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Safety net health centers struggle to meet demand
Mar 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The health care safety net is straining. Just look at Jeffrey Taylor's parking lot. Taylor oversees a community health center for the poor in this suburb a dozen miles east of downtown Atlanta. The center, a modest ...
Academic health centers should take lead in promoting the sharing of biomedical research data
Sep 02, 2008 |
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Academic health centers (AHCs) have a critical role in enabling, encouraging, and rewarding the sharing of biomedical research data, say a team of academics in this week's PLoS Medicine. "The leaders of medical schools and ac ...
Research translates into successful community practice to improve elder health
Aug 11, 2008 |
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It is not easy to translate research into practice, and a therapy that works well in the sterile research lab is not always successful in the real world. Researchers across the country are driven not only to discover new ...
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Routine HIV screening in community health centers boosts HIV testing
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Dec 15, 2009 |
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UCSF researchers have that found routinely offering rapid HIV tests to patients in community health centers can significantly increase the number of patients screened for HIV.
CDC official downplays risk from swine flu vaccine
Oct 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A top U.S. health official says the risks from not getting the swine flu vaccine are greater than any potential risks associated with the vaccine.
CDC: Swine flu has sickened 22 million in 6 months
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Government health officials say swine flu has sickened about 22 million Americans since April.
CDC: Swine flu cases seem to be dropping in US
Nov 20, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Health officials say swine flu cases appear to declining throughout most of the U.S., but the specter of Thanksgiving gatherings next week makes it hard to predict what will happen next.
US swine flu deaths surpass 1,000
Oct 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal health officials say swine flu is more widespread now than it's ever been.
Health officials recommend gap between flu spray vaccines
Medicine & Health / Medications
Oct 16, 2009 |
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Both seasonal flu and 2009 H1N1 flu vaccines may be given to a patient at the same visit, as long as they're not both in the nasal spray form, health officials said.
Near half of swine flu patients otherwise healthy
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The largest U.S. analysis of adult hospitalized swine flu patients has found that 46 percent did not have asthma or any other underlying condition.
All dressed-up and nowhere to go: Inappropriate clothing prevents children playing outside
Nov 06, 2009 |
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Parents who dress their children in inappropriate clothing could be inadvertently hampering their child's physical activity in childcare settings. The study, reported in BioMed Central's open access journal, International Jo ...
Teach your physicians well
Oct 19, 2009 |
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As the national conversation about healthcare reform engages millions of Americans, a new Brandeis study sheds light on the values of medical faculty who train the nation's physicians and lead in health care and research ...
Kids' Swine flu shots recalled; not strong enough
Medicine & Health / Medications
Dec 15, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Hundreds of thousands of swine flu shots for children have been recalled because tests indicate the vaccine doses lost some strength, government health officials said Tuesday.
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