http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/04/02/brain_mapping_project_aims_to_help_with_alzheimers_strokes_other_diseases.html
WASHINGTONâ€"The last time global science got this ambitious, rallying alongside the Americans in a groundbreaking project to map the human genome, Canada was largely a bystander.
Study: Critical Access Hospital Mortality Rates on the Rise
http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/quality/study-critical-access-hospital-mortality-rates-on-the-rise.html
While mortality rates for certain conditions at non-critical access hospitals decreased from 2002 to 2010, the rates at critical access hospitals increased, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
New world strategy aims to eradicate polio by 2018
http://www.vancouversun.com/health/Plan+aims+most+polio+outbreaks+next+year+eradicate+disease+2018/8185286/story.html
WASHINGTON (AP) - Health authorities are finalizing a plan to end most cases of polio by late next year and eradicate the disease by 2018 - if they can raise enough money to finish the work.
Nelson Mandela's health improving, South African officials say
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/04/03/nelson_mandela_much_better_as_he_spends_7th_day_in_hospital_for_pneumonia.html
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- The health of former South African President Nelson Mandela has improved, according to South African officials who said he is in much better shape than he was a week ago when he was admitted to the hospital with ...
Humana Among Insurers Winning U.S. Medicare Payment Increase
http://www.dividend.com/news/2013/jefferies-boosts-price-target-on-health-insurers-after-medicare-advantage-rate-announcement-hum-unh-ci-more/
April 1 (Bloomberg) -- UnitedHealth Group Inc., Humana Inc. and other medical insurers won an increase rather than a reduction in U.S.
Self-testing for HIV could help slow spread of AIDS: study
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2302924/Home-HIV-tests-key-reducing-spread-AIDS.html
Getting people around the world to test themselves for HIV could help bring the HIV/AIDS epidemic under control, by finding infected patients earlier before they infect others, a new study suggests.
Kraft: FD&C Yellow #5 & #6 will stay in Mac & Cheese for now
http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/On-your-radar/Natural-claims/Kraft-meets-the-foodbabe-but-says-FD-C-Yellow-5-and-6-will-stay-in-Mac-Cheese-for-now
Kraft officials spent an hour yesterday with blogger Vani Hari (aka the Food Babe ) discussing a petition urging the company to stop using artificial colors Yellow #5 and #6 in its Mac & Cheese, but says it is satisfied that they are both safe and legal.
Mental Illness linked to heavy cannabis use
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/5983/20130403/study-links-mental-illness-to-heavy-cannabis-use.htm
Related topics. mental illness · cannabis · mentally ill · Marijauana. Advertisement. Weekly cannabis use is more than seven times more likely in people with mental illness when compared to people without a mental illness, according to a study announced on ...
AG investigating CPRIT Foundation
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/state&id=9050858
Attorney General Greg Abbott is investigating what is happening to money raised by the foundation that supported the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, and is reviewing how the foundation was transformed into a different entity last month.
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