The organization says it asked its 4,000 members to complete a survey on
its Facebook fan page from July 16-25. Forty-six percent of the dentists
who responded said their ability to provide dental care is hampered when
patients send and receive e-mail messages, and 32 percent indicate they
have a cell phone/mobile device policy posted in a visible location in
their office, directing patients to turn off cell phones to facilitate
dentist/patient communication.
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A poll conducted by the American Red Cross indicates 78 percent — 84
percent of women and 71 percent of men — say they plan to cover their
coughs and sneezes with tissue, while 76 percent — 81 percent for women
and 71 percent for men — say they will wash their hands more carefully
and 62 percent plan to be vaccinated against H1N1 flu if vaccinations
are offered.
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Researchers at the University of Western Ontario and Canadian Surgical
Technologies and Advanced Robotics in London used cows’ livers
containing small tumor-like blobs to test the ability of both robots and
surgeons to feel or palpate for malignant tissue — usually
stiffer than the surrounding tissue.
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Elizabeth Saewyc of the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and
Laurel Edinburgh of the Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota
studied the Runaway Intervention Program at Children’s Hospital in St.
Paul, Minn.
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The test, called an ankle brachial index, could be helpful in screening
people who have already had a stroke or transient ischmic attack, the
study by researchers at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill,
suggests.
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There really is no justification for undergoing multiple endodontic
or periodontic procedures, and enduring the pain and financial burden,
to save a diseased tooth, John Minichetti, a dentist with the
American Academy of Implant Dentistry.
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The H1N1 pandemic virus is the dominant influenza strain in most parts
of the world, even though it is seasonal flu season in the Southern
Hemisphere. The level of influenza activity has passed the seasonal
epidemic threshold in Japan, WHO officials said.
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Researchers at the University of Minnesota Medical School looked at 559
women — average age 50, 62 percent white, 38 percent African-American
– who were generally healthy and did not show signs of clinical
cardiovascular disease.
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With each passing day, the goals of health care reform seem to become
harder to understand. As someone who has spent my life delivering
hands-on, in-the-trenches care to thousands of older adults, I am
convinced of one thing: We must improve health care or face dire
consequences.
For every
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The report by the California Nurses Association/National Nurses
Organizing Committee, indicates at more than a fourth of hospitals in
nine states nurses cite inadequate isolation of swine flu patients.
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