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CBO: Health Reform Bills Bend Cost Curve In Wrong Direction
"Congress"s chief budget analyst delivered a devastating assessment yesterday of the health-care proposals drafted by congressional Democrats, fueling an insurrection among fiscal conservatives in the House and pushing negotiators in the Senate to redouble efforts to draw up a new plan that more effectively restrains federal spending," the Washington Post reports.
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North Carolina Residents Should Urge Lawmakers To Continue Funding HIV Program, Opinion Piece Says
The North Carolina legislature has proposed to eliminate the HIV Medicaid Case Management program, which "provides crucial support to people living with HIV, helping them access medical care, medications and the support services needed to live healthier lives," Jacquelyn Clymore of the Alliance of AIDS Services-Carolina and Beth Stringfield, member of the North Carolina AIDS Action Network, write in a Durham News opinion piece, adding, "We need to call legislators and let them know how important this program is to those living with HIV and ask them to return the program and its funding to the budget." They continue, "It is likely that additional budget cuts to HIV programs will be proposed, and we must speak out in support of state HIV prevention funding" (Clymore/Stringfield, Durham News, 6/13).
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'Life Force' Linked To Body's Ability To Withstand Stress
Our ability to withstand stress-related, inflammatory diseases may be associated, not just with our race and sex, but with our personality as well, according to a study published in the July issue of the journal Brain, Behavior and Immunity. Especially in aging women, low levels of the personality trait extraversion may signal that blood levels of a key inflammatory molecule have crossed over a threshold linked to a doubling of risk of death within five years.
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Fasting During Ramadan Is Safe For Stroke Patients

Physiological and biochemical changes that occur during fasting in Ramadan are not a risk factor for stroke and do not affect the short-term survival of patients. This is the result of a study by a team of researchers from the Isfahan University of Medical Sicences (Iran). The data are being presented at the annual meeting of the European Neurological Society in Milan (Italy). The research team surveyed more than 3.000 stroke patients between the years 2000 to 2006, during, a month before and a month after Ramadan. "There were no statistical differences between the three months for the sex ratio, the mean age of patients, stroke type and stroke occurrence", the experts report. "The case fatality rates before, during and after Ramadan were 25,3%, 24% and 26,1% respectively. The mean survival of stroke patients was not different statistically between Ramadan or the months before or after that." Fasting during Ramadan, the ninth month of the Islamic lunar calendar is a religious duty for healthy Muslim adults. During the fasting month believers are required to refrain from taking any food, beverages or oral drugs between dawn and sunset. Other religions also have their specific fasting regulations. Abstract: ENS abstract P486: Maghzi et al, Does Ramadan fasting influence the incidence and short-term survival of stroke? European Neurological Society


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