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Increased Collaboration Between Nursing Home RN and LPN Staff Could Improve Patient Care, MU Researcher Says

By Kate McIntyre - COLUMBIA, Mo. – Researchers estimate nearly 800,000 preventable adverse drug events may occur in nursing homes each year.
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AMA Study Finds Patients With Stroke Symptoms Are Still Not Calling 911

NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Research on Ambulance Use Underscores Need to Urgently Recognize Stroke Symptoms...
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HIV Rates for Black Women in Parts of the US Much Higher than Previously Estimated

Multistate Study, Designed by UMDNJ Researcher, Includes Focus on Newark...
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IU CEEP report documents significant sexual violence problem in Indiana, focuses on need for prevention

1 in 5 Indiana women have been victims of rape; state's high-school-age females have 2nd highest rate of forced sexual intercourse in U.S. ...
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Driving – risky business for the young & not so young

More deaths could be avoided if roads were made safer for older drivers and parents played a more active role in the driving lives of their P plated children, research from CARRS-Q, the Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety Queensland, has found....
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Smartphones more accurate, faster, cheaper for disease surveillance

Smartphones are showing promise in disease surveillance in the developing world. ...
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Personal mobile computing increases doctors' efficiency

Providing personal mobile computers to medical residents increases their efficiency, reduces delays in patient care and enhances continuity of care, according to a "research letter" in the March 12, 2012, issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. ...
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Discovery Could Reduce Chemotherapy's Side Effects

By Duke Medicine News and Communications - A team of researchers at Duke University has determined the structure of a key molecule that can carry chemotherapy and anti-viral drugs into cells, which could help to create more effective drugs with fewer effects to healthy tissue....
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