heart failure

Medicare Plans' Upcoding Cost Billions

...  Plans' Upcoding Cost Billions In Arizona, a health plan collected thousands of dollars from Medicare to treat congestive heart failure in a patient seen for knee pain, according to auditors. In Pennsylvania, a person treated for blurry vision was charted as having serious heart … Read more on Health News Florida Chiropractic Research in Review Objective: The purposes of this study were to evaluate patients with low back pain (LBP) and leg pain due to magnetic resonance imaging-confirmed disc herniation who are treated with high-velocity, low-amplitude spinal manipulation in terms of their … Read more ...

Heart/Stroke Association Honors UR Medicine for Highest Quality Care

...  Association Honors UR Medicine for Highest Quality Care Early treatment is proven to preserve brain function and enhance recovery for each patient,” said neurologist Curtis Benesch, M.D., M.P.H., medical director of the UR Medicine Comprehensive Stroke Center. The AHA/ASA presented its Heart Failure Gold … Read more on University of Rochester Newsroom HEALTH BRIEFS: Doctor leads health talk, walk The topic will be medication safety-drug interactions and will be presented by registered pharmacists from Franciscan St. Margaret Health hospital in Hammond. … Both sessions will be at Porter's Education & Rehabilitation Center, 1401 Calumet Ave … Read more on nwitimes.com Read ...

Across America, Attacks on Pregnant Women's Rights on the Rise

Across America, Attacks on Pregnant Women's Rights On the Rise In July 2013, Alicia Beltran was arrested, shackled and confined by court order to a drug treatment center for 78 days after she refused a doctor's orders to take an opiate blocker. Beltran had … Arrests, forced bedrest, compelled cesarean operations … Read more on San Diego Free Press Sources: FBI reviewing secret recording from Novi judge's chambers “It's the lawyer's job to represent the client,” said professor Steven Lubet, who teaches legal ethics at Northwestern University. “A judge should not be taking sides and certainly lenient treatment in a sentence should not be dependent on giving up a … Read more on Detroit Free Press Read more... ...

Cardiac Rehabilitation Your Journey Back to Heart Health With Health Specialist Marilyn Mitzel

...  Rehabilitation Your Journey Back to Heart Health With Health Specialist Marilyn Mitzel – We all know about physical rehab, but there is another form of rehab few of us know much about. It’s Cardiac Rehab. The goal is to rehabilitate the heart aft…   Shannon Wins National Award for Cardiac Care Before patients are discharged, they also receive education on managing their heart failure and overall health, as well as referrals for cardiac rehabilitation. Shannon began entering data for GWTG in 2009 and continues to participate in the program … Read more on San Angelo LIVE! Read ...

Fibromyalgia Sufferer Takes on Her Chronic Pain by Training to Swim the

Fibromyalgia sufferer takes on her chronic pain by training to swim the … Pumphrey, a 26-year-old swim coach and painter who has been in chronic pain for nearly two decades, had discovered along the way that intense, exhausting exercise brought some relief from the strange symptoms of her fibromyalgia, a controversial … Read more on Washington Post Rob Horowitz: National Attention to Obesity Starting to Pay Off … stroke, hypertension, arthritis and cancer, among other maladies. As the report asserts, “More than 75 percent of hypertension cases can be attributed to obesity. And approximately one-third of cancer deaths are linked to obesity or lack of … Read more on GoLocalProv Read more... ...

Sedentary Behavior and Low Physical Activity Linked to Heart Failure in Men

...  Behavior and Low Physical Activity Linked to Heart Failure in Men PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — Men who reported being sedentary, with low levels of physical activity, were at a significantly higher risk for heart failure than those who were more active, according to a Kaiser Permanente study … Read more on DigitalJournal.com NBC Debuts Creepy New 'Hannibal' Season 2 Trailer Robert Ironside (Blair Underwood, “The Event,” “In Treatment”). He's a fearless cop who won't stop …. Then there's Joyce Fisher (Parker Posey, “Louie,” “For Your Consideration”), possibly the only mom in Pasadena to smoke a pipe. For her, divorce is … Read more on ...

A Good Pain Management Doctor in Phoenix, AZ?

Question by jewelsfn: A good pain management doctor in Phoenix, AZ? I’m looking for a good pain management doctor in Phoenix, AZ. He/she needs to be the type who believes in giving prescriptions for narcotic pain med’s. Reason being, what is wrong with my spine cannot be corrected or fixed. I’ve done the physical therapy route, the epidural, etc. and nothing helps. I’ve already had 2 spine surgery’s and one reconstructive surgery. The reconstructive wasn’t to help with my pain but just to put me back together again after my first surgeon massively made mistakes and left me with a bunch of missing bone, etc.. I also have a lot of scar tissue impinging on nerve roots and Fibromyalgia to top things off. I take Oxycontin for pain. My current doctor isn’t really up to date with today’s technology and also is very negligent with my care. I see him every month and the actual appt. lasts only long enough for him to write out a new prescription. I ...