The impact of federal health reform on public health and preventive medicine takes center stage WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM), the nation's leading society of physicians committed to health promotion and disease prevention, kicks off Preventive Medicine 2011 this week in San Antonio from February 16-19. In addition to world-class education and scientific updates, ACPM's Annual Meeting will feature thought leaders who will address the potentially significant changes to healthcare, public health and preventive medicine as a result of landmark healthcare reform signed into law last year.
A twin taste to tide us over: - The report first surfaced in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health last week and was reported this week in Modern Medicine, and let's just say, at least half of us will find the news rather encouraging: Moderate consumption of wine is linked to a five- year bump in men's life expectancy.
Anne Arundel Medical Center and Johns Hopkins Hospital and Health System announced a new alliance this week that they promise will bring cutting edge medicine to Anne Arundel County. The affiliation will allow the local hospital to tap into the resources of the Johns Hopkins network, even if the sign out front will stay the same.
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OU Physicians, MinuteClinic sign agreementOKLAHOMA CITY - OU Physicians has agreed to have staff doctors serve as medical directors at four MinuteClinic locations in the Oklahoma City area.MinuteClinic is the retail health care division of CVS Caremark.The agreement includes four MinuteClinic walk-in medical clinics open seven days a week inside CVS stores in Edmond, Moore, Mustang and Norman. The clinics are staffed by nurse practitioners who provide treatment for common family illnesses and administer wellness and prevention services, including health condition monitoring. MinuteClinic and OU Physicians will collaborate on patient education and disease management initiatives and will inform patients of the services each offers. OU Physicians will accept patients who need a level of ca...
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PONTIAC - If there is a bioterrorism attack, the Livingston County Health Department could provide preventative medicine to 457 people in one hour.That and other facts came out Friday as the health department, along with 12 other local authorities, practiced how they would respond to a bioterrorism attack in the county.The bioterrorism simulation scenario, which began Tuesday, was designed to be as real as possible to show how area agencies would react, said MaLinda Hillman, Livingston County Health Department director."We are testing to see what would happen if we had to distribute medicines and how we would run a clinic," Hillman said of Fridays simulation. "The exercise shows us how we would respond and dispense medicine if there was a bioterrorism attack."The health department and h...
WEEK OF OCT. 2 - Dr. Michelle Reed, D.O., has joined the Cheyenne Mountain office of Strode Family Practice. Reed brings 11 years of experience in family practice with a focus on preventative medicine and women's health, and a certification in geriatric medicine in the treatment of chronic conditions. She graduated from the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in Pomona, Calif,, and is board certified in family practice by the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Greening of vacant urban land may affect the health and safety of nearby residents, according to a study published online in the American Journal of Epidemiology this week. The team, led by senior author Charles C. Branas, Ph.D., associate professor of Epidemiology at the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, found in a decade-long comparison of vacant lots and improved vacant lots, that greening was linked to significant reductions in gun assaults across most of Philadelphia and significant reductions in vandalism in one section of the city. Vacant lot greening was also associated with residents in certain sections of the city reporting significantly less stress and more exercise. Improving the places where peop...
The $65 million new building opening at Englewood Hospital and Medical Center this week says a lot about the health of North Jersey residents, their values and how medicine has changed. It devotes an entire section - more than double the space assigned previously - to the detection of breast cancer, the most common cancer for women.
Light chatter hung in the air at the Clay Centers Walker Theater as the first name was called. Zach Brewer. Brewers face lit up as he walked forward and accepted the envelope that would change the course of his life. He was one of about 40 students from the West Virginia University-Charleston Division School of Medicine who gathered to receive their match letters from the National Resident Matching Program, a private corporation that decides where graduate medical students will complete their residencies. A Bridgeport native, Brewer will stay in Charleston as he does his three-year residency in internal medicine at Charleston Area Medical Center. One by one, students were called to the front of the room to accept their letter from Kathleen Bors, dean for student services at WVU- Charles...
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