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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 9, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Kui-Kai Lau 1,2, Yuen-Kwun Wong 1, Kay-Cheong Teo 1, Richard Shek-Kwan Chang 1, Sonny Fong-Kwong Hon 1, Koon-Ho Chan 1,2, Raymond Tak-Fai Cheung 1,2, Leonard Sheung-Wai Li 3, Hung-Fat Tse 2,4, Shu-Leong Ho...
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From:Health Care Financing Review (Vol. 11, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSpate policies and the financing of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome care Introduction A team at the RAND Corporation obtained information on the costs and financing of treatment for acquired immunodeficiency...
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From:Aging Health (Vol. 9, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Roxanne E Jensen [*] 1 , Leigh Anne Faul 2 , Waddah B Al-Refaie 3 , Arnold L Potosky 4 Keywords * elderly; health services; oncology; quality of healthcare There are currently 13.7 million cancer...
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From:Drugs & Aging (Vol. 27, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedThe prevalence of pain increases with age. However, pain is often in adequately managed in elderly people, which undermines quality of life. Pain has been associated with depression, sleep disturbances, impaired...
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From:Reactions Weekly (Issue 1238)[S] A 75-year-old woman with undiagnosed takotsubo cardiomyopathy experienced a worsening of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction, after receiving dobutamine, epinephrine [adrenaline] and norepinephrine [noradrenaline]...
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From:Emergency Nurse (Vol. 15, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAs a recent publication by the Healthcare Commission (2007), Caring for Dignity: A national report on dignity in care for older people while in hospital, makes dear, Britain has an ageing population. This means that,...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 80, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedWhile Mumbai prepares to sleep, Raju the masseur goes out to look for work. He is a pavement dweller, 40 years old and emaciated, partly from alcohol and drug addiction. He also has tuberculosis and AIDS. Despite the...
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From:Mental Health Practice (Vol. 6, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedThe principle of working in partnership with service users and their relatives and carers in creating and developing mental health services is now widely accepted. Indeed, such collaborative working could be seen as one...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 68, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedAcquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections have both reached pandemic proportions, raising many concerns for international travellers and national governments. The latest...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 100, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedResidential camping sessions for children with vertically transmitted human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome have been offered at The Hole In The Wall Gang Camp for the past six summers. More...
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From:Journal of Diabetes Research (Vol. 2016) Peer-ReviewedCalpain, calcineurin (CaN), and nuclear factor of activated T cell (NFAT) play a key role in the development of atrial fibrillation. Patients with valvular heart disease (VHD) are prone to develop atrial fibrillation...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 7, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Matthew Bates 1 , 2 , Justin O'Grady 1 , 2 , Peter Mwaba 2 , 3 , Lophina Chilukutu 2 , Judith Mzyece 2 , Busiku Cheelo 2 , Moses Chilufya 2 , Lukundo Mukonda 2 , Maxwell Mumba 2 , John Tembo 2 , Mumba Chomba...
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From:PLoS ONE (Vol. 15, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAuthor(s): Issifou Yaya 1,2, Aboubakari Nambiema 2, Sokhna Dieng 3, Lihanimpo Djalogue 4, Mawuényégan Kouamivi Agboyibor 5, Mathias Kouamé N'Dri 6, Takiyatou Baba-Toherou 2, Akouda Akessiwe Patassi 7, Dadja Essoya...
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From:Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (Vol. 8, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedAs AIDS becomes a more chronic but manageable illness, understanding quality of life issues among persons living with this disease has become an important goal of health care researchers. However most quality of life...
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From:Journal of the International AIDS Society (Vol. 21, Issue 10) Peer-ReviewedAdvances in antiretroviral therapy (ARV) have offered people with HIV vastly improved, although not normal, life expectancies [1] and have changed the epidemiology of HIV care [2]. Nonetheless, even though this is a...
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From:Ploughshares (Vol. 46, Issue 3)She loved him best in the wintertime, on those mornings when it was so cold that crystalline spores of frost could be seen in their glinting conquest over every smooth surface. Winter was the only time of year when the...
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From:PeerJ (Vol. 9) Peer-ReviewedBackground Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality among elderly individuals. Patients with CHD are at high risk for mental health disorders, and psychological issues may affect the...
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From:Journal of Ovarian Research (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBackground Approximately one third of women diagnosed with ovarian cancer is 70 years or older. Information on the treatment reality of these elderly patients is limited. Methods 275 patients with primary...
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From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 62, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOpen-hearted means generous, warm, but open-heart surgery is a scalpel slicing deep into your chest, a surgeon reaching in to extract your heart. In your beeping hospital room, bags of saline hang like the bags in which...
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From:Neurology India (Vol. 69, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Ming. Xu, Jiamei. Guo, Xianming. Tao, Kebin. Zeng To study the efficacy and safety of intravenous thrombolysis for the older acute ischemic stroke patients, clinical data were prospectively analyzed from 168...