(HealthDay)—Two new studies paint a complex portrait of aspirin's impact on cancer risk and mortality, with one suggesting the drug may lower the risk of dying from prostate cancer and the other seeing no significant drop ...
Aug 27, 2012
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(Medical Xpress)—The Lifestyle Modification Clinic at the University of Connecticut Health Center offers patients an alternative to the typical weight loss programs or fad diets.
Aug 24, 2012
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Nurse burnout leads to higher healthcare-associated infection rates (HAIs) and costs hospitals millions of additional dollars annually, according to a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Infection ...
Jul 30, 2012
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Growing evidence suggests that Parkinson's disease (PD) often starts with non-motor symptoms that precede diagnosis by several years. In the first study to examine patterns in the quality of life of Parkinson' disease patients ...
Jul 2, 2012
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Dementia -- an acute loss of cognitive ability -- can be marked by memory loss, decreased attention span, and disorientation. It occurs in severe disorders such as Alzheimer's disease. Despite the fact that the condition ...
Mar 27, 2012
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If organisations want to retain qualified nurses they need to tackle the different work factors that are important to the three key age groups and build on the strong attachment that many nurses feel to the profession. Those ...
Jan 17, 2012
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Thousands of readers reacted to the articles in the "Dying Broke" series about the financial burden of long-term care in the United States. They offered their assessments for the government and market failures that have drained ...
Dec 27, 2023
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Nine months after giving birth, Caitlin Martin is still waiting to bring her son home from the hospital.
Nov 5, 2023
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The tumultuous royal commission into the Australian aged care system concluded two years ago with a suite of 148 recommendations—a complete overhaul of "an aged care system in crisis," according to Anika Wells, the federal ...
Oct 23, 2023
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Judith Sullivan was recovering from major surgery at a Connecticut nursing home in March when she got surprising news from her Medicare Advantage plan: It would no longer pay for her care because she was well enough to go ...
Oct 12, 2023
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