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A Medicaid provider may have spent a great deal of time and money to adopt electronic health record (EHR) technology, but can he or she demonstrate that this tool meets the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) criteria for "meaningful use"? If not, that provider won't qualify for federal incentives for EHR, enacted under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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In sharp contrast to adults, the number of uninsured children declined by 800,000 during the first 12 months of the recession, from December 2007 through December 2008, according to a December 2009 report from the Washington, DC-based Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, "Protecting Children During the Recession: Spotlight on State Health Coverage Efforts." Outreach efforts by state Medicaid programs are a big reason why.
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A knock-in mouse model of a specific variant of familial hemiplegic migraine links the clinical manifestations of this rare migraine symptom with the triggering and propagation of cortical spreading depression and other unique characteristics of migraine.
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FDA is reviewing safety of TZDs; SSRI use with tamoxifen; Metformin smells like fish; FDA Actions.
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Intermittent fasting may reduce the risk and consequences of stroke in younger, rather than older animals
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Camptocormia may occur in a wide variety of central and peripheral nervous system disorders, including primary muscle disease.
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PPN DBS may be able to improve gait and postural stability in advanced Parkinson's disease. Although double-blind studies with small sample size did not confirm this effect, further studies are required for better understanding of the effects of PPN DBS in Parkinson's disease.
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Cholesterol ester transfer protein gene alleles may confer longevity as well as a reduced risk for Alzheimer's disease.