February 23, 2010 - Doctors have steadily cut their work hours over the past decade, a new study appearing Wednesday’s Journal of the American Medical Association finds.
17.02.09 - For the first time, a new report reveals how counties across America stack up when it comes to health.
FEBRUARY 10, 2010 - President Obama wants to convene a bipartisan meeting later this month to discuss health reform—"to go systematically through all the best ideas out there,” as he said to CBS’s Katie Couric in a pre-Super Bowl interview.
Feb. 9, 2010 - When veteran nurse Anne Mitchell wrote a confidential letter last year to the Texas Medical Board, complaining about a doctor she thought practiced shoddy medicine, she assumed it would be anonymous.
On January 23, 2010, HCA Vanadzor organized training on “International Standards of Patients’ Rights” in “Pyunik” NGO in Gyumri. The goal of the training was to raise public awareness on patients’ rights and on possible mechanisms of their restoration.
17.12.09 - Life expectancy is often used as a way to show how effective the overall way of life is within a particular society. Many nations from around the globe will trump various facts and figures to show how people are living longer.
What could be done to prevent another Vioxx? This pain medication for arthritis became a blockbuster after its introduction in 1999, only to be taken off the market in 2004 when a study linked the drug to an increased risk of heart attack and strokes.
CDC estimates that there are approximately 19 million new STD infections each year - almost half of them among young people 15 to 24 years of age.
There have been 15 cases of the A/H1N1 flu virus recorded in Armenia thus far, said Republic of Armenia Healthcare Minister assistant Shushan Hunyanyan today.
13/11/2009 - Swine flu cases rise to 11 in Armenia, Assistant to the Healthcare Minister Shushan Hunanyan told. The number has reached 11 from 6 estimated yesterday.
November 3, 2009 - The United States ranks 30th in terms of infant mortality, an important measure of the quality of healthcare, according to a report released on Tuesday.
21.10.2009 - Patients in the 13 states where medical marijuana is legal can now light up without fear of federal reprisal, but they may still have to answer to local authorities.
October 18, 2009 - The annual ritual of fending off the flu is more complicated this fall as Americans weigh getting two vaccines.
October 17, 2009 LA - There are more marijuana stores here than public schools. Signs emblazoned with cannabis plants or green crosses sit next to dry cleaners, gas stations and restaurants.
As H1N1 influenza cases build nationwide, the majority of adults hospitalized had underlying illnesses, says Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
