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CT Scans Reliable Determinants of Blunt Trauma
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- Reuters Health
NEW YORK - CT scans identify all clinically significant cervical spine injuries in intoxicated patients with blunt trauma, according to a new...
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Key Medicare Fund Could Exhaust Reserves in 2028: Trustees
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- Reuters Health
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Patients Who Don't Speak English are Likely to Return to the Emergency Room
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- Kathryn Doyle
- Reuters Health
(Reuters Health) - Patients in the emergency room who don't speak English well are slightly more likely to return within days, suggesting their...
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The Treatment of Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is best in Higher-Volume Hospitals
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- David Douglas
- Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Higher-volume hospitals do better in treatment of obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), but more efforts are...
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Report Shows Implanted Cardioveter-defibrillators Carries High Risk
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- Marilynn Larkin
- Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Implanted cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) carry a high risk of long-term complications, especially for younger...
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Study Shows Statins lower the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
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- Scott Baltic
- Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Lipid-lowering therapy, consisting almost entirely of statins, substantially lowered the risk of cardiovascular...
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Metal-on-Metal Hip Replacement Devices Implanted after 2006 have a High Revision Rate
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- Marilynn Larkin
- Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Certain metal-on-metal (MoM) hip replacement devices implanted after 2006 have an "unacceptably high" revision rate,...
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Medicare 'Hospital Star Rating' May Correspond to Patient Outcomes
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- Kathryn Doyle
- Reuters Health
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has been letting patients grade their hospital experiences, and those "patient experience scores"...
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"Nonurgent" Patients Might Still End up Being Hospitalized
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- Kathryn Doyle
- Reuters Health
(Reuters Health) - Patients assigned a "nonurgent" status on arrival in the emergency room might still be sick enough to be hospitalized, a new...
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Prior clopidogrel tied to more events in medically treated ACS patients
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- David Douglas
- Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Among medically treated patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), prior clopidogrel therapy appears to be...
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Stigma Keeps Some Cancer Patients from getting Palliative Care
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- Lisa Rapaport
- Reuters Health
(Reuters Health) - Some cancer patients may turn down care that could ease their pain and improve their quality of life because they think this...
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Breakfast Based on Whey Protein May Help Manage Type 2 Diabetes
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- Lorraine L. Janeczko
- Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A breakfast rich in whey protein may help people with type 2 diabetes manage their illness better, new research from...
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Medicaid is Likely to Benefit Low-income Adults in the U.S. Under the Affordable Care Act
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- Andrew M. Seaman
- Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Low-income adults in the U.S.
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Virtual MDs are No Match for the Real Thing When it Comes to Urgent Medical Problems
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- Lisa Rapaport
- Reuters Health
(Reuters Health) - When it comes to urgent medical problems like ankle injuries or suspected strep, virtual MDs may be no match for the real thing...
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Edoxban has Advantages over Warfarin for Patients with Venous Thromboembolism
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- David Douglas
- Reuters Health
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Edoxaban (Savaysa, Daiichi-Sankyo) shows advantages over warfarin in long-term treatment of patients with venous...