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Healthaxis Inc. (NASDAQ: HAXS), an innovative provider of technology-enhanced, integrated business process solutions and services, including claims and benefit administration applications, web-enabled software solutions and outsourced claims related services because of health benefit administrators and health insurance claims processors, announced that on March 20, 2008, it received notice from the NASDAQ Stock Market (”NASDAQ”) that for the previous 30 consecutive trading days, the Company’s common stock closed below the minimum $1.00 bid price per share required by Marketplace Rule 4310(c)(4). (Read the full post about ‘Healthaxis Receives NASDAQ Deficiency Notice Related To Minimum Bid Price Rule’…)

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Adolescents receiving comprehensive sex education had a substantially lower risk of teenage pregnancy than students who received either abstinence-only education or no education at all, according to a new, groundbreaking study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

the study, conducted by Pamela K. Kohler, M.P.H., Lisa E. Manhart, Ph.D., and William E. Lafferty, M.D., also concluded that instruction about contraception did not increase sexual activity or sexually transmitted diseases.

“The male sexual tonic hale condition statistics in America are alarming,” said Debra Hauser, executive vice president of Advocates for Youth. (Read the full post about ‘New Study — Same Result! Comprehensive Sex Education Works’…)

free viagra OFFICIALS WARN OF MEDICARE’S DEMISE

Medicare and Social Security are going broke.

That was the brusk message delivered again Tuesday by trustees for the two programs. Each year, they warn of the impending doom caused by benefits that decision eventually exceed revenue.

Medicare, the health care program for 44 million seniors and people with disabilities, is forecast to spend more for hospital care in 2008 than it raises in taxes. Unless Congress intervenes, that trend will continue until the money runs abroad in 2019.

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Students who bully others tend to have difficulties with other relationships, such as those with friends and parents. Targeting those relationships, as well as the problems children who bully have with aggression and morality, may offer ideas for intervention and prevention.

Those are the findings of a new reflect that was conducted through scientists at York University and Queens University. It appears in the March/April 2008 issue of the journal Child Development.

the researchers looked at 871 students (466 girls and 405 boys) for seven years from ages 10 to 18. (Read the full post about ‘Children Who Bully Also Have Problems With Other Relationships’…)

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An information technology revolution is improving cancer treatment with the use of Patient-Reported Outcomes (PROs), according to Supportive Oncology Services, Inc. (SOS), a research-based health information company in Memphis, TN. PROs are self- assessments that measure any aspect relating to health status that come directly from the patient without any interpretation by the healthcare team. With its Patient Assessment, Care, and Education System(TM) (PACE), Supportive Oncology Services helped pioneer the efficient appliance of PROs in the community oncology setting where more than 85% of all cancer patients are treated. (Read the full post about ‘Patient Reported Outcomes (PROs) Improve Cancer Treatment — Experts Agree’…)

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The UC Irvine Department of Emergency Medicine is hosting the 11th annual Society of Academic Emergency Medicine Research Forum March 28-29 in Costa Mesa, Calif. during the time that part of the forum, UC Irvine emergency medical physicians will present research findings on a variety of related areas ranging from the continued decline of on-call emergency department services to the success of computerized alcohol-use counseling.

Emergency department on-call coverage continues to worsen in California

DR. SCOTT E. RUDKIN and his UC Irvine colleagues have found emergency medical services in California continue to erode. (Read the full post about ‘Latest Findings Presented By UC Irvine Researchers At Emergency Medicine Forum’…)

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Several newspapers freshly published articles related to take-home genetic tests. Summaries appear below.

• Bipolar test: The AP/San Francisco Chronicle on Monday examined how the “proliferation” of take-home genetic tests “troubles various public health officials, medical ethicists and doctors.” According to the AP/Chronicle, the tests “receive almost no government oversight, even though many of them are being sold as tools for making serious medical decisions.” In addition, health experts “worry that frequent of these products are built on thin data and are preying on individuals’ deepest anxieties,” the AP/Chronicle reports.

(Read the full post about ‘Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Highlights Issues Related To Genetic Tests’…)

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MONDAY, March 24 (HealthDay news) — A new review of 32 studies suggests that obese women — particularly white women — are more likely than others to skip screenings for breast and cervical cancer.

No one knows for what cause extra pounds heighten the likelihood that women will avoid mammograms or Pap smears. And it's not known why obesity seems to have not at all significant effect on colorectal screening, the researchers said.

However, the findings do point to a question that deserves attention in the doctor's office, said study lead father Sarah S.

(Read the full post about ‘Obese Women Less Likely to Be Tested for Some Cancers (HealthDay)’…)

free viagra  INCOMES AND OUTCOMES

(Yearly family income)

Americans who record good health

Under $20,000: 37%
$20,000-$40,000: 47%
$40,000-$60,000: 56%
$60,000-$80,000: 62%
Over $80,000: 71%

Americans diagnosed with diabetes

Under $20,000: 13.9%
$20,000-$40,000: 12.8%
$40,000-$60,000: 12%
$60,000-$80,000: 8.5%
Over $80,000: 6.5%

Source: National Center for Health Statistics

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MONDAY, March 24 (HealthDay news) — From 25 percent to 50 percent of new cancer treatments tested in phase 3 randomized clinical trials are eventually found to subsist effectual, say American researchers who analyzed data from 624 phase 3 trials involving more than 216,000 patients.

The trials were all conducted by U.S. National Cancer Institute-funded cooperative groups since 1955.

Dr. Benjamin Djulbegovic, of the H.

(Read the full post about ‘Many Phase 3 Cancer Drug Trials Yield Effective Medicines (HealthDay)’…)