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Nurses :: American Nurses Association Advocates for Daily Availability of School Nurses for Nation’s Children

The American Nurses Association (ANA) recommends the assignment and daily availability of school nurses in educational settings to address the safety and health care needs of the nation’s children. Students’ health and health needs must be addressed in schools to achieve optimum learning, and registered nurses, at a ratio of one for every 750 students, are essential in promoting health, preventing injury, and providing direct health care services to school students to achieve a safe and healthy learning environment.

Breast Cancer :: Molecules found effective to treat breast cancer

Hamilton College researchers have identified molecules that have been shown to be effective in the fight against breast cancer. The Hamilton researchers used state-of-the-art computational techniques in a novel way to design molecules that they predicted would be effective lead compounds for breast cancer research.

HIV :: Abbott’s motto – Turning Science into Scaring – AIDS Healthcare Foundation

As Abbott Laboratories concluded its Annual General Meeting in Chicago, advocates from AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), the US’ largest HIV/AIDS healthcare, prevention and education provider, which operates free AIDS treatment clinics in the US, Africa, Latin America/Caribbean and Asia, continued to press Abbott to rollback its punitive drug blacklist against Thailand on six new Abbott medicines and drop its demand that Thailand rescind a compulsory license for a generic version of another blacklisted Abbott drug, Aluvia, in order to access Abbott’s version of the lifesaving AIDS drug at a significantly reduced price from the company.

NHS :: Confederation expresses concern over development of annual health check

The body that represents more than 90 per cent of NHS organisations has made strong recommendations to the Commission about the development of the annual health check amidst fears that the process is becoming too bureaucratic and cumbersome, therefore potentially damaging what it is setting out to achieve – better NHS performance and improved quality of care.

Transplant :: Increasing survival of organ transplant patients by reducing time interval for transported organs

Preservation of an organ intended for transplant during transport from donor to recipient is of primary concern in ensuring a successful transplant. Research presented at the ISHLT 27th Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions today explores two diverging systems for pump preservation — the Organ Care System and the cold preservation method, and how they each effect survival for heart transplant patients.

Health Insurance :: SCHIP has been successful overall, should be expanded

As the debate over reauthorization of the State Children?s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) heats up in Washington, a new survey of leaders in health policy and health care finds that large majorities feel the program has been successful in increasing access to health care for low income children (71%) and in reducing the rate of uninsured, low-income children (65%).

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