10Jan/13

Fake Feces To Treat Deadly Disease: Scientists Find They Can Just Make Sh*t Up

Though childish songs make crude jokes , there’s nothing funny about diarrhea. Aside from the painful, twisting feeling in your guts, there’s just something psychologically upsetting about losing control of your bowels. It’s embarrassing. It’s disgusting. And we’ve all been there. [caption id=”attachment_2480″ align=”alignright” width=”300″ caption=”Micrograph of C. difficile bacteria from a …

10Jan/13

Heart Failure Programs Take Aim at Readmits – Pharmacy Practice News


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Heart Failure Programs Take Aim at Readmits
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image Hollywood, Fla. and Las Vegas—As part of the requirements of the Affordable Care Act, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) started imposing potential reimbursement penalties on hospitals based on their 30-day heart failure (HF)
Collaboration may improve medication adherenceModernMedicine

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10Jan/13

A kidney for Kelly

Six months after transplant, ‘everything is fine’ It started with a mouse. A mouse was drowning in the basin of a toilet, struggling to get his head above the water. Carla Wensky saw the small rodent and didn’t hesitate — she rescued him. She then realized that if she couldn’t watch this little mouse die, how could she watch her friend die? Her friend Kelly Eckerdt had a kidney disease, and …