Pictured with the proclamation are, left-to-right: Jamie Kay Weil, founder of A Step Ahead for Amputees, Saundra Trower, Geri Sincerney, Julio Vasquez, Allan Schickedanz, Barbara Schickidanz, Roy Howe, Windell Smith. The A Step Ahead for Amputees support/action…
Month: April 2011
Minorities Could be Excluded From Health Care Law Provision
Hospitals and physician practices that form care-coordinating networks, called Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs), could reap cost savings and other benefits under provisions of the new health care law. However, experts at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Pennsylvania warn…
NIH Scientists Identify Gene, Key to Muscle Repair
Researchers have long questioned why patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) tend to manage well through childhood and adolescence, yet succumb to their disease in early adulthood, or why elderly people who lose muscle strength following bed rest find it…
Researchers Question MRI Screenings for Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis
Most patients with scoliosis developing after 10 years old do not need routine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scanning before spine-straightening surgery, suggests a study in Spine. In young scoliosis patients without symptoms of neurological abnormalities, preoperative MRI scanning adds costs…
Both Diet and Exercise Contribute to Weight Loss
Everyone knows that eating a low-fat, low-calorie diet and getting regular exercise helps shed pounds, but a new study led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has found that when it comes to losing weight and body fat,…
Targeting Top 911 Callers Trims Cost and Improves Patient Care
Repeated unnecessary 911 calls are a common drain on the manpower and finances of emergency medical services, but a pilot program that identified Baltimore City’s top 911 callers and coupled them with a case worker has succeeded in drastically cutting…
Elderly Diabetes Patients With Low Glucose Levels Have Increased Risk of Death
A new study of older diabetes patients has found that well-controlled blood sugar levels were associated with a lower risk of major complications such as heart attacks, amputation and kidney disease, but the lowest blood sugar levels were associated with…
Proposed CMS Regulations Help People With Disabilities Live in Their Communities
More people with disabilities who wish to live in the community and not in institutions would be able to do so under proposed regulations released April 14 by CMS The proposed rule makes it easier for states to provide home-…
University of Pennsylvania Researcher Awarded $240,000 for Multiple Sclerosis Research
A Pennsylvania researcher will receive $240,000 to continue his study of impaired vision and fatigue in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS), through the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and American Academy of Neurology Foundation Clinician-Scientist Development Award. Salim Chahin, MD, a…
Electronic Faucets More Likely to be Contaminated With High Levels of Bacteria
Electronic faucets are meant to reduce water consumption and recontamination of hands in the hospital setting, but they are more likely to become contaminated with high levels of bacteria compared with traditional manually operated faucets, according to investigators. “Differences in…