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World Health Assembly appoints Dr Margaret Chan as WHO chief for 2nd termThe World Health Assembly appointed Dr Margaret Chan for a second five─year term as Director─General of the World Health Organization (WHO). In her acceptance speech to health ministers and representatives of WHO's Member States, Dr Chan pledged...

Health department is to shut down patient records site that was too hard to useThe Department of Health in England is to close a patient records website that was judged “too difficult” to use by one of the government’s leading health technology experts.Charles Gutteridge, the...

Chronic diseases are health ministers' target: WHOGENEVA (Reuters) - The world's health ministers have agreed to try to cut premature deaths from chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease and cancer by 25 percent by 2025, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.

Study: 10 percent of veterans go without health insuranceOf the 1.3 million veterans who lack health coverage, the study says about 630,000 of them would likely qualify for Medicaid under the health law expansion, and as many as 520,000 could qualify for subsidized health coverage in insurance exchanges.

Research roundup: Do mandatory screening laws affect disparities?; Mass. health law, 6 years laterSince Massachusetts passed its own expansive health law, the state's uninsured rate has dropped and access to care has dramatically improved. But as this brief notes, two major issues remain. Massachusetts will have to find ways to contain health car...

Editorial, opinion piece examine future of World Health OrganizationAs the World Health Assembly draws to a close in Geneva this week, and Margaret Chan accepts her appointment to a second five-year term as director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), an editorial and an opinion piece examine the future o...

How One Community College Is Providing Health IT Training to the Nation’s WorkersWhen Normandale Community College was first selected by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as a Community College Consortium Program grantee—one of the nation’s critical hubs for health information tech...

Despite challenges, U.S. GHI moves toward integrated approach to global public healthIn this Lancet opinion piece, Jennifer Kates, vice president and director of global health and HIV policy for the Kaiser Family Foundation, and Josh Michaud, principal policy analyst at the Foundation, examine the U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI),...

World Health Assembly endorses new plan to increase global access to vaccinesMinisters of Health from 194 countries at the Sixty-fifth World Health Assembly today endorsed a landmark Global Vaccine Action Plan (GVAP), a roadmap to prevent millions of deaths by 2020 through more equitable access to existing vaccines for people...

WHO can survive with reform, flexibility"As the nations of the world attend the World Health Assembly in Geneva this week, the World Health Organization is in a budget crisis and continuing to struggle for relevancy among better-funded, more agile philanthropic foundations and disease-spec...

Revive rights-based focus on women's health"We need to revive the rights-based agenda and realign research priorities for women's health," journalist Priya Shetty writes in this SciDev.Net opinion piece. "The activists who fought to put human rights at the center of women's sexual and reprodu...

NIH Consortium selects UBM among 11 CoEPEsWith more Americans than ever living with chronic pain, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Pain Consortium wants the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) and 10 other health professional schools to teach the next generation of health care pro...

Study says most insurance sold to individuals doesn't meet health law standardsA new report in Health Affairs finds that more than half of individual policies could not be sold on state health exchanges because they fail to meet the law's criteria for coverage.

Mayo Clinic, Heartland Health form collaborative relationshipMayo Clinic today announced Heartland Health, based in St. Joseph, MO., is joining the Mayo Clinic Care Network. The network extends Mayo Clinic's knowledge and expertise to physicians and providers interested in working together in the best interest...

Accretive Ex-Client's CEO to DepartA Minnesota health system that has come under scrutiny for its hiring of hospital contractor Accretive Health to handle billing and collections functions said its chief executive will leave at the end of July.

Steve Fisher joins American Health IT LLC as VP of OperationsPORTLAND, Maine and SARASOTA, Fla., May 24, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- American Health IT LLC announced this week that Steve Fisher has joinedAmerican Health IT LLC as the company's Vice President of Operations. Larry Gusto, American Health IT's CEO explained that Mr. Fisher's extensive experience in the health technology industry will greatly increase the company's ability to meet rising client...

Doctors group warns EU health care access shrinkingAccess to health care is declining in Europe, and Greece in particular faces a humanitarian crisis as it cuts health and social spending, aid group Doctors of the World warned Thursday.

China Health Ministry Focuses On Reducing National Leprosy RateChina’s Ministry of Health announced plans to reduce the nation’s rate of leprosy cases by one-fifth within the next three years.

Health Highlights: May 24, 2012Here are some of the latest health and medical news developments, compiled by the editors of HealthDay: New Health Care Law Saves Patients Billions in Drug Costs, Medicare Says In the first four months of this year, more than 416,000 Americans with.....

Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc changes name to Endo Health Solutions IncShareholders of Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc have voted to approve changing the company’s name to Endo Health Solutions Inc. The name change is in conjunction with the launch of Endo’s new corporate identity to more accurately reflect the co...

Health Wonk ReviewJaan Sidorov of the Disease Management Care Blog hosts this week’s edition of the Health Wonk Review.

Report: Employer-based health insurance shows declineA new report from the Employee Benefit Research Institute finds that employment-based health coverage has taken steps back after a brief uptick.

Hospitals and Insurers Join to Cut Health Care CostsGiselle Fernandez with her mother, Sandra. Giselle sees specialists in a program coordinated by UCLA Health System.

Hand Hygiene Surveillance Start-Ups Look To Clean Up Health Care-Acquired InfectionsIf health care workers washed their hands before and after any patient contact, health care-acquired infection rates could be reduced by 50%. There is a great need for electronic tools that can automatically capture compliance behavior without disrup...

Many Individual Health Policies Fall Short, a Study SaysResearchers found that employer-provided insurance is likely to continue to be more generous even if the new health care law is upheld.

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