A consumer survey has been conducted throughout July to measure patients’ awareness of the costs of their privately insured hospital services before they received treatment. The survey has been sent to 10,000 people who had a recent private hospital admission and submitted a claim to a health insurance...
Survey To Measure Rate Of Informed Financial Consent, Australia
English Pharmacy Board To Address Barriers In The Future Of Pharmacy, UK
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain’s English Pharmacy Board meeting, on 18 July, identified a number of significant areas of work for the Board over the coming months. The key issues that will be addressed are: concerns raised by the recent All Party Pharmacy Group (APPG) report,...
Society Launches Practice Based Commissioning Guide, UK
A new document, Practice based commissioning: A resource for community pharmacists in England, will be launched this week by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. The guide provides Local Pharmaceutical Committees and community pharmacists with the knowledge to effectively engage with Practice...
Countries Urged To Be More Vigilant About Food Safety
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and WHO are urging all countries to strengthen their food safety systems and to be far more vigilant with food producers and traders. Recent food safety incidents — like the discovery of the industrial chemical melamine in animal and fish feed, or the...
HealthDirect Australia Begins Operation
From 25 July 2007, people in the Australian Capital Territory, Northern Territory and Western Australia can call a 24 hours a day, seven days a week call centre for health advice. The number for the National Health Call Centre Network - HealthDirect Australia - is 1800 022 222. Calls to existing call...
Australian Red Cross Blood Service Relocation
The Commonwealth Government will provide funding of up to $99 million to the Australian Red Cross Blood Service (ARCBS) to help the service relocate and upgrade their blood processing and testing headquarters in Sydney. Commonwealth, state and territory governments have been advised by the ARCBS that...
D.C. Denies Prostate Cancer Vaccine, Provenge: Dendreon (WA) Not FDA To Blame
Many in the prostate cancer community are still outraged over the FDA’s decision to deny approval for the immunotherapy drug Provenge. Some have even gone as far as to make threats against Howard I. Scher of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (NY) and Maha Hussain of University of Michigan,...
National Breast Cancer Foundation Unveils Innovative Web Site For Survivors
National Breast Cancer Foundation, Inc.(R) (NBCF) has launched an innovative new Web site, http://www.nationalbreastcancer.org, that inspires and educates, with the best online social network community available today for breast cancer patients, survivors and their families and friends. Since 1991 NBCF...
Minorities Account For 51% Of The U.S. Transplant Waiting List
In observance of National Minority Donor Awareness Day, Donate Life America calls attention to the 49,000 minority individuals that account for 51 percent of the United States transplant waiting list. There are nearly 100,000 people of all ages, races, and religions in desperate need of life-saving organ...
OraSure Donation Helps Project HOPE And Network Of Stigma-Free Services Launch An HIV Detection Campaign Using Rapid Oral Tests In Mexico City
The Elton John AIDS Foundation (EJAF) and Project HOPE are the recipients of 2,000 HIV rapid detection test kits that will be distributed among members of a new stigma-free network of HIV/AIDS service providers in the Mexico City metropolitan area to promote timely diagnosis of HIV and prevent unknowingly...