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- Seasonal Flu Shot Awareness High in Hispanics, Vaccination Rates Lower 4 Dec 2009 05:35 GMT
... a new study of Hispanics in one California county shows low rates of actual vaccination, ... assistant professor in the Department of Public Health at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. ... vaccines? Ethnicity & Disease is a quarterly medical journal studying the ethnic patterns of disease. ...
- Chickenpox vaccine may protect kids from shingles 4 Dec 2009 06:33 GMT
... the team reported in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal. Shingles, sometimes called herpes zoster, is ... and epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente in Pasadena, California. "We decided to examine this because it ... immunodeficiency," Tseng said. Using Kaiser Permanente's electronic health record database, the team identified all the ...
- Medicare cuts stay in Senate's health care bill 4 Dec 2009 00:22 GMT
... Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. greets participants after speaking at a rally ... to stop the abortion coverage ban in health care reform, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, on ...
- Strategies to Protect New Brain Cells Against Alzheimer's Disease 4 Dec 2009 01:14 GMT
... this research. Dr. Huang's research was supported by the J. David Gladstone Institutes, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, and the National Institutes of Health. Gang Li, Nga Bien-Ly, Yaisa Andrews-Zwilling, Aubrey Bernardo, Karen Ring, Brian Halabisky, Changhui Deng, ...
- 3rd Calif. Inmate Dies From H1N1 4 Dec 2009 00:38 GMT
... Inmate Was At Central California Prison Facility POSTED: 4:11 pm PST December ... H1N1 Friday, according to the California Prison Health Care Receivership. Spokesman Luis Patino said two ...
- Chicken pox vaccine reduces shingles risk in kids -- study of 172,000 kids used EHRs 4 Dec 2009 07:12 GMT
... of shingles among children; study used electronic health records to follow 172,000 children December 4 ... 172,000 children December 4 , 2009 (Oakland, Calif.) Herpes zoster, also known as shingles, is ... 2002 to 2008 in Kaiser Permanente's Southern California region, then followed children for an average ...
- Chicken Pox Vaccine May Also Reduce Risk of Shingles Among Children 4 Dec 2009 05:31 GMT
... of Shingles Among Children Study used electronic health records to follow 172,000 children OAKLAND, Calif., Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Herpes zoster, also ... 2002 to 2008 in Kaiser Permanente's Southern California region, then followed children for an average ...
- Breastfeeding Protects Women from Metabolic Syndrome, a Diabetes and Heart Disease Predictor 4 Dec 2009 02:32 GMT
... The protective association was even stronger for women who ... Kaiser Permanente's Division of Research in Oakland, Calif. Breastfeeding a child lowers risk by 39 ... Funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, this 20-year prospective study is the first ...
- H1N1 hospitalizations hit all-time high in California 4 Dec 2009 02:30 GMT
... Nearly 800 people in California were hospitalized with the H1N1 flu last ... and remains a significant threat to public health. Health experts have said that it is ... Department of Public Health's Center for Infectious Diseases. In the week that ended Nov. 28, ...
- Nearly 800 in California hospitalized with H1N1 flu 4 Dec 2009 03:39 GMT
... Nearly 800 people in California were hospitalized with the H1N1 flu last ... and remains a significant threat to public health. Health experts have said there could be ... Department of Public Health's Center for Infectious Diseases. In the week that ended Nov. 28, ...
- The Internet and cancer: how online social networking is revolutionizing cancer health care 4 Dec 2009 03:32 GMT
... views on using Internet resources for their health concerns Online communities may help patients survive ... associate psychiatrist at the University of Chicago Medical Center. “It wasn't happening before when patients ... Internet Survey by the University of Southern California, 52 percent of respondents said the Internet ...
- Senate Breaks Health Stalemate; First Votes Today 4 Dec 2009 04:37 GMT
... Senate Breaks Health Stalemate; First Votes Today Published: Thursday, December ... skirmishing continued on the floor, the American Medical Association endorsed the thrust of the Senate ... last month. Representative Judy Chu, Democrat of California, said “women will lose benefits” under the ...
- East Coast VCs, innovators attract California biotech execs 4 Dec 2009 05:14 GMT
... in August from Prospect Venture Partners, a health-care VC firm in Palo Alto, Calif.; and Cambridge-based Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc., which in ... easy to pull a startup together. In California, everyone is more spread out,” Goldsmith said. ...
- East Coast VCs, innovators attract California biotech execs 4 Dec 2009 05:52 GMT
... in August from Prospect Venture Partners, a health-care VC firm in Palo Alto, Calif.; and Cambridge-based Agios Pharmaceuticals Inc., which in ... easy to pull a startup together. In California, everyone is more spread out,” Goldsmith said. ...
- Health bill survives first big test _ on Medicare 4 Dec 2009 00:19 GMT
... Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., right, accompanied by Senate Minority leader ... Washington, Tuesday,Dec. 1, 2009. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. greets participants after speaking at a rally ... to stop the abortion coverage ban in health care reform, Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009, on ...
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