|
Insurance & Litigation
•
|
Tools & Information
•
•
•
|
|
 Back to University of Maryland Health and Medical News Archives
University of Maryland Health and Medical News: 10-13-2004
Chiron Corp. said today it received a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York requesting certain documents and materials related to its Fluvirin influenza vaccine. . . The Baltimore Sun - October...
More than 300 scientists from around the world shared information on tracking and curbing the cross-border spread of viruses as they met in India for a three-day seminar ending Wednesday. . . The Washington Post - October 12, 2004 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26534-2004Oct12.html...
Many of the nation's scarce remaining flu shots will be shipped directly to pediatricians, nursing homes and other places that care for high-risk patients, under a plan negotiated between the government and maker Aventis Pasteur. . . The New York...
A new analysis of published studies concludes that antioxidant supplements may not provide protection against several cancers -- and could increase the risk of death. . . The Washington Post - October 12, 2004 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25160-2004Oct11.html...
. . .In communes in Vietnam, small chicken farms in Thailand and the jungles of northern Malaysia, health officials, scientists and farm workers are fighting an increasingly menacing yet little-understood foe: the A(H5N1) strain that causes avian influenza, or more...
Even though bacterial contamination was first reported more than a month ago at a British flu vaccine factory, the Food and Drug Administration relied solely on the factory's owner for information on whether the problems were being resolved, the agency's...
A new study has quantified the value of time and money medical practices spend on administrative tasks that add no value to the practice or to patient care. The study found that a practice of 10 physicians can waste more...
A recent report says that most states are maintaining a freeze on or reducing Medicaid payments to physicians and other health care professionals. The report found that most states are also cutting Medicaid drug spending, with some states limiting program...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and The Johns Hopkins University marked a key milestone in their long partnership to advance scientific discovery today, commemorating the beginning of construction of a new Biomedical Research Center (BRC) on the Johns Hopkins...
A new report issued today by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) concludes that surgery for extremely obese patients who have tried and failed to lose weight with exercise and diet may be more effective for weight reduction....
HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today announced welfare caseloads dropped in the first quarter of 2004 to fewer than two million families for the first time since February 1970. . . The U. S. Department of Health and Human Services...
Children who have problems breathing during sleep tend to score lower on tests of mental development and intelligence than do other children their age, according to two studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). . . The National...
The U.S. House on Oct. 6 passed AHA-backed legislation (H.R. 4453) that will reauthorize and extend by two years a visa program that helps staff medically underserved rural and urban communities with foreign physicians. . . The American Hospital Association...
Elderly patients with similar chronic and terminal illnesses receive markedly different levels of care, even among hospitals renowned for providing top geriatric care, according to studies recently released from Dartmouth Medical School. Researchers also found that higher intensity care does...
A report on hormone therapy released last week reaffirmed many findings of the 2002 Women's Health Initiative study, including the fact that HT does not prevent diseases and should be used for the shortest possible time to relieve menopausal symptoms....
|
|
