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A CDC guidance said some combination vaccines for children will be in short supply for the second consecutive summer and urged medical practices to use single-component vaccines to compensate. Physici… Read More

The call for nominations for positions on the AAHPM Board of Directors, Nominating Committee as well as nominations for AAHPM Annual Awards are now open on the AAHPM website. All AAHPM members are inv… Read More

HHS announced that 18 states will turn over their state-based Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan programs to the federal government rather than accept a smaller budget. HHS spokesman Fabien Levy sa… Read More

Child abuse and neglect were associated with a 36% increased risk of obesity in later years, according to an analysis in Molecular Psychiatry. Researchers did not find a causal relationship but said d… Read More

Health care experts writing in a Health Affairs blog proposed seven policy changes to improve health care quality, such as measuring outcomes instead of processes and making better use of performance … Read More

The national mortality rate for Alzheimer's disease in 2010 was 25.1 per 100,000, with Washington state having the highest age-adjusted death rate at 43.6 per 100,000, according to a CDC report. The s… Read More

A researcher in Sweden found that injecting a plasma protein at the site of chronic wounds in diabetic mice significantly improved the rate of healing. Yue Shen, a doctoral student working on his thes… Read More

Sandoz recalled two lots of its methotrexate sodium USP, 25 mg/mL, 40 mL vial injectable drug, which is indicated for rheumatoid arthritis, severe psoriasis and neoplastic diseases. The drugmaker foun… Read More

Excess body fat in people over age 50 can lead to hardening of the arteries and an increased risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, according to a U.K. study in the journal Hypertension. Researche… Read More

Brush-tail wallabies reared in captivity as part of a breeding program harbored gastrointestinal bacteria resistant to crucial veterinary antibiotics including streptomycin, spectinomycin and trimetho… Read More

The expected surge in newly insured patients through the Accountable Care Act, combined with the nation's growing and aging population, poses a major problem for the health care system: There are not … Read More

Clinical trial participants who took fish oil supplements had higher blood adiponectin levels than those in control groups, a meta-analysis of 14 studies found. Higher levels of adiponectin in the blo… Read More

Hospitals with the best rates of inpatient cardiac arrest survival also excel at preventing cardiac arrests, University of Michigan researchers reported in JAMA Internal Medicine. The study found nurs… Read More

Maintaining a hand hygiene compliance rate of more than 80% was linked to a 48% decrease in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus acquisition in a single-center neonatal ICU study reported in th… Read More

CDC researchers spoke with almost 77,000 adults between 2008 and 2010 and found that many continued to make lifestyle choices that raised their risk of heart disease and chronic disease. Data showed a… Read More

Surgical equipment noise, music and staff chatter in an operating room can impede surgeons' ability to understand what is being said, potentially leading to errors, according to a study published in t… Read More

Bioabsorbable coronary stents are a topic of great interest among interventionalists, says SCAI President-elect Dr. Charles Chambers, but there are still questions to be answered about the new technol… Read More

In Touch Health's Remote Presence Virtual Independent Telemedicine Assistant is a fourth-generation robot that can drive itself down hospital corridors instead of being controlled by physicians using … Read More

Molecular imaging presents clear advantages over genetic sequencing for personalized treatment, such as the ability to provide a noninvasive and real-time way to diagnose disease, and it is up to mole… Read More

Minimally invasive autopsy has accuracy similar to that of conventional autopsy for detection of cause of death or major pathological abnormality after death in fetuses, newborns and infants, but was … Read More

Does your work reflect a multidisciplinary approach to pain? The APS Scientific Program Committee invites submissions of symposium proposals for presentation at the 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting Apri… Read More