Cancer's gift

A new soldier signs up to battle the disease alongside Jack Layton and thousands of other brave Canadian men

Two-Hour Test for TB Reported to be Clinically Effective

New, automated diagnostic test for TB, developed by a public-private partnership including UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School scientists, showed excellent results in a large-scale field trial. The results appear in the Sept. 1 New England Journal of Medicine.

UAB in the News: Week of August 23-27, 2010

Interviews of the homeless were done by two University of Alabama at Birmingham medical students and a nursing school faculty member.

Wis. Pushes To Expand Medicaid Funding For Contraceptives, Minnesota Encourages 'Medical Homes,' Md. Settles Nursing ...

The Wall Street Journal: "Wisconsin is pushing to expand a controversial program that uses federal Medicaid funds to provide free birth-control pills, vasectomies and other forms of contraception to low-income people, an effort made possible by the federal health-care overhaul. It and 26 other states already provide free contraception and other reproductive-health services through a Medicaid ...

E-mail letters, August 20, 2010

What is Buescher’s agenda? Scott Gessler’s recent letter to the editor pointed out that our Secretary of State Bernie Buescher and Western Slope resident requested that Colorado be exempted from the federal election law requirement that absentee ballots be sent to members of the military at least 45 days before each election. Given the thousands of active military residing in Colorado, this ...