09.10.14 : Medical news of the day... The rates of endovascular coiling for unruptured aneurysms among Medicare beneficiaries ranged from a low of 35.0% in Modesto, Calif., to a high of 98.6% in Tacoma, Wash, Kimon Bekelis, MD, of Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, N.H.,and colleagues found. For ruptured aneurysms, similar variation in the rate of coiling was seen– ranging from 36.3% in Atlanta to 98.8% in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., according to the Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care report. A novel, comprehensive lifestyle intervention has shown promise in reversing memory loss related to Alzheimers disease (AD), preliminary research suggests. Through this lifestyle intervention, it appears we can correct this network imbalance by tweaking it at multiple sites,” said Dr Bredesen in the journal Aging. Medicare in US is fining a record number of hospitals – 2,610 – for having too many patients return within a month for additional treatments, federal records released Wednesday show. Last year, nearly 18 percent of Medicare patients who had been hospitalized were readmitted within a month. Roughly 2 million patients return a year, costing Medicare $26 billion. Officials estimate $17 billion of that comes from potentially avoidable readmissions. High readmission rate can be indicator of poor quality care. Long–acting insulin analogs provide better glycemic control than intermediate–acting insulin and are less likely to cause either weight gain or severe hypoglycemia in patients with type 1 diabetes, suggests a new network meta-analysis published online October 1 in the BMJ. A new study published in the journal Dermatology and Therapy suggests that a compound derived from red grapes and found in red wine–resveratrol – may be an effective treatment for acne, particularly when combined with an already existing medication for the disorder.
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