Posted on May 15th, 2012 by buschchiro
Hospitals report that they’re being pressured to reverse Medicare patients’ status of inpatient hospitalization, if the patient has had a short inpatient hospital stay. The federal government has made short inpatient hospital stays a target in the attempt to reclassify or under-place many patients into a lower-cost observation status as part of cost savings. The [...]
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Posted on May 14th, 2012 by buschchiro
According to a recent study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine, the best medicine for neck pain is no medicine at all. The National Institutes of Health funded the study which followed 272 patients with recent-onset neck pain and were using three different methods of treatment: Medication Exercise Chiropractic care Patients who were [...]
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Posted on May 9th, 2012 by buschchiro
In 2003, the New England Journal of Medicine reported on the results of a 21-year study on people 75 years or older. The study was funded by the National Institute on Aging and had some very interesting outcomes. . The goal of the study was to objectively measure mental acuity in aging and to monitor [...]
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Posted on May 8th, 2012 by buschchiro
Reuters recently reported that a federal judge ordered Merck & Co. to pay a $321 million criminal fine for marketing Vioxx improperly as a painkiller. Merck plead guilty to having illegally promoted Vioxx for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis before it was approved for that use in 2002. In 2004, Vioxx was withdrawn from the [...]
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Posted on May 7th, 2012 by buschchiro
Posted on May 3rd, 2012 by buschchiro
Researchers did a study that compared 12 major industrialized nations such as the U.S., U.K., France, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, and many more, on spending, supply, utilization, prices and quality. The study showed that the U.S. spent close to $8,000 per capita on healthcare in 2009, while Japan and New Zealand spent about one-third as [...]
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Posted on May 1st, 2012 by buschchiro
Posted on May 1st, 2012 by buschchiro
Your spine, or backbone, protects your spinal cord and allows you to stand and bend. Spinal stenosis causes narrowing in your spine. The narrowing can occur at the center of your spine, in the canals branching off your spine and/or between the vertebrae, the bones of the spine. The narrowing puts pressure on your nerves [...]
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Posted on April 10th, 2012 by buschchiro
Ninety percent of all cancers share the same molecule and there are preliminary results from clinical trials that show that a vaccine developed by Vaxil Biotheraputics along with researchers at Tel Aviv University uses a small part of the molecule to stimulate the immune system to identify and destroy cancer cells and reduce levels of [...]
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Posted on March 29th, 2012 by buschchiro
”The case for ObamaCare is being heard this week in the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS). The State of Florida is suing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), because HHS wants everybody to purchase health insurance for an estimated $8000/year, or else pay a fine. Florida says that the Federal Government [...]
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