Research and Markets Adds Report: State and Local Health Care IT Market, 2007-2012.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-13 August 2008-Research and Markets Adds Report: State and Local Health Care IT Market, 2007-2012(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "State and Local Health Care IT Market, 2007-2012" report to their offering. In a...

A baseline assessment of U.S. naval food facilities using the Food Code's new risk-based inspection program.
When you can measure what you are talking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it. --Lord William Thomson Kelvin (1824-1907) Introduction Quantifiable Void in Assessing the Effectiveness of Food Safety Initiatives Food safety has been a major concern over...

Federal issues additional information on the ANA website: www.nursingworld.org.
Nurse Staffing ANA supports H.R. 4138 and S. 73, the Registered Nurse Safe Staffing Act, which would hold hospitals accountable for the development of valid, reliable unit-by-unit nurse staffing plans. These plans would be developed in coordination with direct care registered nurses (RNs) and based on each...

Finlayson to be recognized with 2008 Drotman award.
TRACY L. Finlayson, PhD, has been named winner of the 2008 Jay S. Drotman Memorial Award for young professionals. She will receive the award during APHA's 136th Annual Meeting in San Diego. The award recognizes a health worker or student, ages 30 or younger, who has demonstrated...

Time to go to public clinics?
Pediatricians in private practice may increasingly refer children to public clinics for vaccinations, said Judith E. Glazner of the University of Colorado, Denver, and her colleagues (Pediatrics 113[6]: 1582-87, 2004). The increasing use of combination vaccines may stress the budgets of immunization providers, who may only receive a single...

APHA Urges President Bush to Protect the Nation's Health.
APHA Outlines Public Health Agenda Ahead of Tonight's State of the Union Address WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Public Health Association (APHA) today urges President Bush to make protecting the health of Americans and their communities a priority during this evening's State of the Union...

Assessing the public health impact of state health benefit mandates.
In the early 1990s, when the U.S. was considering comprehensive health care reform legislation under the Clinton Administration, public health professionals rallied to demand that the public's health be a key consideration in the redesign of the system (APHA 1993; Partnership for Prevention 1993; Warner and Warner 1993; Schauffler...

'Cough syrup can cause stroke'.
Byline: Rupali Mukherjee NEW DELHI: After months of debate, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a public health advisory on Thursday warning parents against giving over-the-counter (OTC) cold and cough medicines to children under 2 years, because of "serious and potentially life-threatening side effects". ...

Cornell still undecided on India campus.
Byline: Urmi A Goswami NEW DELHI: It could come as a dampner to those who were hoping that top-drawer foreign universities would be rushing to set up campus in India. Cornell Univeristy isn't looking to set up shop in the country. Instead, a delegation led by Cornell...

Vaccines have no link to autism.
Byline: Sarah Hendrickson For The Register-Guard When it comes to child health, prevention is better than treatment. Nowhere is this more evident than with routine childhood immunizations. As representatives of our community's medical groups, the Lane County Medical Society and the Lane County Public Health...