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With the help of simple techniques like breathing exercises, meditation and repeated exposure to cold you can activate the autonomic nervous system and inhibit the response of your immune system. Researchers from the Radboud university medical center have provided the first scientific evidence for this in an article published in the leading scientific journal PNAS.
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I’m speaking on behalf of Not Dead Yet, and requesting NCD’s leadership to help us address civil rights violations that people with disabilities encounter when third parties make decisions without our consent to withhold medical treatment that we need to survive. These decisions are often made with the involvement and approval of hospital ethics consultants and ethics committees.
In fact, this week, Not Dead Yet is joining the Autistic Self Advocacy Network in a friend of the court brief in a Wisconsin case in which a 13-year-old boy with intellectual disabilities was denied routine care for treatable pneumonia and died when his parents followed the recommendations of Dr. Norman Fost after he provided an ethics consultation, recommendations that, according to the Wisconsin protection and advocacy agency, violated state law.
Researchers in Australia have 3D printed a mouthpiece designed to combat one of the most common sleeping disorders in the United States—sleep apnea.
Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) and Australian dental company Oventus have discovered a way to 3D print a mouthpiece that can prevent dangerous pauses in breath during sleep.
The scientists used a 3D scanner to create a map of the patient's mouth,according to Medical Xpress, and used the results to print titanium-built mouthpiece coated with medical-grade plastic.
The device features a duckbill that extends from the wearer's mouth like a whistle. This creates two separate airways, which allows air to avoid obstructions in the nose, back of the mouth, and tongue by traveling through the back of the wearer's throat.
Buyers of long-term-care insurance are snapping up hybrid policies, which package long-term-care coverage with other forms of insurance. These policies allow heirs of consumers who die without using their long-term-care coverage to get at least a partial refund of their premiums, and are insulated from the premium increases that have given the insurance industry a black eye in recent years. But buyers need to understand the trade-offs involved.
"There is no right or wrong answer," says Claude Thau, an insurance broker in Overland Park, Kan., who helps financial advisers with long-term-care planning for their clients. "While hybrids provide a death benefit for heirs, traditional policies provide more long-term-care insurance" for each dollar in premiums.
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ADAPT took hundreds of disability rights advocates in Washington, D.C. this week to a surprising advocacy destination today: the offices of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. ADAPT asked their help to address the “disconnect” between the disability rights community and the broader civil rights movement. We’re still awaiting the results and next steps, but among the examples of the disconnect given in ADAPT’s press release is legalization of assisted suicide:
“Progressives promote assisted suicide without recognizing a discriminatory, double standard where non-disabled people get suicide prevention and people with disabilities are provided suicide assistance.”
Although these actions are sensible, data have suggested that the issue is more complicated. Only a minority of patients treated for common conditions such as heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and pneumonia are readmitted for precisely the same problem.2 It seems that patients who leave the hospital have their physiological balance disrupted and are subsequently susceptible to a broad range of acute medical problems.
The depersonalizing and stressful hospital atmosphere that exposes patients to incessant loud noises, a lack of privacy, awakenings in the middle of the night, and examinations by strangers who fail to identify themselves may be an important contributing cause of transient vulnerability that has been characterized as “posthospital syndrome.”3 It may be meaningful that this term is similar to posttraumatic stress disorder, implying that the solution starts with ways to reduce the trauma of the hospitalization. What would it take for hospitals to become truly healing environments? Are some principles so clear that action should be taken now rather than after years of study? This Viewpoint offers suggestions for consideration.
Three-hundred and twenty. It’s estimated that is the number of deaths prevented each year as a result of the 2006 Massachusetts health care law, a Harvard School of Public Health report says.
The decrease in the state’s mortality rate is the most concrete proof that Massachusetts’ health insurance mandate is improving people’s health.
When people have health insurance, they are more likely to get preventive care, go to the doctor when they become ill, and live longer. At least that was the expectation when Massachusetts passed the health coverage law back in 2006.
Now, there’s evidence of that link, in the study out Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
It found that in the first four years of mandatory health insurance, the state’s death rate dropped 2.9 percent , as compared to similar counties outside Massachusetts that did not expand health coverage.
This is the first time I've seen a publicly available program for persons and families where wandering is a concern. $300 is relatively inexpensive considering that most approaches involve a monthly subscription. There is some potential for abuse here, though the cost would probably reduce it...
Is there a guarantee that a person wearing a Project Lifesaver transmitter will be located?
Client searches involve different variables and incidents are unpredictable. In over 1,750 searches nationally, Project Lifesaver agencies have achieved a 100% success rate. The Sheriff’s Office feels Project Lifesaver equipment and established procedures increases the likelihood of “Bringing Your Loved Ones Home” safely.
| Location | Marketplace Type | Number of Marketplace Enrollees Eligible for Financial Assistance, as of April 19, 2014 | Estimated Total Number of Potential Marketplace Enrollees Eligible for Financial Assistance | Subsidized Enrollees as a Percentage of Subsidy-Eligible Individuals |
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| Michigan | Partnership | 237,337 | 436,000 | 54% |