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Private hospitals' records should be public, ACT Health Minister ... link ABC Online - Australia
Australia's state and territory health ministers want private hospitals to be forced to publish information about waiting lists, operations performed and ...

Health system 'transparent' in new bill link The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Proposed changes to the private health insurance bill would improve transparency and accountability among state health systems, says Federal Health Minister ...

Health dept. wants probation for Birmingham abortion clinic link WEAR - Pensacola,FL,USA
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) -- Health officials say the Birmingham abortion clinic where a police officer was killed in a 1998 bombing will likely have its license ...

Q&A: National e-health network prototype due in January link Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA: November 17, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Robert Kolodner was named interim national coordinator for health IT at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS ...

Charities vow to challenge new mental health bill link Guardian Unlimited - UK
Charities and groups representing care professionals warned yesterday that the government faces a bitter fight over its mental health bill. ...

Self-Rated Fair or Poor Health Among Adults with Diabetes — United ... link By Shirl Kennedy
Self-rated health status is a useful indicator of a population’s overall well-being because lower ratings of health status have been associated with ... Fair or poor health among persons with diabetes is also associated with the ...

Reports Detail Environmental Health Challenges Associated With ... link By webmaster@ehp.niehs.nih.gov (webmaster@ehp.niehs.nih.gov) : A University of Iowa-sponsored international conference on concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) has resulted in a series of published reports addressing major environmental health issues associated with large, ...

Health Highlights: Nov. 17, 2006 link Forbes - NY,USA
... growth of the prostate gland. The study appears in the November issue of the journal Environmental Health. "Until now, we did not ...

The mental health bill link Guardian Unlimited - UK
The government has published yet another bill intended to replace the Mental Health Act. But campaigners say it is still too draconian. David Batty explains. ...

MALAWI: Health worker shortage a challenge to AIDS treatment link Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK: ... In Malawi, the fourth poorest country in the world, where UNAIDS has put HIV prevalence at 14 percent, the health worker shortage is so acute that the ministry ...

Lagos Flags Off Improved Health Programmme for Kids link AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Jide Idris, who raised the alarm on Thursday at a news conference, confirmed that children account for 40 ...

Ideology vs. public health link Houston Chronicle - United States
The Bush administration has appointed a new chief of family-planning programs at the Department of Health and Human Services who worked at a Christian ...

Diabetics often rate their health as fair or poor link Reuters - USA
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Adults with diabetes are more than three times more likely to rate their overall health as fair or poor than are adults without ...

Work moves ahead on health risks study link ABC Regional Online - Australia
A study to determine the major health risks facing Wimmera residents is now half complete. Greater Health is running the study, which ...

Russian health insurance fund top officials arrested for bribery ... link RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia: MOSCOW, November 17 (RIA Novosti) - Six top officials from a Russian government health insurance fund were arrested on charges of bribe-taking Friday in what ...

WSU Institute of Mental Health Hosts First Symposium link By Vance
Wayne State University’s Institute of Mental Health held its first ... Patrick Barrie, Deputy Director of Michigan’s Mental Health Substance Abuse ... Barrie described the current state of mental health services in Michigan and ...

OMB to grade agencies on health IT interoperability plans link
The date reflects the timeline in an August White House executive order for agencies to include health IT interoperability standards, and quality and price transparency when they acquire and update systems for health data exchange.

Katrina Mental Health PSA #2 link
Ad agency Grey Worldwide worked with the US Substance Abuse and Mental
Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the Ad Council to create a series of PSAs highlighting the need for Katrina surivors to reach out for help. ...