Archive for the ‘Caregivers / Homecare’ Category
Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that previtamin D3 production varies depending on several factors including skin type and weather conditions. The study will appear in the March 2008 issue of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research.
Excessive exposure to sunlight does not result in Vitamin ...
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Friday, February 8th, 2008
Hospitals and health care providers across New York State would lose a staggering $10 billion under the proposed budget released by President George W. Bush, according to analysis by the Healthcare Association of New York State (HANYS), the only statewide hospital and continuing care association in New York State.
The President's ...
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Saturday, September 22nd, 2007
Following the latest survey of care inspectors and workers, unions have slammed cuts to care inspections and called for urgent ministerial talks. More than three-quarters of members no longer have confidence in the Government's new care inspection regime that has slashed care home and homecare inspections by almost half (47,341 ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
The chronic stress that spouses and children develop while caring for Alzheimer's disease patients may shorten the caregivers' lives by as much as four to eight years, a new study suggests.
The research also provides concrete evidence that the effects of chronic stress can be seen both at the genetic and ...
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
While other countries have dedicated "decades to the study of child and adolescent caregivers" resulting "in a network of support services and advocacy groups," the U.S. has focused more on care for the elderly than on the caregivers, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. At least 1.3 million children ages eight ...
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Friday, August 17th, 2007
GlaxoSmithKline's experimental human papillomavirus vaccine Cervarix does not accelerate the clearance of HPV among women infected with the virus and should not be used to treat infection, according to a National Cancer Institute-funded study published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Wall Street Journal reports (Rubenstein, ...
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Thursday, August 16th, 2007
The National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) today issued a new report on HPV vaccine (Gardasil(R)) safety analyzing adverse event reports to the federal Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS). The analysis gives evidence for a reported association in VAERS between Gardasil and Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), with a statistically significant increased ...
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Tuesday, August 14th, 2007
Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) on Wednesday participated in the Service Employees International Union's "Walk a Day in My Shoes" program, spending two hours cleaning, folding laundry and preparing breakfast with a home health care worker, the Chicago Tribune reports. Participating in the program "has become a new ritual ...
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Saturday, August 4th, 2007
Older care home residents face a brighter future thanks to an innovative new website designed especially to help care home professionals - from assistants to inspectors - to improve standards of care.
Launched by Help the Aged, with funding from Bupa Giving, http://www.myhomelife.org.uk is the first website of its kind. Connecting ...
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