| Older adults in high-quality nursing homes have lower risks for placement in long-term care facilities |
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April 23, 2018 |
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The latest nursing news from News Medical |
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| |  | | |  A study looking at the personal perceptions and experiences of patients, families and healthcare professionals, has highlighted the need for improvement in symptom management in end of life care. | | | | |  It's been almost 30 years since Salt-N-Pepa implored Americans to set their puritanical misgivings aside and talk about sex, and yet we still struggle with the subject; that fact is abundantly clear when you consider national HPV vaccination rates. | | | | |  At just 18 years old, Megan Gagliardi was told she might die from a rare genetic heart condition. Now, thanks in part to UAB Medicine's Comprehensive Transplant Institute (CTI), she is celebrating her recent engagement and an important six-year anniversary -; all as the University of Alabama at Birmingham celebrates 50 years of transplant success. | | | | |  Endovascular thrombectomy is a surgical procedure involving the removal of a clot from a blood vessel. Surgeons use a catheter device, and is intended to restore the normal blood flow. | | | | |  Physiotherapy (PT) helps to treat injuries, ailments or deformities by employing various methods such as massage, heat therapy, exercises, electrotherapy, patient education, and advice. | |
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