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Bike Sharing Can Mean Safer Biking
It took only a few days for reports of the first cycling accident involving New York’s new bike sharing program to begin circulating. But experts and growing experience from bike sharing programs in other cities make clear that bicycling can be a safe mode of transportation, and the presence of a bike sharing program is a boon to the safety of all bicyclists. (Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health)
Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - June 15, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

CNN's Sanjay Gupta to Speak June 27 at Clinton Center
CNN medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta will speak at the Clinton Presidential Center on Thursday, June 27, as part of the Frank and Kula Kumpuris Distinguished Lecture Series, the center announced Friday. (Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care)
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - June 15, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Swedish/Edmonds plans hospital expansion
Swedish/Edmonds will expand its hospital campus in a $63.5 million project that will include a two-story building with an emergency department, an urgent care center and an outpatient diagnostic imaging center, the hospital said Friday. Construction on the 77,000-square-foot project is set to begin in spring 2014 with completion of the emergency department and urgent care center in fall 2015. The Edmonds hospital's current emergency department dates back to the early 1970s, and has the capacity… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 15, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Valerie Bauman Source Type: research

DealBook: Talk of Takeover Grows at Health Management Hospital Group
The chief executive of Health Management Associates is planning to depart, and speculation about a possible sale has sent the company’s stock higher. (Source: NYT)
Source: NYT - June 15, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: By JULIE CRESWELL and REED ABELSON Tags: Boards of Directors Community Health Systems Inc Private Equity Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions Health Management Associates Inc Top Headline 1 Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures Source Type: news

Public Citizen's Wolfe Still Needling FDA
(MedPage Today) -- Sidney Wolfe, MD, founder of Public Citizen's Health Research Group, sat down this week with MedPage Today in his Washington office to discuss his 40 years of work as a leading voice in consumer health advocacy. (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Espada Sentenced to 5 Years for Stealing From Nonprofit
Pedro Espada Jr., the Bronx politician who was convicted of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a health care network, portrayed himself as a victim. (Source: NYT)
Source: NYT - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: By MOSI SECRET Tags: Soundview Health Center Sentences (Criminal) Block, Frederic Espada, Pedro Jr Source Type: news

Final Obamacare push will pitch to the low-income young
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - In the final months leading up to the launch of the key piece of President Barack Obama's healthcare reforms, the administration is preparing a public-education campaign designed to connect directly with the audience most critical for the law's success. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Notifiable Diseases and Mortality Tables
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

QuickStats: Percentage of Persons Aged
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Announcement: Recommendations Regarding Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure from the Community Preventive Services Task Force
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Notes from the Field: Outbreak of Poliomyelitis — Somalia and Kenya, May 2013
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Update: Severe Respiratory Illness Associated with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (MERS-CoV) — Worldwide, 2012–2013
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Influenza Activity — United States, 2012–13 Season and Composition of the 2013–14 Influenza Vaccine
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Emergency Department Visits by Patients with Mental Health Disorders — North Carolina, 2008–2010
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Mass Drug Administration for the Elimination of Lymphatic Filariasis — Port-au-Prince, Haiti, 2011–2012
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Update to Interim Guidance for Preexposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) for the Prevention of HIV Infection: PrEP for Injecting Drug Users
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

U.S. Agencies to Develop Standards for Bed Rails
The move for voluntary guidelines disappointed advocates for regulation of the product, which has been linked to the deaths of elderly patients. (Source: NYT)
Source: NYT - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: By RON NIXON Tags: Elderly Beds and Bedding Food and Drug Administration Deaths (Fatalities) Consumer Product Safety Commission Accidents and Safety Source Type: news

Nationwide Rubella Epidemic — Japan, 2013
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Here's why health reform helps small biz
Changes in Oregon’s health care system are a boost for small business owners. This fall, it will become much easier to find coverage that fits their employees’ needs, and the IRS is expanding tax credits to help them afford it. This is good news for business bottom lines, our workforce, our economy and our overall health. In Oregon, about 41 percent of small businesses with 10-24 employees provided health insurance in 2011, which helps their workers stay healthy and productive, and gives them… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Marvin Revoal Source Type: research

Distribution of Medicare ACOs Varies Widely
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- More than 40% of accountable care organizations formed under Medicare exist in five states, leaving many states with one or none, according to an analysis by industry experts. (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Firmer Breast Implant Gets FDA Nod
(MedPage Today) -- The FDA gave the go ahead Friday to a new firmer silicon gel implant for breast augmentation or reconstruction but will require long-term safety reassurance. (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Lovelace puts new cancer-fighting technology to use
Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque was the first U.S. hospital to flip a switch and activate a new cancer-fighting technology that the hospital says can zap cancerous tumors in half the time as previous technology did, according to hospital officials. Lovelace activated the technology, called Dynamic Jaws, about six weeks ago. It’s part of the hospital’s treatment equipment that uses imaging and radiation to treat cancer patients, said Dr. Paul Anthony, medical director of Lovelace’s Cancer… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Dennis Domrzalski Source Type: research

Wichita physician launches social network for health care providers
Adam Flynn is working to create a social network for health care providers. Flynn, a physician by trade, is leading an effort to push Electronic Medical Solutions LLC — a company he and two other partners own — forward to help health care providers share patient information securely and in real time. He says the Priorus system was born from input from doctors, nurses and other health care providers who wanted a way to gain access to information that other providers were storing using electronic… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Josh Heck Source Type: research

End of gene patents isn't the end of innovation in biotech
Thursday's U.S. Supreme Court decision barring gene patents isn't a disaster for Seattle's biotechnology industry. The ruling still allows companies to patent synthetic DNA, which is most important for commercialization. “I certainly don't think it's an innovation squasher,” said Andrew Serafini, an intellectual property lawyer specializing in life sciences. “I think the Supreme Court could have rendered a far more severe decision that really would have impacted the biotechnology industry… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Valerie Bauman Source Type: research

Stephen Hau on stepping aside at Shareable Ink
When Stephen Hau moved Shareable Ink to Nashville in 2010, the company was in a pre-revenue stage, or as he called it, "just ideas and conviction." In three short years, the company has grown to 50 employees, with its software in 85 client sites across the country and another 60 or so in the queue. Last year alone, the company grew revenue by 300 percent. After three years at the helm, Hau is moving into the role of chief technology officer at Shareable Ink, a newly created position; Laurie McGraw,… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: E.J. Boyer Source Type: research

A second look inside Nemours Children's Hospital and its logistics (slideshow)
And this is why I never turn down an offer for a tour. Nemours Children’s Hospital opened in October 2013. The $397 million, 630,000-square foot hospital is on a 60-acre campus in Medical City. When it opened, we got to do a tour inside the hospital (click here for photos). Last week, I got the chance do a second tour inside, this one geared toward other hospitals officials. Hit the slideshow to glean new information on how the hospital is managed, including its supply chain. One of the neat… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Abraham Aboraya Source Type: research

Groups say state broke promise to fund autism therapy for kids
A coalition of children’s health and autism support organizations alleges the state has reneged on its promises to children with autism who are moving from Healthy Families to Medi-Cal. The state budget deal between Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders fails to include $50 million to pay for medically necessary autism services for children on Medi-Cal. Previously approved by the Senate Budget Committee, the provision was voted down Monday by the Budget Conference Committee. It would have… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Kathy Robertson Source Type: research

NCATS to announce awards for Discovering New Therapeutic Uses for Existing Molecules program
Media briefing with NCATS Director Christopher P. Austin, M.D. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Texas physicians concerned about ‘dirty’ power plants
Texas physicians have taken aim at a new health threat — power plants. Texas Medical Association officials say member physicians will ask state leaders to take action to make harmful power plants less dangerous. TMA’s House of Delegates governing body recently passed a resolution calling for the organization, which represents more than 47,000 physician and medical student members, to support laws or state agency rules requiring “old, polluting power plants” to be retrofitted with pollution… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: W. Scott Bailey Source Type: research

When a medical device is also a smartphone, is it taxed?
With a pacemaker, it's easy: Apply the 2.3 percent medical-device excise tax and pay up. For Minneapolis startup Preventice, however, things are more complicated. The company's product, BodyGuardian, combines a smartphone and a pager-sized device into one system that together can track a person's heart rate and breathing. It sells both the phone and the device in a single kit. Regulators recently quashed concerns that the med-tech tax would apply to any old smartphone, so the question for Preventice… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Authors: Katharine Grayson Source Type: research

FDA approves a new silicone gel-filled breast implant
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the MemoryShape Breast Implant to increase breast size (augmentation) for use in women at least 22 years old and to rebuild breast tissue (reconstruction) in women of any age. The MemoryShape Breast Implants are manufactured by Mentor Worldwide LLC. (Source: Food and Drug Administration)
Source: Food and Drug Administration - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

RECOMMENDATIONS AND REPORTS: Prevention of Measles, Rubella, Congenital Rubella Syndrome, and Mumps, 2013
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

PAHO/WHO Urges Countries Of The Americas To Work Toward 100% Voluntary Altruistic Blood Donation
In Latin America and the Caribbean, only 41% of blood supplies are obtained through voluntary altruistic blood donation, the safest way to collect blood, according to the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization (PAHO/WHO). Today on World Blood Donor Day, June 14, PAHO/WHO is calling on countries in the Americas to work to achieve blood supplies obtained 100% from voluntary altruistic donors. In 2011, only 3.8 million (41%) of the total 9... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - June 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Blood / Hematology Source Type: news

EARLY RELEASE: U.S. Selected Practice Recommendations for Contraceptive Use, 2013
(Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report)
Source: CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Syria has crossed chemical red line, says Obama
The White House has "high confidence" that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, after a breakdown product of sarin was found in urine samples (Source: New Scientist - Health)
Source: New Scientist - Health - June 14, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: research

Health IT stands out as insurance exchange hurdle
A GAO investigation of seven state exchanges finds some are encountering unexpected technical problems in setting up coverage marketplaces. (Source: American Medical News - GOVERNMENT)
Source: American Medical News - GOVERNMENT - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Health IT stands out as insurance exchange hurdle
A GAO investigation of seven state exchanges finds some are encountering unexpected technical problems in setting up coverage marketplaces. (Source: American Medical News)
Source: American Medical News - June 14, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Arizona lawmakers pass Medicaid expansion
PHOENIX (Reuters) - A divided Arizona Senate passed a key piece of President Barack Obama's Medicaid expansion agenda on Thursday, handing Republican Governor Jan Brewer a policy victory over fierce opposition from conservatives in her party. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - June 13, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news

Judge OKs FDA's Plan B One-Step Proposal
(MedPage Today) -- The federal judge who ordered the FDA to make the emergency contraceptive Plan B One-Step (levonorgestrel) available over the counter to women of all ages on Wednesday approved the agency's plan to comply with that order. (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 13, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Ethicists Debate Docs' Role in Gitmo Hunger Strikes
(MedPage Today) -- Military physicians should not allow the Department of Defense to exploit their medical skills for political purposes, such as for stopping hunger strikes at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba, a prominent medical ethicist wrote. (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 13, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Hidden Trials Distort Reality, Group Charges (CME/CE)
(MedPage Today) -- A group of academics is calling for the publication of "invisible and abandoned" clinical trials, which they say include hidden data that distorts the scientific record in medicine. (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 13, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

May 2013
MedWatch May 2013 drug safety labeling changes (Source: FDA MedWatch)
Source: FDA MedWatch - June 13, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Supreme Court Says No Patents on Natural Genes
WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- Synthetically created combinations of DNA are not naturally occurring and are therefore patent-eligible, but whole genes that occur naturally can't be patented, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 13, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

New exhibition makes genome accessible to public
Unique NIH-Smithsonian collaboration unlocks the present and future of genome science. (Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases)
Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - June 13, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Meet Fred Pelzman -- He May Be Your Future
(MedPage Today) -- MedPage Today is premiering a new feature for practicing clinicians -- Building the Patient-Centered Medical Home, An Internist's Journey -- and it could be saving grace for many medical practices. (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - June 13, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Xgeva OK'd for Rare Bone Tumor
(MedPage Today) -- SILVER SPRING, Md. -- The bone-active biologic drug denosumab (Xgeva) may be used to treat giant cell tumor of the bone when surgery is contraindicated, the FDA announced Thursday. (Source: MedPage Today Campaign '08)
Source: MedPage Today Campaign '08 - June 13, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

FDA approves Xgeva to treat giant cell tumor of the bone
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today expanded the approved use of Xgeva (denosumab) to treat adults and some adolescents with giant cell tumor of the bone (GCTB), a rare and usually non-cancerous tumor. (Source: Food and Drug Administration)
Source: Food and Drug Administration - June 13, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

AMA Will Debate MOC, Guns, and the ACA
(MedPage Today) -- The American Medical Association's policy-making House of Delegates will have its hands full with a few hot-button issues when its annual meeting kicks off this weekend in Chicago. (Source: MedPage Today Campaign '08)
Source: MedPage Today Campaign '08 - June 13, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Census: Rural US Loses Population for First Time
Rural America is losing population for the first time ever, largely because of waning interest among baby boomers in moving to far-flung locations for retirement and recreation, according to new census estimates. (Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care)
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - June 13, 2013 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Top Obama appointees using secret email accounts to avoid having their crimes archived
With each passing day it become more apparent that the Obama Administration is by far the most corrupt in the history of the nation, as official after official becomes embroiled in scandal and controversy. The latest example surfaced June 4th, as reports began to... (Source: NaturalNews.com)
Source: NaturalNews.com - June 13, 2013 Category: Consumer Health Advice Source Type: news