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Making a Change: Status Quo Bias in Health Decision Making
July 30, 2013 — People tend to follow the status quo when making health-related decisions -- even when the status quo is objectively worse, according to a new ... > full story -
Requiring Some Patients to Get Mental Health Treatment Saves Money
July 30, 2013 — Mandating outpatient treatment for certain people with severe mental illness, while controversial, results in substantial cost savings by cutting hospitalizations and increasing outpatient care, ... > full story -
Most Ward Nurses Say Time Pressures Force Them to 'Ration' Care
July 29, 2013 — Most ward nurses say they are forced to ration care, and not do or complete certain aspects of it -- including adequate monitoring of patients -- because they don't have enough ... > full story -
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Worsening Trends in Back Pain Management
July 29, 2013 — Patient care could be enhanced and the health care system could see significant cost savings if health care professionals followed published clinical guidelines to manage and treat back ... > full story -
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Essential Clue to Huntington's Disease Solution Found
July 29, 2013 — Researchers have discovered a solution to a long-standing medical mystery in Huntington's disease ... > full story -
Antibiotic Reduction Campaigns Do Not Necessarily Reduce Resistance
July 29, 2013 — Antibiotic use -- and misuse -- is the main driver for selection of antibiotic resistant bacteria. This has led many countries to implement interventions designed to reduce overall antibiotic ... > full story -
Topical Analgesic May Provide Pain-Free 'Skin Glue' Repair of Cuts in Children
July 29, 2013 — More than 50 percent of children who were given a topical analgesic had no pain during wound repair with "skin glue," according to the new ... > full story -
Therapeutic Fecal Transplant: Hope for Cure of Childhood Diarrhea Comes Straight from the Gut
July 29, 2013 — Call it therapeutic poop, if you will, but the best hope yet for an effective treatment of childhood infections with the drug-resistant bacterium C. difficile may come straight from the gut, ... > full story -
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Saliva Samples Can Reveal Serious Illnesses
July 29, 2013 — Current research shows that cancer and other serious illnesses leave traces of their presence in patients’ saliva. In the future, it may be possible to detect serious illnesses in their early ... > full story -
Living Longer, Living Healthier: People Are Remaining Healthier Later in Life
July 29, 2013 — Based on data collected between 1991 and 2009 from almost 90,000 individuals who responded to the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey, scientists say that, even as life expectancy has increased over ... > full story
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