• Medicare Cost-saving changes coming for diabetics

  WASHINGTON -- Medicare begins a major change next month that could save older diabetics money and time when they buy crucial supplies to test their blood sugar - but it also may cause some confusion as patients figure out the new system.On July 1, Medicare opens a national mail-order program that will dramatically drop the prices the government pays for those products but patients will have to ...

• Doctors Don’t Talk About Sexual Health Often Enough With Teen Boys

  new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health finds. Doctors especially need to start bringing up these topics more with young men. Nearly one in five sexually active boys report that they’ve never heard anything about condoms or contraceptives from their teachers or their doctors. National guidelines for medical professionals already stipulate that doctors must discuss these type of ...

• Punjab govt introduces new software for doctors

  Even though the emails were never sent, govt prosecutors argue that they help establish a pattern of Apple serving as a "ringleader" in a conspiracy with the publishers to force the retail book industry to adopt higher prices of ...

• Health department requests help for controlling mosquito population

  ST. CHARLES, Mo. (KSDK) - The St. Charles County Division of Environmental Health and Protection is asking homeowners to help reduce mosquitoes breeding areas and curtail incidences of the winged pest other biting insects. According to the health department, the county's mosquito control program only sprays when residents notify staff that mosquitoes are a problem in their neighborhood. ...

• Health Minister Praises HRH Premiers Directives to Alleviate the Suffering of Sickle Cell Patients

  Manama, June 18. (BNA) -- Health Minister Dr. Sadeq Al-Shehabi has praised the directives of His Royal Highness Prime Minister Prince Khalifa bin Salman Al Khalifa to devise an effective system to reduce the waiting time of sickle cell patients and enable those in severe pain to receive urgent and proper treatment, in line with his keenness to shorten waiting time of those patients at Salmaniya ...

• World Health Organization Marketing Junk Food To Kids Has Been ‘Disastrously Effective’

  The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday sharply criticized the food industry’s decision to market its unhealthy products to children, saying that strategy has been ...

• Medicare program eliminates 30 out-of-state suppliers

  The federal Medicare program has dropped nearly a third of the companies chosen to continue supplying home medical equipment to beneficiaries statewide, leaving even fewer suppliers as part of its controversial competitive bidding program set to kick off in Tennessee in less than two weeks. The contracts were voided because those 30 out-of-state suppliers that had won didn't meet Tennessee ...

• Call to keep Medicare Local CEO Mark Foster

  See your ad here HUNTER Medicare Local staff and members are calling on the board to reinstate outgoing chief executive officer Dr Mark Foster whose contract is not being renewed.It is understood that 250 staff and members have signed a petition asking for the return of Dr Foster, who has been CEO for six years.His contract was due to expire on June 30 and the board's decision not to renew ...

• New Doctors Asked To Seek God’s Face

  Dr Kwame Addo-Kufuor has charged newly qualified medical doctors from the University of Cape Coast (UCC) to make God their partners in their practice. Addressing the first batch of final year medical students of the university, Dr Addo-Kufuor said "my personal experience as a Christian doctor practising for almost four and a half decades, I can testify it is God's blessing that makes ...

• Assaulted doctors to receive financial assistance in China

  /enpproperty--> A national doctor association has set up a fund to help doctors assaulted by patients, Beijing Times reported on Monday. The Chinese Medical Doctor Association will invest 10 million yuan ($1.63 million) into the fund every year for the next five years. Doctors assaulted by patients and who are financially challenged can apply for grants from the fund to support themselves ...

• White House vows to veto restrictive new abortion bill

  The White House promised to veto a bill in the Republican-controlled House that would ban abortions in the United States after 22 weeks of pregnancy. "Forty years ago, the Supreme Court affirmed a woman's constitutional right to privacy, including the right to choose," the White House said in a statement. "This bill is a direct challenge to Roe v. Wade and shows contempt ...

• Abu Dhabi shows the way with free vaccinations UAE Paper

  WAM ABU DHABI, June 18th, 2013 (WAM) -- The rotavirus is a highly infectious pathogen that strikes vulnerable young children, afflicting most with severe diarrhoea, vomiting and fever. It can lead to dehydration, discomfort and distress, making for a miserable illness for children, caregivers and parents alike, said a UAE paper. "Rotavirus is highly contagious, particularly where ...

• The California Nurses Association and health care “militancy”

  Within the United States, health care workers have come under relentless attack by large hospital corporations, which have sought to slash benefits, reduce wages and increase workloads. This has been stepped up as mergers and acquisitions have led to a greater monopolization of the industry and staffing levels have been cut as part of the cost-cutting measures at the heart of President ...

• Federal Jury Finds Brookfield Podiatrist Guilty of Medicare Fraud

  Deirdre M. Daly, Acting United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut; Susan J. Waddell, Special Agent in Charge of U.S. Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General for New England; and Kimberly K. Mertz, Special Agent in Charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, today announced that a federal jury in Hartford has found Samir Zaky, 38, of Brookfield, guilty of 14 counts ...

• Another 4 die in Saudi Arabia from SARS-like coronavirus

  A health worker walks out of a hospital in the eastern Saudi Arabia city of Khobar, on June 17, 2013. Four more people have died in Saudi Arabia from SARS-like coronavirus, Saudi Arabia's Health Ministry said, bringing to 32 the number of death from the desease in the kingdom, 49 the number of infection. (Xinhua/Wang ...

• Health Minister says seniors arent being nickel and dimed

  6/17/2013 B.C's Health Minister says wheelchair fees in long term residential care homes are not unusual and are administered fairly, including exempting those who can't afford it. Terry Lake says it boils down to if a senior has the means then they have to foot the bill for their wheelchair. Lake says those that don't will have a wheelchair provided. He says the issue is ...

• Doctors Hiker will take a month to recover

  DOCTORS are predicting that Bissoondaye Geeta Seenath will take at least a month to recover from injuries sustained during her seven-day ordeal in the Toco ...

• Doctors plead for cuts to refugee health coverage to be reversed

  Protesters on Parliament Hill, Monday demonstrate against cuts to refugee medical coverage. Health workers staged protests in 19 cities on Monday to highlight the problems they say were created a year ago when the government eliminated all medical coverage for some asylum seekers and cut the supplemental benefits Supporters against federal government cuts to refugee health services protest on ...

• Luncheon meat hamburger steak pork increase diabetes risk

  There is more evidence luncheon meat, hot dogs, hamburger, steak and pork increase the risk of type 2 diabetes over the long-term, U.S. researchers say. Dr. Frank B. Hu of the Harvard School of Public Health and colleagues tracked 26,357 men in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study from 1986-2006, 48,709 women in the Nurses' Health Study from 1986-2006 and 74,077 women in the ...

• Vic prison nurses hold stop work meeting

  Presidents Barack Obama and Vladimir Putin are meeting on the sidelines of the G8, as Russia faces criticism from other nations over its stance on ...

• NAFDAC seizes drugs for Ojudu free health programme

  National Agency for Foods, Drugs Administration and Control has seized drugs meant for free health mission organised by Senator Babafemi Ojudu for his ...

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