The Associated Press

Pa. Health Care Company Seeks Gas Drilling...
ABC News
Some people are absolutely sure gas drilling threatens public health, while others are absolutely sure it doesn't. Geisinger Health Systems is looking for more facts on the debate. "Our concern is getting reliable data so we know what to do for our ...
Pa. health care company seeks gas drilling factsThe Associated Press

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National Museum of Health and Medicine reopening on 150th anniversary
Washington Post
There's more than war in the Defense Department's refreshed and relocated National Museum of Health and Medicine, which will celebrate its grand reopening in Silver Spring on Monday. The arthritic skeleton of Peter Cluckey sits in its wooden chair, ...

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Inadequacies of China's health insurance system
MarketWatch
The emotions that unfolded in public as her story circulated in nationwide media outlets indicated that something is deeply amiss in the health care system. What does it take to die well? For Huang Nichao, another 24-year old woman, who was diagnosed ...

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Los Angeles Times

LA Unified a rare haven for health teachers
Los Angeles Times
The school district still has dedicated health classes while many others have ended theirs, largely for fiscal reasons. Students Jonathan Jimenez, left, and Brandon Rafaeil confer with health teacher Bridget Brownell atTaft High School.



Voice of America

Checklist Improves Health Practices in Childbirth
Voice of America
(File: AP) More women die in the developing world from complications during pregnancy and childbirth than from any other cause, according to the World Health Organization. But, a group of scientists thinks it can change that with the help of a simple ...



The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)

Knee surgery stats prompt changes at US hospitals
CBS News
CONCORD, NH — Knee replacement surgeries at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center soon could be handled by a specialized operating room team as the result of a data-sharing project among health systems throughout the US aimed at improving health care and ...
University of Iowa part of new health collaborativeThe Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines (blog)

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New York Times

Waiting for Health Care
New York Times
And a few years ago, as the contentious vote for health care reform got louder, it occurred to me that the people who were not participating in the debate were the very people we were fighting over: those stuck in waiting rooms at underfunded public ...



QNews

Peak medical body backs cut to Healthy Communities
Brisbane Times
The Queensland Government's decision to axe funding of the only health organisation dedicated to the prevention of AIDS/HIV among the gay community has gained support from the state's peak doctors' body. The head of the Queensland branch of the ...
Funding cut to sexual health group 'unfair'ABC Online
Suicide, HIV could rise in Qld after cutsNinemsn
Queensland Association of Healthy Communities gay health funding axedThe Cairns Post
Gay News Network -My Sunshine Coast (press release) -Herald Sun
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KVAL

Mental Health Worker Fatally Stabbed in St. Helens
KTVZ
A mental health worker was stabbed to death Sunday while visiting a client in St. Helens. St. Helens Police Chief Steve Salle tells The Oregonian (http://is.gd/XCsUfF ) that a man named Brent Redd called 911 at about 8 am to report that Jennifer Warren ...
Mental health worker killed in St. HelensKVAL
Mental health worker stabbed to death in St. Helens, police saykgw.com

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Telegraph.co.uk

World Health Organisation to declare global polio emergency
Telegraph.co.uk
The World Health Organisation is expected this week to declare polio a global health emergency as it battles complacency in an attempt to eradicate the deadly virus forever. By Rob Crilly, Islamabad This year has seen a decline in cases but health ...
Ban Ki-moon: Eradicate polio, finallyLos Angeles Times

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