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| Medicare to Disclose Payment Data on US Doctors for First Time The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will release data on its payments to individual physicians. It will show payments from the estimated $635 billion program to doctors for their medical services and procedures, how much those payments ... | |
| Ketamine 'exciting' depression therapy The illegal party drug ketamine is an "exciting" and "dramatic" new treatment for depression, say doctors who have conducted the first trial in the UK. Some patients who have faced incurable depression for decades have had symptoms disappear within hours ... | |
| ICD-10 Delay Pleases Docs, but Could Cause Industry Problems President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a bill that prevents a 24% Medicare payment cut to doctors and postpones the transition to the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision (ICD-10) set of diagnostic codes for a year or longer. Medical ... | |
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| Meningitis strikes WeHo/NoHo gay communities, raising concerns The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (Public Health) today confirmed reports of a total of eight invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) cases in Los Angeles County in 2014. Of these eight, four cases were reported among men who have sex ... | |
| Men who smoke regularly before their teens have fatter sons Scientists claim men who were already smoking regularly before the age of 11 have sons with five to 10kg more body fat than average. The effect was not seen in the sons of men who started smoking later, suggesting boys are particularly sensitive to ... | |
| How running 'may preserve thinking skills' Aerobic exercise in your 20s may protect the brain in middle age, according to a US study. Activities that maintain cardio fitness - such as running, swimming and cycling - led to better thinking skills and memory 20 years on. Scientists say the research, ... | |
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| Miners in lock-down in Guinea as Ebola death toll hits 84 By Saliou Samb and Stephanie Nebehay. CONAKRY/GENEVA (Reuters) - Foreign mining firms have locked down operations in Guinea and pulled out some international staff, executives said on Wednesday, as the death toll from suspected cases of Ebola ... | |
| Seized crime money to fund heroin antidote program ALBANY, N.Y. — As deaths from heroin and other opiate drugs rise throughout New York, state officials are planning to equip police with an antidote to reverse the effects of overdoses. Attorney General Eric Schneiderman announced the Community ... | |
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| Science reveals how one becomes an alcoholic Science reveals how one becomes an alcoholic Men who are less sensitive to the negative effects of alcohol drink more heavily and are more likely to become problem drinkers later in life and a part of the brain plays a crucial role in deciding this. A team of ... | |
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| Air pollution: High levels to spread across England People with health problems are being warned to avoid strenuous activity after forecasts that air pollution will reach high levels in parts of England. Defra issued warnings as high pollution levels were recorded on Tuesday. The pollution - a mix of local and ... | |
| Drinking coffee could cut risk of dying from liver cirrhosis Washington: Researchers have said that consuming two or more cups of coffee each day reduces the risk of death from liver cirrhosis by 66 per cent, specifically cirrhosis caused by non-viral hepatitis. Lead researcher, Dr. Woon-Puay Koh with Duke-NUS ... | |
| Health Highlights: April 2, 2014 Nearly one-fourth of newborn boys in the United States are not being circumcised and half of them could develop health problems later in life as a result, according to a new study. It found that circumcision rates fell from a high of 83 percent in the 1960s to 77 ... | |
| Childhood Eczema Often Persists Into Adulthood, Study Finds WEDNESDAY, April 2, 2014 (HealthDay News) -- Many children with eczema will continue to have symptoms of the skin condition as adults, new research suggests. Although eczema, or "atopic dermatitis," often begins during childhood, the new study found ... | |
| Cap'n Crunch is staring at your kid for a reason Cornell researchers studying "cereal box psychology" say the tempting gazes of all those sugar-hawking characters are carefully angled right at your tykes. by Michael Franco · @writermfranco; April 2, 2014 11:03 AM PDT. comments. 0. facebook. twitter. | |
| Ohio mumps outbreak grows to 116 cases, mainly at Ohio State (Reuters) - The number of mumps cases from an outbreak in central Ohio has more than quadrupled over the last two weeks, to 116, mostly students at Ohio State University or people connected to the school, authorities said Tuesday. The outbreak had been ... | |
| Hundreds of millions with tropical diseases lack treatment AFP_PARIS: At least 1.4 billion people worldwide require treatment for a group of "neglected" tropical diseases and almost two-thirds are going without adequate medical care, eradication campaigners said on Wednesday. Ailments including intestinal worms, ... | |
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| | McKnight's Long Term Care News | ICD-10: LTC must get ready The procrastination is over for the conversion to ICD-10 coding. After the third postponement of the start date last year, officials are adamant about starting the new format Oct. 1. “Let's face it, guys, we've delayed this several times and it's time to move on,” ... | |
| Conservative group sues EPA over open-records requests A conservative legal group sued the EPA on Tuesday, arguing that the agency engages in political discrimination when deciding which open-records requests it will fulfill. The lawsuit comes after congressional Republicans found the Environmental Protection ... | |
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