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<title><![CDATA[Nearly 7 in 10 Americans Are On Prescription Drugs]]></title>













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		Nearly 70% of Americans are on at least one prescription drug, and more than half take two, Mayo Clinic researchers say. Antibiotics, antidepressants and painkilling opioids are most commonly prescribed, their study found. Twenty percent of patients are on five or more prescription medications, acco...

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<title><![CDATA[Technology: Initiative to Develop Patient-Centered Electronic Decision-Making Tool for Nurses]]></title>













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		The Aurora Research Institute, a division of Aurora Health Care, has won a $1.5 million US Department of Defense grant to study an advanced electronic health record system that proactively alerts nurses to health risks facing individual patients. This knowledge-based nursing initiative is led by pri...

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<title><![CDATA[PCORI to Invest $17 Million to Answer Long-Standing Questions About Disparities in Asthma Burden and Care]]></title>













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		Recognizing the persistent disparities in controlling asthma among African-American and Hispanic/Latino populations in the United States, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) issued a call for research proposals  to provide new information on ways to solve this problem. PCORI w...

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<title><![CDATA[Global Collaborative Effort Will Study Abuse-Related Pediatric Traumatic Injury in China]]></title>













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		Child abuse and neglect are considered a serious public health problem in modern China. A number of factors, including social and cultural traditions and a lack of public awareness regarding appropriate child discipline, have caused child abuse to remain an understudied issue.A new global collabor...

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<title><![CDATA[Emergency Departments Still Missing Signs of Pelvic Disease in Teens]]></title>













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		Despite government efforts to expand diagnostic criteria for pelvic inflammatory disease, emergency department doctors are not identifying the condition any more often in adolescent girls, finds a new study in Journal of Adolescent Health.Pelvic inflammatory disease, or PID, is a complication of s...

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<title><![CDATA[Teens Have Unsupervised Access to Prescription Drugs]]></title>













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		A new study in the Journal of Adolescent Health found that 83.4% of teens had unsupervised access to their prescription medications at home including 73.7% taking pain relief, anti-anxiety, stimulant and sedative medications that have the potential for abuse."It was surprising to me that parents w...

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<title><![CDATA[Pilot Program to Decrease Emergency Room Wait Times]]></title>













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		Emergency department (ED) overcrowding has been a major issue nationally for 20 years and continues to increase in severity. To address this issue, a pilot study has been launched at UC San Diego Health System’s ED to use telemedicine as a way to help address crowding and decrease patient wait times...

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<title><![CDATA[Frequent Soccer Ball &lsquo;Heading&amp;#39; May Lead to Brain Injury]]></title>













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		Researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have shown that soccer players who frequently head the ball have brain abnormalities resembling those found in patients with concussion (mild traumatic brain injury). The study, which used advanced imaging techniques and cognit...

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<title><![CDATA[Cardiac MRI Use Reduces Adverse Events for Patients with Acute Chest Pain]]></title>













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		Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center doctors have found that using stress cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging in an Emergency Department observation unit to care for patients with acute chest pain is a win-win—for the patient and the institution.In a small, single-center clinical trial, Chadwic...

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<title><![CDATA[Buckle Up the Right Way: Motor Vehicle Child Safety Restraints]]></title>













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		Supplemental child restraints should be used by all children through age 8. When appropriate child safety restraint systems—based on a child's age and weight—are in use during motor vehicle crashes, the rates of mortality and serious injury significantly decrease. Most parents don't know that their ...

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<title><![CDATA[Rates of Emergency Bowel Surgery Vary Wildly From State to State]]></title>













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		Johns Hopkins researchers have documented huge and somewhat puzzling interstate variations in the percentage of emergency versus elective bowel surgeries. Figuring out precisely why the differences occur is critical, they say, because people forced to undergo emergency procedures are far more likely...

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<title><![CDATA[$1.6 Million Study of Appendicitis Treatment Could Help Children Avoid Surgery]]></title>













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		In the first study of its kind in the United States, researchers at Nationwide Children’s Hospital will examine the effectiveness of antibiotic therapy alone to treat appendicitis in children, research that could allow patients to avoid a surgery many may not need. The $1.6 million project also will...

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<title><![CDATA[Common Childhood Asthma Not Rooted in Allergens, Inflammation]]></title>













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		Little is known about why asthma develops, how it constricts the airway or why response to treatments varies between patients. Now, a team of researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College, Columbia University Medical Center and SUNY Downstate Medical Center has revealed the roots of a common type of ...

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<title><![CDATA[Poor Sleep Linked to PTSD After Heart Attack]]></title>













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		Clinicians have long speculated that poor sleep may be a mechanism involved in the higher risk of further cardiac events or death among those with post-traumatic stress disorder following a heart attack, but the association between PTSD and sleep after a heart event has been unknown.Recent data fr...

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<title><![CDATA[Disabled Patients Who Can&amp;#39;t Afford Their Meds Come to the ER More]]></title>













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		Disabled Medicare patients under the age of 65 who don’t take their prescription medications because of cost concerns are more likely to have at least one emergency department visit during a one-year period. The results of a new study are published online today in Annals of Emergency Medicine (“The ...

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<title><![CDATA[First Heat Wave of Season Puts Elderly at Risk]]></title>













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		With the first heat wave of the season poised to descend on the Northeast, Dr. Thomas Cavalieri, a geriatrician and the dean of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-School of Osteopathic Medicine, is reminding residents to check on elderly neighbors and relatives who may not be awa...

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<title><![CDATA[Increase in Unintentional Marijuana Ingestion Among Young Children Following New Drug Laws]]></title>













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		Following modification of drug enforcement laws for possession of marijuana in Colorado, there was an apparent increase in unintentional marijuana ingestions by young children, according to a report and accompanying editorials published Online First by JAMA Pediatrics, a JAMA Network publication.S...

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<title><![CDATA[Death Rates Decline for Advanced Heart Failure Patients, but Outcomes are Still Not Ideal]]></title>













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		UCLA researchers examining outcomes for advanced heart-failure patients over the past two decades have found that, coinciding with the increased availability and use of new therapies, overall mortality has decreased and sudden cardiac death, caused by the rapid onset of severe abnormal heart rhythms...

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<title><![CDATA[Economic Incentives Increase Blood Donation without Negative Consequences]]></title>













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		Can economic incentives such as gift cards, T-shirts, and time off from work motivate members of the public to increase their donations of blood?A team of researchers including Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Assistant Professor Mario Macis says the answer is an emphatic yes. Pointing to a lar...

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<title><![CDATA[Baby&amp;#39;s Life Saved with Groundbreaking 3D Printed Device That Restored His Breathing]]></title>













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		Every day, their baby stopped breathing, his collapsed bronchus blocking the crucial flow of air to his lungs. April and Bryan Gionfriddo watched helplessly, just praying that somehow the dire predictions weren’t true.“Quite a few doctors said he had a good chance of not leaving the hospital alive...

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<title><![CDATA[Educating Children and Parents Key to Preventing Dog Bites]]></title>













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		The Emergency Department at Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego treats an average of five dog bites per week. And we hear the same story all too often from perplexed parents: “Our dog has never bitten anyone. The kids and the dog play nicely together all the time. Then today, 'out of the blue,' he bi...

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<title><![CDATA[Less Sleep Associated With Increased Risk of Crashes for Young Drivers]]></title>













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		A study by Alexandra L. C. Martiniuk, MSc, PhD, of The George Institute for Global Health, Sydney, Australia, and colleagues suggests less sleep per night is associated with a significant increase in the risk for motor vehicle crashes for young drivers. (Online First)Questionnaire responses were a...

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<title><![CDATA[Women with Severe Injuries Are Less Likely than Men to Be Treated in a Trauma Center]]></title>













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		Women are less likely than men to receive care in a trauma center after severe injury, according to a new study of almost 100,000 Canadian patients.“Gender-based disparities in access to healthcare services in general have been recognized for some time and evidence is emerging that these dispariti...

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<title><![CDATA[Passenger Car Drivers Are More Likely to Die in Crashes with SUVs, Regardless of Crash Safety Ratings]]></title>













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		Most consumers who are shopping for a new car depend on good crash safety ratings as an indicator of how well the car will perform in a crash. But a new University at Buffalo study of crashes involving cars and sport utility vehicles (SUVs) has found those crash ratings are a lot less relevant than ...

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<title><![CDATA[Tavenner Confirmed as CMS Administrator]]></title>













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		Marilyn Tavenner was easily confirmed by the Senate Wednesday to run the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The 91-7 vote makes Tavenner the first confirmed CMS leader since 2006.When Tavenner was first nominated in late 2011 she did not receive Senate confirmation. She succeeded form...

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