health - "medicine"

A $9.5 million settlement with 28 states announced last week by Express Scripts to resolve allegations that the company had 'been pocketing money from pharmaceutical companies to steer patients into name-brand drugs' indicates the need for 'some stronger medicine' to address problems in the industry, Los Angeles Times columnist David Lazarus writes.

The fastest growing group of people using emergency departments is middle-income patients with health insurance, rather than uninsured patients, Baltimore Sun reports. According to a recent study published in the Annals of Emergency medicine, uninsured patients accounted for 15.5% of ED visits in 1996-1997 and 14.5% of visits in 2003-2004.

Hundreds of University of Washington medicine employees are preparing to move into a new $180 million complex at South Lake Union.

According to a study presented at the 55th Annual Meeting of the American College of Sports medicine (ACSM), women who have low cardiorespiratory fitness or a high body mass index...

The American Academy of Sleep medicine announced that it has launched a new blog at http://www.sleepmeeting.blogspot.com to give members, the media and the public live updates from the Baltimore Convention Center when the SLEEP 2008 22nd Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies convenes from June 9 to 12.

Healthy seniors who are physically active and exercise for more than 60 minutes each week can lessen their chances of disability as they age, finds a new long-term study.'This study contributes to the large body of scientific evidence supporting the importance of continuing to be physical active over one's life,' said lead author Bonnie Bruce, of the division of immunology and rheumatology at Stanford University Department of medicine.

Uganda has the highest rate of post-traumatic stress and depression ever recorded, following extremely high of civilian exposure to violence and poor healthcare, a study published in BMC Psychiatry says today.The study, conducted by the London School of Hygiene & Tropical medicine and Gulu University has found that 54% of those interviewed met symptom-criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder, while 67% showed signs of depression.

The modern workplace is often blamed for increased rates of depression and stress. New research published in the journal Occupational medicine, shows that resuming work can actually aid recovery and help depressed employees. However, the Society of Occupational medicine warned that employers need to be sensitive and consider a range of interventions including changing an employees tasks and reducing hours to help people when they return to work.

(University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine) Sara Aton, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Neuroscience at the University of Pennsylvania School of medicine, was awarded a grant from the L'Oréal USA For Women in Science Program. This prestigious fellowship provides support to postdoctoral women scientists who are undertaking cutting-edge research with practical applications.

1. Critical Care Management Associated with Higher Mortality in ICU PatientsA database review of 101,832 critically ill patients in 123 hospital intensive care units (ICUs) found that the risk of dying in hospital was higher for patients who were managed by physicians who were critical care specialists than those who were not (Article, p. 801). Patients managed by critical care specialists were generally sicker and received more procedures.