Women's Networks Critical To Survival During Hurricane Katrina More than 1,800 people perished in the wake of Hurricane Katrina in August 2005 - the largest hurricane death toll in the United States since 1928. For the most vulnerable - the urban poor with little money, no transportation and limited resources - Katrina threatened to take everything.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMammography May Be Beneficial To All Women, Regardless Of Age According to researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, mammography, the gold-standard for breast cancer screening and early detection, has shown to significantly reduce the risk of being diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer in women over the age of 80, an age group currently without clear guidelines for regular screenings.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCounseling Trauma Victims Causes Secondary Trauma Hearing repeated stories of suffering from trauma victims causes serious psychological stress in clinical social workers, a new Geisinger-led study suggests. In a study appearing in the May edition of Research on Social Work Practice, Geisinger Senior Investigator Joseph Boscarino, PhD, MPH and his co-researchers examined psychological stress, job burnout and secondary trauma among 236 New York City social workers following the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comPope At U.N. Speaks Against Science That He Says Violates 'Order Of Creation' Pope Benedict XVI on Friday at the United Nations General Assembly spoke against technology and science that he said violates the "order of creation," which seemed to refer to stem cell research and cloning, Long Island Newsday reports (Schuster/Dowdy, Long Island Newsday, 4/19).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew Research To Be Presented At ACOG Annual Clinical Meeting The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) will hold its 56th Annual Clinical Meeting (ACM), Saturday, May 3, through Wednesday, May 7, at the New Orleans Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, LA. ACOG's ACM is one of the largest gatherings of obstetrician-gynecologists in the US.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAPA, Mental Health Advocates Discuss Need For Medicare Parity The disparity of the 50 percent Medicare coinsurance requirement for mental
health services reflects an outmoded benefit design on obsolete understandings of the nature of mental disorders and our ability to successfully treat people with these serious illnesses, said American Psychiatric Association President Carolyn Robinowitz, M.D., during a Senate briefing held today by the APA and the Mental
Health Medicare Equity Coalition.
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