This is a selection of articles from the October 2007 archive. Click here for this month's American Health headlines.
Health care facilities get $32M funding boost
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines - October 31, 2007 Source Type: news
CMC-NorthEast surrenders trauma designation
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - October 31, 2007 Source Type: news
Issues in Manufactured Housing
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Source: AARP.org Policy and Research - October 31, 2007 Source Type: news
For MRSA Prevention, Clean Surfaces as Well as Hands
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Source: MedPage Today Public Health - October 31, 2007 Source Type: news
ECMC commitment recognized
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - October 31, 2007 Source Type: news
Oct 30, 2007
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U.S. Preparedness for Major Disaster Remains Inadequate, Report Says
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - October 31, 2007 Source Type: news
AARP CEO Bill Novelli Tells Lawmakers: Controlling Health Care Costs Key To Budget Reform
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Source: AARP.org News - October 31, 2007 Source Type: news
Pneumococcal immunization: percent of applicable patients receiving pneumococcal immunization.
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Source: National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) - October 31, 2007 Source Type: news
Infection rate reduction: number of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) infections per 1,000 ventilator days.
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Source: National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) - October 31, 2007 Source Type: news
Smoking cessation: percent of patients using tobacco who have been offered a referral to smoking cessation specialty program to assist with cessation within the past year.
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Source: National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) - October 31, 2007 Source Type: news
Carolinas HealthCare shuffles top execs
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - October 30, 2007 Source Type: news
Health Ministers Gather in Washington
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Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - October 30, 2007 Source Type: news
Ads blast Shadegg's stand on children's insurance program
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines - October 30, 2007 Source Type: news
Audit gives KU Hospital, Med Center clean bill of health
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - October 30, 2007 Source Type: news
Comptroller lobbies Congress for sales tax deduction on income taxes
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines - October 30, 2007 Source Type: news
Admissions suspended at Murfreesboro veterans' home
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines - October 30, 2007 Source Type: news
Lawmakers begin tackling budget deficit
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines - October 30, 2007 Source Type: news
AHCA stops WellCare expansion
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines - October 30, 2007 Source Type: news
Oct 17, 2007
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Opinion: SCHIP Should Focus on Poor Kids
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 30, 2007 Source Type: news
Looking at Dutch and Swiss Health Systems
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Source: NYT - October 30, 2007 Source Type: news
Better Access to Mammography
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Source: Government of Nova Scotia News Releases - Health - October 30, 2007 Authors: Health Source Type: news
Kaiser Hawaii gets top marks for Medicaid
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines - October 29, 2007 Source Type: news
Stem cell bank gets the first chunk of $1B initiative
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines - October 29, 2007 Source Type: news
Health insurer CIGNA agrees to not rank doctors solely on cost
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines - October 29, 2007 Source Type: news
SEC steps into WellCare probe
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines - October 29, 2007 Source Type: news
Health Sector Puts Its Money on Democrats
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Source: NYT - October 29, 2007 Source Type: news
Insurers hike small biz rates
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines - October 29, 2007 Source Type: news
Insurers, docs face off over bill's simplification
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines - October 29, 2007 Source Type: news
US-Germany Dialogue on Long-Term Care
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Source: AARP.org Policy and Research - October 29, 2007 Source Type: news
Cancer-care alliance could unite rivals
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - October 29, 2007 Source Type: news
Hospital tax could be a separate bill
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines - October 29, 2007 Source Type: news
CHW to quadruple funding for infotech upgrade
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - October 29, 2007 Source Type: news
Gingrich: Focus on prevention, accountability can fix health care
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines - October 29, 2007 Source Type: news
US-Germany Dialogue on Long-Term Care
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Source: AARP.org Policy and Research - October 29, 2007 Source Type: news
Uninsured: The 80-20 Rule (Commentary)
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Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - October 26, 2007 Source Type: news
Threshold warned by NASDAQ
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - October 26, 2007 Source Type: news
SEC steps into WellCare probe
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines - October 26, 2007 Source Type: news
Cardica reports Q1 loss of $3.7M
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - October 26, 2007 Source Type: news
Doyle: New budget benefits Milwaukee
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines - October 26, 2007 Source Type: news
MFH donates $4.7M to area health departments
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines - October 26, 2007 Source Type: news
Seeking Savings, Employers Help Smokers Quit
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Source: NYT - October 26, 2007 Source Type: news
Denver clinic is purchased
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - October 26, 2007 Source Type: news
QuickStats: Infant Mortality Rates for 10 Leading Causes of Infant
Death --- United States, 2005
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Source: CDC - October 25, 2007 Source Type: news
Erratum: Vol. 55, No. RR-16
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Source: CDC - October 25, 2007 Source Type: news
Notice to Readers: Application Deadline for The CDC Experience
Applied Epidemiology Fellowship --- December 3, 2007
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Source: CDC - October 25, 2007 Source Type: news
State Supreme Court hears Amendment 41 arguments
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines - October 25, 2007 Source Type: news
Aprotinin Injection (marketed as Trasylol)
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Source: FDA MedWatch - October 25, 2007 Tags: Cardiac surgeons, other healthcare professionals Source Type: news
Federal investigation targets WellCare
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines - October 25, 2007 Source Type: news
Louisville company acquires Nashville's Planning 2.0
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines - October 25, 2007 Source Type: news
Oct 19, 2007
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After Override of SCHIP Veto Fails, Democrats Hope a Revised Bill Will Pass
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 25, 2007 Source Type: news
Oct 19, 2007
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Colorado Devises Plan to Cover Uninsured but Costs Must Come Down
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 25, 2007 Source Type: news
AARP SERVICES INC. ANNOUNCES THE APPOINTMENT OF LARRY RENFRO AS PRESIDENT AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
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Source: AARP.org News - October 25, 2007 Source Type: news
Committee on the Future Health Care Workforce for Older Americans - Meeting 4
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Source: Institute of Medicine - All new Projects, Reports, Events and News items - October 25, 2007 Source Type: news
Oct 24, 2007
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Grants to Help Hawaii Foundation Enhance HIV Prevention, Support Services
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - October 24, 2007 Source Type: news
WellPoint, Zagat's to offer ratings system for doctors
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines - October 24, 2007 Source Type: news
Special session opens on Superferry bill
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines - October 24, 2007 Source Type: news
NIH Launches Campaign to Raise Awareness of Vulvodynia, a Painful Disorder Affecting Many Women - October 23, 2007
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Source: National Institutes of Health (NIH) News Releases - October 24, 2007 Source Type: news
Oct 23, 2007
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Hospitals Tailor Diabetes Education to Ethnic, Racial Minorities
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - October 23, 2007 Source Type: news
Oct 23, 2007
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Federal Officials Publish Draft Vaccination Prioritization Plan
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Public Health - October 23, 2007 Source Type: news
Benefits board picks new leader
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines - October 23, 2007 Source Type: news
HealthStream earnings inch forward in Q3
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines - October 23, 2007 Source Type: news
Sleep Drugs Found Only Mildly Effective, but Wildly Popular
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Source: NYT - October 23, 2007 Source Type: news
Oct 10, 2007
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Conservative Bloggers Attack 12-Year-Old SCHIP Spokesperson
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 23, 2007 Source Type: news
Oct 10, 2007
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Opinion: Bush's Claim That SCHIP Spends Too Much on Adults is a Distortion
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Source: RWJF News Digest - Health Insurance Coverage - October 23, 2007 Source Type: news
Wellsphere, Stanford offer online health site at school
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines - October 23, 2007 Source Type: news
News Analysis: Professionals Unsurprised by Panel’s Vote Against Pediatric Drugs
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Source: NYT - October 23, 2007 Source Type: news
Pioneer Heart Patient Marks Medical Field’s 30-Year History
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Source: NYT - October 22, 2007 Source Type: news
Agenda: January 25, 2007
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Source: AARP.org Policy and Research - October 22, 2007 Source Type: news
Phila. office building cleaners ratify new contract
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Health Insurance headlines - October 22, 2007 Source Type: news
HealthPartners study: Consumer could save on health costs
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines - October 22, 2007 Source Type: news
Workshop Summary. Global Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection: Assessing the Challenges
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Source: Institute of Medicine - All new Projects, Reports, Events and News items - October 22, 2007 Source Type: news
Judge denies HCA's plan to build $10M Spring Hill hospital
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines - October 22, 2007 Source Type: news
Hawthorne gets specific on THR's 10-year plan
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Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Industry Regulation headlines - October 22, 2007 Source Type: news
Lindsay set for health care reform battle
