Advances in medicine mean that families and health professionals can be faced with extremely difficult decisions about the care of very premature or seriously ill babies, which may concern:
The RCOG is very concerned about the widespread closure of family planning and sexual health clinics in the UK.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today launched a national public education and awareness campaign on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), a weakening and often devastating illness for millions of Americans. The campaign, called “Get Informed. Get Diagnosed. Get Help”, is designed to increase awareness among clinicians and the public, because 80 percent of Americans afflicted with CFS illness may not know they have it.
Six in 10 Americans rate the health care system as fair (28 percent) or poor (31 percent).
The 2006 Health Confidence Survey (HCS) finds that the public?s increasing dissatisfaction with the American health care system appears to be focused primarily on the rising cost of care.
Three-quarters of those with employment-based health benefits state they would prefer $6,700 in employment-based coverage to an additional $6,700 in taxable income (75 percent).
Those with health coverage who have experienced an increase in health care costs in the past year are more likely to report their household finances have suffered as a result.
Even as they report growing dissatisfaction with health care costs, Americans are more satisfied with the quality of care they have received than they are with the health care system as a whole.
It’s flu season, but it may not be the best time to schedule your child’s flu shot, according to one Penn State physician and researcher. Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center pediatrician Ian M. Paul recently studied vaccination records of two high-risk pediatric groups — infants less than age 2 years and children with asthma — and found that year-round scheduling of flu shot appointments contributes significantly to better vaccination rates.
Bringing hope to hundreds of children in one of the countries hardest hit by HIV/AIDS, the Abbott Fund, Baylor College of Medicine and the Government of Malawi have joined forces to build the country’s first pediatric HIV clinic. The First Lady of Malawi, Madame Ethel Zvauya Mutharika and other dignitaries at Kamuzu Central Hospital officially opened the new clinic today in the city of Lilongwe.