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Recovering With Four-Legged Friends Requires Less Pain Medication

Adults who use pet therapy while recovering from total joint-replacement surgery require 50 percent less pain medication than those who do not. These findings were presented at the 18th Annual Conference of the International Society of Anthrozoology and the First Human Animal Interaction Conference (HAI) in Kansas City, Mo.

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Heart Failure: One In Four Hospitalized Patients With Medicare Back In Hospital Within A Month

Almost a quarter of heart failure patients with Medicare are back in the hospital within a month after discharge, researchers report in Circulation: Heart Failure, a journal of the American Heart Association. Each year, from 2004 through 2006, more than a half million Medicare recipients over age 65 went to the hospital for heart failure and were discharged alive.

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Recovery In Four Out Of Ten Back Pain Sufferers Within A Year

Research published on bmj.com today reports that over a third (35 percent) of patients will recover from chronic low back pain within nine months and four out of 10 (41 percent) will do so within a year. This groundbreaking study reveals findings that are contrary to the broad theory that recovery from an episode of chronic low back pain is doubtful. Dr Luciola Menezes Costa, from the University of Sydney is the lead author.

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Four Out Of 10 Back Pain Sufferers Will Recover Within A Year

Over a third (35%) of patients will recover from chronic low back pain within nine months and four out of 10 (41%) will do so within a year, according to research published on BMJ.com. This is the first study of its kind and the results go against the common view that recovery from an episode of chronic low back pain is unlikely.

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MAP Pharmaceuticals Phase 3 Trial Of Levadex? Migraine Product Candidate Meets All Four Primary Endpoints

MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAPP) announced that the efficacy portion of its first Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating its novel LEVADEX? orally inhaled migraine therapy met all four primary endpoints. Additional endpoints showed that LEVADEX provided rapid and sustained pain relief for up to 48 hours after dosing.

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MAP Pharmaceuticals Phase 3 Trial Of LEVADEX(TM) Migraine Product Candidate Meets All Four Primary Endpoints

MAP Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: MAPP) announced that the efficacy portion of its first Phase 3 clinical trial evaluating its novel LEVADEX(TM) orally inhaled migraine therapy met all four primary endpoints. Additional endpoints showed that LEVADEX provided rapid and sustained pain relief for up to 48 hours after dosing.

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Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report Examines State Budget Developments In Four States

Summaries of recent news about the state budgets in Kansas, New York, Texas and Washington appear below.Kansas: State lawmakers on Tuesday approved a $13 billion state budget that includes $1.2 million in new spending to extend coverage under the state’s

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A review of similarities between domain-specific determinants of four health behaviors among adolescents

Schools are overloaded with health promotion programs that, altogether, focus on a broad array of behavioral domains, including substance abuse, sexuality and nutrition. Although the specific content of programs varies according to the domain focus, programs usually address similar concepts: knowledge, attitudinal beliefs, social influences and skills. This apparent conceptual overlap between behaviors and programs provides opportunities for a transfer-oriented approach which will stimulate students to apply the knowledge and skills they have learned in one domain (e.g. skills for resisting tobacco use) to other domains (e.g. alcohol, sex). A requirement for such an approach is that behaviors share at least some determinants. This review addresses this issue by examining similarities between domain-specific determinants of smoking, drinking, safe sex and healthy nutrition among adolescents. Recent empirical studies and reviews were examined. The results show that the following determinants are relevant to all four behaviors: beliefs about immediate gratification and social advantages, peer norms, peer and parental modeling and refusal self-efficacy. Several other determinants have been found to relate to at least two behaviors, e.g. health risk beliefs and parental norms. These results can be used for the development of a transfer-oriented school health promotion curriculum.

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Four tough guys for Championship Sunday – FOXSports.com


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Four tough guys for Championship Sunday
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Upon leaving surgery Boldin refused post-op analgesics, declaring simply, "I don't do pain meds." Upon seeing replays of the hit and learning of the

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