How Cardiac Rehabilitation Changed One Man's Life
After several weeks of recovery, Vakil was referred to Northwestern's Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute Cardiac Rehabilitation program, a supervised program of exercise and education for cardiovascular patients. Exercise is done under the direct guidance …
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Making hearts healthier: SWMC rehab program helps cardiac patients achieve …
Beth rickers/Daily Globe Steve Zandstra, a graduate of Sanford Worthington Medical Center's cardiac rehabilitation program, demonstrates one of the pieces of exercise equipment used in the program. Cardian rehab. image. Cardian rehab. Rehab. image …
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LRMC offers new cardiac rehab program
LEESBURG — Leesburg Regional Medical Center has a new option for people with heart conditions not covered by Medicare or insurance — a self-pay cardiac-rehab program. Called Preventx, the program will help patients with heart issues participate in …
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Dr. David Tuckman, Hand Surgery, is named a Top Doctor: New York Metro Area.
Selected physicians, including Dr. Tuckman, represent the top 10% of doctors in the area in 65 medical specialties and subspecialties for the care and treatment of more than 1,800 diseases and medical conditions. Castle Connolly Top Doctors® are …
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Dr. Robert Gluck M.D., Director, Hand Center Long Island NY, Hand Surgery, is …
Dr. Robert Gluck M.D ., Director, Hand Center Long Island NY, a Board Certified New York, NY physician specializing in Hand Surgery, has been selected by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. for inclusion in its authoritative guide to the top primary care and …
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Dr. Jed C. Kaminetsky, Urology, is named a Top Doctor: New York Metro Area
Selected physicians, including Dr. Kaminetsky, represent the top 10% of doctors in the area in 65 medical specialties and subspecialties for the care and treatment of more than 1,800 diseases and medical conditions. Castle Connolly Top … Dr. Jed …
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Native American values inform substance abuse treatment
SAN FRANCISCO – The foundational beliefs of American Indian and Alaska Native communities play a key role in innovative substance abuse treatment programs, research has shown. That's a novel finding that could challenge conventional notions of …
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Federal grant increases substance abuse treatment access
One local organization, Substance Abuse Services Center (SASC), of Dubuque and Manchester, has begun enrolling clients in a new distance treatment program funded through the grant. Deb Prier, SASC's treatment supervisor, said the grant has already …
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Family Video Counseling Aids in Substance Abuse Treatment
"Based on the encouraging results and positive feedback from families who participate in video counseling sessions, we plan to roll out Family Video Counseling to other Gateway Foundation residential substance abuse treatment centers this year," says Dr.
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County hopes to reopen drug, alcohol treatment program to court-ordered patients
They said we need to stop taking involuntaries," said Kim Phillips, director of the Substance Abuse Services Center — known to many simply as detox. Involuntaries are those people — about 150 a year — ordered by a judge to get substance abuse treatment.
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Family Video Counseling Aids in Substance Abuse Treatment
CHICAGO, Jan. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — When the best substance abuse treatment for a person's drug abuse or drug addiction isn't close to home, it makes it difficult for family members to participate in the treatment of a loved one …
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How to Choose a Drug Rehab Treatment Center
While most drug addicts are reluctant to seek treatment for their addiction and break free from it, there are some who wish to come back to the normal life but are unable to…simply because overcoming drug addiction is extremely difficult. However …
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Inmates to get addiction treatment
Thomas Stuber, chief operating officer of the drug abuse service, said the two agencies have already been working together to provide some counseling to the inmates, but Stuber said that when inmates are released, they often do not attend recommended …
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Bestselling Book on Addiction Free for Five Days
Authors Richard Taite and Constance Scharff , PhD can personally attest to the power of the recovery treatment in Ending Addiction for Good. Taite, a native Californian and UCLA graduate, is the CEO of Cliffside Malibu Treatment Center. He writes, "I …
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Drug therapy for drug addiction?
Tim Hartnett, the executive director of the oldest methadone clinic in Multnomah County, believes we are on the cusp of a new age of recovery treatment that will increasingly rely on medications to help people deal with their addictions and stabilize …
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Texas' largest addiction–treatment nonprofits merge
The Council on Alcohol and Drugs Houston, the largest nonprofit provider of outpatient drug and alcohol addiction treatment services in Texas, has merged with Austin Recovery. The Austin entity is the largest nonprofit provider of residential drug and …
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Drug Is Shown to Help Pancreatic Cancer Cases
Celgene's drug Abraxane prolonged the lives of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer by almost two months in a clinical trial, researchers reported Tuesday, signifying an advance in treating a notoriously difficult disease but not as big a leap as …
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OK: Pregnant Woman Seeks Medical Treatment, Is Jailed Instead, Dies
PAULS VALLEY, OK — A pregnant Oklahoma woman who went to a hospital seeking treatment for extreme pain was instead jailed after police found pain pills on her and died in jail shortly thereafter. Jamie Lynn Russell. According to KFOR-TV News …
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Novartis drug Exjade® first treatment approved by FDA for chronic iron …
EAST HANOVER, N.J., January 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Novartis announced today that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Exjade® (deferasirox) for the treatment of chronic iron overload in patients 10 years of age and older with …
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