| Economic Incentives Increase Blood Donation without Negative Consequences | |
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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 includ...
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| RxAlly Releases White Paper on Necessity of Personalized Pharmacist Care | |
| RxAlly, a first-of-its-kind alliance of more than 22,000 pharmacies nationwide, announces the publication of a white paper titled Personalized Pharmacist Care: Healing America...
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| Laws To Lower Alcohol Limits Mean Lower Fatalities | |
| The National Transportation Safety Board NTSB) is proposing that the legal limit for a driver’s blood-alcohol content be reduced from 0.08 to 0.05, but and that may not be far...
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| Calcium Supplements Linked to Longer Lifespans in Women | |
| Taking a calcium supplement of up to 1,000 mg per day can help women live longer, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Cl...
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| Ask for Therapy Cap Repeal During National Stroke Awareness Month | |
| There are 7 million people in the United States who have survived a stroke, according to the National Stroke Association-and these survivors are your patients. Now, during Nat...
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| Fish Oil Supplements May Help Fight Against Type II Diabetes | |
| Widely used fish oil supplements modestly increase amounts of a hormone that is associated with lower risk of diabetes and heart disease, according to a study accepted for pub...
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| Discovery of Origins of a Unique Form of Asthma May Lead to a Precision Medicine Approach to Treatment | |
| 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 Medi...
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| Magnetic Device Now Available for Patients Unable to Wear Hearing Aids | |
| A thumb-sized sound processor worn behind the ear and held in place by a small, magnetized titanium implant inserted under the skin is now being offered at NewYork-Presbyteria...
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| Maine Governor Signs PA Legislation into Law | |
| On Friday, May 17, Governor Paul LePage signed into law LD 556, legislation that improves the Pine Tree State’s laws governing the PA profession.
The law will make three majo...
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| Early Use of Tracheostomy For Mechanically Ventilated Patients Not Associated With Improved Survival | |
| For critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilation, early tracheostomy (within the first four days after admission) was not associated with an improvement in the ris...
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| Genetic Variation Among Patients With Pulmonary Fibrosis Associated With Improved Survival | |
| Variation in the gene MUC5B among patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis was associated with improved survival, according to a study published online by JAMA. The study i...
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| NLST: CT Detects Twice as Many Lung Cancers as X-Ray | |
| Physicians have more information to share with their patients about the benefits and risks of LDCT lung cancer screening following the publication in the New England Journal o...
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| Adenoid-Tonsil Surgery Improves Outcomes for Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea | |
| Children with obstructive sleep apnea who had a common surgery to remove their adenoids and tonsils showed notable improvements in behavior, quality of life and other symptoms...
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| Baby’s Life Saved with Groundbreaking 3D Printed Device That Restored His Breathing | |
| 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...
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| Long-Term Benefit of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Difficult-to-Treat Patients with Depression | |
| New data released at the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association show that the NeuroStarT MS Therapy System® induced statistically and clinically meaningful res...
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| Vitamin C Can Kill Drug-Resistant TB | |
| In a striking, unexpected discovery, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have determined that vitamin C kills drug-resistant tuberculosis ...
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| The Compound in the Mediterranean Diet that Makes Cancer Cells ‘Mortal’ | |
| New research suggests that a compound abundant in the Mediterranean diet takes away cancer cells’ “superpower” to escape death.
By altering a very specific step in gene regul...
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| COPD Over-Diagnosed Among Uninsured Patients | |
| More than 40% of patients being treated for COPD at a federally funded clinic did not have the disease, researchers found after evaluating the patients with spirometry, the di...
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| Stuttering Foundation Announces 2013 Journalism Award Winners | |
| The Stuttering Foundation, www.StutteringHelp.org, has announced the winners of its 2013 Awards for Excellence in Journalism.
“Journalists working for a variety of different...
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| Educating Children and Parents Key to Preventing Dog Bites | |
| 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: “...
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| Sequestration Funding Cuts Jeopardize TB Clinical Drug Trials | |
| Innovative and potentially game-changing clinical trials to develop new drug regimens to prevent and treat tuberculosis (TB), the second leading global infectious disease kill...
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| PhD Graduates Join Pipeline of Nurses Prepared to Fill Faculty Positions in the Garden State | |
| After four years of innovation in response to New Jersey’s nurse faculty shortage, the New Jersey Nursing Initiative (NJNI) will reach a milestone during the spring graduation...
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| Older Prostate Cancer Patients with Other Underlying Health Problems Ought to Think Twice Before Getting Treatment | |
| Older prostate cancer patients with other underlying health conditions should think twice before committing to surgery or radiation therapy for their cancer, according to a mu...
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| Less Sleep Associated With Increased Risk of Crashes for Young Drivers | |
| 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...
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ASFA 2013 Annual Meeting
05/22/2013 - 05/25/2013
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05/23/2013 - 05/26/2013
Florida Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists
Respiratory Care—Always a Winning Hand
05/29/2013 - 05/31/2013
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ASCO Annual '13 Meeting
05/31/2013 - 06/04/2013
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