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At Hudson Health Plan in Tarrytown, NY, case management assistants who handle non-clinical tasks that don't have to be done by a licensed professional are freeing up the nurse case managers for jobs that require their special clinical skills.
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The Office of Civil Rights (OCR) recently posted an FAQ regarding the status of the privacy rule during a national or public health emergency on the OCR web site.
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At least 10% of infections involving staph bacteria were able to survive antibiotics commonly used to treat them, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report presented at a joint meeting in October of the American Society for Microbiology and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
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Between 12% and 13% of the people living in the United States are aged 65 or older, and of these people, 80% live with at least one chronic disease. Even when the chronic disease is not the reason for home health referral, care plans must take into account all of the chronic conditions that might affect the patient's outcome.
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Although some observational studies have associated higher calcium intake and especially higher vitamin D intake and 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels with lower breast cancer risk, no randomized trial has evaluated these relationships.
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The volatility of the investment markets on wall street should make us consider our own investment in overall health, especially our cardiovascular health.
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Patients are more likely to tell medical providers about using provider-based complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) than self-care CAM, according to recent research.
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JUPITER, a trial first presented november 9, 2008, at the american Heart Association meeting in New Orleans, was clearly "the bell of the ball," with multiple television, newspaper, and medical journal reports.
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