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Comprehensive asthma care keeps kids out of the hospital
A comprehensive, patient-centered approach to asthma care that includes education, referrals to specialists and home visits not only improves patients' health but also has tremendous potential to decrease health care costs, ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 01, 2010 |
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Many patients don't know they had minor stroke, need emergency care
More than two-thirds of patients in a British study were unaware they suffered a minor stroke and almost one-third delayed seeking medical attention for more than 24 hours, according to a report in Stroke: Journal of the Am ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Apr 15, 2010 |
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Hepatitis C treatment less effective in urban minority patients
A recent study confirms that the standard hepatitis C (HCV) therapy, pegylated interferon and ribavirin, is significantly less effective in urban minority patients treated in an ordinary clinical practice setting compared ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Mar 25, 2010 |
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Research highlights need for national HIV strategy
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that well over one million people in the United States are infected with HIV/AIDS. New research from North Carolina State University shows that many of those infected ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Nov 30, 2009 |
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Acute respiratory disease poses significantly greater risk for black Americans
Black Americans are nearly twice as likely to develop acute lung injury, or ALI, as white Americans, according to researchers at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. The study also revealed that black patients ...
Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
May 19, 2009 |
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Unrelated and mismatched cord blood transplantation can still help children with deadly conditions
An unrelated cord blood transplant, even from a mismatched donor, can be effective in treating children with a host of life-threatening diseases and disorders including cancer, sickle cell anemia, and other genetic diseases, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Feb 13, 2009 |
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Minority health-care clinics separate but unequal
A study published today in the Archives of Internal Medicine may shed new light on why minority Americans have poorer health outcomes from chronic conditions such as hypertension, heart disease and diabetes.
Feb 09, 2009 |
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