AIDS Treatments Seek To Eradicate Virus, Restore Immunity
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...event premature births isthe most effective way to save babies. Hamvas suggested that understandingthe causes of pre-term labor, preventing teenage pregnancy, and improvingaccess to prenatal care and education programs may help reduce prematurebirths and deaths related to prematurity. "We've made great st...Emory Doctors Discuss "Killing Heat" In This Week's NEJM
...and enlisting the help of the entire community can save lives." Older adults living alone and in the inner-city are at highest risk for heat stroke, as are persons who are infirm or shut-in, the authors say. Conventional practices like opening shelters or giving fans to poor citizens during heat waves a...Study Shows Major Savings In Supervising TB Care
"Health policies that seek only to save money in the short term ultimately may be both inf... that using DOT throughout the United States would save $25 million compared with conventional therapy, save 240 additional lives, and prevent 2,400 relaspe...Raising The Retirement Age In The United States Could Save Billions In Social Security Payments
...mal retirement age in the United States to70 could save the federal government billions of dollars each ye...ity.They said the Social Security trust fund could save roughly $50 billionto $60 billion on each year's group of workers by requiring them to waituntil age...A Helping Hand Could Save An Ailing Heart
You might be able to save the life of someone with coronary arterydisease simply by extending a helping hand. New research suggests that patients with coronary artery disease have abetter chance of long-term survival if they believe they have adequate help whenneeded ...Planning Researcher Finds Best Neighborhoods Aren't Always Best At Preventing Infant Mortality
CINCINNATI, Ohio -- Christopher Auffrey hopes to save lives byexamining death, specifically the deaths of Cincinnati children. Auffrey, assistant professor of planning at the University ofCincinnati, is researching infant mortality in Cincinnati from1979 to 1994 in order to point to those areas where fa......ting drugs at these hospitals has the potential to save thousandsof lives each year." The pump treatment, called intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation,requires that an emergency room physician or intensive-care cardiologist placethe balloon into the aorta by pushing it through a thin flexible tube...Clinical Pharmacists Improve Outcomes Of Heart Failure Patients
...cists in themanagement of heart failure appears to save money by reducing the frequency ofhospital re-admissions and allows cardiologists more time to devote to thenon-pharmaceutical aspects of patient care. More than 3 million Americans suffer from the debilitating effects ofheart failure, with 4...Increased Public Access To Defibrillation Could Prove Potentially Cost-Effective And Life-Saving
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...earch investment, in this case about$850,000, will save American families substantial amounts of money by enablingpatients to stay out of hospital emergency rooms and to receive treatment intheir homes. It is also an excellent example of collaboration between a privatecompany, clinical investigators, and...Extreme Prematurity Brings Two-Fold Increase In Risk Of Repeating A Grade, Needing Special Education
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...ite X-ray mammography's drawbacks, it is proven to save lives. TheAmerican Cancer Society recommends yearly screening mammograms for women over40. The ACS projects breast cancer to strike 178,800 women in the U.S. this yearand cause 43,500 deaths. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. It is vital tha...Future Workers Will Receive MSAs
... This system, however, wouldnot allow consumers to save unspent amounts, and employees would have less of anincentive to economize in their use of medically questionable and unnecessaryphysician services. Battistella and Burchfield also argue that MSAs would reduce the number ofAmericans who lack health...... our standard treatments for heart failure, we can save many more lives," saysStephen Gottlieb, M.D., a cardiologist who directs the heart failure service atthe University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore. Dr. Gottlieb, who alsois an associate professor of medicine at the University of Maryland Sch...