Thursday, August 19th, 2010
Reuters reports on how some health experts worry that growing complacency about the threat of measles in Africa is contributing to "some of [the continent's] largest and most deadly outbreaks in years." Worldwide, "[a]bout 164,000 people died from measles in 2008, down 78 percent from 733,000 in 2000, according to ...
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Saturday, July 31st, 2010
The group Alaskans Against Government Mandates -- which opposes a ballot initiative that would require parental notification for state minors seeking abortions -- has reported collecting five times the money disclosed by Alaskans for Parental Rights, which supports the initiative, the AP/Anchorage Daily News reports. The proposed initiative would provide ...
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Thursday, July 29th, 2010
The Washington, D.C., health department has launched a campaign to promote use of the female condom as a way to help curb the spread of HIV in the city, the AP/Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. A 2009 study found that about 3% of the city's population over age 12 is HIV-positive. According ...
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
This summer, a team of 100 primary care physicians across the country will embark on the "OpenNotes" initiative. OpenNotes will give 25,000 patients the chance to read doctors' notes on their medical records via a secure Internet portal. The OpenNotes pilot program is designed to determine if access to ...
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Thursday, July 8th, 2010
ERA-Net NEURON, an initiative of the European Commission aimed at advancing transnational European research in the field of disease-related neuroscience, announced the winners of the Excellent Paper in Neuroscience award for young scientists for the year 2009. The two winners, awarded each a prize of 3,000 euros, are Dr. Heidi ...
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