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Physicians and health professionals from the University of Michigan are available to comment on health care reform.

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California Pacific Medical Center's citywide health care development plan, its vision for rebuilding its multi-campus hospital system, took an important first step towards approval when the San Francisco Health Commission forwarded the plan to the City's Planning Commission.

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Nearly 250 volunteers from the University of Virginia Health System are en route today to the nation's largest free healthcare event, the Remote Area Medical clinic in Wise, Va. Within hours of their arrival, the volunteers will set up a multi-disciplinary medical clinic, lab and pharmacy to serve thousands of Americans in need.

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The cost of insuring a family of four with an employer-sponsored health plan in the United States averaged $12,298 in 2008.

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For University of Virginia nursing and medical students, volunteering at the Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic in Wise County, Va. will be more than an opportunity to provide much-needed care to an underserved population. It's also an opportunity to hone their clinical skills in an area that suffers greater nursing and physician shortages compared with most of the nation.

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Spending on health care for obese Americans age 18 and older increased 82 percent between 2001 and 2006, rising from $167 billion to $303 billion, according to the latest News and Numbers from AHRQ.

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HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius released new data from the Nationwide Emergency Department Sample "“ the largest, all-payer emergency department database in the United States. These data indicate that uninsured persons accounted for nearly one-fifth of the 120 million hospital-based emergency department visits in 2006.

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With "medical home" a prominent care model in the nation's sweeping healthcare overhaul, a new study co-authored by Geisinger Center for Health Research investigator Nirav Shah, M.D., attempts to standardize definitions to evaluate the model's quality and value.

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Training sessions help medical pros deal with dental disease that starts in infants, as cavity-causing bacteria are transferred from mothers.

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The AANS and CNS announced their opposition to H.R. 3200, the "America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009," currently under consideration by the House of Representatives. "America's neurosurgeons strongly support improving our nation's healthcare system by ensuring insurance coverage for all our citizens. Unfortunately, as it is currently constructed, this bill goes far beyond what is necessary to fix what is broken with our healthcare system," stated Troy M. Tippett, MD, President of the AANS.

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Today, The George Washington University's Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program, within the School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS), launched an interactive tool designed to provide an ongoing and comprehensive comparative analysis of national health reform proposals. The purpose of this health reform comparative analysis project is to advance public understanding of the policy and legal dimensions of national health reform. The analysis released today will be continuously updated as legislation moves through the House and Senate.

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Americans are unsure that a healthcare reform bill introduced this week is the solution to problems with the U.S. healthcare system, according to a poll created and commissioned by a public policy expert at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

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Seeking out multiple sources of expert advice is one of the best ways for patients to gather information before proceeding with a treatment plan. Don't think of it as an end-run around your doctor: think of it as assembling the best team possible to guide you through some critical, potentially life-altering choices.

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A program that provides health care coverage to uninsured kids saved Los Angeles County health facilities more than $37 million in uncompensated costs over the past three years, according to an analysis led by USC community health expert Michael Cousineau.

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Medical students from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences (USU), along with students from the university's Graduate School of Nursing, deployed this week to take part in "Operation Kerkesner" and "Operation Bushmaster." These annual field training exercises are part of USU's unique curriculum, which provides students with simulated "real-world" experience providing medical care in support of war-fighting, peacekeeping and humanitarian assistance operations.

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Health professionals can quickly search relevant jobs, while advertisers can reach thousands of health professionals through the LWW journal network.

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A new review of existing research says there is little evidence to support mandatory hearing-loss prevention programs at the workplace. Workers could simply wear earplugs and other devices that protect hearing, but even those are not always effective, the review authors found.

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Dr. S. Ward Casscells, John Edward Tyson Distinguished Professor in Cardiology and Vice President of External Affairs and Public Policy at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health, along with John Zogby, president of Zogby International, will present the results of the largest recent survey of American attitudes toward healthcare reform legislation, at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, July 15, in the Murrow Room, 13th floor, National Press Building, 529 14th St., N.W.

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Reporters working on stories about how racial politics may affect President Obama's campaign for health care reform should consider Lester Spence, an assistant professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University.

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University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy scholar has spent years researching drug importation and counterfeit prescription drugs and has testified before Congress several times on the subject.

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Dr. Sharon Brown of The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing has received a total of $6 million in funding since 1992 for her health promotion and disease prevention program to help Mexican Americans with type 2 diabetes.

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Dr. Sharon Brown of The University of Texas at Austin School of Nursing has received a total of $6 million in funding since 1992 for her research in the area of health promotion for Mexican Americans with Type 2 diabetes.

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Learning how to change in order to have a healthier lifestyle is the bottom line in Dr. Diane Tyler's study on children's health and weight. Her study focuses primarily on Hispanic children who are particularly at risk of obesity.

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A procedure that sends targeted energy into the heart through a catheter can be used to treat a common type of irregular heartbeat, but little is known about the treatment's long-term benefits and the best methods and circumstances for applying it.

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Students at Michigan Technological University have designed a special mattress that can make CPR nearly twice as effective as an ordinary hospital mattress.

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Pauline Rosenau, Ph.D., professor of management, policy and community health at The University of Texas School of Public Health, can translate the proposed plan for universal health care coverage in the United States and discuss the policies of other countries with universal coverage.

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Two keynote speakers have been confirmed for the CIMIT Innovation Congress 2009 conference -- Susan Axelrod, President, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE) and Mike Harsh, Chief Technology Officer, GE Healthcare. The CIMIT Innovation Congress, held each autumn, is the only conference where preeminent trailblazers of medical device technology join with national healthcare leaders to explore new ideas and build coalitions that facilitate solutions to our most critical healthcare problems

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William Gerwick is quite happy to tell you about his scientific expeditions to Fiji. He can expound on the amazing explorations his group has led to Madagascar, Papua New Guinea, and other destinations in search of exotic molecules that could one day lead to new treatments for human diseases.

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Named the Best Place to Work in Baltimore three years in a row, LifeBridge Health offers its health care employees a wide range of unique and affordable benefits. These include an adoption benefit, phased-in retirement, free parking (which is rare in metropolitan Baltimore), on-site fitness & health programs, a cafeteria discount and an employee assistance program.

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LifeBridge Health, one of Baltimore's largest health organizations demonstrates its commitment to diversity.

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Despite its popularity in other types of surgery, minimally invasive surgical techniques have yet to gain traction in the field of gynecology. David L. Zisow, M.D., is seeking to change that; he's offering other gynecologists free training in minimally invasive hysterectomy so that more women can benefit from a safer form of surgery that also reduces recovery time.

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LifeBridge Health in Baltimore, Maryland is one of the few heath care systems with computerized records that can now be accessed across our whole system, which includes two acute hospitals, one sub-acute hospital and two nursing homes.

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Orthopaedic surgeons offer athletes of all levels safety tips for popular warm weather fun

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Crystal Haynes, CEO of Saint Louis University Hospital, is available to comment on how changes in healthcare reform, public policy, health insurance coverage and costs, healthcare disparities, and patient rights affect a hospital's ability to provide high quality quaternary/tertiary care to all patients.

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The American Urological Association (AUA) is pleased to announce its support of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Act of 2009 introduced by Senators Max Baucus (D-MT) and Kent Conrad (D-ND). The legislation establishes a private, independent nonprofit corporation called the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute whose purpose is to improve U.S. healthcare by expanding the evidence base of treatments for a wide range of conditions and diseases.

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Experts from the University of Chicago address the following: 1) How do Americans feel about government spending on health? 2) Why is health care spending going up? 3) Looking at Medicare, what have been some of the problems? 4) What about the underinsured problems of current health care plans? 5) What are some shortcomings of our current system?

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The American Academy of Neurology Professional Association has sent a letter to Congress offering a solution to fix the way physicians are reimbursed under Medicare for treating patients with severe or disabling chronic conditions, such as dementia, Parkinson's disease, ALS, epilepsy and stroke. Several other physician and patient groups have signed onto the letter.

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Stroke in children costs at least $42 million annually in the United States, researchers report in Stroke: Journal of the American Heart Association. In the first cost analysis of pediatric stroke in the United States, researchers reviewed data from U.S. children age 0 to 20 who used hospital inpatient services. The database, the Kid's Inpatient Database (KID 2003), recorded 2,224 strokes.

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A new Research Brief from the GW Department of Health Policy, supported by the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative, examines the potential effects of national health reform on the nation's 96.2 million residents of urban and rural medically underserved communities.

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AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) President and CEO Darrell G. Kirch, M.D., issued the following statement today on the agreement reached by the hospital community, the Obama administration, and the Senate Finance Committee in support of health care reform.

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Adverse work conditions may be to blame for the decline in the number of primary care physicians nationwide, according to a study published in the latest issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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Patients across the country are voicing a growing desire for greater engagement in, and control over, their own medical care. A new study led by Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) will examine the impact of adding new layer of openness to a traditionally one-sided element of the doctor-patient relationship "“ the notes from patients' doctors' visits.

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The Department of Health & Human Services's (HHS) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) announced Consejos de Salud Para Tí (Health Advice for You), a new monthly online health advice column for Spanish-speaking consumers. The column is part of AHRQ's Información en Español Web site (http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/espanoix.htm), which has been enhanced and now includes audio and video in Spanish on a wide range of health care issues.

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Survey of pharmacists shows that consumers are turning to pharmacists with more questions about medication risks following death of Michael Jackson. Chronic pain should be treated appropriately. ASHP provides tips for safe medication use.

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About 45,000 office-based physicians, including nearly all physicians who practice at federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and half of office-based pediatricians, may be eligible for up to $63,750 over six years to improve and maintain their health information technology (HIT) systems because of their participation in Medicaid, according to a new analysis by researchers at The George Washington University, funded through the Geiger Gibson/RCHN Community Health Foundation Research Collaborative.

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New Veterans Engineering Research Center to develop and implement industrial engineering methods for health care systems.

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The American Academy of Neurology Professional Association has sent a letter to Congress offering a solution to fix the way physicians are reimbursed under Medicare for treating patients with severe or disabling chronic conditions, such as dementia, Parkinson's disease, ALS, epilepsy and stroke. Several other physician and patient groups have signed onto the letter.

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Physicians and tobacco dependence experts from the UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School and the Tobacco Dependence Program at the UMDNJ-School of Public Health are available to discuss the new FDA 'boxed warning' on Chantix and Zyban.

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AMP Stresses that molecular diagnostic tests are critical in the era of personalized medicine.

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Researchers found that Part D in 2006 made statistically significant improvements in the health, access to medications, and financial hardships of previously uninsured beneficiaries.