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The American Heart Association is pleased with the announcement that former Chairman of the Board Neil Meltzer has been selected to serve as a member of the National Health Care Workforce Commission. The Commission, which was created under the health care reform law, will play an important role in ensuring that we have an adequate [...]

The Medicare Board of Trustees announced that the economic outlook for both trust funds that support Medicare have been significantly improved thanks to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. Medicare’s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund is now projected to remain solvent for an [...]

Delivering on its commitment to helping independent retail pharmacies diversify revenue and improve profitability, Cardinal Health announced that it has partnered with the American Society of Consultant Pharmacies (ASCP) to offer retailers training, tools and guidance that will help them tap into one of the fastest-growing markets in health care: long term care (LTC). The [...]

Medical waste is sorted outside Bangalore, India. Image via: NYT If you’ve ever sat in the dentist’s chair wondering where all those shiny, silver teeth-cleaning tools might end up one day, or perhaps contemplated the future of the bio-hazardous waste bin in your doctor’s office–you, like me, probably assumed the “invisible” landfill as its next [...]

Imagine a healthcare system in which amputations and major surgeries are performed with no anesthesia, hospitals that do not sterilize needles, hospital bed sheets that are so rarely washed they stink, and a population most of whom do not have the money to pay for their most basic medical needs – according to Amnesty International, [...]

A new nationwide study in the US found that worry about costs is preventing many cancer survivors from getting the medical care they need: the researchers said the study raises concerns about the long-term health and wellbeing of cancer survivors. You can read about the study, led by Dr Kathryn E Weaver, an assistant professor [...]

A study conducted by the nonprofit health research organization Altarum Institute suggests that Delaware’s first-in-the-nation guidelines for nutrition and physical activity in child care are broadly accepted by both child care providers and parents, and that challenges to implementing the policies can be overcome with support. The study was conducted by Altarum as a part [...]

If you have special medical needs, plan your evacuation before a hurricane hits. Dr. Jeff Kalina, associate director of emergency medicine with The Methodist Hospital in Houston, says it’s important to have extra refills of medications in case the storm forces stores to close down for a number of days. Also, if you have to [...]

Are the eyes the window to our soul? Well this maybe an old cliché but we can tell a lot about a person from their eyes; we might be able to tell if they need some extra sleep, another glass of water or even if they like us. The eyes are the first place we [...]