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Report: ACA results in ‘substantial coverage gains’ in California
Seth Sandronsky Healthcare AdministrationSelf-employed workers and small business employees in California have seen expanded health insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to a recent report from the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education (CLRE). The brief draws on data from the California Health Interview Survey (CHIS).
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Creating a culture of safety in nursing
Keith Carlson Healthcare AdministrationContrary to what some may imagine, the construction and manufacturing industries do not have the highest rate of on-the-job injuries. In fact, hospitals hold this dubious distinction, and this should be great cause for concern among nursing and medical leaders.
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Study of baby teeth finds link between autism and environmental exposures
Carolina Pickens Oral & Dental HealthcareResearchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai partnered with Sweden's Karolinska Institutet to study the baby teeth of patients with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Their study, "Fetal and postnatal metal dysregulation in autism," was published in Nature Communications in April. It detailed that biomarkers in the layers of the ASD patients' teeth revealed they were exposed to higher concentrations of lead and other neurotoxins in utero and within the first months of life.
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The effect of PTSD on the heart
Dr. Denise A. Valenti Medical & Allied HealthcareSuffering a traumatic event and having underlying cardiac or systemic risks can result in even greater risk to health and risk of mortality. Roughly 8 percent of the population will suffer a traumatic event in their lifetime, and in any given year 8 million adults manifest post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
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The evolution of sports injury treatments: One provider’s experience
Dr. Sebastian Gonzales Medical & Allied HealthcareI was just like many other sports injury providers when I graduated from school — I thought I knew more than I did. I was prepared to apply many of the treatments and rehab techniques I learned in school and seminars in my new practice. I was so smart! Not really.
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Can suicide intervention at the ED save lives?
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareAlthough many suicide attempts go unreported or untreated, surveys suggest that at least 1 million people in the United States intentionally try to kill themselves each year, and 45,000 are successful. Suicide is the 10th-leading cause of death in the U.S., and there are about 121 suicides each day, nearly one every 13 minutes.
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Study: Patients of older physicians die more often
Scott E. Rupp Healthcare AdministrationThe older the physician, the more likely it is that his or her patient will die. That's the shocking claim from a new study in the BMJ. In a nutshell, patients treated by older physicians had a higher mortality rate than patients cared for by those who were younger. Patients of physicians under the age of 40 had a 10.8 percent mortality rate, which increased to 11.1 percent for patients with doctors in their 40s, 11.3 percent for physicians in their 50s and 12.1 percent for docs 60 and older.
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The changing video game: How interactive gaming can be beneficial
Sabrina Fracassi Sports & FitnessWhen Wii Fit hit the market in 2007, consumers went crazy. According to Nintendo, Wii Fit has sold 22.67 million units as of March 2017. What made it so successful was the creation of the new peripheral, the Wii Balance Board, which augmented players' actions onto the screen.
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Nursing beyond the hospital
Joan Spitrey Healthcare AdministrationWhen most think of nurses, they imagine the trained professional caring for them in a time of need in the hospital or long-term care center. However, the world of nursing is so much more diverse than the traditional bedside caregiver.
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The brain’s failure in obsessive compulsive disorder
Dorothy L. Tengler Mental HealthcareObsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was previously considered an anxiety disorder but is now classified as a mental illness. About 2.3 percent of the population suffers with this common, chronic and long-lasting disorder. In the United States, the current numbers approximate 3.3 million, although some estimates have been as high as 6 million, related, in part, to how patients are diagnosed and categorized. But a recent study in the U.K. that illustrates how the OCD brain reacts compared to the average brain may help better treat these patients.
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