New research confirms that plastic surgery can eliminate migraines in some patients.
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31Jul
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31Jul
A new survey shows Americans are adopting more favorable attitudes toward psychiatric drugs used to treat depression and anxiety.
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31Jul
A task force of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has made available to the industry a collaboration tool to assist in deploying clinical decision support systems.
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31Jul
St. Elizabeth Healthcare in Covington, Ky., will start rolling out in September electronic health records systems in its six hospitals and 31 primary care centers.
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31Jul
Pregnant women are among the groups that should receive H1N1 (swine) flu vaccinations this fall, according to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices panel whose recommendations are generally accepted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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31Jul
Inter Press Service examines several civil society organizations’ argument that legislative measures aimed at fighting HIV/AIDS, “hurt more” than they “help.” There are 58 countries with laws in place to “prosecute HIV transmission” and 33 others where such legislation is being considered, according to the International Planned Parenthood Federation.
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31Jul
A study led by scientists in Austria suggests that kids as young as 9 years old can and should learn how to use CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) and other life support skills and found that even when tested four months after training they retain a good level of knowledge and skill.
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31Jul
Prescribers treating patients who have had total hip or knee replacement surgery can access an independent review of the oral anticoagulant rivaroxaban (Xarelto) in the August issue of NPS RADAR.
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31Jul
The MS Society has responded to today’s Law Lords ruling concerning the case of Debbie Purdy, who has sought clarification on the law of assisted suicide. Debbie, 46, who was diagnosed with Primary Progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) in 1995, wanted to be assured that her husband would not be prosecuted on his return to the UK, if he accompanies her to the Dignitas clinic in Switzerland.
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31Jul
New wiki supports collaboration and accelerates progress on using clinical decision support for healthcare performance improvement Many organizations struggle to successfully deploy clinical decision support (CDS), a goal that takes on new importance since effective clinical decision support is a c
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31Jul
Today, British psychologist Professor Richard Wiseman (University of Hertfordshire) invites the public to take part in an ambitious five-day experiment that aims to boost the UK’s happiness.
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31Jul
University of Minnesota Project Eating Among Teens (EAT) researchers have identified factors that may increase overweight adolescents’ risk of engaging in extreme weight control behaviors such as self-induced vomiting, the use of diet pills, laxatives, and diuretics, as well as binge eating.
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31Jul
Source: National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
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31Jul
CircuLite®, Inc. announced that it has been awarded a Fast-Track Phase I-II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund the development of a pediatric circulatory assist device based upon CircuLite’s Synergy Pocket Micro-pump.
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31Jul
Spiration, Inc., a developer of novel medical devices designed to benefit patients with acute and chronic conditions of the lung, announced today that several new clinical sites are now actively recruiting patients for participation in a pivotal trial of the company’s minimally invasive treatment for severe emphysema.
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30Jul
Artemisinin, the “basis of the most effective” malaria treatment recommended by the WHO, took nearly twice as long to clear malaria parasites in patients in western Cambodia than it did in patients in northwestern Thailand, according to a New England Journal of Medicine study, which shows the “drugs are losing their power against the disease in Cambodia,” Bloomberg reports (Bennett, 7/30).
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30Jul
During a meeting in Atlanta on Wednesday, a “federal advisory committee issued sweeping guidelines … for a vaccination campaign against the pandemic swine flu strain, identifying more than half the U.S. population as targets for the first round of vaccinations,” CNN reports (Hellerman, 7/29).
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30Jul
Americans spent $34 billion on complementary and alternative medicines in a single year, a newly released report shows.
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30Jul
Organically grown food is no more nutritious than conventionally grown food when it comes to the amount of certain important nutrients, according to a new review of published studies.
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30Jul
Source: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
Related MedlinePlus Topic: Animal Diseases and Your HealthTags: Health
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