Large number of employees of Indian industry are vulnerable to HIV, noted by the World Bank. India’s private sector stands to gain by supporting interventions aimed at preventing the virus from spreading at the workplace and in local communities.
Mike Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services, issued a statement on Senate Finance Committee Markup of the Children?s Health Insurance Reauthorization Act of 2007.
Older adults who cannot read and understand basic health information appear to have increased mortality rates over a five-year period than those with adequate health literacy, according to a report in the July 23 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
As health consumers across the country demand better and more detailed information about their physicians and hospitals, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is stepping up to detail its own performance efforts ranging from the percentage of clinicians who clean their hands to the number of times physicians take the proper steps in treating heart attack patients.
ICICI Prudential Life Insurance announced its launched a product to tap the health insurance sector.
Catholic Charities USA, CCUSA issued the following statement on action by the Senate Finance Committee on legislation to expand the State Children?s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), a state-federal partnership that covers children from low-income families that do not qualify for Medicaid.
A national study reveals that the use of intracytoplasmic sperm injection or ICSI – an assisted reproductive technology used to treat male-factor infertility – has increased dramatically in the United States since 1995, while the proportion of patients receiving treatment for male-factor infertility has remained stable.
Presidential candidate and former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.) on Wednesday at a town hall meeting in Las Vegas said that he would use the “bully pulpit” of the presidency to prompt reforms in the health insurance and pharmaceutical industries and address problems with the “dysfunctional health care system,” the Las Vegas Sun reports.
Cindy Mann, executive director of the Center for Children and Families, Georgetown University issued the following statement on the release of the Senate Finance Committee chairman’ s proposal to renew the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP):
The AARC is on board with legislation forming in the U.S. Senate to raise the cigarette tax by 61 cents per pack.