U.S. News & World Report's 2016-2017 rankings placed Huntsman Cancer Institute among the top 50 cancer hospitals nationally and University of Utah Hospital first in Utah and the Salt Lake City area. The health system also rated high-performing in a dozen specialties.
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New UV-based Infection Prevention Device Fills Dangerous Gaps Between Robots, Germicidal Wipes and Bleaches
Advanced Ultra-Violet Systems has released the KR615 UV germicidal enclosure, which the company says kills 99.9 percent of C. diff and MRSA in 45 seconds. It sits bedside to decontaminate stethoscopes, cuffs, phones and other high-touch items that UV robots and wipes miss.
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Willpower Woes: How a Rotten Resolve Can Hurt You
An argument that weak self-discipline undermines work performance, leadership, habits and efforts to manage compulsions and addictions, drawing on coach Kanika Tolver, author of "Life Rehab," for ways to build willpower through practice, progression and patience.
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Dermatologists Share Tips For Reducing Scars
Board-certified dermatologist Ellen Marmur says a scar's appearance often depends on how well the wound heals. She advises washing minor cuts with mild soap and water, keeping them moist with petroleum jelly instead of letting a scab form, and changing an adhesive bandage daily.
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Count on early detection to fight breast cancer?
Los Angeles Times reporter Laurie Becklund, who died in February of metastatic breast cancer, wrote that more than 20 mammograms never found her tumor and that she detected it herself. She faulted the medical establishment and Susan G. Komen's awareness spending.
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Corporate America Competes to Improve Employee Health
HealthyWage says more than 800 employers, health systems, insurers and school districts, among them General Electric, CVS Health, Johnson & Johnson and Halliburton, now run its cash-prize weight-loss contests, pitched against the $153 billion U.S. employers lose yearly to absenteeism alone.
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Is that health insurance website for real?
The FTC says IAB Marketing Associates posed as a nonprofit trade group, harvesting personal details through health insurance quote websites and telemarketing memberships costing $40 to $1,000 a month. Buyers got a limited medical discount plan, not comprehensive coverage.
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Part 2: The Quest for the Cures Airs Tonight!
A promotion for the free online documentary series The Quest for The Cures...Continues, airing nightly at 9pm EST from October 13 to 24, with each episode available 23 hours and featuring doctors, scientists, survivors and an attorney discussing cancer.
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Healthcare Valuation Experts Tackle Advanced Concepts
NACVA and the Consultants' Training Institute will hold an Advanced Healthcare Valuation and Consulting Symposium in San Diego on December 12 and 13, 2014, with eight sessions and a keynote interview with government valuation expert Kathy McNamara of the Tuomey and Halifax cases.
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PR: NYC Nursing Home Gold Crest Care Center Offers Crucial Stroke Recovery Tips
A press release from Gold Crest Care Center, a Bronx nursing home, listing five stroke recovery tips its staff compiled, starting with consistent physician supervision and enlisting family or friends as caregivers. It cites CDC figures of more than 795,000 US strokes a year.
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Back-to-School Vaccines: Know the Risks and Failures
Barbara Loe Fisher argues American children, unlike those in Canada and the EU, must take dozens of vaccine doses to attend public school, and that medical contraindications narrowed after Congress shielded doctors and manufacturers from injury suits. Kindergartners now need 29 doses of 9 vaccines.
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Is U.S. healthcare cost-effective?
Americans spend about $9,400 a head on health care, the most in the world, and 16.9% of GDP went to health in 2012 against an OECD average of 9.3%. Yet U.S. male life expectancy in 2012 was 76.3 years, below the OECD average of 77.5 and 26th on the list.
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Healthy Contact Lens Wear and Care
Contact lenses are medical devices, and failing to wear, clean and store them as directed raises the risk of infections such as microbial keratitis for the 30 million-plus Americans who use them. Wash and dry your hands before touching lenses, and don't sleep in them.
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Dental x-ray boosts thyroid cancer risk
A case-control study of 313 thyroid cancer patients in Acta Oncologica found those exposed to dental x-rays were twice as likely to develop the cancer, an association unaffected by age, sex or education. A separate study reported 13 percent higher risk for every 10 dental x-rays.
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America Lags Behind Other Nations in Health
An OECD survey of its 34 members puts US life expectancy at 78.7 years against an 80.1-year average, with 25 nations ahead. The US is the most obese at 36.5 percent and spends 17.7 percent of GDP on health care. The authors blame lifestyle, a fragmented system and uninsurance.
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The Benefits of Minimally Invasive Dentistry
Mercola makes the case for minimally invasive dentistry with Dr. Tim Rainey, arguing that dietary prevention, brushing and irrigating with baking soda, oil pulling and early conservative restorations can head off about 80% of future dental problems.
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Physicians Providing Less Help with Weight Issues, Compared with a Decade Ago
Weight counselling appeared in only 6.2 percent of US office visits in 2007-2008, down from 7.8 percent in 1995-1996, National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey data show, even as overweight and diabetes grew. Earlier work found overweight physicians particularly reluctant to advise on weight loss.
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2012 Health News Roundup The Good and Bad News on Drugs, Food, Lifestyle, and Health Care Policy
The roundup notes the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act while only 15 states agreed to run exchanges, aspirin drew favourable research, pink slime and a glass-contaminated Lipitor recall made bad news, and fish oil looked less impressive than hoped.
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