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Senators Introduce Bill To Establish Public Medicare Claims Database
A bill introduced June 18 by Sens. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, would release all Medicare claims data – minus patient’s identities – on a publicly searchable database.
GSK Hones OTCs As “Sharp End” Of Consumer Products Business
Glaxo’s OTC business is “the very best end of consumer goods as opposed to being a poor relation of pharmaceuticals,” says Emma Walmsley, GSK Consumer Healthcare president. “There is absolutely no doubt about our commitments to the consumer...
ID Global Corporation Executes Letter of Intent With Jack Rockwell
HINSDALE, Ill., June 19, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ID Global Corporation (OTC:IDGC) a diversified holdings company with a focus on emerging and middle market investment opportunities in North America, today announces Letter of Intent which contemplates an Exchange of Capital Stock and Secured Debt of ID Global for the outstanding membership interests of Jack Rockwell, LLC. ID Global Corp. is inv...
Summer is a fun time for kids and families, and everyone spends more time outdoors in warm weather. While it is important to encourage healthy physical activity such as bike riding and other exercise, parents need to know how to keep their children s...
Weaning Affects HIV Levels in Breast Milk
Changes in breastfeeding routines during the time of weaning influence the concentration of HIV in breast milk, according to findings from a randomized clinical trial in Zambia (Kuhn L et al. Sci Transl Med. 2013;5[181]:181ra51).
US Adults Are Lax on Meeting National Exercise Guidelines
Too many US adults are missing out on the health benefits of exercise, as only 20% meet federal recommendations for both aerobic and muscle-strengthening activity.
Hazardous waste sites that contain elevated levels of industrial pollutants in India, Indonesia, and the Philippines, where environmental regulations are few to nonexistent, pose serious health risks to local populations and are an underrecognized gl...
Suicide Now Claims More US Lives Than Vehicular Crashes
Suicides have surpassed deaths from motor vehicle crashes in the United States, with particularly high increases in suicide deaths reported between 1999 and 2010 among middle-aged adults.
Teaching Kenyan women to collect their own genital specimens to be used in testing for human papillomavirus (HPV)—the primary risk factor for cervical cancer—shows promise in the detection of this malignancy and could help lower the high rate of...
Persistent Obstacles Mar Progress in Eradicating Polio
An emergency action plan set in motion last year has reduced the number of wild poliovirus infections and the geographic reach of transmission to their lowest levels ever reported. However, ongoing transmission in a handful of countries and attacks a...
New insights into the causes, incidence, and clinical outcome of moderate to severe cases of diarrheal disease in infants and young children have emerged from a large prospective case-control study in sub-Saharan Africa and south Asia, report an inte...
As Age, Income Go Up, Added Sugar Calories Go Down
The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) has found that US adults consume fewer calories from sweeteners added to processed and prepared foods as they get older and as their incomes increase.
THE PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF INCUNABULA
June 21, 1913
The Corner Table in the VFW Hall
How can one gaunt and stooped as you still fillthe room? How can eyes colorless and rheumyas yours beneath their hooded lids still fixand penetrate as if they knew, but more?With hands as gnarled and knobbed as yours, how canyour grip at once immobil...
In front the golden coast of the gulf, the blue sea breaking on a small beach. . . . In the background the blue silhouettes of the Maures and the Esterel—there is enough material to work on for the rest of my days. Happiness—that is what I ha...
Health Reform, Research Pave Way for Collaborative Care for Mental Illness
Wayne Katon, MD, professor of psychiatry at the University of Washington in Seattle, has worked to develop and test models for integrating mental health care into primary care practice for the past 30 years. For much of that time, dissemination of th...
Even Mild Iodine Deficiency During Gestation May Impair Brain Function in Children
Too many pregnant women appear to have insufficient intake of iodine, an essential micronutrient needed for normal in utero neurodevelopment and thyroid hormone production.
Advocacy Groups Urge Congress to Ensure All Immigrant Children Have Health Care
Although passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in 2010 promised to extend or guarantee health insurance for the vast majority of children in the United States, the law specifically excludes certain immigrant children. Some public...
A Census of State Health Care Price Transparency Websites
To the Editor: With rising health care costs and 30% of privately insured adults enrolled in high-deductible health care plans, calls for greater health care price transparency are increasing. In response, health plans, consumer groups, and state gov...
Incidence Rate of Breast Cancer in Young Women—Reply
In Reply: Drs Hou and Huo suggest that we should correct for missing data on receptor status in the SEER database. Using the method cited by Hou and Huo, we calculated that for 25- to 39-year-old women diagnosed with distant stage breast cancer durin...
Incidence Rate of Breast Cancer in Young Women
To the Editor: Dr Johnson and colleagues concluded that there has been a significant increase in the incidence of ER+ breast cancer with distant involvement for women aged 25 to 39 years between 1976 and 2009 and urged further study of potential caus...
Dangers of Distracted Driving—Reply
In Reply: Mr Teater suggests that legislation, even without effective enforcement, will modify driver behavior and that enforcement practices will eventually catch up with the laws. Prior research has demonstrated that active enforcement is important...
To the Editor: The Viewpoint on distracted driving by Drs Coben and Zhu missed the mark on the issues of potential effectiveness of legislation and benefits of hands-free phone interfaces. Coben and Zhu stated that “legislation that cannot be strin...
The Health Checkup Was It Ever Effective? Could It Be Effective?
In this issue of JAMA, the JAMA Clinical Evidence Synopsis by Krogsbøll et al summarizes a systematic review of 9 randomized trials of a general health check. A general health check is defined as health care motivated by the need to assess general h...
The Evolution of Type 1 Diabetes The Evolution of Type 1 Diabetes
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) occurs in individuals with a genetic predisposition to the disease, predominantly from a human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-related immunogenotype that accounts for approximately 60% of the genetic influence. In these individuals who...
