Provides the latest RSS feeds for Public Health News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Greek Herald.com http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/cat/fb382975d494227f/ en-us Mon, 20 May 2013 14:54:13 -0400 Mon, 20 May 2013 14:54:13 -0400 30 A toddler, who survived a car crash horror, was taken to a morgue in a body bag before doctors realised that he was actually breathing. Eisa Hayat was the only survivor of the car accident that took the lives of five members of the then one-year-old's British family on a pilgrimage to Mecca, the Daily Star reported. Doctors in Saudi Arabia saw the toddler moving in the bag just before they were ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214629195/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 06:10:02 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214629195/scat/fb382975d494227f One congressman is so vehemently opposed to Obamacare that he’s willing to sacrifice his own health insurance in order to make a point. Rep. Mark Amodei (R-NV), who entered Congress in 2011, was asked last week prior to the ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637246/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 12:37:54 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637246/scat/fb382975d494227f "I called my internist, because she's a good friend," a woman recently told me. "To help me make a decision" about whether to undergo a prophylactic mastectomy because of the presence of a breast cancer mutation. "But she just felt she really couldn't. A lot of information comes at you fast and furious." This woman's physician felt the issues were too ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637398/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 12:26:23 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637398/scat/fb382975d494227f Chemed CEO Kevin McNamara Maybe Chemed CEO Kevin McNamara is right. McNamara told Courier reporter James Ritchie on Friday that he doesnt believe downtown-based Chemed (NYSE: CHE) defrauded Medicare, as a federal lawsuit alleged May 2. McNamara also said a short-seller who said he expects Chemeds stock to plunge to $15 has a severe case of wishful thinking. Investors apparently bought into ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637412/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 12:07:06 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637412/scat/fb382975d494227f Economic development efforts and wage growth got Winston-Salem a shoutout as one of "ten shining examples of economic development thats working." Economic development efforts and wage growth got Winston-Salem a shoutout as one of ten shining examples of economic development thats working in the current edition of Southern Business & Development magazine. Winston-Salem is one of just ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637411/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 12:01:09 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637411/scat/fb382975d494227f A rendering of Kelsey-Seybold Clinic's Pearland practice, which is now under construction. Kelsey-Seybold Clinic is keeping its growth momentum going with a new clinic in Pearland. The Pearland clinic, at 2515 Business Center Drive, will replace two other locations, one at Shadow Creek Ranch and one at Silverlake. The $15 million, 55,000-square-foot building will be double the size of the ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637222/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 11:58:01 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637222/scat/fb382975d494227f Melissa Walker, president and chief information officer, Graematter Inc. Graematter Inc., a regulatory intelligence startup focused on the medical device industry, has closed its seed funding round, taking in $835,000 from investors and blowing past its initial goal of $500,000. Graematter CEO Merle Symes said the company decided to up the size of its seed round after getting overwhelming ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637410/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 11:53:40 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637410/scat/fb382975d494227f Mozambique doctors went on strike Monday demanding higher pay and accusing the government of reneging on a January promise to double their wages, the medics association said.Medics say the government has failed to fulfil its promise made after a strike in January.Local media has reported that doctors are demanding a monthly basic wage of $3,000 while the government was offering between $670 and ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214635864/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 11:39:33 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214635864/scat/fb382975d494227f Austin Oaks Hospital, a new 80-bed psychiatric hospital and inpatient treatment facility, will have a ceremony to mark its grand opening at 2 p.m. tomorrow. The facility on West Stassney Lane will offer care for children, adolescents and adults, and is expected to see its first patients in early June. With more than 51,000 square feet and more than 200 employees, Austin Oaks is a sister hospital ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637309/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 11:36:11 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637309/scat/fb382975d494227f JERUSALEM, Israel -- Israeli pediatric surgeons corrected congenital heart defects on a four-year-old Syrian girl at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon on ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214635866/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 11:36:09 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214635866/scat/fb382975d494227f John Moore, president of South Lake Hospital in Clermont, speaking at an event in March. South Lake Hospital has inked a deal to build a skilled nursing facility on its campus. South Lake Hospitals plan to build a 30-bed skilled nursing unit on its Clermont campus will cost $7.8 million, officials told Orlando Business Journal in an interview. Whats more, the project being built by Mount ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637396/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 11:30:49 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214637396/scat/fb382975d494227f Houston will get more than a dozen new DaVita Dialysis clinics over the next two years. Denver-based DaVita Inc. (NYSE: DVA) plans to add upwards of 15 dialysis clinics throughout the Houston area over the next two years at a cost of about $20 million. The growth will create about 150 full-time jobs, including positions for registered nurses, dietitians and social workers, said Chakilla White, ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214635883/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 11:07:47 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214635883/scat/fb382975d494227f The General Services Administration, in a request for information issued Monday, is seeking input from the private sector on ways the government can improve its cybersecurity by including security standards in federal contracts. The RFI "is an important first step to a public private partnership that will help secure our nations infrastructure," acting GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214635646/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 11:06:55 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214635646/scat/fb382975d494227f SUZANNE KREITER/GLOBE STAFF The nurses assigned to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at Beth Israel Deaconess felt ambivalent but duty-bound to care for ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214635884/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 11:06:55 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214635884/scat/fb382975d494227f Alice Archabal The Medical College of Wisconsin and Froedtert Health quietly combined their fundraising functions in 2012 and now they have jointly hired Alice Archaabal as chief development officer and vice president of development. Archabal is senior vice president and chief operating officer for Ann and Robert H. Lurie Childrens Hospital of Chicago Foundation. She will assume her new position ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214635867/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 11:02:54 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214635867/scat/fb382975d494227f Dzhokhar Tsarnaev say their natural inclination toward compassion makes it difficult to see the 19-year-old as a possible terrorist. And they have to make concerted effort - and buddy-system pacts - to keep from referring to him with terms of endearment such as ';hon.';One 29-year-old nurse said on Gawker: ';When you’re in the room, it’s just a patient. You’re ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214634513/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 10:46:58 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214634513/scat/fb382975d494227f Study of voting records shows that partisan divide between Democratic and Republican senators has widened since 1900. Congress really is getting more polarized a new academic study proves it. The study looked at Senate voting records since 1900, and found that the disparity between Democratic and Republican votes on legislation widened over time, and fewer senators now vote independently of ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214635882/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 10:36:15 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214635882/scat/fb382975d494227f Mozambique doctors went on strike on Monday demanding higher pay and accusing the government of reneging on a January promise to double their wages, the medics association ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214634500/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 10:23:56 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214634500/scat/fb382975d494227f The San Francisco Chronicle reports the so-called "Pee in the Cup" initiative is being pushed by Bob Pack, a technology mogul and former executive at AOL and NetZero. Pack's campaign, already armed with $2 million in funding, will be launched this summer. He is touting a new poll showing 85 percent of California voters would support random testing of physicians. The newspaper ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214634503/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 10:18:57 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214634503/scat/fb382975d494227f San Francisco's Health Service System has teamed up with labor unions to protest Kaiser Permanente's latest rate hike, the LA Times reports. The system and the unions are demanding that Kaiser provide an alternate proposal and better explain the need for rate increases. Kaiser insures 45,000 public workers in the area. Read more at the LA ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214634837/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 10:17:28 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214634837/scat/fb382975d494227f Michael Kauffman, CEO, Karyopharm Karyopharm Therapeutics Monday named the investors of its $48.2 million Series B round of funding . The Natick, Mass.-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company said the Series B round, reported by Mass High Tech last week, was led by a private investor with additional investors participating in the round including Delphi Ventures. The funding will be used to ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214634515/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 09:54:11 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214634515/scat/fb382975d494227f The Leapfrog Group said May 17 that South Lake Hospital's score would be upgraded to a C. South Lake Hospitals Leapfrog score is being updated from a D to a C, Leapfrog confirmed May 17. John Moore, president of South Lake Hospital, said the issue stemmed from incorrect reporting on an American Hospital Association survey. Additionally, the hospital expects its score to improve in the ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214634499/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 09:47:55 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214634499/scat/fb382975d494227f A lab worker at American CryoStem's Mount Laurel lab processes adipose tissue more commonly known as fat tissue. American CryoStem Corp. is collaborating with Rutgers University on a stem cell research project targeted wound care. The Eatontown, N.J. company, which has research laboratories in Mount Laurel, has entered into material transfer agreements with three leading research scientists ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214634514/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 09:37:33 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214634514/scat/fb382975d494227f Republicans in the General Assembly passed legislation high on their priority list, but those bills probably wont make it out of Gov. Jay Nixons office without multiple vetoes. That, in a nutshell, seems to be the consensus on the 2013 session, which wrapped at 6 p.m. Friday. The GOP-dominated Legislature passed nullification bills on federal gun control laws, anti-union measures and a massive ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214633293/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 09:06:31 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214633293/scat/fb382975d494227f Employers are beginning to figure out that they can skirt some penalties in the health care reform law yet still save money by omitting some key benefits, such as hospital coverage or prenatal care, The Wall Street Journal reports. Even without such apparently vital benefits, federal official concede that those plans would appear to qualify as acceptable minimum coverage, avoiding a penalty of ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214633284/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 08:57:23 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214633284/scat/fb382975d494227f Covered California, the new state health benefit exchange, will release a tentative list of health plans and rates for the program at a board meeting in Sacramento Thursday. Covered California, the new state health benefit exchange, will release a tentative list of health plans and rates for the program at a board meeting in Sacramento Thursday. The meeting will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214633283/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 08:53:14 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214633283/scat/fb382975d494227f Medical marijuana buds, or flowers as they are also known, are displayed for an arranged photograph. Should Illinois pass a medicinal-marijuana law, it will be the second-most-populous state to allow the drug's use. The Illinois state Senate has approved a bill that would allow medicinal use of marijuana, pending Governor Pat Quinn's signature. According to a report by the Chicago ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214633184/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 08:40:16 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214633184/scat/fb382975d494227f Walter Christian, CEO of the autism-focused May Institute, allegedly ran up inappropriate personal expenses, in addition to his six-figure compensation. In addition to six-figure pay, May Institute chief executive Walter Christian billed the state for personal expenses adding up to $140,000 over two years, according to a state audit expected today. Based in Randolph, Mass., the May Institute ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214633135/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 08:38:59 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214633135/scat/fb382975d494227f In the last few years, the Kansas City-based video production firm T2 Studios and its so-called Experience Lab have gained a growing reputation for creating what are called immersion experiences. In a world of way-too-much stuff passing before our eyes, what all these flashy sights are about is an elevated form of ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214632136/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 08:35:19 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214632136/scat/fb382975d494227f Mark Turner Belleville Memorial Hospital and UnitedHealthcare are locked in a contract dispute over hospital and physician reimbursement rates. If the two parties cannot soon come to an agreement, Memorial and its physicians group will no longer be in the network of the nation's largest insurer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Memorial recently sent its patients a form letter, signed by ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214632138/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 08:14:01 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214632138/scat/fb382975d494227f ViVita Technologies has a new approach to heart valve replacement, which nascent company says is less likely to rejected by the immune system. ViVita Technologies won the 13th annual Big Bang! Business Plan Competition at the University of California Davis Graduate School of Management. The ViVita team won both the $10,000 first place prize and also won the $2,000 Peoples Choice award at the ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214632137/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 07:45:05 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214632137/scat/fb382975d494227f Coming Up On May 24, well publish our famous List of the top crab houses in Greater Baltimore, ranked by Yelp.com ratings. Well also have our List of top 25 construction and general contracting firms in the Baltimore area, ranked by local contracting revenue and based on our own survey results. Next in May and June For May 31, its our List of the fastest-growing public companies headquartered in ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214631994/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 07:30:05 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214631994/scat/fb382975d494227f Allegheny General Hospital has been picked to join the clinical trial of Absorb III, which involves a bioresorbable vascular scaffold that opens a blocked artery and later dissolves. Undergoing study among 2,250 people in a year is Abbott Healthcare's Absorb BVS; 200 will be involved in the trial at Allegheny General Hospital. Allegheny General said it will join the study under the direction ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214631063/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 07:21:16 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214631063/scat/fb382975d494227f Growing manufacturing and medical fields, along with coming retirements, make a labor shortage in northeast Ohio possible, a new report says. Northeast Ohio's growing medical and manufacturing industries, along with a large swath of retirements looming, make the region primed for a skills gap and possibly even a labor shortage, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. The region will add about ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214631062/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 07:19:28 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214631062/scat/fb382975d494227f American Journal of Public Health Study Shows Public Clinics Provide More Choices, More Care WASHINGTON - August 14 - A new study in ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214627136/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 04:21:03 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214627136/scat/fb382975d494227f Millions of Chronically Ill, Lacking Insurance, Can't Get Needed Care CHICAGO - August 4 - Over 11 million Americans with chronic physical illnesses like heart disease, diabetes and asthma are not getting the medical care they need because they ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214626934/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 04:20:50 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214626934/scat/fb382975d494227f www.IranFreeTheDocs.org MEXICO CITY - August 4 - A coalition of AIDS and human rights organizations that includes Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) and Human Rights Watch (HRW) has launched a campaign to free two Iranian physicians, Drs. Arash Alaei and Kamiar Alaei. The doctors, who are brothers, are active in HIV/AIDS education, prevention and treatment in Iran. According to international ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214627139/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 04:20:48 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214627139/scat/fb382975d494227f It is becoming increasingly clear that the issue of gun safety should no longer be left in the hands of our Congress. Gun manufacturers and their political contributions completely control the votes of many legislators. All it takes is a well-placed lobbyist with money from rich gun manufacturers and a checkbook to corrupt a politician's ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214623367/scat/fb382975d494227f Mon, 20 May 2013 00:07:52 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214623367/scat/fb382975d494227f Florida Gov. Rick Scott is going to veto a proposed three percent tuition hike for college and university students.The Republican-led Florida Legislature included the hike in a $74.5 billion budget passed earlier this month.Scott will sign the budget into law on Monday, but is expected to veto numerous spending items, including the proposed tuition hike.In a copy of his veto message first ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214620008/scat/fb382975d494227f Sun, 19 May 2013 18:33:38 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214620008/scat/fb382975d494227f Lebanon has one of the most outstanding health sectors in the Arab world. The comments were made by Mohammad Abu Haidar, a representative for the caretaker health minister, during a conference at ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214619553/scat/fb382975d494227f Sun, 19 May 2013 18:23:12 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214619553/scat/fb382975d494227f Mauritius , situated in the central plateau of the island is seeking dynamic and talented Kenyan healthcare nursing professionals to join its multicultural team. The hospital said the recruitment exercise which goes on until Friday 24, would help it grow and to pursue its vision to become the World's leading healthcare institution. Among the professionals required includes Paediatric Nurse, ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214618569/scat/fb382975d494227f Sun, 19 May 2013 16:52:35 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214618569/scat/fb382975d494227f Geneva-May-19(BNA)Health Minister Sadiq bin Abdulkarim Al-Shehabi today attended the Eastern Mediterranean Region Health Ministers' meeting in Geneva, Switzerland. The minister's participation followed an invitation from the World Health Organisation (WHO) Eastern Mediterranean Regional Director Dr Ala'ddine Alwan, on the sidelines of the 66th WHO annual meeting The session ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214618560/scat/fb382975d494227f Sun, 19 May 2013 16:43:14 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214618560/scat/fb382975d494227f Where legislators come in is that health care is one of the most heavily licensed and heavily regulated fields of endeavor in the world. Already there are substantial state-to-state differences in what nurses are allowed to do without the supervision of doctors, differences that tend to reflect the entrenched political power of doctors rather than any sound public policy ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214616550/scat/fb382975d494227f Sun, 19 May 2013 13:19:39 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214616550/scat/fb382975d494227f TASMANIAN hospitals are down by 120 doctors and 65 nurses but the number of clerks and administrators has gone up by 15, says health analyst Martyn ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214616002/scat/fb382975d494227f Sun, 19 May 2013 12:37:21 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214616002/scat/fb382975d494227f The Will County Health Department has responded to the opening of the 2013 mosquito season by activating its annual telephone line to help zero in on potential West Nile virus hot spots by identifying birds that died from the disease.Launched in May 2002, the county program relays information collected on its 24-hour line (815-740-7631) to the Illinois Department of Public Health. Although ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214614223/scat/fb382975d494227f Sun, 19 May 2013 08:51:03 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/214614223/scat/fb382975d494227f