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AOL Partners with TOMS One Day Without Shoes Challenge
AOL has joined up with TOMS "One Day Without Shoes" as a corporate partner for the third year in a row. The unique movement by TOMS "One Day Without Shoes" involves a pledge to go barefoot for a day on April 16, and enter a chance to win TOMS gear. "One Day Without Shoes" is a day to raise awareness about the impact that a pair of shoes can have on a child's future. The event spreads global awareness about children's health and education by encouraging participants to go without shoes for a day. Apart from spreading awareness around the world about the importance of shoes, TOMS initiates conversations about various causes it is closely...
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The DETECTB study: Mobile vans providing patient-centered public health
Research out of Harare Zimbabwe has shows the promise of an innovative approach to detecting un-diagnosed cases of TUBE...
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Is European health care leaning towards privatization and specialization?
There are many differences between the way health care is delivered in the US and Europe, but two that may have the lar...
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Is health research spending a measure of CSR?
ResearchAmerica, a not-for-profit public education and advocacy alliance has released its annual report on how much we...
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Mass-gathering health and the Hajj
The infectious disease arm of the venerated British medical journal The Lancet has announced it will partner with the M...
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Is off-label prescribing good for your health?
If we ever needed a reminder of the potential health benefits of off-label prescribing, it just arrived on-line in the...
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In the dance of health care delivery, better management saves lives
A new study highlights the potential for improving procedure-related survival rates by understanding which health c...
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Nobel Prize for Good Work in Health Care
Robert Evans, PhD received the Nobel Prize in Medicine on Monday for his work as the health care pioneer who led the de...
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Race (still) Matters: Innovation needed to tackle health disparities
A recent posting looked at a new study of health technology being overused in breast cancer care. Another study presen...
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Is questionable medical information technology putting patients at risk?
There's been a lot of good news in cancer care lately: The American Cancer society recently reported a decrease in canc...
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Commonwealth Games vs. Common Health goals in India
Along with the expected fanfare accompanying the opening of the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India this weekend the...
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Bone health gets a titanium boost
The German medical device company InnoTERE has announced an innovative approach to mending fractured bones using titani...
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The Evolution of Primary Care: Part 4
Delivery of primary health care services in the U.S. used to involve a physician and a patient. The physician would see...
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The Nationwide Health Information Network: An EHR capacity builder?
Regenstreif Institute's Indiana Institute for Excellence in Public Health Informatics, the Indiana State Department of...
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The Evolution of Primary Care: Part 3
(This is the continuation of a prior post on how non-physician health care providers are changing primary care in the U...
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Health care efficiency and cost: Is bigger government better?
Recent research on health care delivery in the UK has reported on the advantages that decentralized systems of care hav...
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Mobile personal health records: Opportunities and barriers
A just-released report from the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions outlines the potential for mobile devices to incre...
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Health and drug-safety surveillance: There's an app for that!
The FDA's (Food and Drug Administration) decision to restrict access to the diabetes drug Avandia due to safety concern...
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Chronic disease threatens health and development worldwide
The United Nation's Millennium Development Goals for health received a lot of attention and news coverage this week, es...
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The Evolution of Primary Care: Part 2
Delivery of primary care services in the U.S. used to involve a physician and a patient. The physician would see the pa...
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Are doctors facing a digital health divide?
The head of the American Medical Informatics Association, Edward Shortliffe, MD PHD, is calling for medical education t...
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