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Life-Saving Heart Device Denied To Vulnerable Patients
Women who might have benefited from the use of an implantable heart monitor following a cardiac arrest were far less likely than men to have one prescribed, according to experts at the Duke University Medical Center.Researchers looked at the records of more than 236,000 Medicare patients between 1999 and 2005 and found that the vast majority of patients who appeared to be eligible for an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) didn't get one.
Human Rights For The Elderly In Care: Just Lip Service? UK
Seven years after the implementation of the UK Human Rights Act, little more than lip service is being paid to human rights of elderly people in the UK and worldwide. The issues are discussed in an Editorial in this week's edition of The Lancet.It discusses the UK parliamentary report released last week - The human rights of older people in health care - which focussed on the UK Human Rights Act 1998, which came into effect in 2000.
University Of Cincinnati Receives $9M Grant For Bipolar Disorder Research
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati (UC) have been awarded a $9 million five-year grant to find new ways to improve and personalize treatments for bipolar disorder, and to better understand how to identify this brain disorder earlier with the goal of preventing disease progression.Bipolar disorder affects close to 6 million Americans each year and is recognized as one of the leading causes of disability worldwide.