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- Study links smoking to increased RA risk in women
An analysis of data from more than 34,000 women in Sweden found that smoking one to seven cigarettes per day was associated with a more than twofold greater risk of developing rheumatoid arthritis. The risk remained significantly higher even among women who had stopped smoking for 15 years compared with those who had never smoked. The findings appeared online in the journal Arthritis Research & Therapy. PhysiciansBriefing.com/HealthDay News
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How do you recognize patients who may need health care at home? What skilled services are available? What's "homebound status"? This free, 25-minute webinar covers available services, patient eligibility and the benefits to your practice and your patients. Physicians, nurses, and social workers can receive ACCME AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. |
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- TMAO compound may play role in cardiovascular disease risk
Individuals with the highest levels of trimethylamine-N-oxide, a compound produced in the stomach, were 2.5 times more likely to suffer a heart attack, stroke or heart disease than those with the lowest TMAO levels, a study showed. The compound can make it more difficult for the liver and intestines to remove cholesterol, lead researcher Dr. Stanley Hazen of the Cleveland Clinic said. The findings were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. WebMD/HealthDay News
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- Study: Children with severe concussion take longer to recover
Children with more severe concussion symptoms had a longer recovery time, sometimes exceeding 28 days, compared with those with less serious symptoms, U.S. researchers reported in The Journal of Pediatrics. They noted that the total score on the Post-Concussion Symptom Scale was independently linked to recovery time. HealthDay News
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Respondents to a Stoltenberg Consulting survey cited confusion over the meaningful use rules as the biggest obstacle to achieving MU, followed by competing health IT efforts and lack of IT workers, funding and other resources. The survey also notes that health information exchange will be the biggest HIT trend this year, followed by mobile health and clinical analytics. Healthcare IT News
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- Bill takes aim at deceptive claims by health professionals
A bipartisan bill in the U.S. House would make it illegal for health care professionals to make false or deceptive claims about their training, degree, license or clinical expertise in advertisements or marketing materials. The bill would task the Federal Trade Commission with deciding which acts and practices would be considered deceptive and cases in which such claims result in harm. Medscape (free registration)
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- Restricting resident hours did not increase mortality, study finds
Patient deaths did not increase over the first three years after working hours for medical residents were limited to 80 hours per week, and in the following two years they declined, University of Pennsylvania researchers said. The study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine included records for about 14 million Medicare patients admitted to the hospital for heart attack, heart failure, gastrointestinal bleeding or surgery. Reuters
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