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| November 2009 | |
| TV Video: Hannah - Health Insurance Story. View her fight for insurance coverage for the SCOT Trial, with David Becker, ISN Assistant News Guide. Posted 11-16-09. (Also see: SCOT Trial, Patient Rights, and David Becker) | |
| Economic hardship associated with managing chronic illness: a qualitative inquiry. This research provides insights into the economic stressors associated with managing chronic illness, demonstrating that economic hardship requires households to make difficult decisions between care and basic living expenses. These decisions may cause less than optimal health outcomes and increased costs to the health system. Yun-Hee Jeon. BioMed Central Health Services Research. 2009. (Also see: Living with Chronic Illness) | |
| Acceptance of Chronic Illness Helps People Move On. For chronically ill patients, giving up the hope that they will get better may actually lead to more happiness, U.S. researchers suggest. HealthDay News. (Empowher) 11/10/09. (Also see: Living with Chronic Illness) | |
| Geneticists Hunt For Scleroderma Triggers. A study reported in the October 2009 Journal of Investigative Dermatology reports a closer connection between a gene profile for the profibrotic pathway TGF-beta and a tendency in some scleroderma sufferers to develop lung problems. Science Daily. 10/30/09. (Also see: Genetics and Scleroderma) | |
| The Duty To Accommodate A Chronically Ill Employee. An employer's duty to accommodate a chronic illness is a very significant issue in the workplace. Where an employee's condition is chronic it raises some challenging issues for both employees and employers. Christopher Morris. Ottawa Business Journal. 11/02/09. (Also see: Disability and Work) | |
| Does Multitasking Make You More Productive? One report found that when workers are constantly juggling emails, phone calls and text messages, their IQ falls ten points. Another recent report found that when people switched back and forth between tasks, there was a substantial loss of efficiency and accuracy — in some cases, up to 50 percent. Karen Leland. Web Worker Daily. 11/02/09. | |
| A Breathing Technique Offers Help for People With Asthma. This technique may seem counterintuitive: when short of breath or overly stressed, instead of taking a deep breath, the Buteyko method instructs people to breathe shallowly and slowly through the nose, breaking the vicious cycle of rapid, gasping breaths, airway constriction and increased wheezing. Jane E. Brody. 11/02/09. (Also see: Asthma) | |
| Scleroderma - A Simple Blood Test Could Save Lives. “Diagnosis can be helped by an anti nuclear antibody (ANA) blood test. If positive then early treatment may prevent the condition from progressing, especially if the lungs are involved. Once a diagnosis of scleroderma is made, patients can be closely followed in specialist centres so that complications are detected as soon as possible.” Professor Christopher Denton. Medical News Today. 11/06/09. (Also see: Antibodies and ANA) | |
| REFILE-US rejects wider use of Roche arthritis drug. The Food and Drug Administration does not support approval of Rituxan -- in patients who have not previously received methotrexate or those who did not respond adequately -- due to the rare risk of progressive multifocal leukeoencephalopathy (PML). Reuters (Alibaba.com) 10/19/09. (Also see: Biologic Agents) | |
| Autoimmune Disorder Linked to Stroke, Heart Attack in Women Smoking, birth control pills raise risk higher, research finds. Women under 50 with a certain form of the autoimmune condition called antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) are at greatly increased risk for heart attack and stroke, and that risk is even higher when these women smoke or take birth control pills, new research shows. Robert Preidt (HealthDay News) MSN. 09/28/09. (Also see: APS) | |
| Link between diet, immune system. AUSTRALIAN scientists have found a "direct link" between what we eat and how well our immune system operates, a breakthrough that could explain rising rates of autoimmune disease across the western world. AAP. The Daily Telegraph. 10/30/09. (Also see: Diets) |
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