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Noroviruses are a group of viruses that are the most common cause of acute gastroenteritis and the HPA estimates that they affect between 600,000 and a million people in the UK each year. Infection can spread rapidly, and as Norovirus outbreaks continue to hit the headlines, the RIPH is pleased to announce it is running [...]

Latest figures show that roughly 135 000 African-born physicians and professional nurses practice overseas in developed countries. This finding, published in the online open access journal Human Resources for Health, suggests that approximately one-fifth of doctors and 10% of nurses born in any of the 27 African states are currently working in a developed nation.
The [...]

Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) President Daniel Sisto blasted as “absurd policy and a dangerous threat to patient care” a recent ruling by the federal government to prohibit the use of checklists in certain medical settings. The ruling last month by the federal Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) effectively shut down a [...]

Regional trends in plastic surgery patients and procedures differ and they do not always match that of national trends, according to a recent survey conducted by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). ASPS Member Surgeons located in Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. (including Baltimore, Md.) were surveyed on how their practices compared [...]

A recent Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS) analysis of hospital financial data found that more than half of the state’s hospitals lost money or recorded margins of less than 1% in 2006. A separate national comparative study by the American Hospital Association (AHA) found that the average operating margin of New York’s hospitals [...]

A Dundee cancer specialist is calling for the age at which people can buy cigarettes to be raised to 21.
Dr Jayant Vaidya, from Ninewells Hospital and the University of Dundee, believes that after that age far fewer people want to start smoking. In October, selling tobacco to under 18s was made illegal, but Dr Vaidya [...]

University of California, Irvine infectious disease researchers have shown the effectiveness of a potential alternative to the existing smallpox vaccine that can replace the current biodefense stockpile for this lethal virus.
Philip Felgner and Huw Davies with the Department of Medicine found that the modified vaccinia virus Ankara (MVA) produced the same antiviral response in human [...]

Summaries of news about recent developments in elder care appear below.
* Elder care managers: The Los Angeles Times on Sunday examined how elder care managers are “emerging to bridge the gap between far-off relatives and aging parents who may be overwhelmed by the labyrinth of medical and other services designed to [...]

A new study by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and colleagues in Norway suggests that the benefits of moderately increased exposure to sunlight - namely the production of vitamin D, which protects against the lethal effects of many forms of cancer and other diseases - may outweigh the risk of [...]

The percentage of teens who report solely positive benefits from not having sex declines precipitously with age, according to a new study by scientists at the University of California, San Francisco.
The finding suggests that adults should give teens guidance in coping with both the negative outcomes of engaging in sexual behaviors, and the negative experiences [...]