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The nations mental health system is in a shambles and needs a major overhaul rather than incremental improvements. Thats the assessment of the New Freedom Commission on Mental Health appointed by President Bush.
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What impact would there be if the federal government carries out its Medicaid reform strategy by making the program a block grant? The Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law says the results could include making more people with mental illness homeless; denying early mental health treatment for children; and increasing the number of adults and juveniles with serious mental illnesses who are in jails, juvenile detention centers, and prisons because of lack of access to community mental health care.
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Pennsylvanias 2002 comprehensive malpractice reform legislation is a model for states to consider, according to a 2002 paper by National Academy for State Health Policy (NASHP) senior analyst Mimi Marchev.
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As the debate over the malpractice insurance crisis continues with little sign of agreement on causes or cures, there is little definitive that can be said about the impact of malpractice insurance pressures on access to and utilization of care.
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In this European study, investigators randomized 200 out-of-hospital VF/VT cardiac arrest victims to immediate defibrillation and standard cardiac arrest care (96 patients in the standard group) vs. three minutes of CPR prior to defibrillation (104 patients in the CPR-first group) performed by responding emergency medical services (EMS) personnel.
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Influenza Vaccination and Reduction in Hospitalizations; Screening Men for Prostate and Colorectal Cancer; Weight Loss in CHF and Treatment with ACE-I
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The FDA has approved aprepitant for preventing both acute and delayed nausea and vomiting associated with chemotherapy.
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Noncompliance with treatment for latent tuberculosis can be monitored with the aid of a special urine test that checks for metabolites of isoniazid.
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Although the phenomenon of cutaneous melanoma (CM) arising from melanocytic nevi (MN) is known, the transformation rate of MN into CM is not. Tsao and associates set out to calculate the rate, using published data and making some assumptions to ease the calculation.