The federal agency that oversees Medicare reimbursement, responding to a two-year campaign waged by the American Liver Foundation, last month reversed a policy that denied coverage of liver transplantation for patients with hepatitis B.
The National Science Board has adopted a report recommending that NSF spend an additional $1 billion over the next five years to increase its support for environmental research and education.
The National Sea Grant College Program hosts a special media breakfast briefing on issues, both in coastal and social sciences, likely to impact decisions in the coming months to help restore the productivity and diversity of salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest.
NSF leaders will brief members of the science and engineering community on NSF's budget request.
The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology has endorsed NIH's draft guidelines for stem cell research.
The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) today proposed a comprehensive, national approach to reducing medication and other medical errors.
Press Conference: The Association of American Medical Colleges presents the organization's advocacy and legislative agenda for the coming year. (1/13/00, Wash., DC.)
Following the 25th anniversary of the implementation of the Endangered Species Act, JAPA author Timothy Beatley calls for new bolder strategies for preserving wildlife habitat in the U.S.
The following was released by American Cancer Society chief medical officer Harmon Eyre, M.D. Eyre's comments come in response to the decision by a coalition of leading health insurers to provide coverage for clinical trials in New Jersey.
Federal policy addressing loss of lives and property from natural disasters is critically flawed, say these authors, and recognizing the importance of proper land use planning is the key to correcting it.
Senator John McCain's (R-Ariz.) recently released plan to reduce the number of uninsured Americans is a step in the right direction, but he should commit himself to a plan to provide health insurance for all Americans, according to the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.
The American Medical Association launched "National House Call" today to ensure that the next president puts health care at the top of his policy agenda.
The American Academy of Family Physicians commends the U.S. Surgeon General for his efforts to increase awareness of mental health and mental illness needs of all Americans.
Three presidential candidates have issued statements recognizing a lack of health insurance as a serious health risk, according to a statement released today by the American College of Physicians-American Society of Internal Medicine.
The Surgeon General puts mental health where it belongs: as a cornerstone of public health, said Michael Faenza, president and CEO of the National Mental Health Association.
A range of effective, well-documented treatments exist for most mental disorders, yet nearly half of all Americans who have a severe mental illness fail to seek treatment, according to the first-ever Surgeon General's report on mental health.
Underscoring its commitment to the growing population of cancer survivors, the National Cancer Institute today unveiled the Office of Cancer Survivorship's newly designed Web site.
The National Conference of State Legislatures' Health Policy Tracking Service (HPTS) will issue its annual survey, detailing the key health issues, priorities, and initiatives planned for the upcoming year, on Thursday, Dec. 16.
The HHS Administration for Children and Families announced today that the Head Start Program received the highest score of any government agency and private companies in the latest American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI).
Nancy W. Dickey, M.D., immediate past president of the American Medical Association (AMA), speaking to a Senate subcommittee, said that the elimination of health care system errors is a high priority for the AMA.
The AMA is launching a campaign to focus the presidential candidates' attention on the health care issues the public rates as their highest priorities. It plans to visit key states and meet with voters and candidates to deliver a list of essential questions.
APA President Allan Tasman, M.D., indicated that the Surgeon General's report is good news to millions of people with mental illnesses, and constitutes a national call to action.
Environmental, health, and consumer groups alerted the world that the nations signed on to the Montreal Protocol are no longer capable of responding to the serious threat to the ozone layer. This came at the close of the 11th annual negotiating meeting held under this international environmental treaty.
Dr. Paul Appelbaum, Vice President of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), issued a statement in response to U.S. House of Representatives hearing on, "Do Current Federal Regulations Adequately Protect People Who Participate in Medical Research?"
On December 6, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999, reauthorizing the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, and officially changing its name to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).
The American Association of Engineering Societies released its annual salary survey, which shows that engineers' compensation grew a robust 3.4 percent in 1999 to a median income of $41,790 for an entry-level engineer.
Scientists in England, the United States and Japan, working under the umbrella of the ambitious international Human Genome Project, have unraveled the DNA code of an entire human chromosome.
The American Heart Association welcomed today's news that President Clinton signed into law H.R. 3194, the FY 2000 Consolidated Appropriations Act.
ASHP endorses the findings of a report on preventing medical errors released Nov. 29 by the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies.
President Clinton signed the FY2000 budget today, and many in Washington are breathing a sigh of relief.
The Health Care Financing Administration announced that the Medicare program is taking new steps to ensure that all patients with renal failure, regardless of race or ethnicity, are being evaluated for kidney transplantation.
At a time when Americans should be giving thanks for the benefits new biotechnologies offer the developing world, the environment and health, a coalition of environmental groups, Members of Congress and anti-technology Luddites are protesting these benefits and threatening their future.
The American Public Health Association praised the Clinton administration for releasing new workplace rules that would protect an estimated 27 million U.S. workers whose jobs put their health at risk from activities such as repetitive motion or heavy lifting.
Sheila S. Jasanoff, Professor of Science and Public Policy at Harvard University's School of Public Health and the John F. Kennedy School of Government, will speak on science wars as a distinctive political phenomenon in a distinguished lecture on November 23 at the National Science Foundation.
A resource guide to help health care workers and health care facilities evaluate and select safe needle devices will be developed through a new partnership, the American Nurses Association (ANA) announced today.
Nursing research addresses the issues that examine the core of patients' and families' personal encounters with illness, treatment, and disease prevention.
The Alpha Center will hold a meeting to discuss trends and data on the employer-based system as well as its future viability in an evolving health care marketplace Nov. 22-23 in Washington, DC.
The American Nurses Association's "Safe Needles Save Lives" campaign scored an important victory for the ANA, its constituent members and RNs nationwide, when the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration mandated safer needlestick devices nationwide.
Vice President Gore welcomes the submission today of legislation that begins the process of addressing the health consequences facing workers at various facilities related to work vital to our national defense.
Regulating automobiles as a consumer product has reduced injuries and deaths from vehicle collisions. Now there is increasing evidence that the public supports the same sort of regulatory approach to firearms as a means to cut injuries and death from guns, UCLA researchers report in the Nov. 19 edition of Science.
In effort to reduce the regulatory burden on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the pharmaceutical industry, the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS) announced today the formation of the Product Quality Research Institute (PQRI).
Smith College President Ruth J. Simmons is calling upon colleges and universities to develop a set of principles for dealing with racial inequities inside their institutions and, by extension, within society as a whole.
National Patient Advocate Laurene West is available to discuss the implications of the health care industry's Y2K readiness problems for an estimated 55 million Americans whose lives depend on daily, often continuous, medication and/or treatment.
UnitedHealth Group, the second largest health insurer in the United States, has announced that it will give doctors final say on what treatments are medically necessary.
AHCPR announced it is developing recommendations, or "guiding national principles," for helping institutional review boards and like bodies protect against the disclosure of personal health information in research that could be used to identify individual patients.
Journalists are invited to attend National Science Board events next week.
Seventy experts from around the world are leading the cry that it will take more than standards and rules to govern the trade in food that ends up on tables around the world.
Planned Parenthood deplores the on-going attempts by extreme anti-choice politicians to curtail scientific research and medical advances for the sake of hyperbole and to demonize women who seek to control their own fertility.
In a briefing for congressional staff and media today, a University of Virginia professor debunked many of the global warming myths in public debate over the last decade.
The National Medical Association acknowledges that the pneumococcal vaccine decreases the incidence of pneumococcal disease in the pediatric population, particularly with respect to children less than 3 years of age and recommends the vaccine be considered for inclusion in the Vaccines for Children Program.
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