Thursday, November 10th, 2011
Community health centers (CHCs) and primary care providers working in other settings will increasingly become America's obesity "first responders," needed to provide weight-related health services as the nation continues to implement the Affordable Care Act. In a paper just released, the Strategies to Overcome and Prevent (STOP) Obesity Alliance identified ...
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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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Tuesday, October 11th, 2011
Forty-five per cent of cancer survivors in Northern Ireland suffer from physical and mental health problems years after their treatment has finished, according to new research from Macmillan Cancer Support and Queen's University Belfast. The report, the first of its kind in Northern Ireland, also found cancer survivors and their ...
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Monday, October 10th, 2011
Where you live could play a larger role in health disparities than originally thought, according to a new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. They examined a racially integrated, low-income neighborhood in Baltimore, Maryland and found that, with the exception of smoking, nationally ...
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Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
According to research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health referring patients with mental health problems to talking therapies potentially cuts using healthcare services and the amount of sick leave. In order to calculate the impact of common mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety ...
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