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Nearly 10 years after the declaration of the War on Terror, the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan have killed at least 225,000 people, including men and women in uniform, contractors, and civilians. The wars will cost Americans between $ viagra soft tabs uk 3.2 and $4 trillion, including medical care and disability for current [...]

London, Sept 28 (ANI): Japanese scientists have developed a hair-washing robot that uses 16 robotic fingers and two motorised arms to do the job. Created at Panasonic Corporation, the robot has been created to replicate the hands of a human hair stylist, and is designed to help with the care of the country”s “silver generation”. [...]

Washington, Sept 21 (ANI): A new research shows that female cichlid fish look after their young and raise them alone if abandoned by males. Dr Topi Lehtonen from the University of Turku in Finland, Dr Bob Wong and Dr Andreas Svensson from Monash University and Professor Axel Myer from Konstanz University in Germany, found that [...]

Washington, Sep 14 (ANI): A new study has found that an intervention delivered in a primary care setting aimed at getting patients at risk for heart disease to increase their physical activity and improve their diet improves quality of life and is highly cost-effective compared with standard care. “Extensive and intensive lifestyle intervention programs delay [...]

Washington, Sep 2 (IANS) The US has warned its citizens travelling to or residing in India during the upcoming Commonwealth Games of a threat of ‘terrorist action and violence’ and asked them to ‘take care when travelling within Delhi’. ‘The US Mission in India alerts US citizens travelling to or residing in India to safety [...]

London, Aug 16 (ANI): Medical experts have called for action on cancer, saying that it is not a ”disease of the rich” but a global health priority. “The integration of cancer prevention and care where both are needed is precisely what we need to do if we are to make the response to the challenge [...]

An aged care facility in the New South Wales south east says it is been unfairly targeted in a State Nurses Association row over pay cuts. The Association says it’s launched a class action to stop nurses at Cooma, Dalmeny and Eden losing up to 20 per cent of their pay. The Sir James facility [...]

The Nurses Union is taking legal action against three New South Wales South East aged care homes over possible nursing wage cuts. Aged care facilities at Cooma, Dalmeny and Eden are part of a class action intended to stop nurses losing 20 per cent of their pay. The case, against about 280 New South Wales [...]

Nurses from 15 aged care facilities in the Hunter have joined a class action to protect their wages. The New South Wales Nurses Association has lodged an application with Fair Work Australia because aged care employers have denied workers the opportunity to bargain for an enterprise agreement. The association says the award rate for nurses [...]

Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon says she is horrified by reports of an increase in assaults and sexual assaults in aged care nursing homes. Fairfax newspapers say health department figures show assaults are up by 50 per cent and sexual assaults are up by 36 per cent. Ms Roxon has told the ABC1′s Insiders program [...]

Washington, March 26 (ANI): Surgical masks provide effective protection to health-care workers against H1N1, a new study has found. Researchers analysed the incidence of H1N1 among health care workers from April through August of 2009 at Tan Tock Seng Hospital in Singapore. A small percentage tested positive for H1N1 during this period. None had cared [...]

The chief executive of a Sunshine Coast aged care organisation is backing calls for the Federal Government to take over funding of the sector. Aged Care Queensland and Queensland Health Minister Paul Lucas want aged care included in the Commonwealth’s planned health shake-up. Sundale chief executive Glenn Bunney says the Federal Government already controls 100 [...]

Aged Care Queensland CEO Anton Kardash says the sector is in crisis and needs to be included in the Federal Government’s public health overhaul. Mr Kardash has backed Queensland Health Minister Paul Lucas’s call for the Federal Government to include aged care in its reform of public health services. He says if nothing is done [...]

London, Mar 17 (ANI): Integrated care programme, directed at both the patient and the workplace, can substantially reduce disability due to chronic low back pain in an individual’s private and working life, according to a new study. The study has been published on bmj.com. Researchers based in The Netherlands and Canada evaluated the effectiveness of [...]

A non-profit organisation which aims to ensure children’s health care needs are met says it is disturbed that adults are being placed in hospital children’s wards. Last week, Port Macquarie MP Peter Besseling told the New South Wales Parliament that adults are sometimes placed in the paediatric ward at the Port Macquarie Base Hospital due [...]

NEW YORK, NY, Feb 24 (MARKET WIRE) — In the news release, “Bosch Healthcare and CMO-The Care Management Company Partner With Medicare to Evaluate Telehealth in Managing Care for Medicare Beneficiaries With Chronic Conditions,” issued Monday, February 22, by Bosch, we are advised by the company that in the second paragraph, Stephen Rosenthal’s title should [...]

WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Christiana Care Health System has achieved Magnet recognition for excellence in nursing by the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). Only 6 percent of the nation’s hospitals have earned this honor, the highest level of national recognition to health care organizations that demonstrate sustained excellence in nursing care. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090407/DC95299LOGO) [...]

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — An estimated one in five children in America go without dental care each year and two thirds of states do not have effective policies in place to ensure proper dental health and access to care, according to a report by the Pew Center on the States. The Cost of Delay: [...]

AAPA honors U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin for commitment to patient care WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Hundreds of physician assistants (PAs) will converge in Washington, D.C. on February 23 during the American Academy of Physician Assistants’ (AAPA) Capitol Connection summit to deliver the message to Capitol Hill that PAs are integral to a strong [...]

London, Feb 18 (ANI): A study has revealed that the rate of stillbirths in rural areas of six developing countries fell more than 30 percent following a basic training program in newborn care for birth attendants. The study funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation tracked more than [...]