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Rate Of Hospital-Acquired Infections Increases In New York State, Report Finds The rate of hospital-acquired infections has increased in New York state, possibly due to the ability to track a larger number of infections rather than an actual increase in infections, according to the author of a recent study, the AP/Albany Times Union reports. Medicare Beneficiaries Report Similar Levels Of Satisfaction With Health Care Regardless Of Variations In Spending, According To Study Variations in regional Medicare spending do not affect beneficiaries' perceptions of the care they receive, according to a study released Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Bloomberg/Tennessean reports. Pediatrix Revises Earnings Guidance Reflecting Lower NICU Patient Volume Pediatrix Medical Group, Inc., (NYSE:PDX) announced that it is revising its earnings guidance for the three months ended June 30, 2008, and for the full year based on lower neonatal intensive care unit patient volume. During the Company's 2008 first quarter earnings call, Pediatrix mentioned that same-unit NICU volume for April 2008 was below 2007 levels. Researcher Reports On Noninvasive Device For GERD, Obesity A new, noninvasive gastroplasty device to treat two separate disorders gastroesophageal-reflux disease (GERD) and morbid obesity was reported by its inventor, Charles J. Filipi, M.D., professor of surgery at Creighton University School of Medicine.Filipi spoke about the device, which could be available for human trials later this year, on Monday, May 19, at the 49th annual Digestive Disease Week in San Diego, Calif. Incisionless Procedure To Reduce Weight Regain Every year more than 100,000 U.S. patients undergo gastric bypass surgery for the treatment of obesity. Experience now shows approximately 20 percent of these patients will regain weight within a few years after the surgery, due to the stretching of the stomach, and will be at renewed risk for diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. House Members Introduce Resolution Asking FDA To Stop Efforts To Ban Hormone Ingredient Estriol Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) and eight other House members earlier this month introduced a "sense of Congress" resolution (H Con Res 342) that would ask FDA to stop its effort to ban custom-made hormones aimed at treating menopause-related symptoms that contain the ingredient estriol, the Arizona Daily Star reports. Experts Say UN Needs To Reconsider Current Narcotics Control Plan The United Nations needs to reconsider its current strategy on dealingwith HIV and with illicit drug, according to the coauthors of a Commentreleased on May 30, 2008 in The Lancet. Opinion Piece Takes On Attack Aimed At Kan. Gov. Sebelius' Abortion-Rights Support A recent syndicated column by Robert Novak, the "redoubtable right-wing hit man," criticizing Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius (D) for her actions as governor on abortion-related issues is an example of the Republican Party's "hard cultural right" attempting to "revive abortion's single-issue virulence in this presidential cycle," Los Angeles Times columnist Tim Rutten writes in an opinion piece. Toronto Star Examines Efforts Of Stephen Lewis Foundation's Grandmother To Grandmother Campaign In Africa The Toronto Star on Monday examined the efforts of the Stephen Lewis Foundation's Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign in Africa, particularly Swaziland. According to the Star, a 12-member delegation of Canadian grandmothers recently traveled across sub-Saharan Africa to record the stories of African grandmothers and AIDS orphans to relay back to Canada (Black, Toronto Star, 5/26). Seizure Drug That Reverses Cellular Effects Discovered By Scripps Research Scientists In the new research, published in the May 28, 2008 edition of The Journal of Neuroscience, the scientists found that gabapentin normalizes the action of certain brain cells altered by chronic alcohol abuse in an area of the brain known as the central amygdala, which plays an important role in fear- and stress-related behaviors, as well as in regulating alcohol drinking. |
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