While nurse-to-patient ratios are widely recognized as an important factor in determining the quality of patient care, those ratios are not always easy to change without significant cost and investment of resources. What's ...
Nov 30, 2011
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A new study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University that analyzed 502 posts on Pinterest about chronic pain revealed that the social media platform is helping people with chronic pain cope by sharing self-care ...
Feb 25, 2019
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Study results from three clinical trial sites show that a WW International, Inc. ("WeightWatchers" or "WW") program tailored for people living with diabetes helped participants lose weight, lower blood glucose levels, and ...
Jun 4, 2022
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Hospital readmissions for asthma are increasing among children, according to a new study, highlighting the gaps in health care for the most common chronic pediatric illness.
Jul 6, 2022
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(HealthDay)—A telephone-based disease management program delivered by a disease management vendor is ineffective in reducing racial/ethnic disparities in diabetes care, according to a study published online March 10 in ...
Mar 17, 2016
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Medical researchers at the University of Alberta have created a deck of cards with conversation starters about sensitive and informational topics related to weight, that parents can use to guide their discussions when talking ...
Dec 12, 2011
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The Biden administration on Thursday offered assistance to communities and hospitals dealing with a surge in cases of pediatric respiratory illnesses, but it did not declare a national public health emergency.
Nov 18, 2022
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A new study finds that very few patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are able to achieve normal blood glucose levels through weight loss alone. A team led by Andrea Luk of the Chinese University of Hong Kong, report these ...
Jan 23, 2024
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Rico has lived with HIV for almost a decade, confiding in only a small number of people in socially conservative Singapore, fearful of the reaction. Last month, he got a phone call saying information about his condition had ...
Feb 10, 2019
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The chance of an obese person attaining normal body weight is 1 in 210 for men and 1 in 124 for women, increasing to 1 in 1,290 for men and 1 in 677 for women with severe obesity, according to a study of UK health records ...
Jul 16, 2015
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