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At the 52nd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Dr. Monica Parise from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention presented her annual update on prevention and treatment of malaria.
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The World Bank is funding a novel project to train 30 giant pouched rats to sniff out tuberculosis (TB) in respiratory specimens in Sub-Saharan Africa.
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About 18 not-for-profit hospitals in 15 states have been hit with class-action lawsuits filed in federal courts challenging their tax-exempt status as charity institutions.
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When the patient access department at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center-Presbyterian in Philadelphia has its monthly staff meeting these days, theres an added attraction. After the insurance updates, schedule changes, and other pertinent matters are handled, attendees are asked to participate in an interactive customer service initiative.
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The fact that a study about mattresses and back pain was published in The Lancet is a testimony to the prevalence of back pain and the dearth of real science about how to deal with it.
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The third stage of an ambitious campaign aimed at streamlining emergency department operations gets under way this month as Baptist Memorial Health Care in Memphis, TN, begins recruiting members for a new ED volunteer corps. Whats unusual about this hospital volunteer initiative is that it is targeted to young people who may be considering jobs in the health care field.
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Two interesting articles published in the December 2003 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine address the problems of isolated calf muscle venous thrombosis with and without complicating pulmonary emboli.
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Nearly 82 million Americans younger than 65 went without health insurance for all or part of 2002 and 2003, according to a report released recently by Families USA.