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Tue, 2012-04-17 17:45 — mdmcdonald
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CDC Considering Recommending Hepatitis C Test for Boomers

Sun, 2012-05-20 16:05 — Kathy Gilbeaux

      

A bus promoting testing for Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C drives through Leicester Square in London on May 18, 2009

thechart.blogs.cnn.com - by Jacque Wilson - May 18, 2012

It's a "silent epidemic," an "unrecognized health crisis," according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And it's affecting 2.1 million baby boomers in the United States.

The CDC announced Friday that it is considering recommending Hepatitis C testing for everyone born between 1945 and 1965.

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FCC Plans Nationwide Spectrum Grant for Medical Monitoring Networks

Sat, 2012-05-19 23:23 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Luis Kun

nationaljournal.com - by Adam Mazmanian - May 17, 2012

Federal Communications Commission chairman Julius Genachowski announced on Thursday that the agency will likely adopt a plan to dedicate a nationwide swath of spectrum to the operation of wireless medical monitoring devices.

Final approval is expected at the FCC’s next open meeting, scheduled for May 24. The spectrum allocation is part of the FCC’s National Broadband Plan.

The move would make the “U.S. the first country in the world to dedicate spectrum for Medical Body Area Networks in hospitals, clinics, and doctors’ offices,” Genachowski said.

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Grand Challenges Explorations - Winners Announced May 9, 2012

Thu, 2012-05-10 15:11 — Kathy Gilbeaux
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Date: May 9, 2012 1:28:04 PM EDT
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Subject: Grand Challenges Explorations - Winners Announced May 9, 2012
Reply-To: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation <***@***.***>

Dear Colleagues:

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4 Consumer-Focused Revolutions That Will Change Health Care

Sat, 2012-04-28 18:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Janine Rees

fastcoexist.com - by Andrew J. Rosenthal

In our flailing attempts to fix our health care system, there are some rays of hope. Insurance providers are being forced to start thinking of patients as people, not as revenue streams.

Health care is broken. Insurance is hard to access, and expensive. What you pay often has little to do with the care quality you receive. Physicians are pressed for time, when you can see them. And the relationships between patient and doctor, and employer, and health insurer often seem to have broken down completely.

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Tropical Diseases Surfacing More in Texas - Texas and Mexico: Sharing a Legacy of Poverty and Neglected Tropical Diseases

Sat, 2012-04-28 11:21 — Kathy Gilbeaux

chron.com - by Todd Ackerman - April 27, 2012

Houston scientists have launched an attack against little-known tropical diseases, scourges of the developing world, increasingly showing up in poor areas of Texas.

The diseases, spread by all manner of blood-sucking insects, cyst-forming tapeworms and tissue-invading bacteria and viruses, typically don't kill, but they cause chronic disabilities that trap sufferers in lasting poverty.

"They may have been here all along, but now that we're looking we're seeing these diseases more and more," says Dr. Peter Hotez, a Baylor College of Medicine infectious disease professor leading the effort. "They have a huge impact - heart disease, epilepsy, mental retardation – even though they fly beneath most everyone's radar."

For the Public's Health: Investing in a Healthier Future

Tue, 2012-04-17 17:49 — Kathy Gilbeaux

submitted by Joyce Fedeczko

Institute of Medicine of the National Academies

Released: April 10, 2012
Type: Consensus Report
Topic: Public Health
Activity: Public Health Strategies to Improve Health
Board: Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice

The poor performance of the United States in life expectancy and other major health outcomes, as compared with its global peers reflects what the nation prioritizes in its health investments. It spends extravagantly on clinical care but meagerly on other types of population-based actions that influence health more profoundly than medical services. The health system’s failure to develop and deliver effective preventive strategies continues to take a growing toll on the economy and society.

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