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Philly cardiologist designs online heart health class for firefighters
In his 27 years as a Philadelphia firefighter, Joseph Finley has known quite a few coworkers who've had heart attacks on the job. He also knows he's not on the healthiest path. Just shy of 6 feet tall,...
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New test could help diagnose Alzheimer’s disease in live patients
The patient turned 40 over the summer and was already having symptoms that made her neurologist wonder whether she had Alzheimer's disease, the deadly, mind-killing dementia that usually attacks far...
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Hospitals gain new weapons against deadly bacteria
PHILADELPHIA - As the invisible bugs in hospitals get scarier and more prevalent, hospitals are finding new ways to clean. Doylestown Hospital on Tuesday unveiled its newest high-tech weapon, a machine...
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Nursing shortage’s impact in pediatrics: Study says NICUs need nurses
A surprising number of the nation's neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) have too few nurses, a new study by researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Medicine and...
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It’s PTSD for patients in intensive care: Postintensive care syndrome
One woman left Johns Hopkins' intensive-care unit believing her husband and nurse had been plotting to kill her. Another ICU patient had flashbacks of hospital walls covered in blood. A third had...
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Study of black men links baldness to prostate cancer
As if it weren't bad enough to lose your hair, a University of Pennsylvania researcher has added a medical reason to worry about what seems to be a cosmetic problem. She found a connection between...
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Hormone research designed to help seniors gain weight to combat frailty
PHILADELPHIA - It was 8 a.m., and 86-year-old Allan Ford had delayed his breakfast to help researchers at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania figure out whether a hormone called ghrelin can...
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Use of portable ultrasound machines to assist with IV placement growing
I learned I have "difficult" veins when I was a teenager having my wisdom teeth removed. While trying to insert an intravenous line for anesthesia, a nurse stuck my arm over and over until she found...
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Study shows U.S. cancer patients overtreated in final days
While most older people say they don't want aggressive care at the end of life, many get it anyway. Care in the last month of life for Medicare patients with advanced cancer typically is even more...
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Study finds little correlation between patient satisfaction scores, quality...
When it comes to hospitals, patients apparently don't know what's good for them. After crunching data from 4,655 hospitals, a Thomas Jefferson University health economist concluded that the best...
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