Recent congressional and public attention has focused on access problems at the Dept. of Veterans Affairs, which provides medical care to servicemen and women once they have left active duty in a time of war or an official period of hostility. Although investigators note that improvements are under way, they say the VA has a long way to go.
How familiar are you with the health of your family tree? While the relatives are gathered for the food and festivity of the Thanksgiving holiday, taking a good look at the family health history is also time well spent. (Read content ‘Acting Surgeon General Encourages Americans To Know Their Health History During Fourth Annual Family History Day’…)
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The BMA today expresses strong opposition to the idea of a new grade of NHS doctor, who would have a specialist qualification, but not the same expertise as a consultant. (Read content ‘BMA Warns Against Inferior Grade Of Doctor, UK’…)
Two articles on mortality are published in next week’s PLoS Medicine. In the first, Christopher Murray and colleagues achieved encouraging results from their use of vital registration data in Mexico with a new method to estimate population cause-specific mortality fractions. (Read content ‘Determining Cause Of Death: Validation Of New Methods In Developing Countries’…)
Although almost all ob-gyns recommend HIV testing to all their pregnant patients, some are unclear about state requirements for recommending tests, according to a survey published in the November edition of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Reuters reports.
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Presidential candidate New Mexico Gov.
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"Start the Press: How African Communities in the U.K.
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The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday examined how, "as the cost of covering workers continues to escalate, employers and health plans are getting more aggressive" in efforts to recover medical expenses from accident victims who collect damages in civil injury lawsuits.
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