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1. 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…...
2. Share of Cost, Surgeons Train On The First FDA-Approved Total Artificial Heart For Transplant Patients Share of Cost, Surgeons Train On The First FDA-Approved Total Artificial Heart For Transplant Patients: A 13-member surgical team from the Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center completed the first phase of training to implant a new total artificial heart designed to completely replace the heart’s function while the patient waits for a heart transplant. […]...
3. Noel Bairey Merz, M.D., Calls For Programs Like Meditation To Reduce Heart Disease Deaths Stress management programs like Transcendental Meditation should be implemented to significantly reduce depression, heart attacks, strokes and deaths in coronary heart disease patients, according to a new editorial written by a Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute physician, C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, and published in Archives of Internal Medicine. C. Consider our share of cost dental plans […]...
4. Share of Cost, The Cost and Causes of Heart Disease: Can We Reverse the Epidemic? Share of Cost, The Cost and Causes of Heart Disease: Can We Reverse the Epidemic?...
5. Share of Cost News, NIH encourages women to take charge of their heart health Share of Cost News, NIH encourages women to take charge of their heart health...
6. MedlinePlus A website by the U.S. National Library of Medicine for patients and families that provides information about diseases, illnesses, health conditions and wellness issues. Pages contain links with health information on over 800 topics, as well as information on drugs and supplements and videos and tools. Check our share of cost site for additional information....
7. 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 […]...
8. 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 […]...
9. 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....
10. 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., […]...
11. 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., […]...
12. Association Discovered Between Childhood ADHD And Substance Abuse Risk Analysis of data from two long-term studies of the impact of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) on the development of psychiatric disorders in young adults confirms that ADHD alone significantly increases the risk of cigarette smoking and substance abuse in both boys and girls....
13. Pharmacoeconomic Value Of Addiction Treatments, Including VIVITROL(R), Published In Leading Healthcare Policy Journal Alkermes, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALKS) today announced the publication of two new studies in the June issue of The American Journal of Managed Care1,2 evaluating pharmacoeconomic data on addiction treatments, including VIVITROL® (naltrexone for extended-release injectable suspension), with the endpoint of total healthcare costs....
14. Northern Ireland Hay Fever Sufferers To Breathe More Easily Thanks To Queen’s Local hay fever sufferers will breathe more easily following the news that Northern Ireland’s only air pollen sampler has been installed at Queen’s University Belfast in association with the Met Office. The new pollen trap, sited on the roof of the Queen’s School of Geography, Archaeology; Palaeoecology, is the only one of its kind in […]...
15. ACSM Issues New Guidelines On Quantity And Quality Of Exercise The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) has just released new recommendations on the quantity and quality of exercise for adults, definitively answering the age-old question of how much exercise is actually enough. The position stand, titled “Quantity and Quality of Exercise for Developing and Maintaining Cardiorespiratory, Musculoskeletal, and Neuromotor Fitness in Apparently Healthy Adults: […]...