The following summarizes articles related to addressing racial and ethnic health disparities. Clinton County, Ohio: Premier Community Health has created the “My Sister’s Keeper” program, which offers no-cost breast cancer education parties, the Wilmington News Journal reports. The program is funded by the Avon Foundation and the Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s Greater Cincinnati [...]
Archive for Juni, 2008
Efforts Seek To Raise Breast Cancer Awareness Among Black Women, Encourage Minority Students To Seek Health Care Careers, Reduce Racial Health Dispari
Published at Juni 30th, 2008Merck Halts International Hiv Vaccine Trial
Published at Juni 30th, 2008Merck on Friday announced that it has halted a large-scale clinical trial of its experimental HIV vaccine after the drug failed to prevent HIV infection in participants or prove effective in delaying the progression of the virus to AIDS, the Wall Street Journal reports. The trial was stopped Tuesday by the Data and Safety Monitoring [...]
Congress, President Bush Should Address Financial Stability Of Entitlement Programs
Published at Juni 30th, 2008Congress has failed to address problems with the long-term financial stability of Medicare and other entitlement programs, and the “Bush administration’s record on entitlements is decidedly mixed,” J.D. Foster, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, writes in a Washington Times opinion piece. According to Foster, the enactment of the…[click link for full article]
Maryland Malpractice Insurer To Leave Subsidy Program Early
Published at Juni 30th, 2008The Maryland Insurance Administration on Monday released details of a plan filed by Medical Mutual Liability Insurance Society of Maryland to drop out of the state’s malpractice insurance premium subsidy program two years early and return $32.5 million of $72.4 million it received, the
Utah Panel To Consider Freezing Funding To Long-term Care Facilities
Published at Juni 29th, 2008A special legislative panel in Utah that is reviewing state spending on Medicaid and other programs for seniors next month will receive a proposal to freeze funding for long-term care facilities and promote home-based care, the Salt Lake City Deseret Morning News reports. According to Alan Ormsby, director of the state Division of Aging and…[click [...]
California Gov. Schwarzenegger, State Legislative Democrats Work To Reach Agreement On Funding For Universal Health Care System
Published at Juni 29th, 2008California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) and Democratic leaders in the state Legislature are close to a compromise on a bill (AB 
that would expand health insurance to millions of state residents who lack coverage, the San Francisco Chronicle…[click link for full article]
Expanded Health Care Web Tools, Social Networks Showcased At Conference
Published at Juni 29th, 2008Key players in the growing field of health care, or “Health 2.0,” Web sites on Thursday in San Francisco met for a one-day conference to discuss improving people’s health by creating more Web tools and social networks, the Contra Costa Times reports. More than 25 Web sites were displayed during the conference, and participants discussed…[click [...]
Many Nursing Being Acquired By Wall Street Investment Firms
Published at Juni 29th, 2008As Wall Street investment firms in recent years have acquired thousands of U.S. nursing homes, they have “often reduced costs, increased profits and quickly resold facilities for significant gains,” but by “many regulatory benchmarks, residents at those nursing homes are worse off, on average, than they were under previous owners,” the New York Times reports. [...]
In-home Health Care Services Increasing
Published at Juni 29th, 2008A “new kind of medical practice is flourishing nationwide that offers to go to where the patients are — whether a home, an office or a hotel — to treat ailments as diverse as a sprained ankle or a bad case of bronchitis,” the New York Times reports. Fees for home physician appointments can [...]
Survivors Of Hurricane Katrina Experience Psychological Stress, Survey Finds
Published at Juni 28th, 2008The percentage of New Orleans residents reporting signs of severe mental illness increased from 11% to 14% between March 2006 and this summer, compared with about 6% before Hurricane Katrina hit more than two years ago, according to a recent Harvard Medical School survey, the Washington Post reports. The survey…[click link for full article]