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09/11/2018
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By Rhonda Johansson
Music found to improve surgery outcomes: Patients offered music during surgeries experienced reduced pain and anxiety
Urological surgeon consultant Bhaskar Somani says that offering music to patients during minor surgeries can significantly reduce pain and anxiety. Mr. Somani, a leading surgeon at the University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, came to this conclusion after reviewing data on 1,900 patients across 15 international studies. These patients had had various outpatient procedures. In […]
08/05/2018
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By Edsel Cook
CDC: Rising rates of suicide becoming a “national problem”
A federal agency warned that suicide is becoming a national problem. In an article in The Washington Post, the rate of suicide has been rising steadily in almost all U.S. states since 1996. The increases applied to all ages, ethnicities, genders, and races. To make matters worse, more than half of the people who took […]
11/24/2017
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By Lance D Johnson
Dangerous medicine: America’s opioid epidemic isn’t the only prescription drug-based crisis killing hundreds of thousands
By now, you may have heard that the U.S. is experiencing an opioid epidemic. The number of Americans who overdose on opioids has quadrupled since 1999. More than 500,000 people have died from opioid overdoses from 2010 to 2015. President Donald Trump declared the opioid crisis a national public health emergency in 2017 as CDC numbers reveal […]
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