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A link between blood and plasma trace metals in Alzheimer’s disease?
Dr. Afsaneh Motamed-Khorasani Medical & Allied HealthcareAlzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common type of dementia in the elderly, with a rapidly increasing prevalence. In the past three decades, we have witnessed remarkable advances in our understanding of AD, both in terms of the disease course and its symptoms.
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The rising threat of heroin: Part II
Lauren Swan Mental HealthcareFor the past several weeks, Philip Seymour Hoffman has been in the headlines for his recent overdose on heroin that resulted in his death. His name has become a top search term on Google, and is the first suggestion after you type the letter "P."
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What the FAA’s rule change means for HEMS
Mark Huber Transportation Technology & AutomotiveThe FAA's exhaustive new final operations rule for helicopter air ambulance, commercial helicopter and Part 91 helicopter operations was released recently. The rule imposes new equipment, procedure and requirement changes to existing Federal Aviation Regulations (the FARs, for you pilots out there) and is estimated to cost the industry $311 million over the next 10 years.
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Food for thought: Don’t die curious
Karen Childress Medical & Allied HealthcareWhat would you do if you wanted to be certain that you wouldn't die curious? What's on your bucket list? What are you putting off? And why?
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Does heavy drinking affect brain function?
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareNot much research exists that examines the impact of alcohol consumption on brain aging before old age. However, a new study has included data from more than 5,000 men and 2,000 women at midlife, and this research suggests that middle-aged men who drink heavily show declines in memory, attention and reasoning skills six years earlier than men who drink less alcohol.
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Telemedicine: The future of medicine
Rosemary Sparacio Medical & Allied HealthcareThere are many reasons for the increasingly prevalent use of telemedicine. What may have started out as a way to deliver improved health care services to rural areas, has now exploded to include ways to extend the availability of services to everyone and produce cost benefits both to health care providers and to the patient.
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Is pharmaceutical biotech investment at risk?
Mike Wokasch Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementHigh profitability, strong cash positions, large global healthcare market opportunities, reliable dividends, and perceived security and stability have provided Big Pharma Biotech investors a solid basis for investment rationale. On the other hand, increasing cost of R & D, prolonged time to market, pricing pressures, marketing constraints, and regulatory uncertainty and challenges are now eroding investor confidence and interest.
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Insurers invoking all-product clauses to fill exchange plan networks
Pamela Lewis Dolan Healthcare AdministrationSome physicians are experiencing confusion and surprise by learning they are contracted to accept patients covered by insurance exchange plans despite the fact they rejected offers to participate in those plans. Plans are invoking what is known as an “all-product clause.” This is a provision many physicians may not be aware are present in their contracts, but essentially force physicians contracted in a particular payer plan to participate in all of the plans offered by that payer in the state, including those offered through the exchanges.
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Rule-making process has begun for Stage 3 of meaningful use
Pamela Lewis Dolan Healthcare AdministrationDespite Stage 3 of the meaningful use incentive program being delayed until 2017, rule-making for the program is under way. And the Meaningful Use Workgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee, which advises federal officials on the program, recently released its first set of draft recommendations.
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The role of nurses in an aging population
Keith Carlson Healthcare AdministrationIt's no secret that the population of the United States — and the world at large — is aging rapidly. The Baby Boom ended around 1964, and since those heady days of relative economic prosperity and population growth, the birth rate hasn't kept pace with the rate of aging.
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