The American Pharmacists Association applauds the Washington Post on its ground-breaking investigative series ("Pharmaceutical Roulette: A Vast, Unregulated Shadow Market") on threats to the U.S. prescription drug system, appearing during National Pharmacy Week (October 19-25).
Mandating racially mixed juries would help ensure fair trials by discouraging race-based prosecutions, says a sociologist who found strong historical precedent in England and the United States for requiring diversity among jurors.
The ASA joins social and health scientists around the nation to mark the defeat of California's Classification by Race, Ethnicity, Color and National Origin measure. This success preserves the ability of scientists to contribute to our society through research that utilizes data on race, ethnicity, and national origin.
A September 23, 2003, WNBC segment on spinal manipulation for otitis media contained such biased and misleading information that, "it is difficult to believe it was not a deliberate attempt to malign chiropractic."
New Dietary Guidelines Should Emphasize Vegetarian Foods for Disease Prevention, Says Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM).
When California citizens next head to the polls, they will be asked to vote on Proposition 54, which would effectively end public agencies' ability to collect data on the racial, ethnic, and national origin categorizations of its citizens. The American Sociological Association (ASA) joins the American Public Health Association in urging California voters to vote "no" on this Proposition.
The American Pharmacists Association joined with the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy to register strong concern over Governor Rod Blagojevich's proposal directing the Illinois special advocate to investigate importation from Canada of medications for state employees and retirees.
The Society for Women's Health Research (SWHR) supports the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) menopause information campaign, designed to help women make informed decisions about using combination hormone therapy (estrogen and progestin.)
Nutritionists are urging the top ten U.S. hospitals to ban the Atkins Diet. The nonprofit is hoping the institutions will follow the lead of England's Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, which just announced that it would ban the controversial diet from its menus because of concern about patient safety.
New report presents blueprint to advance palliative care for America's aging population and others suffering from life-threatening illnesses
The government should fund large-scale research on the safety of hormone replacement therapy for men, says an internationally recognized expert on testosterone treatment.
The Genetics and Public Policy Center at The Johns Hopkins University has established the Reproductive Genetics Advisory Committee to provide expert advice on the scientific, medical, legal, social, ethical, and policy issues that accompany genetic testing, gene transfer and cloning technologies and their potential applications to human reproduction.
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists is adamantly opposed to legislation passed yesterday by the House of Representatives that would allow medications to freely move across U.S. borders without authorization or control by the FDA.
The American Pharmacists Association is disappointed by today's vote of the U.S. House of Representatives approving legislation that would compromise the integrity of the United States' medication supply system and facilitate the movement of counterfeit medications into this country.
The group that proposed creating a National Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory at a closed South Dakota gold mine has completed a detailed engineering plan for the conversion.
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) applauds the announcement yesterday by Commissioner of Food and Drugs Mark B. McClellan, M.D., Ph.D., of a Food and Drug Administration initiative to protect American consumers from counterfeit drugs.
The announcement by the Food and Drug Administration that it will require nutrition labels to include the amounts of trans fatty acids contained in packaged foods should help millions of people make healthy food choices and lower their cholesterol, according to the American Dietetic Association.
Recognizing that 50 percent of adult patients with neurological disorders may have difficulty comprehending information that their physician provides to them, the American Academy of Neurology plans to offer health literacy training for its members.
The National Association of Social Workers strongly endorses the U.S. Supreme Court's decision striking down the Texas sodomy statute in Lawrence and Garner v. Texas.
The National Association of Social Workers supports the Court's rulings on the University of Michigan's affirmative action admissions policies.
The American Educational Research Association applauds the decisions today by the U.S. Supreme Court that uphold the principle of affirmative action and support the narrowly defined, race-conscious admissions policy at the University of Michigan's law school.
The American Pharmacists Association, applauds progress by pharmaceutical industry & federal gov't to make medications and pharmacist services more accessible.
Patient access to cancer to cancer care is severely threatened by major cuts in cancer care embedded in the Medicare Prescription Drug Bill scheduled to be voted on in Congress today.
Senators Tim Johnson (D-S.D.) and Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) yesterday introduced legislation to enhance patient safety and contain rising national health care costs by increasing Medicare patient access to the professional services of pharmacists.
In a letter addressed to the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, FASEB President Dr. Steven Teitelbaum expressed concern over a proposal to substantially increase the record keeping requirements for research animals covered by the Animal Welfare Act.
The American Academy of Physician Assistants, the only national organization to represent physician assistants in all medical and surgical settings, adopted several policy positions on current health care issues during its annual meeting in New Orleans.
Representatives of the nation's leading health care and consumer groups have endorsed 30 patient safety practices that should be universally used in health care settings to reduce the risk of harm resulting from processes, systems, or environments of care.
Robert N. Butler, M.D., renowned gerontologist, will examine the hazardous problem of ageism in America's health care system and the under representation of older persons in clinical trials during his testimony for the Senate Special Committee.
The American Pharmacists Association and the Canadian Pharmacists Association have issued a joint news release supporting a cross-border communique from the U.S. National Association of Boards of Pharmacy and the Canadian National Association of Pharmacy Regulatory Authorities.
Five national organizations representing nurses and pharmacists who work in hospitals met to examine how these two professions can work together to improve patient safety.
The American Society of Mechanical Engineers has issued a position paper to members of the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate explaining the need for a stronger federal government commitment to aviation research and technology.
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists has urged the FDA to ban the sale of dietary supplements containing ephedra because of significant risks to public health.
Genetic testing to detect carriers of cystic fibrosis is being routinely offered to many couples seeking prenatal care. Recent reports in the medical literature indicate that guidelines for safe and appropriate testing are not always being followed.
The United States Pharmacopeia announced today its support for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's proposal to develop regulations for bar coding on medicines and improve reporting requirements for safety problems involving medicines as stated in the March 14, 2003, Federal Register.
ASHP applauds FDA proposal requiring bar codes on all drug packages as a positive first step to protect hospital patients from medication errors. National pharmacist organization cautions that lot number and expiration date also critical elements to save lives.
Economist Abbas Alnasrawi is watching the increasingly volatile situation between the United States and Iraq from a unique vantage point: as an economist and a native of Iraq.
More than half of Medicaid enrollees are children. Any reform measure will impact children, and those who provide care to children. But children and their needs have been largely overlooked as the reform debate heats up.
Doctors launch ad campaign to counter high-protein hype /meat-heavy fad diets linked to osteoporosis, kidney disease, and colon cancer.
The National Association of Social Workers, along with several leading social work organizations, today filed an amicus, or "friend of the court," brief in support of the University of Michigan's affirmative action program.
The National Association of Social Workers commends Representative Stephanie Tubbs Jones and Senators Mike DeWine and John D. "Jay" Rockefeller, IV for introducing legislation targeted towards bringing more highly trained professional social workers into child welfare while reducing the high turnover among social workers already in the field.
National Science Foundation Director Dr. Rita Colwell's presentation of the third John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture on Science and the Environment will be webcast live from the 3rd National Conference on Science, Policy, and the Environment on Thursday, January 30th, at 5:30 p.m.
APhA reminds consumers of risks of importing medications, urges quick action by Congress to expand coverage for drug therapy.
APhA lauds President Bush for his commitment to adding a Medicare prescription benefit.
International Reading Association's Board of Directors believes all professionals and officials involved in education have a responsibility to engage in a civil, professional, and productive discourse.
In an effort to capture the good ideas that are in use throughout the country to lessen the need for restraint and seclusion with psychiatric patients, several national associations have teamed up to publish Learning from Each Other: Success Stories and Ideas for Reducing Restraint/Seclusion in Behavioral Health.
How can government leaders, reading professionals, and community leaders give colleges of teacher education and higher education institutions the resources they need to be effective?
More than half of all Americans ages 65 years and older took a multivitamin, an extra dose of calcium or a more exotic substance like ginkgo biloba or shark cartilage last year, hoping to maintain or improve their health.
U.S. Foreign Policy expert and Hamilton College Government Professor Yael Aronoff comments on US/Arab Relations and Iraq. She says, "Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict would do more for the war against terrorism than would an invasion of Iraq."
Americans are not getting their money's worth from the billions of dollars spent on health research each year because the health care system fails to properly put discoveries into practice, according to a report issued by the Institute of Medicine today.
Four years after securing more than $240 billion in tobacco settlements, most U.S. states have squandered the unprecedented opportunity to fund comprehensive tobacco initiatives proven to help protect children and adults from disease and death caused by tobacco, according to the first annual American Lung Association State of Tobacco Control 2002 report.
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