The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health recently announced a public health action plan targeted at antimicrobial resistance.
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Aug 21, 2014
OH Supreme Court hears case of woman who transferred property then paid for nursing home through Medicaid … Nursing home video education project part of new $19 million round of NIH funding …...
NIH announces $10M in funding to look at gender differences in clinical studies
By
Elizabeth Newman
Sep 24, 2014
The National Institutes of Health is releasing $10.1 million in supplemental funding for healthcare grant recipients to explore gender differences in their research. Men are overrepresented in studies,...
Healthcare summit: Best practices for mobile health implementation in focus
By
McKnight's Staff
Nov 30, 2012
Providers, policy makers, financial and technical experts and more will be highlighted at the 2012 mHealth Summit, which takes place Monday through Wednesday in a Maryland suburb of Washington. Best practices...
Federal funding for age-related diseases and illnesses is declining, report finds
May 24, 2011
One of the realities of the national budget crisis is that government funding for age-related health conditions — particularly Alzheimer’s — is drying up, says a new report from the Alzheimer’s...
Researchers ‘stunned’ to find approved cholesterol drug has negligible effect
May 31, 2011
The National Institutes of Health announced it is ending its study of the cholesterol drug Niaspan 18 months early. Tracking results showed the medication had almost no chance of being beneficial to patients,...
AHRQ gives $34 million to nursing homes, other settings to fight healthcare-associated infections
Nov 05, 2010
The Health and Human Service’s Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality said it will be giving $34 million to projects working to prevent healthcare-associated infections in long-term care facilities,...