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Research shows that people with severe mental illness are at greater risk of becoming infected with HIV, their care is more costly when they are infected, and their health outcomes are worse than populations without mental illness.
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Record numbers of veterans will die this year, and veteran deaths will remain high for the next decade, experts say.
Community hospices provide care to many of these veterans at the end of their lives, sometimes without hospice staff knowing their patients were in the service. Experts say hospice professionals often do not realize how their patients' military service or war-time experiences might color the way they face their own deaths.
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There's no doubt that chronically ill patients who have the best outcomes are those who adhere to their treatment plan and receive care that follows evidence-based clinical guidelines.
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A comprehensive program that includes face-to-face assessments and telephonic health coaching is helping Medicare beneficiaries in Tennessee with diabetes or congestive heart failure learn to manage their health.
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With the nursing shortage becoming more acute and hospitals offering such perks as sign-on bonuses to attract bedside nurses, case management directors in all arenas are feeling the pinch.
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Lagrotteria and colleagues enrolled 39 in- patients with a primary episode of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (CDAD) to receive treatment for 10 days with either metronidazole (MET) alone or together with rifampin (RIF).
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The only manufacturer of vzig in the united States recently stopped its production. An alternate product, VariZIG, which is manufactured by a Canadian company and has not been approved for use in the United States by the FDA, can be obtained in the United States, but only through expanded access as an investigational new drug.
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Parker and colleagues describe the public health effort required to contain the largest outbreak of measles occurring in the United States in the past 10 years. The outbreak, which occurred in Indiana in 2005, began when a 17-year-old girl who was incubating measles arrived from Romania.
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New Hope for Macular Degeneration?; Can Cialis be Used for Edema?; FDA Actions
