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Can acute heart failure indicate future diabetes?
Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied HealthcareNondiabetic heart failure patients who arrive at the emergency department with an elevated blood glucose level may be at risk for death within a month or for developing diabetes later on. A study published Jan. 7 in the European Heart Journal reported these results from a three-year Canadian study.
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Anxiety and concussion-related depression linked to white matter
Dorothy L. Tengler Mental HealthcareAnxiety disorders develop from a complex set of risk factors, including genetics, brain chemistry and personality, and they are more prevalent in women than men. Increasing evidence indicates that major depressive disorder (MDD) is usually accompanied by altered white matter in the prefrontal cortex, the parietal lobe and the limbic system.
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Major industry changes for telepsychiatry in 2015
Dr. Jim Varrell Mental HealthcareI love the new year. I'm always impressed by its power to somehow force us to look back on what we've accomplished, where we've failed and what lessons we've learned along the way. More importantly, I love how it grants us the opportunity to look forward. As my team has strategized for the future, I wanted to share some of our predictions for where the telepsychiatry industry is going in 2015 and beyond.
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Recent advances in the delivery of acne therapeutics
Dr. Afsaneh Motamed-Khorasani Medical & Allied HealthcareAcne is the most common skin disorder in adolescents with a prevalence of 80-85 percent. The problem starts when the hair follicles become clogged by androgen-induced increased sebum production, dirt and dead skin cells.
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Studies: Long hours, shift work can be detrimental to health
Dr. Denise A. Valenti Medical & Allied Healthcare"Workin' 9 to 5, what a way to make a livin'. Barely gettin' by, it's all takin' and no givin' ..." Dolly Parton's popular song "9 to 5" from 1980 lamented the difficulties and stress associated with having a traditional workday. But, an eight-hour day of working 9-to-5 really is not that bad — especially for your health.
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Limited literacy increases rejection risk among liver transplant patients
Chelsea Adams Medical & Allied HealthcareLimited literacy may cause liver transplant patients to have trouble adhering to a treatment plan and drug therapy, thereby increasing the chances of adverse clinical outcomes such as organ rejection or graft loss.
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Clean hands save lives: A vigilance that must never falter
Christina Thielst Medical & Allied HealthcareHand washing in healthcare has long been associated with preventing the spread of disease, but frequent hand washing has its challenges. In the early 2000s, the recipe for alcohol-based hand rubs (gels) was perfected — offering a more efficient, portable and worker-friendly alternative.
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How to squeeze every drop from your marketing efforts
Jarod Carter Medical & Allied HealthcareI don't know about you, but every January brings in at least a couple new/return patients for the same reason: They were trying to "get back into shape" after many months of little-to-no exercise.
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Treating Hepatitis C: The big question no one is asking
Jason Poquette PharmaceuticalIf 2014 will be remembered for anything, pharmaceutically speaking, it will probably be for the impact of the new oral Hepatitis C (HCV) therapies that entered the market. It began at the tail end of 2013 when Gilead introduced their $1,000-per-pill HCV cure known as Sovaldi (sofosbuvir).
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The breadth and depth of nursing
Keith Carlson Medical & Allied HealthcareThe nursing profession has grown astronomically since the days of Florence Nightingale. While we may have once served as handmaidens to the whims and needs of god-like physicians, the definition of what it means to practice as a nurse is light-years away from the era of our diminutive status and relative servitude.
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