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While states and local governments have made significant progress in critical areas of the nation's emergency health preparedness effort, critical areas still require attention and sustained funding, according to the fifth annual report from Trust for America's Health (TFAH).
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The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) has been kept alive with President Bush's signature on legislation to continue funding through March 2009, but the program will not expand the way congressional Democrats had hoped.
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A public opinion poll commissioned by Trust for America's Health (TFAH) finds that nearly seven years after the Sept. 11, 2001, more than half of all Americans believe the country is less safe now than it was before the terrorist attacks.
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Stop smoking drug Chantix rates stronger warning from FDA; Type 2 diabetes surgery on the way?; Vytorin study inconclusive; Influenza A virus found resistant to Tamiflu; FDA actions.
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Most cases of thrombocytopenia seen are expected. Patients are known to have hematological disease or are receiving chemotherapy. At times, however, the physician is confronted with an unexpected laboratory finding in an asymptomatic patient, or with a patient who is bleeding. The challenge, as usual, is to determine the need for acute treatment and the appropriate disposition.
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The Hospice Payment System Fact Sheet, which offers providers information about the Medicare hospice benefit, is now available from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare Learning Network.
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In one of the largest studies of its kind, researchers from the Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health assessed the risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens among nonhospital-based registered nurses (RNs), and found that nearly one out of 10 of the more than 1,100 nurse participants reported at least one needlestick injury in the previous 12 months.
