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Rosenthal said that hospital workers, individuals with chronic diseases, the elderly and students living in dormitories all qualify as high risk and will be able to receive the inoculation...
...society are up to the challenge. "Our health-care system is currently set up to deliver care for acute disease," says Ann Albright, chief of the California Diabetes Prevention and Control Program. "It's get in, get your shot, and away you go." Diabetes, however, is a chronic disorder that demands constant attention. You have to change your eating habits and incorporate physical exercise into each day's activities. You need to monitor your glucose levels several times a day to see how well you're doing. These prevention measures pay off in the long run in fewer heart attacks...
Every year about 60,000 babies are born in the U.S. weighing less than 3.3 lbs. and at risk of chronic lung disease. University of Chicago researchers reported last week that the outlook for such neonates could be improved with low doses of nitric oxide. In a study of 207 preemies, doctors gave half the group nitric oxide with their oxygen; the other half got the standard stuff. While 85% survived in the nitric oxide group, only 78% of the controls did. Of the nitric oxide infants, 61% were free of lung disease; that was true...
...study, published last week in the New England Journal of Medicine, “compared utilization and spending patterns for three classes of drugs that are used to treat chronic illnesses,” said Richard Frank, Morris professor of health economics at HMS and one of the researchers involved in the study...
Harvard students who are covered by their parents’ insurance plans and who suffer from chronic illnesses like depression may face similar problems with the costs of their medications, Frank said...