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Medicaid cuts leave patients in a lurch

...ive termination of its services to people and this means they won't be eligible for Medicaid rolls. Even more, benefits on prescription drugs have also been cut . Further cuts are planned in the near future. Physicians find themselves in a dire predicament as to whether they should go about treating the p...

Scientists review SARS

... droplets in the air. But thatroute is not a major means of spreading SARS, Dr. Ryansaid by telephone in a news conference after themeeting in Geneva.The W.H.O. has received wide praise for organizingteams of laboratory scientists, epidemiologists andhealth officials from around the world immediatelyafter ...

SARS-Free Taiwan to Mark End Phase of Global Fight

...en beaten, health experts say. "It will be by no means a declaration that the world is SARS-free," said o...s where many victims have been doctors and nurses, means countries will have to be on guard for some time to come, the WHO has warned. Officials in Toronto...

In Chronic Diseases - Poor compliance of Patients with drug treatment

...ntensive care services." Rational use of medicines means good prescribing and full adherence to the prescriptions. "Health professionals witness the need for better patients' adherence to the treatments they are prescribed. Given that the health care system is partially at fault, incentives must be creat...

Easier Dialysis for Kids

... to children more safely. The machine’s efficiency means fewer alarms, which means a better night’s sleep for everyone. While Maya waits for a kidney transplant, this machine keeps h...

Spinal Cord Patients Walk Again

Paralysis clearly means learning to give up many of the activities to which you are accustomed to doing. In many cases, that can mean not being able to go places that aren’t wheelchair accessible or even standing to get something off a shelf. Now, new research in Philadelph...

Scientists push to lower hidden sodium in food

...ways to cut the sodium. Meanwhile, sensible sodium means closely checking food labels."It's of concern for everybody," Doctors says. "You don't want to wait until your blood pressure gets into the high range."...

Antibiotics May Help Prevent Strokes

...s prescribed to otherwise healthy people simply as means of preventing stroke, he added....

Therapy Boosts Chemotherapy Effects

...lls with growth factors is a clinically applicable means of enhancing the efficacy of chemotherapy in patients with AML."...

Even mid-life diet change can extend life

...ating habits. "If this works in humans, then it means that from the time a person starts on a restricted diet, they'll be like individuals of the same age who were always on that diet," she said. "Their prospects of survival are the same." Partridge said that although the life-extending effects of sh...

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

...s called 1.5 X coverage of the dog genome. This means many DNA fragments remain and the results are less accurate than the completed sequences of some other species. For instance, the mouse has been sequenced to a 8 X coverage, which is considered ideal and essentially complete. But they said because ...

Dog DNA reveals man's link with best friend

...s called 1.5 X coverage of the dog genome. This means many DNA fragments remain and the results are less accurate than the completed sequences of some other species. For instance, the mouse has been sequenced to a 8 X coverage, which is considered ideal and essentially complete. But they said because ...

Diabetes, obesity rates shooting up

...betes if they do not do something right away. That means losing weight, exercising and eating better. "We are at the cusp of a problem that can even get much worse," say researchers.The development affects not only patients themselves, but the health care system. Diabetes is the fifth leading cause of dea...

Exercise to Prevent Early Breast Cancer

...me that physical activity works through a hormonal means to reduce BCIS risk, this may not be an important mechanism for women who may have a hereditary form of the disease....

Memory said to automatically improve with age

...membering names or appointments, while unpleasant, means trouble with only a small part of your memory .Intelligent memory works in different parts of the brain from the memory that recalls a spouse's birth date or a friend's name. And intelligent memory grows with age. Intelligent memory helps people fig...

Diabetes a cause for worry among the young

...a stroke than their peers without diabetes. "This means that huge numbers of people are going to get heart disease, heart attacks and strokes years, sometimes even decades, before they should," says researchers. Researchers compared outcomes of more than 7,800 adults who were diagnosed with type 2 diabe...

Enzyme Associated with Memory

...ill continue her pregnancy. Investigators say this means the female memorizes her partner’s scent during the mating process. Researchers say norepinephrine is a chemical released in the brain during emotional or exciting situations. For the study, the scientists collected data from the mouse brain to see ...

Enzyme Associated With Memory

...ill continue her pregnancy. Investigators say this means the female memorizes her partner’s scent during the mating process. Researchers say norepinephrine is a chemical released in the brain during emotional or exciting situations. For the study, the scientists collected data from the mouse brain to see ...

House heads for Medicare drug vote

...rug coverage was lowered from $275 to $250. That means the drug bill would cover 75 percent of drug costs between $250 and $2,250. The earlier draft had cut off coverage at $2,200. Catastrophic coverage would kick in once out-of-pocket spending exceeded $3,600, covering 95 percent of costs. The drug be...

Green Onions Blamed in Outbreak

...aurant. "There is currently no industry-accepted means of testing produce for Hepatitis A virus. And there is no effective way to wash Hepatitis A off of green onions, as the public health authorities have confirmed," Zavertnik said. The Centers for Disease Control said in a statement on its Web site h...

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