You can reduce depression in palliative care mourners?

It can be a challenge to ensure good quality of life than the life of a person comes to an end. The knowledge that death is imminent, and the realization that it is inevitable-understandable brings intense anxiety and fear for the person who is ill and people who love it. Palliative care improves the quality of life in extreme circumstances of the last days of a person. You can enable the dying to spend this time in peace, surrounded by family...

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Report proposes new "vital signs" to measure the health of the nation

Doctors use vital signs as a relatively simple way to detect a disease or monitor the health of a person. The keys include blood pressure, body temperature, respiratory rate and heart rate.   A report from the newly appointed National Academy of Medicine (formerly the Institute of Medicine) proposes to use 15 "vital signs" to track how health care in the United States at the height:   *     Life spans  *    ...

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New delivery classifications assess typical attention of hospitals

The Internet has made it easier to become an educated consumer. Including health services - - consumer groups and other guests at the push of a button, the opinions of thousands of products and services are displayed. No wonder many people have these comments and notes before visiting a hospital. Over the past 25 years, US News and World Report has a list of "best hospitals" in the United States. In an article in this week's JAMA Mirador, the...

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Grip strength can provide clues to heart health

Strong or weak handshake takes more just social signals. You can also help measure the risk of having a heart attack or stroke or of dying from cardiovascular disease than one person. As part of the urban and rural epidemiological prospective international study (PURE), the researchers measured grip strength on nearly 140 000 adults in 17 countries and followed their health for an average of four years. A device called a dynamometer was used to...

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Draft recommendations on screening mammography always provoke debate

The launch of new guidelines on mammography never fails to renew the controversy about the advantages and possible disadvantages of this procedure.   The latest draft guidelines Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) are no exception. Several expert bodies have taken contradictory positions on them. You can give your opinion, too, if you hurry - Public comments on the draft closes today. Mammography screening is performed on healthy women...

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There is no "best" treatment for common uterine fibroids

The other night I sat in a restaurant with a group of friends. We share laughter, good conversation and great wine. Looking around, I realized that we were ready to share something else: uterine fibroids. Of the ten women who were sitting at the table, there was a good chance that seven of us have uterine fibroids at some point in our lives.  Fibroids are non-cancerous tumors that develop in the uterus. They may be smaller than a grain or...

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