As a brain-damaged woman named Terri Schiavo lived her final days in 2005, her family’s bitter feuding imparted a tragic lesson about the importance of specifying one’s wishes for end-of-life medical treatment.
As baby boomers age and women with young children return to the work force, families are increasingly turning to paid workers to care for children and elderly parents and grandparents. Yet those direct care and child care workers receive low wages, change jobs often, lack health insurance, and live in low-income families at a greater rate than all female workers, according to a new policy brief by the Carsey Institute at the University of New Hampshire.
Speaking at the meeting of Indian Health Ministers of polio affected States organized to review the status of polio eradication efforts, the Indian Minister for Health & Family Welfare, Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss said that it is critical to sustain the high level of immunity in all polio-affected States by vaccinating all children under the age of five both through routine immunization and Supplementary Immunization Activities (SIAs), so that the polio virus does not get a chance to re-establish its circulation.
As stem cells in the blood grow older, genetic mutations accumulate that could be at the root of blood diseases that strike people as they age, according to work done in mice by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
A drug described by some people as a “genius pill” for enhancing cognitive function provided relief to a small group of Rochester breast cancer survivors who were coping with a side effect known as “chemo-brain,” according to a University of Rochester Medical Center study.
New research to be published in the Journal of Management Studies reveals that employees in the US are bullied up to 50% more often than workers in Scandinavia.
The rise in flexible working arrangements is having a particularly adverse impact on women, with a University of Melbourne study finding that those working in casual or contract jobs reported much higher levels of job strain compared to their full-time counterparts.
US Governor Edward G. Rendell signed two executive orders to improve how Pennsylvanians with chronic disease receive health care in the future. Both initiatives are part of the Governor?s Prescription for Pennsylvania health care reform plan.
Following Judicial Review findings, Secretary of State for Health, Patricia Hewitt announced that job offers for junior doctors applying for specialist recruitment will start today. Speaking in the House of Commons she said:
MTAS Judicial Review outcome – Judicial Review finds in favour of Department of Health. Health Minister, Lord Hunt said: