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Integration Provides Better Health Outcomes – Pharmaceutical Society Of Australia

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The Government's new hospital funding package is a welcome first step in the health reform process, but will be better served when complemented through implementation of a preventive health strategy to help minimise hospitalisations, the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia ...Read More »

Agency For Healthcare Research And Quality News And Numbers: Patients Admitted To Hospitals On A Weekend Wait For Major Procedures

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Of the 8 million patients who were admitted to U.S. hospitals on weekends in 2007, approximately one-third received needed major procedures on the day of admission, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and ...Read More »

Recent Studies Link Obesity To Food Allergies

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First Lady Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" Campaign tells us that about 32 percent of children and teens (or 25 million) are obese or overweight. It revealed those extra pounds put them at greater risk of developing debilitating and costly diseases ...Read More »

Genomatix Gives A Hand In The Analysis Of Wayne State’s Sequencing Projects

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The C.S. Mott Center for Human Growth and Development, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, in collaboration with the Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, the Karmanos Cancer Institute and the Institute for ...Read More »

Digestive CARE™ Is Seeking Online Votes For Top Colonscopy-Related Song Titles During National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

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Digestive CARE™, a medical group of more than 50 gastroenterologists in Broward and Palm Beach County, announced that it is receiving hundreds of online votes in its "Bottom Line Song Title Contest" to bring awareness to National Colorectal Cancer Awareness ...Read More »

In The Presence Of CK8 And CK18, Breast Cancer Drug Fulvestrant Appears More Effective

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Women's responsiveness to the second-line breast cancer drug fulvestrant may depend on whether the cancer cells are expressing two key proteins, Indiana University Bloomington scientists report in this month's Cancer Biology & Therapy. Fulvestrant appeared to exert maximum anti-cancer effects ...Read More »

SMISS Launches Online Minimally Invasive Spine Programs

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Since its founding in 2007, the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery (SMISS) has become the pre-eminent professional society for MIS surgeons. On March 1, 2010, the organization's educational activities expanded dramatically with the launch of SMISS Highlights, an online ...Read More »

Research Findings Expected To Ease Treatment Of Low Neutrophil Counts In Cancer Patients

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For patients like 10-year-old Sabrina Jo Spence, new research led by St. Jude Children's Research Hospital investigators meant fewer injections to combat the drop in white blood cells following her recent chemotherapy. "Cool," Sabrina told Sheri Spunt, M.D., an associate ...Read More »

Study Of Long-Term Use Of Bone-Building Osteoporosis Drugs

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Bisphosphonate treatments, proven to enhance bone density and reduce fracture incidence in post-menopausal women, may adversely affect bone quality and increase risk of atypical fractures of the femur when used for four or more years, according to preliminary research presented ...Read More »

Study Of Long-Term Use Of Bone-Building Osteoporosis Drugs

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Bisphosphonate treatments, proven to enhance bone density and reduce fracture incidence in post-menopausal women, may adversely affect bone quality and increase risk of atypical fractures of the femur when used for four or more years, according to preliminary research presented ...Read More »
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