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PubMed Articles
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. The disease remains a public health concern as recent evidence indicates that the breast cancer burden has increased mainly in developing an...
Base excision repair (BER) pathway plays critical role in maintaining genome integrity. Polymorphisms in BER genes which modulate the DNA repair capacity may affect the susceptibility and prognosis of...
A smart-card based authentication scheme for telecare medicine information systems enables patients, doctors, nurses, health visitors and the medicine information systems to establish a secure communi...
The human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine helps to prevent cervical cancer. However, research indicates that public acceptance of the vaccine is suboptimal. Our aims were to evaluate the willingness of U...
Mental health surveillance among children - United States, 2005-2011.
Mental disorders among children are described as "serious deviations from expected cognitive, social, and emotional development" (US Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Servic...
Filters physically remove contaminants, including microbes, from water in treated recreational water venues, such as pools. Because contaminants accumulate in filters, filter concentrates typically ha...
Bats are a reservoir for rabies viruses and have been identified as the most common source of human rabies infections acquired in the United States. The last human rabies fatality from a bat exposure...
BACKGROUND: Psychosocial stress is a risk factor for hypertension and has been shown to affect response to treatment for psychiatric illnesses. PURPOSE: We investigate the relationship between a histo...
Adherence to antihypertensive medications represents a crucial success factor for optimal blood pressure (BP) control in clinical practice. This study evaluated whether an additional pharmacist-led me...
BACKGROUND: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common form of acute leukemia affecting adults, with incidence increasing with patient age. Previous studies have found that older AML patients, co...
News Articles
Dr. Francis Murphy, DC Featured in USA Today
Dallas, TX, May 18, 2013 --(PR.com)-- The Foundation for Chiropractic Progress (F4CP), a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing public awareness of chiropractic care, has purchased ad spa...
New Clostridium difficile guidance includes fidaxomicin
Updated guidance on the management and treatment of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has been published by Public Health England. The guidance states that oral fidaxomicin, which was launche...
PRA Prepares to Go Public with Confidential SEC Filing
US CRO PRA is proposing to go public again, more than six years since it was taken private, according to a confidential draft registration statement submitted to the US SEC.
Merck to Present at the UBS Global Healthcare Conference
Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today that Peter N. Kellogg, executive vice president and chief financial officer, Merck, is schedu...
The Marriage and Family Counseling/Therapy Program receives a 5-year accreditation The Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE) h...
Public offering nets $18.8mm for [Cyclacel]
[Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals Inc.] (mainly cancer therapies; also has projects for kidney disease, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS) netted $18.8mm through public offering of 6.67mm common shares at $3 each. Proce...
Public Pools Awash in Fecal Matter
(MedPage Today) -- Escherichia coli was found in more than half the Atlanta-area public pools tested, along with other unwanted microbes, according to a CDC report.
Los Angeles Department of Public Health is National Model for Community Disaster Resilience
Groundbreaking Initiative Featured in June 3 Issue of American Journal of Public Health In response to a directive from President Obama to embrace a community resilienc...
Events
BIOASIA - THE ULTIMATE 3-DAY KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE AND NETWORKING PLATFORM FOR BUSINESS LEADERS OF LIFESCIENCES!
THE BORDERLINE BETWEEN MEDICINES AND FOODS
Welcome to Genomics Research Europe conference and exhibition. This year's conference will take place in the beautiful city of Barcelona, Spain.
13th annual Pain Therapeutics conference
Pain is the primary reason that patients seek medical care and the pain therapeutics industry is currently under financial strain.
2nd Annual Forum on Global Publication Planning and Clinical Trial Registries
Attend this highly anticipated forum to learn more about how professionals working in publication planning and clinical trial disclosure can coordinate data sharing to ensure transparency.
Digitial Health Forum for Investors and Industry 2013
Taking place at the Royal Society of Medicine in London. DHF13 is an invitation only showcase for ‘transaction-ready’ digital health companies.
Antimicrobial Resistance Conference
Incentivizing Change towards a Global Solution
Companies
Institute for the Commercialization of Public Research
SunLink Health Systems, Inc. currently operates seven community hospitals, three hospital-based nursing homes, and one hospital-based home care business in the Southeast and Midwe...
Led by Joseph Paduda, Health Strategy Associates (www.healthstrategyassoc.com) is a national consulting firm serving insurers, employers and health care providers. Pharmacy costs...
Net loss attributable to CRC Health Corporation
Merck is a global healthcare leader working to help the world be well. Merck is known as MSD outside the United States and Canada. Through our prescription medicines, vaccines, biologic therapies, a...
ConnectedHealth is based in Chicago, Illinois, and is a provider of a new health insurance exchange decision-support platform for health insurers, employers, and consumers....
SullivanCotter is the leading independent consulting firm in the assessment and development of tailored total compensation and reward programs for the health care industry. For mo...
Castlight Health enables employers, their employees, and health plans to take control of health care costs and improve care. Named #1 on The Wall Street Journal’s list of âÂ...
Valence Health was founded in March 1996 with a vision of providing management support to providers and provider initiatives such as IPAS, PHOs and integrated delivery systems. To...
Interleukin Genetics, Inc. (OTCQB: ILIU) develops and markets a line of genetic tests under the Inherent Health® brand. The products empower individuals to prevent ce...
Clinical Trials
Retinoblastoma Survivor Study: Assessment of General Health and Quality of Life
The purpose of this study is to find out about the quality of life and health in a group of adults who had retinoblastoma when they were children. By quality of life, we mean how you are f...
Autoimmunity in Sisters of Lupus Patients
This study enrolled over 400 unaffected sisters of young women diagnosed with SLE. These unaffected sisters are being followed with an annual health questionnaire (CSQ) and blood sample.
Evaluation of the Healthy Families Alaska Program
This study will assess the effectiveness of early home visitation by a professional in preventing child maltreatment, promoting healthy family functioning, and promoting child health and d...
Can Screening People Registering With Primary Care Improve the Detection of Tuberculosis?
This randomised controlled trial tests whether screening people registering with general practices cost-effectively increases the detection of tuberculosis. The study objectives are to:...
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the most common cause of death in the United States. A common term for CHD is "blocked arteries." People with CHD or "blocked arteries" often have high bl...
Evaluation of TEACH (Training Early Achievers for Careers in Health) Research
The conceptual framework underlying the TEACH Research Program is based on a specific theoretical approach designed to influence adolescent career choice, in this case towards a career in...
Effect of Public Sector Antiretroviral Treatment Programme on Tuberculosis and Immunization Care
A scale-up of public sector antiretroviral treatment (ART) programmes may divert scarce resources from other priority primary care programmes like tuberculosis and childhood immunization....
Dietary Compensation With Substitution of Meat Products With White Button Mushrooms.
Unfortunately, current methods of achieving weight control are disappointing. There is also a great deal of public confusion over what constitutes an appropriate diet for weight control;...
Objectives include description of current practices; assessment over time of K/DOQI goals, clinical outcomes, health resource utilization(HRU) and patient reported outcomes (PRO) and the...
Several studies have shown that persons with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have poor general health and a higher risk of heart attack and bone loss (osteoporosis) compared to the gene...
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Medical and Biotech [MESH] Definitions
Duty To Recontact
The ethical and/or legal obligation of a health provider or researcher to communicate with a former patient or research subject about advances in research relevant to a treatment or to a genetic or other diagnostic test provided earlier, or about proposed new uses of blood or tissue samples taken in the past for another purpose.
Interdisciplinary Communication
Communication, in the sense of cross-fertilization of ideas, involving two or more academic disciplines (such as the disciplines that comprise the cross-disciplinary field of bioethics, including the health and biological sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences and law). Also includes problems in communication stemming from differences in patterns of language usage in different academic or medical disciplines.
Patient Access To Records
The freedom of patients to review their own medical, genetic, or other health-related records.
Reproductive Health Services
Health care services related to human REPRODUCTION and diseases of the reproductive system. Services are provided to both sexes and usually by physicians in the medical or the surgical specialities such as REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE; ANDROLOGY; GYNECOLOGY; OBSTETRICS; and PERINATOLOGY.
Dissent And Disputes
Differences of opinion or disagreements that may arise, for example, between health professionals and patients or their families, or against a political regime.
