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How Can a Doctor Choose Medications for Patients Without Data Comparing New Ones to Existing Ones? Half of the Time, They Don’t Have That
Sex Research Review: WSJ Columnist Tells You What’s What
Watch Out for Diet Used by Mother of Bride for Royal Wedding
Victims and Bullies Spend More Time with School Nurses, Study Says
Would You Spend All You Had to Buy Time If You Had Cancer? See Who Would or Wouldn’t
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Many Seniors Could Be Back Playing with Grandkids “If We Did the Right Thing”
Although America, as are all developed countries, has a growing older population, coordinated care teams could provide the continuity that gets active seniors back to normal and the frail out of the hospital when that can be avoided, says this New York Times story. These patients must become a priority.
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Study Examines Lives of Young Children Whose Parents Are Cancer Survivors
This disease may be turning their lives upside down but the children don’t normally get attention when a young parent is diagnosed.
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Here Is the Difference This Year Between Group and Individual Insurance
Medpage Today: “Notice of an impending increase — received by 77% of the 1,000 people surveyed — led some to cancel their policy and buy a new, cheaper one, so the overall premium increase for those buying individual insurance was about 13%.”
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“The Essential Business Model of Medical Insurance Will Have to Change”
An innovative health care system in Pennsylvania is paying for chronic disease nurses to work in primary care offices to help alert the doctor to patients who need to come in quickly and to help prevent avoidable hospitalizations.
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Kids Think Foods With Cartoon Characters “Taste Better”
ABC News: “Today, researchers from Yale University announced the results of a small study which confirmed that, to children at least, food that’s marketed with cartoons tastes better.
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The New Dad Is Stressed Out, Study Suggests
This story is about the additional responsibilities fathers are taking on at home, how mothers may under-value those responsibilities and why there is too much stress going around helping kids.
Moms, this story says, carry the psychological load, and this leads to their not assessing dads’ contributions in the same way they do their own.
The New [...]
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How to Cut Your Stroke Risk in Half
If you could cut your stroke risk in half, would you do it?
Of course, most people would say. Strokes are potentially devastating or fatal.
The checklist inlcudes:
1. Keeping blood pressure under control.
2. Don’t smoke.
3. Abdominal obesity is a risk factor.
4. Diet needs to be a healthy one.
5. Physical activity should be at recommended levels.
Medpage Today
“There are [...]
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The Number of Doctors Refusing Medicare at New High
Doctors will be getting their first Medicare payments this week or next, payments which are based on a 21% cut Congress did not fix in time.
This week, Congress may fix this problem. Still, it is a symptom of a reimbursement system which is irrational and unpredictable.
Other news sources report doctors’ “fatigue” with the Medicare payment [...]
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Adults Are More Likely to Drive and Text Than Teenagers Are, Pew Study Says
A new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project says that 27% of all American adults have sent text messages while driving. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
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FDA Has Fined Red Cross…Red Cross Says Corrective Actions Already Taken
“The Red Cross had been slipshod in the collection and manufacture of blood products. It was the latest in a string of multimillion-dollar penalties for failure to meet blood safety standards,” reports The Los Angeles Times. The Red Cross’s position is that these fines are from violations which occurred before corrective actions were taken.
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