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SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore is on the verge of a hand, foot and mouth disease outbreak, the Straits Times reported on Saturday, quoting government health officials.

Elderly trauma patients appear to be less likely than younger patients to be transported to a trauma center, possibly because of unconscious age bias among emergency medical services personnel, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

Tobacco promotions and depictions of smoking in movies cause teenagers to start smoking, according to a sweeping report on tobacco in the media. The report by the National Cancer Institute found the ...

CHICAGO: Tobacco promotions and depictions of smoking in movies cause teenagers to start smoking, according to a sweeping report on tobacco in the media released on Thursday. The report by the N...

Researchers are emphasizing the importance of a new government report that they say demonstrates for the first time a causal link between tobacco use in movies and smoking behaviors in the population.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Yoga can reduce hot flashes and night sweats among women going through menopause, and also appears to sharpen their mental function, researchers from India report.

Two newspapers recently published editorials that addressed an HHS Office of Inspector General draft report on Medicare fraud reduction. According to the report, CMS in 2006 based claims of a $700 million reduction in Medicare durable medical equipment fraud on improper auditing conducted by an outside contractor. The report claims that CMS officials told AdvanceMed, the contractor, to ignore an auditing program -- called Comprehensive Error Rate Testing, or CERT -- which is required by law (Kaiser Daily health Policy report, 8/21). Summaries of the editorials appear below.read more

In 2007, about 3.4 million Medicare beneficiaries reached the so-called 'doughnut hole,' or gap in Medicare prescription drug coverage, during which time they were responsible for their medication costs, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation study released on Thursday, the AP/San Francisco Chronicle reports. In 2007, the coverage gap occurred when total drug spending for an individual reaches $2,400 for a single year and continues until total out-of-pocket spending reaches $3,850 in that year (Freking, AP/San Francisco Chronicle, 8/22).read more

Vietnam's General Department of Population and Family Planning under the Ministry of health on Tuesday launched an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign that promotes safer-sex practices among young people in the country, the VNS/Viet Nam News reports. The campaign will focus on youth ages 15 to 24 in 15 provinces with large ethnic minority populations. It falls under the framework of a $20 million campaign funded by the Asian Development Bank and implemented by the population and family planning department between 2007 and 2011.read more

Both presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) and presumptive Republican nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) have announced 'detailed -- but very different -- health care plans,' the Chicago Tribune reports.