days, accusing drugmakers of deceiving the public, manipulating doctors and putting profits before patients. Recent articles and editorials in major medical journals blast the industry. Medical schools, teaching hospitals and physician groups are changing rules to limit the influence of pharmaceutical sales reps. ...

Young surgeons at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center have regularly worked more hours than allowed by national safety limits, with some on the job seven days straight or up to 90 hours a week, according to an oversight organization and hospital officials. The group that oversees training of new doctors, called residents, cited Beth Israel Deaconess for hours violations in a ...

A friend sent this link to me knowing my fondness for civil rights legeslation, and for advocating for those with dissabilities. I say it's high time we were able to reclaim a piece of legislation that was designed to include people, and has been used re

Interesting new treatment for those who have lost a limb. I found it to be amazing how something so simple can help so much.

Failing hospitals. A new superbug. Vanishing docs. And patients who actually listen to their providers? No one knows what the future holds, but these scenarios could significantly alter the healthcare landscape and pose formidable strategic, financial, an

HOUSTON — A 30-year-old man falls 25 feet from a cherry picker, smacking his head and breaking his leg so badly that bone pokes through his thigh. A trauma team at Texas Medical Center's Memorial Hermann Hospital crowds around him. Nearby, a trauma team prepares for a patient arriving by helicopter who was hit in the head by a falling tree. ...

Talk on the campaign trail has shifted quickly to the meltdown on Wall Street, leaving health care in the presidential lurch for now. But that hasn’t kept the health-care policy wonks from chattering away.

Date updated: September 18, 2008 Content provided by Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain are reviewing their support for allowing individuals to import cheaper prescription drugs in light of taint

PORTLAND, Ore. - A patient treated for agonizing abdominal pain received this surprising news in the hospital's paperwork: "Based on your visit today, we know you are pregnant." Surprising indeed for 71-year-old John Grady Pippen. The staff at Curry General Hospital in Gold Beach gave the retired mechanic and logger the ridiculously happy news this month, along with some pain pills. ...

BAGHDAD - A kidney specialist who fled Iraq's bombings, kidnappings and sectarian killings 20 months ago has reported back to work at his Baghdad hospital - one of some 800 doctors who have returned over the summer. Doctors are just a tiny group among Iraq's more than 4 million refugees and displaced, but Iraq's health minister says their homecoming sends a ...