Heart Therapy: When Women Benefit More Than Men In case you missed it, we want to slip this in before the curtain closes forever on American Heart Month 2011. It’s a pretty incredible win for female heart health, marking the very first time a heart disease prevention therapy has proven more beneficial for women than men. […]

URMC’s HIV Vaccine Clinical Trials Unit Opens Buffalo Office Researchers Look to Western NY for Help in the Search for a Vaccine … February 21, 2011 The Rochester Victory Alliance, the University of Rochester Medical Center’s HIV vaccine clinical trials unit, has opened a satellite clinic in downtown Buffalo to make it easier for volunteers […]

High-Quality Care Associated with Lower Cost in Trauma High-quality hospitals deliver lower-cost care to trauma patients, according to a study published in the Annals of Surgery. The study found high-quality hospitals have death rates that are 34 percent lower, while spending nearly 22 percent less on trauma patient care than average-quality hospitals, suggesting high quality […]

Scheduled Deliveries Raise Risks for Mothers, Do Not Benefit Newborns Inducing labor without a medical reason is associated with negative outcomes for the mother, including increased rates of cesarean delivery, greater blood loss and an extended length of stay in the hospital, and does not provide any benefit for the newborn. As the number of […]

Food, glorious food: Stanford’s first food summit ” In preparing for my latest 1:2:1 podcast with health researcher Christopher Gardner, PhD, about Stanford’s first-ever food summit, I wondered: When did food become summitable? Weren’t summits grand, official events hosted by global leaders on geopolitics? Food. Isn’t food just sustenance? Well, it turns out, the Stanford […]

Statement from the Department of Health and Human Services on the Regulation for the Enforcement of Federal Health Care Conscience Protections The administration strongly supports provider conscience laws that protect and support the rights of health care providers, and also recognizes and supports the rights of patients. Strong conscience laws make it clear that health […]

Brown creates steering committee for 250th anniversary  Chancellor Thomas J. Tisch announces members of a steering committee that will oversee planning and implementation of the University’s 250th anniversary celebration in 2014. The 20-member committee of trustees, faculty, staff, and students will begin its work this semester. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — With its 250th-anniversary class […]

Medicare Fraud Strike Force Charges 111 Individuals for more than $225 Million in False Billing and Expands Operations to Two Additional Cities Doctors, Nurses, Health Care Company Owners and Executives Among the Defendants Charged; Law Enforcement Agents Execute 16 Search Warrants WASHINGTON – The Medicare Fraud Strike Force today charged 111 defendants in nine cities, […]

Deep brain stimulation helps severe OCD, but pioneer advises caution, compassion For patients most severely afflicted with obsessive-compulsive disorder, electrical stimulation of a brain network can rebalance their emotional state, helping them respond to conventional therapy when it never worked before. New long-term results show that patients’ improvements remain if the treatment continues. But, as […]

HHS releases new strategic plan to advance vaccine and immunization science and policy for the next decade The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today unveiled a new National Vaccine Plan to enhance coordination of all aspects of federal vaccine and immunization activities. Its goal is to ensure that all Americans can access the […]