The King?s Fund broadly welcomed the government?s White Paper on the regulation of doctors and other health care professionals, hailing the proposals as a good deal for patients, the public and the medical profession.
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) released a new analysis of the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reports of serious health problems following HPV vaccination (Merck’s GARDASIL) during the last six months of 2006.
Gauteng Health Department in partnership with African Musicians Against HIV and Aids (AMAHA) will host Ekasi S’ vukile concert at Soweto, Mofolo Park on February 24, 2007.
Children should not be left unsupervised to play with a dog, say experts in this week?s BMJ. Their advice is part of a review aimed at doctors who deal with dog bites.
Employers do not expect a decline in the rate of health benefit cost increases any time soon. Meanwhile, they continue to invest in on-site medical clinics, call-in medical help lines and employee health appraisals in efforts to control those costs.
The Federation of American Hospitals released a proposal for a health plan to ensure health coverage for all Americans by building on what works in our system.
The NHS Redress Act should make clinical negligence cases simpler and less costly, but it may create more, not fewer, complaints warn experts in this week?s BMJ.
In December it was reported that the NHS was spending ?55 million (?82m; $107m) each year on translation services. In this week?s BMJ, two doctors practising in inner London go head to head over whether language services in the NHS should be curbed.
In a move to build more consistent cancer care across the country, a collaboration of provinces and territories is introducing a national, interim process for the review of cancer drugs.
A study has found that African-American and Hispanic adults have twice the odds of reporting receiving counseling about alcohol use from a physician, compared with white adults.