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Archive for October 4th 2011

Cigarettes Linked to Half of Bladder Cancers in Women Cont.

Hepatocellular Cancer Screening Gives Quicker Diagnosis in Cirrhotic Patients According to a study of cirrhotic patients at the Michael DeBakey VA Medical Center in Houston, those who were screened for hepatocellular cancer had their cancer discov...

Cigarettes Linked to Half of Bladder Cancers in Women

Half of bladder cancer seen in women can be linked to cigarette smoking, a National Cancer Institute study reports.

Speech Pathologist Helps Impaired Veterans Regain Language Skills Cont.

A Home for Aphasia Victims The solution, Doyle believes, is the PIRATE program, which began in January 2009. A brand new residential housing development had just opened at the Pittsburgh VA — individual townhomes in a residential setting. Those un...

Speech Pathologist Helps Impaired Veterans Regain Language Skills

WASHINGTON — Patrick Doyle, PhD, has spent the last 31 years — the sum of his career as a communication disorder specialist — working with veterans struggling with aphasia. Aphasia is an acquired communication disorder typically caused by stroke, and is more common than Parkinson’s disease, cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy, affecting approximately one million Americans.

Resilience Programs Have Mushroomed in Military, But Do They Work? Cont.

Durgin said the need for more rigorous program evaluation is an issue that DCoE had also recognized. “There are multiple resilience programs, and they are very well intentioned, and some are anecdotally believed to be great programs, but the issue...

Resilience Programs Have Mushroomed in Military, But Do They Work?

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military has implemented programs and strategies to promote psychological resilience among troops as stress from the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan has taken a toll.

New Hospital Incorporates Livable Features Proven to Speed Recovery Cont.

“Hospital-based infections are something that healthcare systems all across the country deal with and something we are very focused on at Fort Belvoir Community Hospital,” said Repeta. “So the idea of hand-washing is the best way that we know to p...

New Hospital Incorporates Livable Features Proven to Speed Recovery

Fort Belvoir, VA - The new 120-bed Fort Belvoir Community Hospital (FBCH) is far from the typical hospital with institutional green cinderblock walls lining dark hallways.

Just the Beginning: Genomics Research Now Used to Identify, Treat Diseases Cont.

Electronic Health Records and Genomics The question is whether information gathered so far can be of direct use to physicians in treating patients? NHGRI’s Electronic Medical Records and Genomics (eMERGE) network will receive $25 million over the ...

Just the Beginning: Genomics Research Now Used to Identify, Treat Diseases

BETHESDA, MD — A wave of genetic research projects sparked by last decade’s completion of the Human Genome Project are slowly making their way to fruition. Researchers, many of whom are based at NIH, are busy teasing apart the genetic mechanisms that contribute to disease, as well as finding ways to give physicians the ability to use genomic data to directly treat patients.

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