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Team Depression Treatment Cuts Total Senior Medical Costs (Popularity:  )
A team approach to depression treatment, already shown to improve health, can also cut total health-care costs, according to a study co-authored by Kaiser Permanente and published in the February issue of the American Journal of Managed Care.
The results examine the effects of the multi-center IMPACT (Improving Mood -- Promoting Access to Collaborative Treatment for late life depression) care model on the long-term healthcare costs of 551 study participants ...
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Easter Seals Launches Nationwide Program for U.S. Service Members and Veterans Deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan with Traumatic Brain Injury (Popularity: )
Easter Seals, with funding from the Ludy Family Foundation and W.K. Kellogg Foundation, is launching a new nationwide program to help returning veterans with Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) through Posit Science(R) Brain Fitness Program -- an in-home, computer-based cognitive training program -- and by providing participants and their families with other essential Easter Seals services and supports.
Signature Wound, Significant Needs
Traumatic Brain Injury has become the signature wound of ...
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WHO statement by the Director-General on the health situation in Gaza (Popularity: )
The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned about the health situation in and around Gaza and the suffering this has caused for civilian populations in the area.
In Gaza, the lack of electrical power, arising from a fuel shortage, and restrictions on the movement of people and goods, including medicines, jeopardize the continuity of basic health care and curtail access to specialist care outside Gaza.
Frequent electricity cuts and the ...
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Celebrities to Attend the Ninth Annual Kidney Teen Prom (Popularity: )
The Ninth Annual Renal Teen Prom, "Winter Elegance," sponsored by the Renal Support Network (RSN), is to be held Sunday, January 20, 2008 at Notre Dame High School in Sherman Oaks, California. This unique event attracts more than 350 kidney teens (ages 13-24) who are on dialysis, pre-dialysis or with a transplant, and their guests, coming from Washington D.C., Arizona, Massachusetts and Southern California. This year's prom will be packed ...
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Federal Government Receives Failing Grades on Tobacco Control in Annual American Lung Association Report (Popularity: )
The American Lung Association's State of Tobacco Control 2007 report, an annual report card on federal and state tobacco control legislation and policies, assigns only Ds and Fs to the federal government, but says 2008 presents an historic opportunity for Congress to make a dramatic impact on tobacco control across America by authorizing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate tobacco products. Strong, bipartisan legislation is pending in ...
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Valentine's Day Personal Care Gift Bags From Save Your World(TM) Help Save the Rainforest (Popularity: )
Save Your World(TM) (), the first company in the United States to launch a personal care product line infused with organic yerba mate and organic aloe vera, has announced three new Valentine's Day gift bags that are kind to loved ones and the environment.
"In today's eco-friendly market, why not give a gift that pampers your loved one and protects the environment for future generations," explains Scott Cecil, President of ...
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2007: A Deadly Year for U.S. Law Enforcement (Popularity: )
2007 has been a deadly year for law enforcement in the United States, with 186 officers killed nationwide as of December 26, according to preliminary statistics from the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund (NLEOMF) and Concerns of Police Survivors (C.O.P.S.).
When compared with 2006, when 145 officers died, officer fatalities rose more than 28 percent this year. Outside of 2001, when 239 officers died -- 72 in the September ...
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The Walt Disney Company Volunteers Build Playground for the Boys & Girls Club of East Los Angeles (Popularity: )
The Walt Disney Company's (NYSE: DIS) President and CEO, Bob Iger, and 150 other Disney VoluntEARS, including the Company's senior management team, continued their commitment to give back to local communities and rolled up their sleeves today to build a new playground for the kids of the Boys and Girls Club of East Los Angeles. Known as the "freeway club," as it is located between two major highways, this Club ...
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USS JFK Sailors & Aviators Fight to Save Carrier from Watery Grave (Popularity: )
The tenth Commanding Officer of the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), Vice Admiral Diego E. Hernandez (ret.), is "on a mission" to save the recently decommissioned carrier as a museum and tourist attraction. "Big John" as former shipmates refer to her, is destined for mothballs in Philadelphia, or worse, may be sunk as an artificial reef, as was another carrier, the USS Oriskany, in May of 2006.
"There is a ...
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New Asia Pacific Statistics Reveal an Alarming Incidence of HIV in MSM (Popularity: )
On World AIDS Day 2007, hundreds, perhaps thousands, of men who have sex with men (MSM) will become infected with HIV in cities across the Asia Pacific, becoming the latest statistics in an almost unrecognized but ever-growing crisis that many governments in the region are only just beginning to grapple with. As these efforts take shape, the Asia Pacific Coalition on Male Sexual Health (APCOM) is offering its partnership to ...
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