Overall child well-being has improved, new report
finds.(News)
WASHINGTON -- Today's young people engage in less risky
behavior, are healthier, and have better access to educational
opportunities than their parents did when they were teens, a recent
report . . .
Panels discourage black box warning on AEDs; Antiepileptic drug
patients should get medication guide explaining suicidality risk
BELTSVILLE, MD.--A boxed warning about an increased suicidality
risk with the use of antiepileptic drugs should not be added to the
labels of drugs in this class, but patients prescribed these . . .
Bioterrorism threat lives on, as do vaccine-related
events.(News)
SCOTTSDALE, ARIZ. -- Despite the grateful lull that has followed
Sept. 11 and the anthrax scare in 2001, bioterrorism remains a very real
threat, a Food and Drug Administration counterterrorism . . .
ADHD prevalence climbs 4% annually among U.S.
teens.(News)
The percentage of adolescents being diagnosed with
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder is on the rise, but prevalence
rates remain constant among younger children, a new study shows.
Among . . .
Congress acts to expand parity, reverse pay cuts.(News)
Congress moved a step closer to mental health parity under Medicare
last month when it overrode a presidential veto of legislation that
decreased cost sharing for mental health care and codified . . .
Alcoholism is increasingly seen as medical illness; U.S. survey
also finds heightened stigma.(News)
WASHINGTON -- The public became more likely to regard alcohol
dependence as a medical illness over a 10-year period, but
stigmatization of alcoholism increased over that period as well, the
latest . . .
Vital signs.(News)(Statistical table)(Brief article)
Aggregate Hospital Costs of Select Diagnoses
(in millions of dollars)
Affective disorders $3,338
Schizophrenia and related disorders $2,411
Alcohol-related mental disorders . . .
SOFAR focuses on military families.(News)
Alone soldier, bandaged up to his elbow, stood amid a crowd of
clinicians, parents, and teachers, telling the story of a bad day in
Iraq.
His audience had gathered at Boston Medical Center to . . .
Google, Microsoft vie to lead health IT change: eventually,
system will enable patients to schedule appointments, refill
prescri
WASHINGTON -- Search engine giant Google has joined software giant
Microsoft in an attempt to revolutionize health care information
technology, one patient at a time.
Google launched Google . . .
Nashville clinic focuses on immigrant groups.(Practice
Trends)
WASHINGTON -- When Dr. David Gregory worked to open a health clinic
for the uninsured in 1991, he thought that he would be treating
residents of the nearby housing projects. Most of the residents . . .
Medicare advisers protest agency's plan to publish PQRI
data.(Practice Trends)
WASHINGTON -- A panel of Medicare advisers warned agency officials
against moving forward with a proposal to make public a list of doctors
participating in a voluntary federal quality reporting . . .
Options involve claims-based and registry-based
reporting.(Practice Trends)
Three of the nine optiions outlined by the Centers for Medicare and
Medicaid services for reporting data to PQRI in 2008 allow claims-based
reporting. Here are details on the claimbased option:
* . . .
Medicare changes quality reporting initiative.(Practice
Trends)
Physicians now have nine options for submitting quality data to
Medicare under the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative.
The new options include three ways to submit claims-based data and
six . . .
For health reform that works, think globally.(Practice
Trends)
WASHINGTON -- Analysis of other countries' health care systems
has pointed out what might work--and what won't work--in efforts to
reform the U.S. health care system.
At the annual meeting of the . . .
Teens driving under the Influence.(FYI)
A new report, available from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health
Services Administration, gives data on older teenagers who drive under
the influence of alcohol or drugs. "State Estimates of . . .
State estimates of substance use.(FYI)
The Substance Abuse and Mental Heath Services Administration is
offering a new report that analyzes substance use and mental health
patterns in each state. The report is based on the 2005-2006 . . .
SBIRT Medical Residency programs.(FYI)
Applications are now being accepted for the Substance Abuse and
Mental Health Services Administration's fiscal year 2008 Screening,
Brief Intervention, Referral, and Treatment Medical Residency . . .
Youth substance use awareness.(FYI)
A report from the 2006 National Survey on Drug Use and Health has
found that youth substance use is higher among one-parent households,
particularly father-child pairs, than it is in two-parent . . .
Resource on Health Care Innovations.(FYI)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has launched a new
Web resource called the Health Care Innovations Exchange to share
examples of both successful and unsuccessful attempts at . . .
Stimulant drug use among teens.(FYI)
A new report on nonmedical stimulant use among adolescents finds,
among other things, that youths aged 12-17 years who used stimulants
nonmedically were more likely to have used other illicit . . .
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