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1. Share of Cost, New Rules to Require Equal Visitation Rights for All Hospital Patients Share of Cost, New Rules to Require Equal Visitation Rights for All Hospital Patients: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued new rules for Medicare- and Medicaid-participating hospitals that protect patients’ right to choose their own visitors during a hospital stay, including a visitor who is a same-sex domestic partner.  The rules require hospitals […]...
2. Share of Cost, The Number Of U.S. Adults Treated For Diabetes More Than Doubled Between 1996 And 2007 Approximately 19 million U.S. adults reported receiving treatment for diabetes in 2007, more than double the 9 million who said they received care in 1996, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. AHRQ also found that between 1996 and 2007: — The number of people age 65 […]...
3. Anxiety Increases Risk Of Complications For Heart Disease Patients Patients with heart disease who also suffer from an anxiety disorder have a significantly higher risk of having a heart attack, heart failure, stroke and death, compared to other heart disease patients, according to Dutch scientists. You can read about this study in the peer-reviewed medical journal Archives of General Psychiatry…...
4. 19,643 Surgeries Performed With Just 0.2% Death Rate In Resource-Limited Settings Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) reports that it performed nearly 20,000 surgical procedures with a death rate of just 0.2% in resource-limited settings between 2001 and 2008, showing that with appropriate minimal standards, surgical care can be provided safely and cheaply, says an article in Archives of Surgery, a JAMA/Archives journal....
5. Extremely Obese People More Likely To Die From H1N1 Swine Flu Extremely obese individuals, those with a BMI (body mass index) of over 40, have a significantly higher chance of dying from 2009 A(H1N1) swine flu infection compared to other people, researchers revealed in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. The scientists gathered data from a public health surveillance database in California and found extreme obesity to […]...
6. 19,643 Surgeries Performed With Just 0.2% Death Rate In Resource-Limited Settings Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) reports that it performed nearly 20,000 surgical procedures with a death rate of just 0.2% in resource-limited settings between 2001 and 2008, showing that with appropriate minimal standards, surgical care can be provided safely and cheaply, says an article in Archives of Surgery, a JAMA/Archives journal. No more than […]...
7. Share of Cost, Mass. Docs Will Soon Track Patients Who Abuse Prescription Drugs; Wis. Catholic Church Employees Now Eligible For Birth Control The Boston Globe: “With a few computer keystrokes, Massachusetts physicians will soon be able to identify patients who travel from clinic to clinic in pursuit of potent prescription drugs that feed lethal addictions....
8. Share of Cost, Esophageal Cancer Risk Lower Than Expected For GERD Patients Share of Cost, The risk of esophageal cancer among patients who suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is not as high as many may think, according to new research from University of Michigan gastroenterologists. GERD is considered a relative risk for developing esophageal adenocarcinoma, but the absolute risk is not known, says Joel Rubenstein, M.D., […]...
9. Share of Cost, For Acid Reflux Disease Patients, Esophageal Cancer Risk Lower Than Expected Share of Cost, The risk of esophageal cancer among patients who suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is not as high as many may think, according to new research from University of Michigan gastroenterologists. GERD is considered a relative risk for developing esophageal adenocarcinoma, but the absolute risk is not known, says Joel Rubenstein, M.D., […]...
10. Genetic Causation Of ASD Appears To Be Highly Diverse; Thoughts On Why Fewer Girls Have Autism A clinically extensive and mathematically powerful study of 1000 families with one autistic child and one unaffected sibling has validated a controversial theory of autism’s complex genetic causation. The study for the first time estimates the minimum number of locations in the human genome — 250 to 300 — where gene copy number variation (CNV) […]...
11. Stomach Acidity Medications Increase Risk Of Pneumonia Proton pump inhibitors and histamine2 receptor antagonists – types of acid suppressive medications commonly taken to treat the overproduction of gastric acid, such as acid reflux (GERD/GORD), dyspepsia, and peptic ulcer disease may raise the risk of pneumonia, researchers from Seoul National University Hospital, South Korea, report in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal)....
12. Long Term Cognitive Impairment Of Aging Brain Caused By Medications Drugs commonly taken for a variety of common medical conditions including insomnia, allergies, or incontinence negatively affect the brain causing long term cognitive impairment in older African-Americans, according to a study appearing in the July 13, 2010 print issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology…...
13. Relatives Of Individuals With Autism Tend To Display Abnormal Eye Movements Abnormal eye movements and other sensorimotor and neurobehavioral impairments appear common in unaffected family members of individuals with autism, according to a report in the August issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, one of the JAMA/Archives journals....