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Society Launches Updated CPD Recording System
An improved Continuing Professional Development (CPD) recording system is being launched

Developing World Health Care Solutions Help Some U.S. Programs
The Wall Street Journal examines how some U.S.-based health care programs are improving their treatment capabilities by learning from strategies used in developing countries. "When doctors running the AIDS clinic at the University of Alabama at Birmingham wanted to increase the number of patients who showed up for treatment, they turned to an unusual place for help: southern Africa," Wall Street Journal writes. By using an AIDS clinic in Zambia as a model, the Alabama clinic was able to decrease its no-show rate "from 31% in 2007 to 18% through June 2009."
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Seattle Genetics To Present SGN-35 And Lintuzumab Clinical Data At The European Hematology Association Congress
Seattle Genetics, Inc. (Nasdaq:SGEN) announced that data from a phase I clinical trial evaluating every three week dosing of SGN-35 and a phase I clinical trial of lintuzumab (SGN-33) will be reported at the 14th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) being held June 4-7, 2009 in Berlin, Germany. The abstracts are available from the EHA website at http://www.ehaweb.org.
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ECOSOC's Agenda Should Include Noncommunicable Disease Threat In Developing Countries

"[E]xplicit indicators to measure progress in reducing heart diseases, stroke, diabetes, cancers and chronic respiratory diseases" are missing from the U.N. Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) agenda as it meets in Geneva this week "to focus on implementing the internationally agreed goals and commitments in regard to public health," and the "omission needs to be urgently addressed if the intent is to have a major impact on reducing poverty by 2015," Ala Alwan, WHO"s assistant director-general for Noncommunicable Diseases and Mental Health; George Alleyne, PAHO"s director emeritus; and Martin Silink, president of the International Diabetes Federation write in an opinion piece in the Hindu. "Infectious diseases still strike at millions in developing countries, but they are rapidly being overtaken by the epidemic of noncommunicable diseases," according to the authors. Alwan, Alleyne and Silink say that "proven policies" can save "[m]illions of lives" through "interventions to reduce tobacco use, unhealthy diets, physical inactivity and harmful use of alcohol, and by strengthening primary care services to respond to the health-care needs of people needing screening, early detection and treatment of noncommunicable diseases." Though there have been "some recent promising initiatives," developing countries face challenges today that are "already greater than at any time since noncommunicable diseases became a problem in industrialised countries," write the authors. The authors conclude that combating noncommunicable diseases "requires strong global and national partnerships," noting that WHO this week is launching a Global Noncommunicable Disease Network, and they call on "[r]ich countries" to support developing countries "through aid and expertise which have led to drastic reductions in deaths from these diseases in their own populations" (Alwan/Alleyne/Silink, 7/8). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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