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...house call is making a comeback. Not a decade ago, doctor visits to the home were declared a "vanishing practice" in the New England Journal of Medicine. Now experts predict that as time-strapped baby boomers age--and their parents survive to be superelderly--the demand for doctors who are as comfortable examining patients in the bedroom as in the office will soar. Medicare data show a 37% surge to more than 2 million home visits by physicians from 1995 to 2005. That is partly because Medicare changed the rules for reimbursement in 1998, making house calls an attractive model...
Sleep disturbances are a well-known symptom of depression. But Dr. Phyllis Zee, a professor of neurology at Northwestern University who wrote the accompanying editorial in the journal, told me that the new evidence suggests that it may be the other way around: the sleep disruptions are what's causing the depression. Another theory is that during episodes of the severe disorder known as sleep apnea-when breathing briefly stops altogether-there are moments when the brain isn't getting enough oxygen, another possible risk factor for depression...
...future would we go public or become part of a larger company...but what I would say is, it’s not our priority,” the social networking website’s founder, Mark E. Zuckerberg, formerly of the Class of 2006, told the Journal...
Facebook has in the past held acquisition discussions with Microsoft and Viacom, as well as Yahoo, according to the Journal. The corporations have been attracted to the site because it provides them access to a young demographic. In fact, the site tied with beer as the second most “in” thing among college students in a recent poll conducted by Student Monitor, a New Jersey-based research firm...
...Institute has provided red-haired rodents with a way to brown. And the discovery could have major implications for the prevention of melanoma—a disease that is estimated to strike one in 75 Americans at some point in their lifetime. In a study published yesterday by the journal Nature, David E. Fisher, director of the Melanoma Program at Dana-Farber and a professor in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Boston, has found that induced tans protect at-risk mice—and, potentially, humans—from skin cancer. For the study, Fisher generated red-haired...