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ATLANTA, March 19 /PRNewswire/ -- The Arthritis Foundation supports the efforts of Congress to enact meaningful health care reform to address the health care needs of the 46 million men, women and children with arthritis. After listening to thousands of people with arthritis, the Arthritis Foundation released a set of health care reform principles that have been delivered to Congress and the administration to consider during health care reform deliberations. These principles support legislation that:
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CINCINNATI, Aug. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Healthy Advice(R) Networks, the nation's leading provider of award-winning patient and physician engagement programs at point-of-care, announces that their partner, MediaForce PR, has been awarded a contract to promote the Food and Drug Administration's campaign, educating consumers about the dangers of prescription misuse including pain relievers. Partnering with MediaForce PR, Healthy Advice Networks will deliver public service announcements for the government and non-profit organizations through their Waiting Room Networks. MediaForce PR has formed a relationship with Healthy Advice Networks on behalf of the government for their superior reputation, extensive reach, and stellar success impacting patient outcomes by delivering actionable inform...
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A St. Louis city man received a $150,000 settlement in a medical malpractice case after more than a dozen St. Louis-area attorneys turned down the case. Carl Sutton visited his doctor for arthritis pain in July 2007 at the Family Care Health Center in St. Louis. The doctor prescribed 20 mg three times a day of the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug Piroxicam. The recommended dosage is 20 mg once a day.
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Getting a new knee because the original has worn out and may have become painfully arthritic is an increasingly common surgery in America. First-time knee replacement surgeries rose 63 percent between 1997 and 2004, according to a 2008 paper in Arthritis Care and Research. If that clip keeps up, some 1.4 million surgeries will be performed in 2015, researchers estimated. Findings coming out of the 2010 American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons annual meeting in March are shedding helpful light on knee replacements, including how active one can be with an artificial knee, how young or how old one should be to undergo the surgery, and the varying benefits to be gained.
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The addition will be constructed on the southwest side of the hospital, which is located at 4815 N. Assembly, and will double the size of the hospital's pharmacy to 6,000 square feet and allow the hospital to centralize its specialty care services, including traumatic brain injury and spinal cord injury care, arthritis care, podiatry, and dermatology.
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The Arthritis Foundation has named Stephen C. Reynolds, president and CEO of Baptist Health Care, as the general event chairman of the 2011 Memphis Arthritis Walk. As event chairman, Reynolds will provide leadership for the Arthritis Foundation's annual Arthritis Walk in Memphis, slated for June 4 at Shelby Farms. A long-time friend of the Arthritis Foundation, Reynolds was asked to lead the Arthritis Walk because of his dedication to the city of Memphis, his leadership skills and passion for helping people with arthritis.
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ELLSWORTH, Maine -- Several dozen people gathered at Maine Coast Memorial Hospital on Wednesday morning for a ceremonial groundbreaking for an expanded cancer treatment center catering especially to residents of Down East Maine. Staff at Maine Coast Memorial have operated the Mary Dow Center for Cancer Care since 1997, serving thousands of patients battling not only cancer but also rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and other disorders. Last year's construction of a new emergency department at the hospital opened up additional space for the cancer center.
