U.S. issues standards to spur e-health records
Posted by Health News From Reuters on Dec 30, 2009 | Comments Off
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. health officials released standards for electronic medical records on Wednesday, seeking to spur the technology in hopes of cutting health costs and reducing medical errors.
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Congress required the standards, partly as a condition of about $19 billion in February’s economic stimulus bill that is aimed at encouraging doctors...
Heroin, HIV stalk tropical resort of Zanzibar
Posted by Health News From Reuters on Dec 30, 2009 | Comments Off
STONE TOWN, Zanzibar (Reuters) – A Zanzibari man crouches in a half-built roofless building, struggling to find a vein in his arm, while his friend takes over and injects the heroin for him, drawing blood back into the syringe.
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The two are among an estimated 4,000-6,000 narcotics addicts who use syringes to inject themselves in Zanzibar, a tropical archipelago of one million people, better known for...
May take a year to conquer H1N1 flu pandemic: WHO
Posted by Health News From Reuters on Dec 29, 2009 | Comments Off
GENEVA (Reuters) – The H1N1 flu pandemic may not be conquered until 2011, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday.
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“I think we must remain prudent and observe the evolution of the pandemic in the course of the next six to 12 months before crying victory,” WHO Director-General Margaret Chan was quoted as saying in an interview with...
China SARS victims suffer hormone treatment effects: report
Posted by Health News From Reuters on Dec 28, 2009 | Comments Off
BEIJING (Reuters) – About 300 survivors of a deadly outbreak of SARS in China in 2003 are now suffering from serious after-effects, possibly due to aggressive hormone treatment to save their lives, the Beijing News said on Friday.
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Severe Acute Respiratory Disease, or SARS, was an unknown disease when it first struck in late 2002. Initially covered up by the Chinese government, it spread rapidly from...
Blue Period: anorexia and bulimia eating disorder (not pro-ana)
Posted by Jennifer on Dec 27, 2009 | 25 Comments
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