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Obama Busy 'Selling The Greater Good' On Health Reform
President Barack Obama, in comments about health reform, has acknowledged what most Americans already know, that "(w)hat"s good for the health care system as a whole often looks very different when it"s their own health at stake, or the health of someone in their family," CQPolitics reports.
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Cancer Survivors At Greater Risk Of Birth Complications; Special Monitoring Needed
Survivors of childhood cancer run particular risks when pregnant and should be closely monitored, the 25th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology heard today (Wednesday 1 July). Dr. Sharon Lie Fong, of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Erasmus MC University Medical Centre, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, said that, although such women may have conceived spontaneously and considered themselves to be perfectly healthy, their deliveries should always take place in a hospital.
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SLU Explores Best Ways To Use Standard TB Vaccine
In a study funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, Saint Louis University"s Center for Vaccine Development is investigating whether the standard vaccine used in foreign countries against tuberculosis offers better protection as a shot, drink or combination of both.
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NHS Inpatient And Outpatient Waiting Times Figures, 30 June 2009, UK

The following statistics were released by the Department of Health - Inpatient Waiting Times; Outpatient Waiting Times. Inpatient Waiting times - The number of patients, for whom English commissioners are responsible, waiting over the 26 weeks standard for inpatient admission at the end of June 2009 was 23 (compared to the total of 585,000). - The number of patients, for whom English commissioners are responsible, waiting over 13 weeks at the end of June 2009 was 44,900, an increase of 100 (0.2%) from May 2009, and a rise of 7,300 (19.4%) from June 2008. Outpatient Waiting times - The number of patients, for whom English commissioners are responsible, waiting over the 13 weeks standard for a first outpatient appointment following GP referral at the end of June 2009 was 149 (compared to the total of 1,020,000). - The number of patients, for whom English commissioners are responsible, waiting over 8 weeks at the end of June 2009 was 53,500, a decrease of 9,600 (15.2%) from May 2009, but a rise of 24,200 (82.8%) from June 2008. Additional tables are available here. Department of Health, UK


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