AASA promotes health care coverage for all children.
AASA recently sent a letter to all members providing valuable information about health care coverage for students. The following is a summary of the information in that letter. We believe it bears repeating, and hope you will take time to consider how you might use this information to benefit...

Member benefit: Healthcare Management Certificate Program through UGA.
In the ever-changing field of healthcare, charge nurses, shift supervisors and other health care professionals must be up-to-date on the latest developments necessary to offer the best in management and supervisory knowledge and skills to their team. This past fall, new managers, supervisors, and those with managerial responsibilities were...

www.medicare.gov Wins Gold Honors for Best Health Plan Site.
Site Redesign Allows Easier Access to Consumer Information FAIRFAX, Va., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- American Management Systems (Nasdaq: AMSY), a leading provider of next generation enterprise business and technology solutions, today announced that www.medicare.gov, the official U.S. government site for Medicare consumer information, was recently...

Canadian FPs Scaling Back Their Obstetric Role.
Many family physicians in Canada are cutting vaginal deliveries from their core services, leaving obstetricians and midwives to pick up the slack, said Dr. Cheryl Levitt and Janusz Kaczorowski, Ph.D., of McMaster University, Hamilton, Ont. Their review of 11 years of data confirming the trend highlighted concerns...

IDX and WebMD Announce Expanded Relationship.
IDX Physicians Will Benefit From Integrated Access to WebMD's Transaction Processing Services BURLINGTON, Vt. and ELMWOOD PARK, N.J., April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- IDX Systems Corporation (Nasdaq: IDXC) and WebMD Corporation (Nasdaq: HLTH) announced today that they have entered into an agreement to expand...

Hb[A.sub.1c] feedback to physicians can improve diabetes care.
TUCSON, ARIZ. -- Providing primary care physicians with semiannual or quarterly feedback on their patients' glycemic control can improve diabetes care, Dr. Yar Pye and colleagues reported in a poster at the annual meeting of the North American Primary Care Research Group. In a 30-month study, physicians...

Let Us Imagine ...
In his recent Millennium Report, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan wrote: "Let us imagine ... that the world really is a `global village.' ... Say this village has 1,000 individuals, with all the characteristics of today's human race distributed in exactly the same proportions. What would it look like?...

Staying well with the web.
Consumers are now comfortable clicking to CNN.com for the news, Dell.com to buy a new desktop computer, eTrade.com to sell stock to pay for a vacation they book at Expedia.com, but what about help with health? When it comes to our bodies, are you willing to trust the Net?...

`Beyondblue': targeting depression in young people.
The Federal and Victorian governments have each provided $17.5 million over five years to assist in the establishment of `beyondblue: the national depression initiative'. The role of `beyondblue' is to address the major health burden of depression in Australia. With depression and anxiety the most frequently reported mental health...

HealthMedia Wins Two Platinum 2006 eHealthcare Leadership Awards.
My.healthmedia.com awarded 'Best Health/Healthcare Content' and 'Best Overall Internet Site' ANN ARBOR, Mich., Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- HealthMedia, Inc., the global leader in online delivery of behavior change interventions is pleased to announce that on the heels of receiving the 2006 FREDDIE Award for an asthma video...