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A year ago, Phoenix Childrens Hospital implemented an educational program to teach parents of children with new tracheostomies about trach care because many insurance companies in the state limited the length of stay for children undergoing this procedure, and families were not always comfortable with the requirements of home care.
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Rights, respect, and responsibility make the grade. As with any informed decision, teens need all the facts to determine when to become sexually active.
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Until recently, staff at OhioHealth Cancer Services in Columbus never said no. To make better use of tight funds, a five-year strategic cancer plan was developed by gathering data and analyzing statistics.
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Biological therapy, or immunotherapy, is used to stimulate or restore the ability of the immune system to fight infection and disease. However, patients can experience difficulty with this new form of therapy because of the side effects.
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A new 19-bed geriatric unit at a health care facility in New York City will help avoid delirium and overcome other barriers to education of the elderly that can prevent them from returning to independent living.
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rhIL-11 given orally to neutropenic rats experimentally infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa appears to preserve the integrity of gut epithelia while resulting in fewer pathologic changes, lower levels of endotoxin and numbers of bacteria in the tissues, and longer survival. Recombinant human interleukin 11 (rhIL-11) administration was associated with a reduction in a variety of infectious complications, including bacterium due to Gram-negative bacilli originating from the gut among patients given intensive chemotherapy for hematologic malignancies.
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Infection of transjugular intrahepatic shunt devices is caused by a variety of bacteria, mostly of gastrointestinal origin. Inability to remove the device without hepatic transplantation makes management of the infection difficult.
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A focused-education program was associated with a dramatic reduction in the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia.
