Health | -An evaluation of Birmingham Own Health telephone care management service among patients with poorly controlled diabetes-

Abstract | An evaluation of Birmingham Own Health telephone care management service among patients with poorly controlled diabetes. A retrospective comparison with the General Practice Research Database.. This article is available freely via Open Access. Please click on the above link to view it fully. Abstract (provisional)   Background Telephone-based care management programmes have been [...]

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Health | -hospital business profitable or not?-

If the success of a business is based on capturing and retaining market share, hospitals and invasive specialty physicians are poorly positioned to do so. -          Marc D. Halley, MBA One of the biggest challenges hospital administrators face today is how to increase profit.  People would rather spend their hard-earned money on food, entertainment, or [...]

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Health | -Depleted Uranium in Modern Warfare- Unethical or Indispensable?-

Depleted uranium (DU) is the uranium remaining after the enriched fractions are removed and is most commonly obtained as the byproduct of a nuclear reactor or the manufacture of nuclear weapons. DU is typically about 40% less radioactive than purified natural uranium, however that is still considered to be highly toxic. According to the most [...]

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Epilepsy | -Exciting research development in treatment of children with epilepsy-

Research from the UCL Institute of Child Health and Great Ormond Street Hospital has shown improved long-term IQ in children with drug-resistant epilepsy after temporal lobe surgery in childhood. In around 30% of children with epilepsy, seizures are resistant to medication effects. This type of epilepsy, called temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), is often caused by [...]

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Public Health | -NSAID’s raise miscarriage risk-

A recently published study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal has concluded that women who take NSAIDs in the first trimester of pregnancy are more than twice as likely to have a miscarriage than women who do not. NSAIDs, or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, are a very popular class of pain killers that many people use [...]

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Prevention | -The surprising benefits of lemon!-

A contribution by: Institute of Health Sciences, 819 N. L.L.C. Charles Street Baltimore MD 1201. This is the latest in medicine, effective for cancer!   Read carefully & you be the judge.  Lemon (Citrus) is a miraculous product to kill cancer cells. It is 10,000 times stronger than chemotherapy. Why do we not know about that? Because there [...]

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Cancer | -Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus-

Kaposi’s Sarcoma-Associated Herpesvirus During 1872, Moritz Kaposi was a faculty member at the University of Vienna. He was working in the dermatology department when he first described a skin condition that began as small nodules and later developed into larger, vascularized tumors. He observed red to purplish lesions, usually located on the lower extremities of [...]

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Diabetes | -website keeps diabetes patients on track-

Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) “2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet” puts the number of adults and children with diabetes in the U.S. at an astounding 25.8 million, with another 79 million teetering on the edge of the disease having a precursor condition called “prediabetes”. That is one of every three [...]

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