Categories
Cardiovascular
Diagnostics
Endocrinology
Health Insurance
Medical Devices
Mental Health
Nutrition
Oncology
Public Health
Sexual Health
Popular Articles

Entirely New Way To Study Brain Function
Scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina have devised a chemical technique that promises to allow neuroscientists to discover the function of any population of neurons in an animal brain, and provide clues to treating and preventing brain disease.

Providence Tarzana Surgeon First In U.S. To Use New State-of-the-Art Imaging Tool
Providence Tarzana Medical Center on Friday became the first. hospital in the nation to use the latest generation in imaging - the Ziehm Vision RFD - in this case to aid a surgeon in opening the clogged carotid artery of a patient who had suffered a small stroke.
News of the day
Advanced Preventive Women's Clinic For Women With Menopause Symptoms Who Are At Risk For Heart Disease
Women who are at risk for heart disease and who are also experiencing menopause symptoms now have an added re a highly specialized clinic in the Division of Cardiology at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute. The Advanced Preventive Women"s Clinic at the Women"s Heart Center recently opened and is offering comprehensive cardiac risk assessments designed specifically for women who are in menopause. The clinic also offers menopausal patients state-of-the-art screenings, as well as personalized medicine therapies and counseling, including high-risk hormone counseling.
Oncology

Study Finds Conflict-Affected Countries Receive Less Money For Reproductive Health

A recent study found developing countries affected by war receive less money for reproductive health than other developing nations, despite having acute needs, Reuters reports. "In war-affected countries, 1,041 pregnant women die for every 100,000 live births due to complications such as bleeding, infections and obstructed labour" compared to 720 maternal deaths for every 100,000 live births in "underdeveloped countries that were unaffected by war," Reuters writes. Nine women die for every 100,000 live births "in advanced countries with modern healthcare facilities," according to Reuters. After sifting through "databases kept by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and United Nations" researchers from King"s College London and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine "found that a total of $20.8 billion was given each year between 2003 and 2006 to 18 countries that were affected by war. Out of this total, $509.3 million, or 2.4 percent, was allocated to reproductive health" - which "amounts to just $1.30 for each person per year" compared to "developing nations which were not at war - such as Bangladesh, Malawi and Cambodia" who received "an average of $2.50 a person a year," Reuters writes. The study - which did not elaborate on "why countries in conflict got less aid than those that were not at war" - was published in the medical journal PLoS Medicine. "If the world is to meet the [U.N.] Millennium Development Goals, especially those related to child mortality, maternal health, and HIV/AIDS, then reproductive health issues related to conflict and post-conflict settings must be better understood and addressed in a more equitable manner than is currently the case," Paul Speigel of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, who was not involved with the study, said (Lyn, Reuters, 6/9). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


Add your comment:
Name:
Site address: http://
Your message:
Enter today\\\\'s date, 2 digits
(spam protection):

© Copyright 2009