“In an aggressive new effort to influence the congressional health care debate, UnitedHealth Group this week e-mailed its 75,000 U.S.

A drug to stop bleeding during a brain injury and a mattress that will prevent bedsores are among the scientific discoveries at NJIT that received earlier this week more than a million dollars in funding from the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology.

A new report by the World Health Organization released this week suggests that despite considerable progress in the past decades, societies are still failing to meet the healthcare needs of women at key stages in their lives, especially in adolescence and old age.

With the tragic events at Fort Hood in Texas fresh in our minds, this week’s observance of Veterans Day, and President Obama’s pending decision on future troop levels in Afghanistan, the nation’s attention is firmly focused on the physical and psychological well being of those who serve in America’s armed forces.

New Mayo Clinic research has found that robotic surgery for vaginal prolapse (http://www.mayoclinic.org/pelvic-organ-prolapse/) dramatically reduces patient hospital stay and recovery time. These findings are being presented this week at the North Central Section of the American Urological Association in Scottsdale, Ariz.