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...latest phase of the program focuses on telemedicine. In the past year, the health-care service has piloted two home-monitoring programs for patients with diabetes and those on blood-thinning medication - groups at high risk of emergency hospitalization. At Frederiksberg Hospital, Dr. Phanareth is running a ground-breaking study to test whether patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - responsible for 10% of all hospital admissions in Denmark - can be treated at home using telemedicine technology. "Sometimes, a lack of resistance is all you need for change to happen," Phanareth says...
...family found an apartment at the Bronxdale Houses, a city-owned development built to provide affordable housing to working-class families. Her father died when Sotomayor was just 9 - one year after she was given a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes, which still requires her to monitor her blood sugar and inject herself regularly with insulin. After that, her mother Celina raised Sotomayor and her younger brother Juan on a nurse's salary but still managed to send them to Catholic schools that prepared them for bigger things. Today Juan is a doctor. His sister, who spent...
...your Sherpa make it home safely? My friend [and Sherpa] Tundu was with me. When we got above 25,000 ft., he started coughing up a lot of blood and he couldn't talk, so I paid for him to go on a helicopter to Kathmandu to see a specialist. When I get home, I'll e-mail him to see what happened...
Researchers recorded players' height, weight, blood pressure, total cholesterol and self-reported health histories, and compared that data to an age- and race-matched sample from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults study, a population-based study of more than 1,900 healthy men aged 23 to 35. Despite being nearly four inches taller and more than 60 pounds heavier on average than their nonplaying peers, NFL athletes had similar blood levels of cholesterol and triglyceride, and lower fasting-glucose levels (high fasting glucose is a common marker for diabetes). What's more, when examined by race, black...
...study did, however, raise one point of concern: compared with men in the general population, NFL players had higher rates of hypertension, a key risk factor for heart disease and stroke. That's no surprise; the bigger you are, the more likely your blood pressure will nudge higher, say researchers. But Tucker says the findings "really open our eyes to how important it is to monitor blood pressure," along with other factors that may contribute to cardiovascular health such as strength and resistance training, the use of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and salt intake. Going forward, says Tucker, those behaviors...