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Cuba is Exporting Healthcare Now

...ghborhood doctor, polyclinics provide specialists, outpatient operations, physical therapy, rehabilitation, and labs. Those who need inpatient treatment can go to hospitals; at the end of their stay, their neighborhood medical team helps make the transition home. Doctors at all levels are trained to administer ...

Survey Shows Asthma Not Controlled in Severe Asthma Patients

....7 million physician office visits and 1.2 million outpatient visits. The REACT study found that the proportion of patients reporting two or more emergency department visits, hospitalization or three or more missed days of work/school because of asthma in the past year was more than three times greater in pat...

Advanced Cancer Treatment Brings New Hope to Michigan Patient

...rable tumors, and the treatment is performed on an outpatient basis. CyberKnife can also treat multiple tumors at different locations in the body during a single treatment session. Patients with cancer pain routinely experience dramatic relief after receiving CyberKnife treatments and have a shorter treatment t...

Fibroid Symptoms in Women can Be Relieved by Focused Ultrasound

...ually in the U.S. MRgFUS represents a noninvasive, outpatient alternative to hysterectomy. "This treatment is ideal for older women who have completed their families and have a single or limited number of fibroids," said co-author Clare M. Tempany, M.D., professor of radiology at Harvard Medical School and di...

New Device for Stroke Patients Improves Walking

... correct their gait. Offered on an inpatient and outpatient basis, the NESS L300 has been shown to improve walking coordination, speed and blood flow, and decrease the effort required in walking while wearing the device. Generally, electrical stimulation has been demonstrated to improve motor control; future ...

Diabetics in Nursing Homes Need Improved Care

...e are guidelines on how to manage diabetes for the outpatient adult, and there are new guidelines for how to manage diabetes for patients in the hospital, but there are no guidelines for treating people in nursing homes, Shubrook said. According to the study, only 38 percent of the patients monitored (98 perc...

Most Pediatric Chemotherapy Mistakes Reach Patients

...ication error database of inpatient facilities and outpatient clinics to characterize the patterns of errors and.... Interestingly, compared to inpatient facilities, outpatient clinics were more likely to involve prescribing and dose calculation errors. Over 40 percent of erro...

New Approach to Treating Precancerous Esophagus Condition

...aid. "The procedure is performed on patients as an outpatient procedure under conscious sedation, much as during a colonoscopy. The patients find that they have little or no discomfort following the procedure." Pavey said that if radiofrequency ablation is proven effective in larger trials now under way, phys...

Surgeons Perform Nasal Reconstruction for War Veteran Using His Own Body Parts

...sculpting and contouring procedures are done at an outpatient clinic, but his long days recuperating in the hospital are done, says lead surgeon Patrick J. Byrne, M.D. Aided by new advances in instrumentation by biomedical engineers, and computer-assisted design of precision plastics for use as templates, By...

Moves To Improve War Veterans Health Taken

...health care for veterans, is planning to set up an outpatient clinic in Evansville city that would open by 2011... officials announced in March that money for a new outpatient clinic was included in the 2007 federal budget. In addition, the House Veterans' Affairs Committee...

UC Regents Approve Fundraised Campaign for UCSF Medical Center at Mission Bay

... Mission Bay allows UCSF to increase inpatient and outpatient capacity to meet growing patient demand, address old and outdated facilities, and comply with state-mandated earthquake safety standards for hospitals. The new medical center is a key element of UCSFs long-term vision to advance its education, resear...

Women With Heart Disease and Diabetes Less Likely to Receive Proper Care: Study

...re less likely to receive several types of routine outpatient medical care than men who have similar health prob... to understand why there are gender differences in outpatient care. "As we become a nation with an older population, the type of routine preventive care we stud...

Million Mentally Ill in India

...ver, most of these ailments could be treated at an outpatient basis and only a very small proportion requires hospitalization. This has led to acceptance of community-based treatment of mental disorders worldwide. Besides being less expensive community based interventions are more accessible, acceptable, less s...

One Third of US Troops Suffer from Mental Health Problems

...terans care following recent disclosures of shoddy outpatient treatment at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the premier care facility for soldiers in Washington. The task force found 38 percent of soldiers and 31 percent of Marines report psychological concerns such as traumatic brain injury and post-traumati...

New, Less Painful Wound Treatment for Pediatric Patients

...uards against infection. It can even be worn on an outpatient basis, using smaller portable equipment. Further research is needed, however, to ensure that the therapy is used effectively. Additional studies may help to harness the benefits of this technology in this unique and vulnerable population, says Dr. ...

Research Finds No Link Found Between Autism and Celiac Disease

...hildren without autism who had been referred to an outpatient clinic of the same hospital. They looked for two antibodies used to help detect celiac diseaseanti-gliadin antibodies and anti-endomysial antibodies. Biopsies of the small intestine were offered to children who tested positive for either antibody to ...

Presidential Commission Wants Proper Care of Wounded Soldiers at Their Homes

... not adequately use private contractors to provide outpatient treatment, which could allow patients to receive care at home rather than have to travel to a veterans hospital. If were patient-centric, we should allow the transition of that patient to occur, Mr. Buyer said. The commission, led by Donna E. Sha...

C- Section Does Not Affect an Infants Health

...on did not have higher rates of hospitalization or outpatient visits during their first 18 months of life. "The findings should reassure parents whose children were delivered by caesarean in that we could not find any substantial adverse impact in terms of health services use," Dr. Gabriel M. Leung, the study'...

Untreatable Eye Disease Improves With Avastin

...York Medical College. It has approximately 142,000 outpatient visits annually and over 20,000 surgical procedures per year. It has one of the nations most extensive eye, ear, nose and throat clinics....

Self-harming Among Teens More Common Than Thought

...ough NSSI is commonly encountered in inpatient and outpatient psychiatric and other institutionalized settings, little research has looked at NSSI in community samples, said Lloyd-Richardson. A total of 633 high school students (grades 9-12) from schools in the southern and mid-western United States voluntar...

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