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'Health Care Coaches' Can Help Reduce Patient Bills, Rehospitalization

...tion lowers costs for Medicare providers who would otherwise finance the re-admissions to hospital. Because the intervention opens beds for other patients, hospitals may benefit financially. Researchers estimate that for every 350 patients who receive the intervention, hospital costs will be reduced by approxi...

Laws That Make Parental Consent Mandatory Reduce Risky Sexual Behavior

...n, but the laws have been blocked by the courts or otherwise not yet enforced in nine of those states, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights. Source-Eurekalert RAS...

U.S. Scientists Discover Better Vaccination Method

...e protected from subsequent infection with normal, otherwise deadly, Y. pestis. These results have suggested that immune stealth is probably critical for normal Y. pestis to cause serious infection. NLA...

High Levels of Lipoprotein(a) in Women is Associated With Cardiovascular Risk

...individuals with premature [heart attack] who have otherwise normal risk profiles or are at particularly high risk because of circumstances such as familial hypercholesteremia,” the researchers write. Source-Newswise SRM...

India's First Stem Cell Transplant Center Launched in Chennai

...d a proper regulation of the same is very crucial, otherwise the entire concept can be corrupted," Finch emphasised. LifeCell's cord blood stem cell banking facility at Keelakotaiyur in Tamil Nadu has been set up at a cost of Rs.140 million. Source-IANS...

Kashmir Grapples with Growing AIDS

...luntary organisations in the state that would have otherwise augmented the awareness drive and helped in implementing the programmes is compounding the problem. "It's very difficult approaching people in diverse areas with the message of HIV/AIDS with such little resources," said S. Vani, a social worker. ...

Food Safety Extension Specialist Provides Spinach E. coli Advice

...imals that overfly, graze, slither, crawl, and are otherwise naturally present in a field is impossible. The outbreak in question could have come from something as simple as deer excrement on or near the leaves of a plant. The actual feces may be washed off by rain, irrigation, or other means, but the contamin...

Genetic susceptibility in viral encephalitis

...genetic etiology of herpes simplex encephalitis in otherwise healtalpha, ihy patients," said Professor Bruce Be...litis, a viral infection of the brain that affects otherwise healthy patients, affects an extremely small percentage of those infected with herpes simplex virus-...

Abdominal Fat Linked To High Blood Pressure

...those who had little or no abdominal fat. Even in otherwise healthy individuals, an expanding waistline meant high blood pressure. The findings of the study are published in the American Journal of Hypertension. Dr. Chen Huan Chen, lead author of the study told Reuters that regardless of the current status...

Newer Antidepressants May Trigger Violent Behavior

...ar evidence of compromised function that cannot be otherwise explained.” Some 60 out of 9,219 people who took Paxil or 0.65 percent had a hostile event as compared to 20 of 6,455 given a placebo, the researchers added. <B...

MRSA Linked with Rise in Bacterial Infections

...tigated the 45 cases of pyomyositis or myositis in otherwise healthy children who were hospitalized at Texas Children's Hospital from 2000 through 2005. Sixteen of these cases were caused by CA-MRSA and 10 by CA-MSSA (methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus). The number of cases increased year by year...

Vaccine Quality 'blamed' for Polio Menace in UP

... grave suspicion about the quality of the vaccine, otherwise there is no reason why it should prove ineffective in so many cases. "Hasan told reporters here. "After all, most of the detected cases are among children who had received at least one dose of the vaccine," he said. Expressing its doubts about th...

Cell Operators Claim that Mobile Towers Pose no Health Hazards

...better services. There has to be a uniform policy, otherwise the cellular network cannot expand," he said. He was flanked by top officials from leading cellular service providers, including Airtel, Hutch, Idea and Reliance. Ramachandran said people were raising objections to towers in residential areas ev...

fMRI Prior to surgery Could Help In Outcome Of Tumor Surgery

...MRI results enabled a more complete resection than otherwise would have been achieved. No neurological deficits were documented in any patients after undergoing surgical tumor removal. After completing this study, Dr. Petrella believes that patients who may have previously been deemed ineligible for surger...

Stroke Rehabilitation Through Modified Video Games

...jobs more effectively and engages patients who may otherwise lack interest or motivation to complete normal exercise regimens. The Rutgers engineers are describing their work at the fifth International Workshop on Virtual Rehabilitation taking place Aug. 29 and Aug. 30 in New York City. "Virtual reality is...

Canada Has The Highest Incidence of IBD In The World

...ences of ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease//, otherwise known collectively as Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), in the world. The country was noted to have the highest incidence of per capita cases in the world with about one in 350 Canadians suffering from ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease. IBD i...

Racial differences show difference in blood sugar control too!!

...2,273 white and 14,670 black patients, which would otherwise have not shown up in each individual study. Meta-analysis of racial and ethnic differences in blood sugar control among diabetic patients was done for the first time. The majority of the studies were based on patients aged over 50 with type II diab...

Lives Saved through Simple Changes

... through its unprecedented program has saved which otherwise might have been lost. Berwick taught hospitals the method of developing "rapid-response" teams that would aid in the identification of heart attack symptoms before they worsen. In addition he showed how to better ensure beta-blockers and aspirin a...

Conference on developing new treatments for Tourette Syndrome

...science and clinical fields who probably would not otherwise interact with each other," Scahill said. "By the end of the conference we hope to have new directions for the treatment for TS." Over the past decade there has been a convergence of evidence from neuroimaging, neuropathology, genetics, and behavio...

How HIV "Exhausts" Killer T Cells

...virus// (HIV) “exhausts” killer T cells that would otherwise attack the virus. The researchers found that HIV can simply “turn off” fully functional T cells by flipping a molecular switch on the cells. In test tube studies, however, the scientists showed that they could reinvigorate the killer T cells by block...

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