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Reliance on Emergency Rooms Increases With Affordable Care Act
An Obesity Paradox - Metabolically Healthy Elderly Obese
Ways to Prevent and Manage Jaw Bone Disease Highlighted in Review
Pregnant Women Have Health Insurance Options
Promotion of Medical Tourism in India: Apollo Hospital to Invest Rs. 150 Crore
Ranbaxy Gets the Nod to Commence Distribution of Its Anti-malarial Drug in 7 African Countries
Extensive Use of Facebook, Social Media Causes Drug Abuse, Says Study
Exercises You Can Do at Your Work Desk
Stringent Law on Food Adulteration, Says Govt
Treating Ebola During Pregnancy
Contrary to Beliefs, Chocolates are Actually Good
Tart Cherry Juice Accelerates Recovery After Intense Cycling
Death Toll from Ebola More Than 6,800
Resistance to Antibiotics Could Kill 10 Million a Year by 2050
A New Therapeutic Strategy Could Treat a Childhood Neurological Disorder
Genetic Changes Across Cancers Identified by Algorithm
Rapid Screening of Cancer Drugs With a Promising New Method
Chandigarh MP, Kirron Kher, Pushes for 'Good Samaritan Law'
Distractions in Brain Filtered Out by Neuronal Circuits
The Trinity Transcatheter Aortic Valve System
Slowing Down Aging - Clues from Joslin Discovery
Chickenpox (Varicella) - Symptom Evaluation
Ducks Death In Park Lake Not Caused By Poisonous Algae, Say Experts
Potential Tool for Cervical Cancer Detection, Diagnosis

Reliance on Emergency Rooms Increases With Affordable Care Act

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Healthcare insurance was provided to an estimated 20 million Americans who lacked coverage, by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. However, it has not eased the demand on the nation's emergency departments. In fact, since the law's passage, reliance upon the nation's emergency rooms for non-emergency care has increased. That's the finding of a study published online in the iAmerican Journal of Emergency Medicine/i by a second-year medical student ...

An Obesity Paradox - Metabolically Healthy Elderly Obese

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It has always been propounded that too much of weight is too little in terms of fitness. Obesity is a worldwide health concern affecting children and adults alike. What was once a malady exclusive to the first world has now reached gargantuan proportions and has spread across several countries, worldwide. Of late, the number of elderly obese who are reaching old age is increasing. Besides, research has come up with an obesity paradox - the survival rates ...

Ways to Prevent and Manage Jaw Bone Disease Highlighted in Review

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Risk of osteonecrosis is more in patients taking certain drugs for osteoporosis, anticancer drugs or glucocorticoids, those undergoing dental surgery, and people with poor oral hygeine, chronic inflammation, diabetes or ill-fitting dentures. Osteonecrosis is a disease when the bone in the jaw is exposed and begins to starve from lack of blood. A review of more than a decade's worth of research on osteonecrosis of the jaw points to the high risk. A number of prevention ...

Pregnant Women Have Health Insurance Options

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Under the federal law maternity care is covered but states reserve the right to decide on the services included. With the Affordable Care Act, pregnant women have more health options than ever before. "The fact that the Affordable Care Act requires qualified health plans to cover maternity care and offers financial assistance to reduce out-of-pocket costs is a game changer for many women," says Lauren Birchfield Kennedy, director of health policy at the National Partnership ...

Promotion of Medical Tourism in India: Apollo Hospital to Invest Rs. 150 Crore

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India is soaring with high end medical skills and advance technology hospitals. According to Dr. Prathap Reddy, founder and chairman, Apollo Hospitals Group, Medical tourism will enable a generation of Rs.12.40 lakh ( (Dollar) 20,000) per patient against generation of Rs.1.24 lakh ( (Dollar) 2,000 per person) from general tourism. With growing technologies in diagnostics and surgical, India has the second to none skill sets in the world. Medical tourism promotion for India will ...

Ranbaxy Gets the Nod to Commence Distribution of Its Anti-malarial Drug in 7 African Countries

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The Indian multinational pharmaceutical company, Ranbaxy Laboratories has received regulatory nod to launch its indigenously developed anti-malarial drug, Synriam, in seven African countries. The company is going to be launching its first New Chemical Entity (NCE) Synriam in seven African countries namely Nigeria, Uganda, Senegal, Cameroon, Guinea, Kenya and Ivory Coast, said Ranbaxy Laboratories in a statement. They further added that the product has already been ...

Extensive Use of Facebook, Social Media Causes Drug Abuse, Says Study

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Recent research says that extensive Facebook users have poor impulse control, which leads to substance abuse. The study was undertaken by psychologist Julia Hormes, University at Albany, New York and includes 292 undergraduate students in the age group of 18 years or more. The study assessed the addictive nature of social media, particularly Facebook. h3Excerpts from the Study:/h3 ul class="group-list"liThe study found that 90 percent of them had an active ...

Exercises You Can Do at Your Work Desk

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Easy work exercises involve sitting, standing, stretching, yoga, and breathing techniques for the muscles of the hands, shoulders, wrists, neck, back, legs, and ankles.

Stringent Law on Food Adulteration, Says Govt

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The Government is taking strict measures to review the food safety Act. This will help scrutinize the instances of food adulteration and contamination. Proposals are on the cards to make the punishment stipulated for milk adulteration. The focus area of operation would be creating the required infrastructure and manpower to set up testing labs in public-private partnership. h3Health Minister:/h3 "We propose to comprehensively review the Food Safety and Standards ...

Treating Ebola During Pregnancy

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Spontaneous abortion, pregnancy-related hemorrhage, or the death of her newborn, is likely to occur in a pregnant woman in Africa who has contracted Ebola. Although the risk of caring for a pregnant woman with Ebola in the United States may be rare, the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) has published a practice brief in its iJournal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, (and) Neonatal Nursing/i to guide nursing care for pregnant women and newborns. ...

Contrary to Beliefs, Chocolates are Actually Good

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Chocolates, to many, are the best thing in the world. It is the time of the year where one finds chocolates and its recipes everywhere and after we munch on everything that our eyes meet, we naturally end up with a guilty feeling in the pit of our stomach. Too much of anything can be bad for health. However, researchers have found out that chocolates can be eaten without much worry about the hyped bad side effects. Also a little bit of sugar in moderation isn't as terrible ...

Tart Cherry Juice Accelerates Recovery After Intense Cycling

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Tart Cherry juice could be the new sports drink for cyclists who are preparing for race day as it could give them an edge in recovery. A new study published in iApplied Physiology, Nutrition, and Metabolism/i found that Montmorency tart cherry juice helped accelerate recovery, maintain muscle function and reduce certain markers of exercise-induced inflammation among a group of cyclists participating in a simulated road race. The research team, led by Glyn Howatson ...

Death Toll from Ebola More Than 6,800

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Ebola virus has claimed more than 6,800 lives, almost all of them in west Africa, said the World Health Organization on Monday. The UN health agency reported that as of December 13, there had been 18,464 cases of infection from the deadly virus in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, and 6,841 people had died. WHO did not provide an update of cases in other countries, but last week said the death toll remained the same: six in Mali, one in the United States, ...

Resistance to Antibiotics Could Kill 10 Million a Year by 2050

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Resistance to antibiotics could claim over 10 million lives a year and hit global gross domestic product by 2.0 to 3.5 percent by 2050, found a British government-commissioned review. The Review on Antimicrobial Resistance said surgeries that have become widespread and low-risk thanks to antibiotics, such as caesarean sections, could become more dangerous without urgent action. The review announced by British Prime Minister David Cameron was led by Jim ...

A New Therapeutic Strategy Could Treat a Childhood Neurological Disorder

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Neurofibromatosis type 1 is a childhood neurological disease characterized by learning deficits and autism, caused by inherited mutations in gene encoding protein called neurofibromin. UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have identified a possible therapy to treat NF1. Researchers initially determined that loss of neurofibromin in mice affects the development of the part of the brain called the cerebellum, which is responsible for balance, speech, memory, ...

Genetic Changes Across Cancers Identified by Algorithm

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Sifting through mounds of genetic data using a computer algorithm, several networks of genes that could play a role in the development of multiple types of cancer, when hit by a mutation, have been identified. Researchers from Brown University have identified and reported this.The algorithm, called Hotnet2, was used to analyze genetic data from 12 different types of cancer assembled as part of the pan-cancer project of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA). The research ...

Rapid Screening of Cancer Drugs With a Promising New Method

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Special equipment and lot of time is required for the traditional genomic, proteomic and other screening methods that are currently used to characterize cancer drug mechanisms. But now researchers led by chemist Vincent Rotello at the University of Massachusetts Amherst offer a multi-channel sensor method using gold nanoparticles that can accurately profile various anti-cancer drugs and their mechanisms in minutes. As Rotello and his doctoral graduate student Le ...

Chandigarh MP, Kirron Kher, Pushes for 'Good Samaritan Law'

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On Monday, Actor-turned MP Kirron Kher pushed for a 'Good Samaritan Law' to protect people who usually step away from helping others "fearing legal hassle", citing the issue of how none came to the help of the Delhi gang rape victim Nirbhaya and something that's usual with other victims in cases including road crashes. The Chandigarh MP submitted a petition, signed by over 80,000 people, to health minister J P Nadda on the concerned subject after she moved a private ...

Distractions in Brain Filtered Out by Neuronal Circuits

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How brain makes constant judgement calls about where to focus attention has been a challenge for the scientists to find. The next time you are in a crowded room, or a meeting, or even at the park with your kids, take a look around. How many people are on their phone? Distractions invade every aspect of our lives. Status updates, text messages, email notifications all threaten to steal our attention away from the moment. While we fight the urge to check the phone, ...

The Trinity Transcatheter Aortic Valve System

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A novel version of Trinity transcatheter aortic valve implant has been created by Transcatheter Technologies. The device is designed to deliver transfemorally in addition to its present transapical version. Transcatheter Technologies, based out of Regensburg, Germany had announced the advantages of the valve. The company says that it's transfemoral version of the replacement heart valve would complement the existing Trinity transapical device. h3New Valve System ...

Slowing Down Aging - Clues from Joslin Discovery

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A microscopic worm (iC. elegans/i) was used to identify a new path that could lead to drugs to slow aging and the chronic diseases that often accompany it. This was revealed in a study published Monday by iNature/i. The discovery might even lead to better cosmetics. The Joslin team looked at how treatments known to boost longevity in the one-millimeter long iC. elegans/i (including calorie restriction and treatment with the drug rapamycin) affected the ...

Chickenpox (Varicella) - Symptom Evaluation

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Chickenpox or varicella is a contagious disease that causes itchy rash and red spots or blisters all over the body.

Ducks Death In Park Lake Not Caused By Poisonous Algae, Say Experts

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Sukhna Lake on Saturday witnessed the death of two more ducks. Sources are investigating into the death of a dozen birds in the park recently. In addition, three more ducks were found unconscious. On Wednesday, five birds were found dead and on Thursday, it was seven. The UT Forest and Wildlife department is much concerned over the death of these ducks. h3Death Record:/h3 Santosh Kumar, UT chief wildlife warden, said: "The ducks that have been found ...

Potential Tool for Cervical Cancer Detection, Diagnosis

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In many ways cervical cancer is a shining example of how successful the war on cancer can be. Thanks largely to the advent of Pap smear screening, U.S. cervical cancer deaths decreased dramatically, by more than 60 percent, between 1955 and 1992. In the last two decades, better treatment outcomes and more powerful imaging techniques have steadily pushed 5-year survival rates ever higher. The latest weapons in modern medicine's arsenal are two new vaccines that ...