Friday, November 11th, 2011
A new report by the Institute of Medicine calls for more oversight by public and private healthcare facilities in terms of their handling of patient data. It recommends that The Secretary of The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) publish a plan within 12 months to minimize patient ...
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Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
A new US study reports this week that loneliness is linked to sleep disruption: people who scored themselves high on loneliness were also the ones whose monitored sleep patterns were most fragmented. Reporting their findings in the 1 November issue of the journal Sleep, lead author ...
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Saturday, October 29th, 2011
A new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) shows that formal training in parenting strategies is a low-risk, effective method for improving preschool-aged children's behavior who are at risk for developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), whereas using medication ...
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Monday, October 24th, 2011
A letter has been written by The British Dental Association (BDA) requesting that the Department of Health announce a timetable for the review of HTM 01-05, as promised by the Department in the Chief Dental Officer's Dear Colleague letters in 2009. The Department of Health guaranteed that a review ...
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Thursday, October 20th, 2011
CMS has proposed some rules to scale back outdates regulations to cut red tape in an effort to slice another $5 billion in the US health care bill over five years, the HHS (Department of Health & Human Services) has announced. The Obama Administration says this move will help at ...
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