Need for formal bereavement support in dementia care is largely underestimated
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Read MorePennington Biomedical wants children 5 years old and younger to participate in the Shape Up! Keiki study
The Pennington Biomedical Research Center is looking for children 5 years old and younger to participate in the Shape Up! Keiki research study. The purpose of the Shape Up! Keiki research study is to create a better way to measure…
Read MoreUnderstanding dental pulp vitality—exploring clinical tests and histological analysis
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Read MoreHow one practice's EHR helped offset its declining Medicare reimbursements
Photo: Simon Hargus First Settlement Physical Therapy is a family-owned and operated provider of orthopedic outpatient physical therapy services. Established in 1999 as a single clinic in Marietta, Georgia, it has grown to 37 clinics with roughly 200 employees, delivering…
Read MoreCould YOU have an abnormal heart rhythm? Warning signs to look out for
The tell-tale warning signs you’ve got an abnormal heart rhythm (and you might easily dismiss them!) It’s believed around 3million Brits have an abnormal heart rhythm or arrythmia It causes an irregular and unusually fast heartbeat and raises the risk of…
Read MoreToddlers cancer dismissed for three years as stomach problems
The mum from Runcorn, Cheshire, says she feels let down by the care her daughter, Ella, received in the past couple of years. “We’ve been told she could have been born with this,” Claire, 38, revealed. “I’m just feeling so…
Read MoreSARS-CoV-2 hijacks body's metabolism to amplify COVID-19 severity
In a review article published in the journal Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, scientists have discussed host metabolic alteration triggered by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its effect on disease severity. Study: Metabolic alterations upon SARS-CoV-2 infection…
Read MoreExamining accrual of intellectual disability diagnoses in autistic adolescents
Autistic individuals often rely on Medicaid for insurance, but the transition to adulthood can, and often does, impact their enrollment status. In continuing to examine how autistic individuals use Medicaid, recent research from Drexel University's A.J. Drexel Autism Institute has…
Read MoreNeuromuscular Disorder Therapy Fails Late-Stage Study
(Reuters) – FibroGen Inc’s treatment for patients with a muscle-wasting disorder that typically binds them to a wheelchair failed to improve measures of upper limb strength, sending the drug developer’s shares down 11% on Wednesday. The therapy, being developed to…
Read MoreStudy offers new insights into how Medicare fraud has spread across US regions in recent years
Findings from an innovative study conducted by a team of researchers at Dartmouth’s Geisel School of Medicine and published in the journal Social Science & Medicine are providing new insights into how the rapid spread (or diffusion) of fraudulent Medicare…
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