The AMA will today appear before the Senate Finance and Public Administration References Committee to discuss the AMA’s views on the COAG health reform agreement and its potential impact on Australia’s health system. AMA President, Dr Andrew Pesce, said that while the reforms provided additional investment, there was no guarantee that the reforms themselves would create more capacity in the system. “The States will receive a substantial injection of funds to direct to hospitals, and the AMA will be watching closely to see whether this actually translates into more beds,” Dr Pesce said…

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Disability announced the award of over $6 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, to establish a Center of Excellence in Research on Disability Services, Care Coordination and Integration. The contract has been awarded to Mathematica Policy Research, Inc for a two-year period and is aimed at building the infrastructure necessary to support and conduct research on the effectiveness and comparative effectiveness of systems of care for people with disabilities…

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The Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) has warned the Federal Government that it will need to be “extremely vigilant” to ensure some state governments don’t short-change rural hospitals and health services when allocating health funding from the single funding pool agreed to at the COAG meeting last week…

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America’s healthcare system is about to undergo the most fundamental transformation in our nation’s history. An already over-stressed system must absorb 32 million new patients at the same time that the country’s huge baby boomer population is likely to need ever more medical attention as they age. And many of our most experienced and talented physicians will soon reach retirement age, leaving fewer experienced doctors to treat more patients…

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The NHS Partners Network today calls upon the next government to increase the amount of information publicly available to NHS patients, revitalise NHS market reform and fully realise the benefits the independent sector can bring to the health service…

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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius issued the following statement on new reports on health care quality and health care disparities faced by racial, ethnic or income groups. The new reports – the 2009 National Healthcare Disparities Report and the National Healthcare Quality Report – were released today by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. “Today’s reports demonstrate why passing health reform was so critical,” said Sebelius. “In 2009, healthcare associated infections increased and minorities were less likely to have insurance and less likely to get the treatments they needed…

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Roofing companies in Greater Manchester are being urged to make safety one of their top priorities after a man fell through the roof of a Swinton factory. The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) prosecuted Tower Roofing Ltd following the incident at Magnesium Elektron Ltd’s premises on Rake Lane in Swinton.

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The National Health and Hospitals Reform Commission has wasted a ‘once in a lifetime’ opportunity to fix the rural health crisis by ignoring the need for urgent initiatives to entice more doctors and other health professionals to the bush, the Rural Doctors Association of Australia (RDAA) said today.

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President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate Regina M. Benjamin as Surgeon General, Department of Health and Human Services. President Obama said, “Health care reform is about every family’s health and the health of our economy.

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In a snapshot survey published by Terrence Higgins Trust today, two thirds of top organisations were found to ask irrelevant health related questions on job application forms. A coalition of charities wants these questions banned to reduce the discrimination faced by people with ‘invisible’ conditions such as mental illness or HIV.

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Bangkok – Thailand confirmed 73 new cases of swine flu Saturday, taking the country’s total to 662, the Thai Health Ministry reported. Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai said no one has died from the virus in Thailand and only 11 have needed to be hospitalized

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In a letter to this weeks BMJ, a researcher expresses his concern on how in order to empower NHS patients with choice, the UK government is in danger of sacrificing the principle of equality on which the service was founded.

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Quintiles Consulting released the first in a three-part series of white papers addressing how best to navigate risk in drug development. The first paper, “On the Re-Balancing of Risk to Transform Cost and Productivity in Drug Development,” focuses on operational risk. It is available for download at http://www.quintiles.com/consulting.

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UK researchers who asked over 700 patients and members of the public to pick out a diagram that showed the correct location of the human heart found that less than half of them were able to do so. Less than one third placed the lungs correctly although 85 per cent of them were able correctly to place the intestines.

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The health care industry funded “8,700 trips by Department of Defense personnel” from 1998 to 2007, at a cost of more than $10 million, the Center for Public Integrity reports.

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Medical Industry Showers DOD With Free Travel

A new study found that acute and sudden computer-related injuries, a separate category to injuries that take a while to emerge like repetitive strain injury, are rising rapidly in the US, and that young children are most affected.

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The English word “health” comes from the Old English word hale, meaning “wholeness, a being whole, sound or well,”. Hale comes from the Proto-Indo-European root kailo, meaning “whole, uninjured, of good omen”. Kailo comes from the Proto-Germanic root khalbas, meaning “something divided”.

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The following statistics were released by the Department of Health: Accident and Emergency attendances; total time spent in A&E from arrival to admission, discharge or transfer; and waiting for emergency admission through A&E, quarter and year ending 31 March 2009 The main findings for the year 2008/09 were: – Across all A&E types, 98.

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Climate change is this century’s biggest threat to human health according to a major report by an interdisciplinary team of academics that highlights changing patterns of disease, population migration, extreme climatic events, water and food insecurity, vulnerable shelter and human settlements, as key issues.

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Fifty thousand long-term unemployed young people will be helped into social care traineeships thanks to new plans published by the Government. Backed by 75 million from the Department for Work and Pensions, employers will receive a 1,500 subsidy to take on social care trainees aged between 18 and 24.

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Homicidal poisonings are rare but on the rise – and infants are the most common victims – according to a new University of Georgia study that aims to raise awareness of this often overlooked crime.

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Grist has picked up the story in the U.S.

My rough translation: According to one community resident, the organic and fecal waste produced by Granjas Carrol isnt adequately treated, creating water and air pollution in the region. I witnessedand smelledthe same thing in Hardin County, Iowa, a couple of years ago, another area marked by intensive industrial hog production. The article goes on to say that area residents have long complained of “fetid odors” in the air and water, and swarms of flies hovering around waste lagoons. Like their counterparts who live in CAFO-heavy U.S. areas, they also complain of respiratory ailments. Now, with 30 percent of the areas residents now infected with the virulent flu bug, people are demanding that state and federal authorities inspect hog operations there. So far, reports La Marcha, the response has been: nada.

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Swine Flu and Factory Farms

Or what I’ve learned today are called, “confined animal feeding operations,” or CAFOs . The term most used right now is the factory farm, turning livestock production more into just that a production and not a farm. It’s merely to up the profits and usually means horrible living conditions for animals and awful working conditions for low wage workers.

Well, David Kirby makes a connection that seems obvious to me, Swine Flu Outbreak — Nature Biting Back at Industrial Animal Production? but of course it’s better to hold judgment until there’s evidence, right?

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