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In addition to increased numbers of mentally ill patients, emergency departments (EDs) are seeing more uninsured patients than in the past, and the numbers could grow, warns Brian Hancock, MD, president of the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) in Irving, TX. Your budget planning should factor in more uninsured patients, not just the same level you have coped with for years.
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New legislation aimed at protecting workers against genetic discrimination has passed the Senate unanimously but is currently bogged down in the House of Representatives, according to an expert in workers rights.
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A new study by Philadelphia-based CIGNA confirms what a number of occ-health professionals have been asserting: the integration of disability and health care programs can help return disabled employees to work more quickly, or even prevent absences, and can also lower total benefit costs.
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Practically everyone remembers the highly touted Food Guide Pyramid, unveiled by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2002. In just a few short years, however, it seems to have become outdated.
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The occupational health community has experienced the loss of one of its leaders. Geoff Kelafant, MD, MSPH, FACOEM, 45, died unexpectedly March 16 while on vacation in Cancun, Mexico.
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Despite the crushing impact of steadily rising health coverage costs, the majority of employers still believe in and are willing to help underwrite health insurance for employees, according
to a new study released by The Commonwealth Fund, a New York City-based private foundation that supports research in health-related fields.
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Positive Alendronate Data in Osteoporosis; NSAIDs For Myocardial Infarction; Four-Hour Window for CAP Patients; FDA Actions.
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The loss of heterozygosity in the tumor tissue of carriers coupled with the high frequency of patient and family history of breast and ovarian malignancies suggest that USPC might be part of the manifestation of familial breast-ovarian cancer in Ashkenazi Jews.
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Women who initially were diagnosed with Stage IA disease and who had serous borderline tumors or underwent cystectomy appeared to derive the most benefit from restaging surgery. Nonetheless, the indications for restaging surgery remain controversial, as no difference in recurrence rate was observed between women who underwent restaging and those who did not.
