New White Paper Reveals Power of Statins in Fighting Cardiovascular Disease The adverse health and financial impact of cardiovascular disease – the number one killer of men and women in America – can be significantly reduced through the well monitored use of statins according to a major white paper release by the non-profit Senior Center [ Read More ]
Archive for June, 2009
Focus on Asia expected to kickstart more collaborations and encourage increased government support Rising healthcare standards together with the growing demand for more affordable treatment will keep the Asian market for medical tourism buoyant, according to experts speaking at the Healthcare Travel Exhibition & Congress today at Fairmont Hotel, Singapore. Worldwide gross medical tourism revenue [ Read More ]
Combination of Inherited and New Genetic Mutations Acting Together More pieces in the complex autism inheritance puzzle are emerging in the latest study from a research team including geneticists from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and several collaborating institutions. This study identified 27 different genetic regions where rare [ Read More ]
A new report from The George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services, Department of Health Policy challenges the notion that fraud is a problem only in public health insurance markets and finds that fraud is a system-wide problem affecting private and public health insurance alike. The report finds that some of the [ Read More ]
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s annual release of state-by-state quality data continues to give states mixed reviews for the quality of care they provide. As in previous years, AHRQ’s 2008 State Snapshots show that no state does well or poorly on all quality measures. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is [ Read More ]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) unveiled LEANWorks!, a Website designed to help businesses address obesity. LEAN stands for Leading Employees to Activity and Nutrition. The new Website was announced at a National Business Group on Health meeting in Washington, D.C. “CDC LEANWorks! was developed in direct response to organizations asking CDC for [ Read More ]