Alert for: health news

Alert for: health news

Reuters Health News Summary
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Doctors who specialize in disorders of the skeletal system and associated muscles, joints and ligaments are being kept busy ...
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Sask. nurses reach tentative four-year agreement with health employers
The Canadian Press - REGINA
REGINA — Saskatchewan nurses say they've got a tentative four-year deal with health employers, though the union says the pact doesn't address staffing and ...
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Golden staph seriously threatens Indigenous health
ABC Online - Australia
BRENDAN TREMBATH: A new study shows the potentially lethal golden staph bacteria is becoming a serious threat to the health of Indigenous Australians in ...
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NHS disruption threat grows as health workers reject pay deal
guardian.co.uk - UK
A threat of industrial action across the NHS intensified yesterday when health workers in the GMB union voted by an overwhelming majority to reject a ...
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Promoting Physical Activity With A Public Health Approach
Medical News Today (press release) - UK
Nearly 50 percent of Americans are not active enough for optimal health and disease prevention. This staggering statistic served as a launching point for ...
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Health Centre IVs Suffocate Regional Referral Hospitals
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
In the 1990s, Uganda adopted a national health policy that called for the establishment of a "network of functional, efficient and sustainable ...
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Microsoft, GOOG Boost Health Records Online
TheStreet.com - USA
A search on GoogleGOOG for personal health records (PHRs) or electronic health records (EHRs) results in excess of 13 million hits, showing just how ...
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Firefighters' last-minute rescue saved helicopter occupants
MLive.com - MI,USA
The pilot and his passenger, a Federal Aviation Administration official, ended up with only minor injuries from the crash atop Spectrum Health Butterworth ...
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Technological Interventions Merge Into Health and Fitness
FOXBusiness - USA
Although tracking blood glucose and steps taken per day through a cell phone sounds like something futuristic, researchers at the American College of Sports ...
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Stonehenge solution: Long a burial site
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WASHINGTON - The secret of Stonehenge has been solved: The mysterious circle of large stones in southern England was a burial ground for almost five centuries, and probably holds the remains of a family that long ruled the area, ...
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FDA: Time for asthma patients to switch inhalers
WASHINGTON (AP) - Old-fashioned asthma inhalers that contain environment-harming chemicals will no longer be sold at year's end - and the government is urging patients not to wait until the last minute to switch to newer alternatives.
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Common bacteria causing worse problems
A certain bacterial infection has raised some concerns with epidemiologists in Utah and across the country. They say more people are getting hospitalized from it, and the symptoms are getting worse.
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Diet: Mediterranean-Style Food ‘Good For Diabetes’
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“These higher risk participants with better adherence to the diet, however, had a lower risk of diabetes, suggesting that the diet might have a substantial potential for prevention.” Read more.
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FDA panel favors Glaxo, Ligand blood drug
WASHINGTON (AP) - Advisers to the Food and Drug Administration said Friday a blood-clotting drug from GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc. is effective for short-term use, despite reservations by FDA scientists.
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