Each FOIA office of HHS has a FOIA Requester Service Center that processes relevant FOIA requestss. AoA – Administration on Aging ACF – Administration for Children and Families AHRQ – Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality CDC – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CMS – Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services FDA – Food [...]
Eli Lilly and Merck reported their first-quarter results on April 21st At Eli Lilly, earnings are expected to be up 14% year over year, to 95¢ per share, thanks to the success of Zyprexa, its antipsychotic drug, and Cymbalta, its depression treatment. Analysts are less bullish on Merck. They are forecasting a 2¢ increase in [...]
Summary of “Abstinence-Only and Comprehensive Sex Education and the Initiation of Sexual Activity and Teen Pregnancy,” Kohler et al., Journal of Adolescent Health, April 2008. Pamela Kohler and Lisa Manhart of the University of Washington’s Center for AIDS and STD and William Lafferty of UW’s Department of Health Services examined the effect of formal sex [...]
Are toxic plastics lurking in your kitchen? It’s a question many families are asking after reports last week that a chemical used to make baby bottles, water bottles and food containers is facing increasing scrutiny by health officials in Canada and the United States. The substance is bisphenol-a, or BPA, widely used in the making [...]
from the about-time dept of The Techdirt Insight Community A few months back, after meeting UCLA professor David Levine at the Cato Institute conference on copyrights, I read his book, Against Intellectual Monopoly (actually a large part of it I read on the flight home from that trip). Of particular interest to me was chapter [...]
Women account for nearly half of all heart attack deaths. Heart disease is the number one killer of both women and men. Many female heart attack patients, present with non-specific symptoms or have normal EKG readings, make life-saving diagnosis and treatment problematic. Any test, or procedure that helps women get fast accurate treatment for heart [...]
Heart Attack Warning Signs— Q: How would I know if I were having a heart attack? Often, it is not easy to tell. But there are symptoms people may have. These are: an uncomfortable pressure, squeezing, fullness, or pain in the center of the chest that lasts more than a few minutes, or goes away [...]
If you’re a woman, you may not believe you’re as vulnerable to a heart attack as men–but you are. Women account for nearly half of all heart attack deaths. Heart disease is the number one killer of both women and men. There are differences in how women and men respond to a heart attack. Women [...]
Inconvenient Woman has covered the issue of increased suicide rates for preteens and teenagers in previous Blog entries. FDA Requiring Suicide Studies in Drug Trials “…After decades of inattention to the possible psychiatric side effects of experimental medicines, the Food and Drug Administration is now requiring drug makers to study closely whether patients become suicidal [...]
“I provide a vagina and breasts to medical students learning to do their first pelvic and breast exams…” —Amy Littlefield, WeNews correspondent There is a second-year medical student standing in front of me, looking at my vagina. He is holding a speculum and does not know what to do with it. I wonder if he [...]
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