Category «Medicine»

New GAO Reports – Federal Autism Activities, Medicare, Nanomanufacturing, Tax Policy

FEDERAL AUTISM ACTIVITIES: Funding and Coordination Efforts, GAO-14-613T: Published: May 20, 2014. Publicly Released: May 20, 2014. MEDICARE: Further Action Could Improve Improper Payment Prevention and Recoupment Efforts, GAO-14-619T: Published: May 20, 2014. Publicly Released: May 20, 2014. NANOMANUFACTURING AND U.S. COMPETITIVENESS: Challenges and Opportunities, GAO-14-618T: Published: May 20, 2014. Publicly Released: May 20, 2014. STATE DEPARTMENT: Process to Track Responses to …

Subjects: Congress, Government Documents, Medicine

Trends in the Parent-Report of Health Care Provider-Diagnosis and Medication Treatment for ADHD

“Researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Health Resources and Services Administration have published a new study: Trends in the Parent-Report of Health Care Provider-Diagnosed and Medicated ADHD: United States, 2003—2011. You can read the abstract here and listen to a podcast by the journal discussing the study and its findings here. See below …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Medicine

Health, United States, 2013 includes special section on prescription drugs

“About half of all Americans reported taking one or more prescription drugs in the past 30 days during 2007-2010, and 1 in 10 took five or more, according to Health, United States, 2013, the government’s annual, comprehensive report on the nation’s health. This is the 37th annual report prepared for the Secretary of the Department of …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Medicine

Ending the Drug Wars

Report of the LSE Expert Group on the Economics of Drug Policy, May 2014 “A major rethink of international drug policies is under way. The failure of the UN to achieve its goal of ‘a drug free world’ and the continuation of enormous collateral damage from excessively militarised and enforcement-led drug policies, has led to growing calls …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Medicine

WHO Emergency Committee concerning the international spread of wild poliovirus

News release: “At the end-2013, 60% of polio cases were the result of international spread of wild poliovirus, and there was increasing evidence that adult travellers contributed to this spread. During the 2014 low transmission season there has already been international spread of wild poliovirus from 3 of the 10 States that are currently infected: …

Subjects: Health Care, Medicine

CDC – Up to 40 percent of annual deaths from each of five leading US causes are preventable

“Each year, nearly 900,000 Americans die prematurely from the five leading causes of death – yet 20 percent to 40 percent of the deaths from each cause could be prevented, according to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The five leading causes of death in the United States are heart disease, cancer, …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Medicine

WHO’s first global report on antibiotic resistance reveals serious, worldwide threat to public health

“Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) threatens the effective prevention and treatment of an ever-increasing range of infections caused by bacteria, parasites, viruses and fungi. An increasing number of governments around the world are devoting efforts to a problem so serious that it threatens the achievements of modern medicine. A post-antibiotic era – in which common infections and …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Medicine

Report shows 20-year US immunization program spares millions of children from diseases

“The CDC estimates that vaccinations will prevent more than 21 million hospitalizations and 732,000 deaths among children born in the last 20 years. Despite the U.S. immunization program’s success, according to CDC officials, 129 people in the U.S. have been reported to have measles this year in 13 outbreaks, as of April 18. In 1994, the …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Medicine

Regional Variation in Use of Complementary Health Approaches by U.S. Adults

Key findings – Data from the National Health Interview Survey, 2012. NCHS Data Brief, Number 146, April 2014 Use of nonvitamin, nonmineral dietary supplements (17.9%) was greater than any other complementary health approach used by U.S. adults in 2012. The use of practitioner-based chiropractic or osteopathic manipulation was nearly twice as high in the West North Central region …

Subjects: Government Documents, Health Care, Medicine

New GAO Reports – National Defense, VA Construction

NATIONAL DEFENSE: Department of Defense’s Waiver of Competitive Prototyping Requirement for the Air Force’s B-2 Defensive Management System Modernization Program, GAO-14-522R: Published: Apr 22, 2014. Publicly Released: Apr 22, 2014. VA CONSTRUCTION: VA’s Actions to Address Cost Increases at Denver and Other Major Medical-Facility Projects, GAO-14-548T: Published: Apr 22, 2014. Publicly Released: Apr 22, 2014.

Subjects: Defense, Government Documents, Health Care, Medicine

NIH – Monitoring the Future 2013 Survey Results

“Monitoring the Future is an annual survey of 8th, 10th, and 12th-graders conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, under a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, part of the National Institutes of Health. Since 1975, the survey has measured drug, alcohol, and cigarette use and related attitudes in 12th-graders …

Subjects: Education, Government Documents, Health Care, Medicine

New GAO Reports – American Samoa, Defense Acquisitions, National Preparedness, Puerto Rico – Statehood

AMERICAN SAMOA AND THE COMMONWEALTH OF THE NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS: Economic Indicators Since Minimum Wage Increases Began, GAO-14-381: Published: Mar 31, 2014. Publicly Released: Mar 31, 2014. DEFENSE ACQUISITIONS: Assessments of Selected Weapon Programs, GAO-14-340SP: Published: Mar 31, 2014. Publicly Released: Mar 31, 2014. NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS: HHS Has Funded Flexible Manufacturing Activities for Medical Countermeasures, but It Is Too Soon to …

Subjects: Defense, Government Documents, Health Care, Legal Research, Legislation, Medicine

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