C M G Buttery

And sone want to emulate the NHS! From today’s Telegraph An NHS trust is stopping all non-urgent surgery at a hospital and closing the waiting list at another in an attempt to reduce its forecast deficit of £68 million. The 92 planned operating sessions across the trust are being cut to 50 and overall treatment [...]

The World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Committee for Africa comprising health ministers from 46 Member States has declared tuberculosis an emergency in the African region – a response to an epidemic that has more than quadrupled the annual number of new TB cases in most African countries since 1990 and is continuing to rise across [...]

It all seems so simple, but from the KFF Health Policy Reports While parents can access their teenagers’ nonconfidential paper records, EHR systems thus far do not have a way to prevent parents from accessing confidential material. As a result, many EHR providers are “revoking parental access to children’s records as soon as they turn [...]

From the Kasier Familiy Foundation Reproductive Health Report. The U.S. is the only nation that is a “major economic power” with a total fertility rate high enough to maintain its work force and economic prosperity as the population ages, according to a Population Reference Bureau report released on Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reports. Most [...]

In an August 22 report from the WHO the goals (or Millenium Report. similar to Healthy People) states that “Despite gains in reducing poverty worldwide, the data presented in the new WHO report indicate that if trends established in the 1990s continue, the majority of developing countries will not achieve the health MDGs. This in [...]

According to today’s London Telegraph The virus has turned up at the threshold of Europe. Last week Russian scientists revealed that thousands of domestic birds around the Chelyabinsk region of the Ural mountains had perished after contracting H5N1, which had apparently been transported there by migrating birds. Prof Neil Ferguson, an expert on virus epidemics [...]

To think that when I was in the Army 50 odd years ago I thought that Penicillin would allow us to eradicate syphilis. Now, from the University of New South Wales in Australia a report, which has just been published in the Medical Journal of Australia, Infectious syphilis notifications in inner Sydney rose more than [...]

WASHINGTON—Virginia and the District of Columbia have joined a growing list of states that require health plans participating in Medicaid to adopt NCQA standards and measures as an integral part of their quality oversight efforts. Under a new agreement between the Commonwealth and participating plans, all Virginia Medicaid managed care plans must hold NCQA Accreditation [...]

From the BMJ Friday, August 19 A pandemic is likely, but Europe is getting prepared. Is the US approach as good as the UKs? In the 20th century, the world experienced three influenza A pandemics: “Spanish flu” claiming 20-40 million lives in 1918-9 and the “Asian flu” of 1957 and “Hong Kong flu” of 1968, [...]

From the August 12 Edn of Science, Jon Cohen: If AIDS researchers reported that a vaccine protected 65% of the participants in an efficacy trial, the news would be trumpeted across the globe. Two weeks ago at an AIDS meeting in Brazil, a study revealed that male circumcision produced that level of protection in South [...]