"Remembering" Speech, Language And Hearing Health Of Canada’s Veterans, Canada

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Veterans' Week, November 5-11 - Every year in November, Canadians express their appreciation and support for the nearly 600,000 Canadian Forces (CF) veterans. Providing health care services to these veterans, Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) works in partnership with health care authorities and......

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Alpine Mountaineer And Alzheimer’s Advocate To Climb Highest Peak On Each Continent To Raise Awareness Of Growing Prevalence And Burden Of Alzheimer’s

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Alpine mountaineer and Alzheimer's disease advocate Alan Arnette will embark later this month to climb the 7 Summits, the highest peak on each continent. This ambitious year-long climbing campaign The 7 Summits Climb for Alzheimer's: Memories are Everything aims to raise awareness of the growing......

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Researchers Find Text Messages To HIV Patients Improve Adherence, Health Outcomes In Kenya Trial

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"Using mobile-phone text messages to remind HIV patients to take their dose of life-saving medications can give a major boost to drug adherence, according to an innovative trial in Kenya unveiled on Tuesday," Agence France-Presse reports.........

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Lower Protein In Infant Formula Supports Growth Rate Similar To Breast Milk, New Study Shows

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Newly published findings indicate that infants fed a lower protein infant formula developed by Pfizer Nutrition gained weight at a similar rate to those who were breastfed,(1) according to a study published online in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Pfizer Nutrition has always recognized......

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Traditional Laparascopic Hysterectomies Provided Similar Benefits At Much Lower Cost Than Robot-Assisted Surgery, Study Shows

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Traditional laparoscopic hysterectomy surgery results in similar clinical outcomes, compared with robot-assisted laparoscopic hysterectomy, but at a significantly lower cost, concludes a new retrospective analysis of a large, national data-base.........

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Statewide Initiative Launched To Help Ensure Patients Receive Appropriate High-Tech Diagnostic Imaging Exams

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A new initiative launched by the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement, a nonprofit, health care improvement organization, could save the Minnesota health care community more than $28 million annually, as well as improve patient care and provider groups' productivity. The initiative is the......

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Global PET SPECT Market (Positron Emission Tomography) & SPECT (Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography) To Be US$ 10.3 Billion By 2015

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The report analyzes the PET SPECT Market by technologies and applications and studies the major market drivers, restraints, and opportunities for the PET SPECT market in U.S., EMEA, and Asia-Pacific. Propelled by the transparent reimbursement policies, new emerging economies, novel applications......

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Abbott Joins Clinton Health Access Initiative In Effort To Improve Infant Testing For HIV In Africa

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Abbott and the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) have joined forces to provide HIV testing to infants in all countries working in partnership with the CHAI. A key focus of this cooperation will be sub-Saharan Africa, which the World Health Organization estimates to account for 90 percent of......

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Egrifta (Tesamorelin) For HIV Patients With Lipodystrophy Approved By The FDA

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Egrifta has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the treatment of lipodystrophy in HIV positive patients, known as HIV-associated lipodystrophy. Fat is lost under the skin and accumulates in other parts of the body, such as the liver, stomach, and the upper back; the patient......

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ADHD Tied To Obesity In Adulthood

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Researchers who followed more than 15,000 young Americans from adolescence into adulthood found that the symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in childhood are linked to an increased risk of obesity in adulthood, and that the greater the symptoms, the higher the risk. The......

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21.8% Increase In ADHD Diagnoses In Kids In 4 Years In USA

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9.7% of children aged between 4 and 17 years had at some time been diagnosed with Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in 2007, up from 7.8% in 2003, a 21.8% increase, according to data published today in the CDC's (Center for Disease Control and Prevention) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly......

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3 Million Central Africans Targeted For Massive Polio Vaccination Campaign

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On November 12th the first wave of a 3-million-people polio immunization campaign starts in Ponte Noire, as well as in the Department of Kouilou, Republic of Congo, and 16 districts in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Angola, the World Health Organization (WHO), Africa announced today. WHO says......

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We Are Most Happy When Making Love, Exercising Or Chatting, And Least Happy When Our Mind Wanders

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We are typically unhappy when our mind wanders, which apparently happens during 46.9% of our waking hours, and happiest when lovemaking, doing exercise or chatting to people, Harvard University researchers revealed in an article published today in the journal Science. While resting, using a home......

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