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Obese Kids 63% More Likely to Be Bullied than Average-Weight Classmates
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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
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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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New Orleans Is Transforming Its Health Care System All On Its Own…Heroes Are in Plentiful Supply
One of the oldest hospitals in America, Charity Hospital in New Orleans, is closed and likely will not re-open. However, medical professors and students have gone into action to do whatever works post-Katrina. The health care system, such as it was, in New Orleans, may be well ahead of the rest of the nation in figuring out new ways to deliver patient care in extraordinarily challenging conditions.
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Temp Nursing Agencies Attract Many Sub-Standard Practioners…Patients Suffer
A joint investigative project between Pro Publica and the Los Angeles Times reveals many nurse registries, which supply temporary help to hospitals on demand, don’t check these professionals out before sending them to patients’ bedsides. The end result is that many poor nurses are floating in and out of hospitals in a region because no one is watching the agencies.
No one is watching the agencies.
No one at the agencies is watching the nurses.
The hospitals which use these services don’t have time to get to know the nurses.
The patients suffer.
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The Mammogram Battle of 2009 Ends
Certain diseases—breast cancer being one—scare people more than others. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has just “clarified” its recommendation made last month, which led to a battle of charges and counter-charges about why the task force said mammograms were not needed until age 50. Now, if women want to start them at 40, the task force says that is fine.
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Loneliness Is Catching, New Study Says
There is a different kind of pandemic we did not know about: Loneliness. A new, federally-funded study of 4,000 people over 10 years shows that loneliness is infectious. People we don’t even know can affect how lonely we may feel, researchers say.
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Pandemic Flu Monitor: When To Take Your Child To The ER
Although life-threatening cases of H1N1 are relatively rare, this flu strain is known to affect children, teenagers and young adults much more severely than regular seasonal flu. Here are guidelines to help parents for gauge when it is time to take a sick child to the emergency room.
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Two-Thirds of Chickens Bought Tested Positive for Potentially Harmful Bacteria
A new Consumer Reports study shows that chicken you buy in stores may bring bad bacteria into your home. Two-thirds (66%) of the samples purchased were contaminated. That’s the bad news. The good news is that this number is an improvement over two years ago when 80% were. What is going on?
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Study: Rural Patients More Likely Than Urban PatientsTo Undergo Hip And Knee Replacements
“While there were a number of reasons to suspect that rural Medicare beneficiaries may be less likely to undergo total joint replacement surgeries than urban Medicare beneficiaries, our findings indicated the opposite,” Mark L. Francis, MD, of Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, and colleagues wrote.
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Will Brain Surgery Again Become a Useful Tool?
The Times’ Benedict Carey writes below about the ways in which brain surgery for mental illnesses is coming back—-with hope and risk traveling together even now. Any advance in treatment for mental conditions which do not respond to current approaches is worth looking at but with great caution.
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Pandemic Flu Monitor: Patients’ Emotional Reactions As Seen by One Doctor
What has happened to your views of the H1N1 pandemic since it first started?
Have they changed? How?
Have you known anyone who has contracted it?
Whatever your answers, this article is about the “emotional epidemiology” of patients—-how patients feel about the pandemic.
This is from a free full text published in the New England Journal of Medicine online, [...]
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Fall Risk Higher Among Elderly Suffering From Chronic Pain
Chronic pain is associated with an increased risk of falls among older adults. No matter how it was assessed, seniors with chronic pain had a 1.5-fold increased risk of falling because Pain contributes to functional decline and muscle weakness, and it has been associated with mobility limitations that could predispose patients to falls.
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