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Byline: Dennis Thompson, HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Nov. 19, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Improved coordination between paramedics and hospitals can reduce heart attack deaths nearly fivefold by getting patients quicker treatment, [...]

The article focuses on U.S. war casualties in Iraq. The rise in complex casualties has required a major reorganization to focus extraordinary medical and therapeutic expertise on each patient, doctors say. Special rehabilitation centers, created by the government to treat the most catastrophically wounded troops, are developing a new model of advanced care. With better protective gear and battlefield care, the military is saving more of the wounded. These survivors are more damaged, in more different ways, than ever before. Multiple wounds require unusual medical cooperation across departments.

In the framework of the Yemeni-Emirates medical cooperation, UAE sent Italian specialists, working in UAE in heart surgery for several days to Yemen. Members of the delegation said in comments [...]

The article discusses the ways by which physicians can help increase the adherence of patients to drug therapy. It outlines some of the factors contributing to patient non-adherence, including forgetfulness, misunderstanding of the correct use of the drug and economic factors. It describes methods for assessing adherence. It emphasizes the importance of establishing and maintaining good and open relationship between physician and patient.

The article presents the author's views on a patient's right to demand treatment. The author thinks that a patient's right to self-determination is the prevailing ethic in medicine these days, but in reality doctors routinely place limits on it. Ethicists have argued that doctors can deny treatment whenever a patient's demand conflicts with a doctor's moral convictions. According to him, sometimes a patient's request conflicts with what a doctor believes to be good medical practice.

The article reports on the announcement by the Department of Health Services in California of a 1,000 percent fee hike for participants in the state's medical marijuana ID card program. The move has organizers worried that the increase will discourage participation in the program. Dale Gieringer, an official of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, states that the fee increase is due to a lack of participants in the program.

The need to pass on advice from the Department of Health and Human Services about interpretation of the six-month rule accentuates a basic challenge that hospices face constantly: communication with [...]

AUGUSTA, Maine -- Although the Maine Rx Plus program launched Jan. 17, some pharmacy chains operating in the state are not participating, including the state's largest pharmacy operator Rite Aid, [...]

This article reports on the decision of the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to loosen the rules for a program that encourages doctors and hospitals to coordinate care for groups of Medicare patients.

The article reports that the strategic affiliation of CHOC Children's and University of California, Irvine has successfully promoted a safer and healthier environment to the children in Orange County.

There are certain choices patients make that I have never understood, choices that from my perspective as a doctor seem to undermine their very chances for survival. Or at least undermine the efforts doctors, nurses and even complete strangers make on their behalf. ''If I were in their shoes,'' I have thought more than once, ''I would do everything in my power to survive.'' [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article discusses the One Health Initiative, a movement in the U.S. to forge partnerships between physicians and veterinarians. Among the health agencies and organizations that support the initiative are the American Medical Association and the American Veterinary Medical Association. The goals of the initiative include the integration of educational systems within and between human medical schools, veterinary medical schools and schools of public health.

The article presents the views of the author on why many patients want their therapists to be someone with whom they can identify. According to the author, all these patients who are seeking understanding from their therapists have a conception about empathy. The author claims that empathy can bridge gap between patients and therapists.

Focuses on patient noncompliance in the U.S.

Focuses on the concept of preventative medicine in health care. How the approach, called "prospective" rather than "preventative" medicine, works, using patients' medical histories; Importance of patient involvement with physcian in the treatment process; Comments from Michael Johns, executive vice president for health affairs and director of the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center at Emory University, regarding the value of patient self-care; Explanation offered by Kerry Little, a health coach at Duke University, suggesting patients will follow the health-care plan much like a business plan.

Reports on the efforts of researchers to detect the virus causing the killer pneumonia, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS). Number of people sickened and killed by the virus, which is known as coronavirus; How the World Health Organization's consortium of labs were able to detect the virus quickly; Impact of modern technology, such as electronic mail, in sharing results between the labs, which are housed in eight countries worldwide; Comments from James Hughes, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Infectious Diseases, regarding the cooperation between the labs.

Focuses on the mammography team of Dr. Kim A. Adcock, radiology chief at Kaiser Permanente Colorado. His strategy in holding mammography doctors accountable for their work; How Adcock's team reached a high level of accuracy; Adcock's willingness to confront doctors and focus on their skill in spotting tumors; Use of statistics in tracking doctor performance; Question of whether Adcock's approach can be replicated broadly; Attitudes of physicians; Outlook for extending U.S. federal mammography rules. INSET: Tips on Mammography Clinics.

Reports the contract ratification between the physicians of Harlem Hospital and Columbia University in New York, New York. Provisions of the contract; Percentage wage increase of physicians; Modification of the Faculty Practice Plan.

Reports that Tenet Healthcare Corp. has reached an agreement on extending its contract with Blue Cross of California. Terms of a multiyear contract; Tenet hospital affiliates in Orange County that are covered by the contract; Agreement on adequate reimbursement; Tenet's rejection of managed care contracts that did not make financial sense.

MOSCOW. Nov 13 (Interfax) - Russian Health Minister Veronika Skvortsova has singed a memorandum on cooperation in treating infectious diseases and advancing IT technologies in medicine with the leadership of the South Korean Health Ministry, the press service of the Russian ministry says. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Discusses how Carl Friedrich turned a unruly bunch of workers into a working unit. His experience with physicians for New York's Hospital for Special Surgery; The most critical management skills that he learned.

Reports on formation of an alliance by major buyers of health care in 1995 to rate and improve the quality of care at the health-maintenance organizations (HMOs). Details about the alliance, its aims, objectives and strategy.