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The Impact Of Urologic Diseases On The American Public

May 22, 2012
Urologic conditions like urinary tract infections, kidney stones, and prostate cancer are a major economic burden on Americans, resulting in health care costs of close to $40 billion annually, according to a newly released national report that charts the demographic and economic impact of urologic diseases in the U.S. Urologic ...

Reducing Booze Consumption Better For Public Health And Economy, Australia

May 18, 2012
According to a new study in the American Journal of Public Health, Australia could yield economic and health benefits by reducing its overall national yearly alcohol consumption. In 2008, researchers estimated the economic benefits Australia could achieve in health, production and leisure, if the annual per capita consumption of ...

Comprehensive report documents impact of urologic diseases on American public

May 18, 2012
Urologic conditions like urinary tract infections, kidney stones, and prostate cancer are a major economic burden on Americans, resulting in health care costs of close to $40 billion annually, according to a newly released national report that charts the demographic and economic impact of urologic diseases in the U.S. ...

Comprehensive report documents impact of urologic diseases on American public

May 18, 2012
(University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences) Urologic conditions like urinary tract infections, kidney stones, and prostate cancer are a major economic burden on Americans, resulting in health care costs of close to $40 billion annually, according to a newly released national report that charts the demographic and economic ...

Science reporters win ASM Public Communications Award

May 16, 2012
Washington, DC May 14, 2012 The 2012 winners of the ASM Public Communications Award are Jon Cohen and Martin Enserink from Science . "False Positive" was published in Science on September 23, 2011. The article digs deep into the controversy surrounding the publication of a ...

Reuters examines use of statistics in public health ahead of WHO report

May 16, 2012
"Above all else, analyzing the state of the world's health -- be it by looking at obesity rates, cancer cases, malaria deaths, or HIV-free births -- requires decent statistics," Reuters reports in an article examining the use of statistics in public health ahead of the release of the WHO's World ...

Science reporters win ASM Public Communications Award

May 16, 2012
(American Society for Microbiology) The 2012 winners of the ASM Public Communications Award are Jon Cohen and Martin Enserink from Science. "False Positive" was published in Science on Sept. 23, 2011. The article digs deep into the controversy surrounding the publication of a study that linked a mouse retrovirus, XMRV, ...

Automated External Defibrillators Rarely Close To Locations Of Public Cardiac Arrests

May 15, 2012
More than 75 percent of cardiac arrest victims are stricken too far away from an automated external defibrillator for the lifesaving device to be obtained quickly enough to offer the best chance at saving their lives, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of ...

Automated external defibrillators rarely close to locations of public cardiac arrests

May 14, 2012
More than 75 percent of cardiac arrest victims are stricken too far away from an automated external defibrillator for the lifesaving device to be obtained quickly enough to offer the best chance at saving their lives, according to new research from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of ...

SXC prices previously announced public offering of common shares

May 11, 2012
SXC Health Solutions Corp. announced today the pricing of its previously announced public offering of common shares. Under the offering, SXC will sell 5,200,000 of its common shares at a price to the public of $90.60 per share.

PharmedOut conference to address public health effects of industry promotion

May 10, 2012
(Georgetown University Medical Center) PharmedOut, a Georgetown University Medical Center-based pharmaceutical marketing research project, hosts its highly acclaimed third annual conference focusing on the misinformation and patient harm that can occur from pharmaceutical and medical device marketing.

Public Service Pensions Bill would be damaging, warns BMA

May 9, 2012
Ministers must urgently rethink their damaging plans to make changes to the NHS Pension Scheme following the publication of a new Bill in the Queen’s Speech, the BMA warned today (Wednesday, 9 May 2012).