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Preventive Medicine

Type: Keyphrase

Name: Preventive Medicine

First Reported 7 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 1 Documents

Tornado of Soda Tax Opposition Grows and Grows

As revenue-starved politicians everywhere seek new ways to collect every last available nickel and dime, more and more are turning to soft drink taxes. Its almost a sort of whack-a-mole game, with a new state or locality creating a new proposal seemingly ... [Published 7 hours ago by Centre for Consumer Freedom]

Entities: Taxes, Tornado, Calorie

First Reported Mar 19 2010 - Updated Mar 19 2010 - 1 Documents

Lipid re-screening: what is the best measure and interval?

Objectives To estimate the long-term true change variation (‘signal’) and short-term within-person variation (‘noise’) of the different lipid measures and evaluate the best measure and the optimal interval for lipid re-screening.Design Retrospective cohort ... [Published Mar 19 2010 by British Journal of the Heart]

Entities: Lipid, Preventive Medicine, Tokyo, Teaching

First Reported Mar 16 2010 - Updated Mar 16 2010 - 1 Documents

Bird flu strikes again in Bac Ninh

VietNamNet Bridge – An outbreak of avian flu (A/H1N1) has been reported in northern Bac Ninh Province.The latest outbreak brought the total number of affected provinces to six, including Bac Ninh, Ca Mau, Dien Bien, Ha Giang, Khanh Hoa and Tuyen Quang, ... [Published Mar 16 2010 by VietNamNet Bridge]

Entities: Bird Flu, Influenza, Virus

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

NHS

Opinion split over DIY smear tests

Young women have been warned by cervical cancer experts against buying DIY smear tests over the internet.Dr Anne Szarewski, from the Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine in London, sounded the warning as online pharmacy DrThom launched its kits.The ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by Nursing Times]

Entities: CERVICAL CANCER, NHS, Wales, human papillomavirus

First Reported Mar 15 2010 - Updated Mar 15 2010 - 1 Documents

Cell Science Systems Recruits Seasoned Executive to Head New

Roger Deutch, Chief Executive Officer for , announced that Philip Voluck has joined the firm and is establishing a new company that will be known as PreviMedica Lifestyle Medicine & Nutrition.PreviMedica Lifestyle Medicine & Nutrition will bring a new ... [Published Mar 15 2010 by PR Newswire via MSN Money]

Entities: Health Care, Nutrition, Jenny Craig, Preventive Medicine, Physician

First Reported Mar 14 2010 - Updated Mar 14 2010 - 1 Documents

UAE : Just Five Minutes To Get Mandatory ID card

Just five minutes to get ID cardABU DHABI - MAR 10: Registration for mandatory identity cards, which can take a whole day, is to be cut to five minutes, officials pledged yesterday.The number of registration centres will also be increased so that 20,000 ... [Published Mar 14 2010 by Daijiworldcom]

Entities: Citrate, United Arab Emirates, Dubai

First Reported Mar 13 2010 - Updated Mar 14 2010 - 1 Documents

Vietnam: Hanoi woman tests positive for H5N1

Via Viet Nam News: Ha Noi woman tests positive for bird flu. A 25-year-old woman from Soc Son District, Ha Noi was tested positive for avian influenza virus type H5N1 or bird flu on Thursday, according to the Preventive Medicine and Environment at ... [Published Mar 13 2010 by H5N1]

Entities: Influenza A H5N1 Virus, Vietnam, Bird Flu, Ha Noi

First Reported Mar 13 2010 - Updated Mar 13 2010 - 1 Documents

Egypt: 272 H1N1 deaths, but flu is declining

Via Daily News Egypt: No drastic measures in schools for declining H1N1 cases. Excerpt:Due to the substantial decline in swine flu cases, the Ministry of Health has officially announced that during the second semester of the academic year, no classrooms ... [Published Mar 13 2010 by H5N1]

Entities: Swine Flu, Influenza A H1N1 Virus, Egypt, IDSC, Declination

First Reported Mar 09 2010 - Updated Mar 10 2010 - 2 Documents

Critical Recommendations Unveiled To Respond To National Public Health Crisis: Deep-Vein Thrombosis And Pulmonary Embolism

Three critical recommendations from a national workshop have been released to address deep-vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE), a growing public health problem estimated to affect nearly 1 million Americans each year. The recommendations ... [Published Mar 10 2010 by MediLexicon]

Entities: Public Health, Thrombosis, Coagulation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Preventive Medicine

First Reported Mar 08 2010 - Updated Mar 09 2010 - 2 Documents

Egypt: H1N1 declining

Via Daily News Egypt: Swine flu on the decline in Egypt. Excerpt:Swine flu cases in Egypt are substantially declining, with the rate of weekly reported cases falling to almost half, the Ministry of Health announced. “Swine flu in Egypt is declining, ... [Published Mar 09 2010 by H5N1]

Entities: Swine Flu, Egypt, Declination, Influenza A H1N1 Virus

First Reported Mar 08 2010 - Updated Mar 08 2010 - 1 Documents

Docs Should Play Role in Increasing Immunization Uptake in Adults

According to a new report from the Trust for America's Health, up to 50,000 U.S. adults die each year from vaccine preventable diseases, and the direct health care burden of vaccine preventable diseases in American adults is $10 billion a year. Physicians, ... [Published Mar 08 2010 by American Family Physician]

Entities: Vaccine, William Schaffner, Immunity, tetanus toxoid, Toxoid

First Reported Feb 25 2010 - Updated Feb 26 2010 - 2 Documents

Community-wide wellness initiative to deliver preventive health care services to northwest Arkansas

U.S. Preventive Medicine® and Washington Regional Medical Center, together with Arkansas Occupational Health Clinic and Kids for Health, today introduced an initiative to deliver preventive health care services to northwest Arkansas. This community-wide ... [Published Feb 26 2010 by News-Medical.Net]

Entities: Preventive Medicine, Health Care, Washington DC, United States, Heart Disease

Quotes

...Rica who is now responsible, with Dole’s support, for managing the unit, coordinating the medical staff’s planning and organizing health campaigns. "Even though Costa Rica's social securitysecurity system is well developed and has local clinics in most of the communities of the Atlantic Zone, this mobile medical unit will be an additional tool to bring specialized medical services to remote areas, services that are mainly provided in urban areas. We expect this new unit to treat over 10,000 people per year" said Danilo Román, General Manager, Standard Fruit de Costa Rica

Dole Inaugurates a Mobile Medical Unit to Attend Rural Communities in... [CSR Wire - 13 hours ago]

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Lipid re-screening: what is the best measure an... [British Journal of the Heart - Mar 19 2010]
Scarlett Johansson urges Congress to pass Healt... [PCRM - Mar 18 2010]
Intensive blood pressure control in diabetes 'h... [Pulse - Mar 18 2010]
Newsweek: More med students opt for primary care [MSNBC - Mar 18 2010]
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Expert opinion: duration of HPV vaccine immunity [Healthcare Republic - Mar 18 2010]
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Dole Rolls Out Mobile Medical Unit to Serve Rur... [TradingMarkets - Mar 18 2010]
They claim to foretell Alzheimer's to cancer, b... [Mail Online UK - Mar 17 2010]
Research data: WTC collapse caused potentially ... [News-Medical.Net - Mar 17 2010]
A quarter of Californians uninsured in 2009: Wh... [Examiner.com - Mar 17 2010]
Dole Food inaugurates mobile medical unit to of... [News-Medical.Net - Mar 16 2010]
Dole Inaugurates a Mobile Medical Unit to Atten... [EuroInvestor.co.uk - Mar 16 2010]
New advertising campaign encourages teenagers t... [News-Medical.Net - Mar 16 2010]
Bird flu strikes again in Bac Ninh [VietNamNet Bridge - Mar 16 2010]
DIRECTORS' RESPONSIBILITIES: More devotion dema... [Business 7 - Mar 16 2010]
Diabetes-drug failure could be blessing in disg... [PCRM - Mar 15 2010]
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Troops with malaria could face punishment for d... [Stars and Stripes - Mar 15 2010]
Teen Girls Say Pink Camel in Cigarette Ads Caug... [MSN - Mar 15 2010]
Opinion split over DIY smear tests [Nursing Times - Mar 15 2010]
Cell Science Systems Recruits Seasoned Executiv... [PR Newswire via MSN Money - Mar 15 2010]
Diabetes drugs don't help heart [News24.com - Mar 15 2010]
Ninety-two Percent of Pre-Diabetes Patients Are... [Diabetes in Control - Mar 15 2010]

Blogs

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Thomas Goetz: Cancer Is a Preventable Disease -... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Mar 18 2010] Cancer is perhaps the most frightening of all diseases we face. And the thing is, it's very often entirely preventable. If we simply made some different ...
Vietnam: Hanoi woman tests positive for H5N1 [H5N1 - Mar 13 2010] Via Viet Nam News: Ha Noi woman tests positive for bird flu. A 25-year-old woman from Soc Son District, Ha Noi was tested positive for avian influenza virus type ...
Egypt: 272 H1N1 deaths, but flu is declining [H5N1 - Mar 13 2010] Via Daily News Egypt: No drastic measures in schools for declining H1N1 cases. Excerpt:Due to the substantial decline in swine flu cases, the Ministry of Health ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: Central Figure in CDC Va... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Mar 11 2010] A central figure behind the Center for Disease Control's (CDC) claims disputing the link between vaccines and autism and other neurological disorders has ...
Kathy Freston: A High Protein Diet Won't Make Y... [The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed - Mar 10 2010] In this series of interviews I've conducted with extraordinary nutritional researchers and medical doctors, I've sought to understand the link between ...

Audio/Video

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ASFH Keeping an Even Keel on IOP [Mefeedia Video Tag : medici - Oct 02 2009]
Rep Buchanan: 3 Keys To Health Care Reform [Rep. Vern Buchanan - YouTube Channel - Sep 28 2009]