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Sunday, February 17, 2013

New SARS-like virus infects British patient in 10th case globally | Essentials

New SARS-like virus infects British patient in 10th case globally

The All-New Range Rover | Revealed in Riyadh, KSA
The All-New Range Rover | Revealed in Riyadh, KSA by landrovermena
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Excerpt:

A new virus from the same family as SARS that sparked a global alert last September has been found in a further patient in Britain, health officials said on Monday. This latest case of infection with the new virus known as a coronavirus brings the total number of confirmed cases globally to 10, of which five have died. The British patient, who had recently traveled to the Middle East and Pakistan, is receiving intensive care treatment in hospital in Manchester, northern England. The new virus shares some of the symptoms of SARS, or Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome - a coronavirus which emerged in China in 2002 and killed about a tenth of the 8,000 people it infected worldwide. The symptoms include severe respiratory illness, fever, coughing and breathing difficulties.

New SARS-like virus infects British patient in 10th case globally

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Region: northern England

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Region: Middle East

Overall Sentiment: -0.0793566

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Organization: HPA

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Organization: World Health Organisation

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Organization: Health Protection Agency

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Organization: WHO

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Thursday, February 7, 2013

When The Doctor Works For The Insurance Company | Reduction

When The Doctor Works For The Insurance Company

Senate Passes Insurance Industry Aid Bill
Senate Passes Insurance Industry Aid Bill by Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License
Excerpt:

Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. Some insurance companies are taking a page out of their own history books: running their own doctors' offices and clinics. Though the strategy previously had mixed results, insurers think that by providing primary care for patients, they might reduce costly diseases and hospital stays in the long run. Dr. Michael Byrne spent eight years working for a Brooklyn hospital and he saw firsthand why the United States spends more on healthcare than any other country in the world. "I would regularly see patients who were admitted to the hospital, I took care of, who got better and we'd discharge with plan of care," he said. "And they'd come back either to the E.R. sick or to the floor.

People:

Dr. Michael Byrne

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Relevance: 0.757699

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0.112435"I would regularly see patients who were admitted to the hospital, I took care of, who got better and we'd discharge with plan of care," he said. ...
-0.210775"I would regularly see patients who were admitted to the hospital, I took care of, who got better and we'd discharge with plan of care," he said. "And they'd come back either to the E.R. sick or to the floor. It's a common occurrence."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
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  • Mean: -0.04917
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Anthony Schlaff

Overall Sentiment: 0.214444

Relevance: 0.573443

SentimentQuote
0"Where it doesn't work is where there aren't protections against skimping on care," he said.
-0.0100964"Where it doesn't work is where there aren't protections against skimping on care," he said. "If the insurer and the provider are one and the same organization, then how does the public know that the company isn't staying in business by collecting money and then not giving the care it should be giving?"
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.0100964
  • Mean: -0.0050482
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

David Benavides

Overall Sentiment: 0.0926712

Relevance: 0.441678

SentimentQuote
0"Actually, I go once a month," he said. ...
0.107899"Actually, I go once a month," he said. "And I feel better and better, like I got the power to do what I want to do."
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  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.107899
  • Mean: 0.0539495
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  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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Country: United States

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FieldTerminology: health insurance companies

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HealthCondition: diabetes

Overall Sentiment: 0.269455

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Company: CareMore

Overall Sentiment: 0.509411

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Company: WellPoint

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Organization: Medicare

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Organization: Tufts University

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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Vt. Mom Begs FDA: Save My Other Son | Essentials

Vt. Mom Begs FDA: Save My Other Son

Rare Diseases Take Spotlight in Annual Event
Rare Diseases Take Spotlight in Annual Event by The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
License (according to Flickr): United States Government Work
Excerpt:

Both her boys have Duchenne muscular dystrophy, but only her 10-year-old Max has access to a wonder drug that appears to be reversing the symptoms of this deadly disease. His 13-year-old brother Austin is languishing in a wheelchair while Max has been able to take the drug eteplirsen through a highly successful clinical trial. After 60 weeks on an IV infusion, Max was able to participate in a three-mile Halloween walk. "It's the first time ever -- he's never been able to walk that far. He's always gone with a wheelchair, even as a toddler," said McNary, 32. "He actually doesn't look like a Duchenne kid at all. And his balance is great." "People all over the world are calling it a miracle," she said of the drug.

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Austin

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0"My brother says he's doing it for me, that he's trying really hard," Austin told ...
-0.028516"My brother says he's doing it for me, that he's trying really hard," Austin told ABCNews.com in August. "That's why he wanted to do it."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.028516
  • Mean: -0.014258
  • Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Max

Overall Sentiment: 0.146993

Relevance: 0.60938

McNary

Overall Sentiment: 0.114472

Relevance: 0.567088

SentimentQuote
0"It's the first time ever -- he's never been able to walk that far. He's always gone with a wheelchair, even as a toddler," said McNary, ...
0.120372"It's the first time ever -- he's never been able to walk that far. He's always gone with a wheelchair, even as a toddler," said McNary, 32. "He actually doesn't look like a Duchenne kid at all. And his balance is great."
0"This has been a bitter-sweet journey for us," McNary wrote ...
0.0488875"This has been a bitter-sweet journey for us," McNary wrote in a letter to the FDA this week. "As we watch Max get better, we also watch his older brother, Austin, 13, get worse. He suffers, silently, as his disease progresses."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 4
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.1692595
  • Mean: 0.042314875
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Cure Duchenne

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Craig

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Leclair

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Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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HealthCondition: muscular dystrophy

Overall Sentiment: 0.0300408

Relevance: 0.593536

Organization: Food and Drug Administration

Overall Sentiment: 0.391463

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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

87-year-old doctor charges $5 per visit | Redux

87-year-old doctor charges $5 per visit

The drips
The drips by Ano Lobb. @healthyrx
License (according to Flickr): Attribution License
Excerpt:

Patients line up early outside his office just off the town square, waiting quietly for the doctor to arrive, as he has done for nearly 60 years. Dr. Russell Dohner is, after all, a man of routine, a steady force to be counted on in uncertain times. "I always just wanted to be a doctor to help people with their medical problems and that's all it's for. It was never intended to make a lot of money."- Dr. Russell Dohner Wearing the fedora that has become his trademark, he walks in just before 10 a.m., after rising early to make rounds at the local hospital. There are no appointments. He takes his patients in the order they sign in -- first come, first-served. His office has no fax machines or computers. Medical records are kept on hand-written index cards, stuffed into row upon row of filing cabinets.

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Dr. Russell Dohner

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0.175746"As long as I can make it up here, I'll help if I can," says Dohner, ...
Sentiment Stats:
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  • Mean: 0.175746
  • Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Sick babies carried down 9 flights during evacuation | Reduction

Sick babies carried down 9 flights during evacuation

A perfect storm...
A perfect storm... by Gemma Stiles
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(CNN) -- At times with only flashlights to illuminate the way, NYU Langone Medical Center was evacuating some 260 patients, carrying some of them down 15 flights of stairs to awaiting ambulances ready to take them to the safety of other hospitals. NYU didn't anticipate such heavy flooding from Sandy, the superstorm that hit Monday, and chose not to evacuate all its patients before the storm, as they did with Hurricane Irene a year ago. But between 7 and 7:45 p.m. Monday, the hospital's basement, lower floors, and elevator shafts filled with 10 to 12 feet of water, and the hospital lost its power, according to Dr. Andrew Brotman, senior vice president and vice dean for clinical affairs and strategy. "Things went downhill very, very rapidly and very unexpectedly," he said.

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Dr. Andrew Brotman

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-0.261831"This is a labor intensive, extremely difficult process," Brotman said. ...
0"Everybody's digging in and doing what they have to do," Brotman said. ...
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: -0.261831
  • Mean: -0.1309155
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Sandy

Overall Sentiment: 0.0906276

Relevance: 0.370852

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

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City: New York

Overall Sentiment: -0.0380982

Relevance: 0.372411

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NaturalDisaster: Hurricane Irene

Overall Sentiment: 0.0244521

Relevance: 0.324981

Company: CNN

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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Mich. man hospitalized with meningitis that killed wife | Synopsis

Mich. man hospitalized with meningitis that killed wife

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In this Oct. 9, 2012 file photo George Cary speaks at his Howell, Mich. , home with his daughters Heather Andrus, 33, center, of Howell, Mich. , and Jill Bloser, 43, right, of Charleston, S.C., following the death of his wife during the national meningitis outbreak. Cary received pain injections and was treated at the same clinic as his wife.  / AP DETROITA Michigan man whose wife died in a national outbreak of meningitis said Wednesday he's in a hospital being treated for the same illness, despite an initial round of tests that found he wasn't infected. George Cary, 65, said he began having severe headaches while outside the state last Friday, a symptom of meningitis. He disclosed the news in statements provided exclusively to The Associated Press. "I am feeling much better. ... I have only been on treatment for three days," said Cary, a Livingston County resident.

People:

George Cary

Overall Sentiment: -0.253107

Relevance: 0.670553

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0"I am feeling much better. ... I have only been on treatment for three days," said Cary, ...
0.130473"I am feeling much better. ... I have only been on treatment for three days," said Cary, a Livingston County resident. "The doctors will monitor liver and kidney function and how well I respond to the side effects."
Sentiment Stats:
  • Number of Quotes: 2
  • Aggregate Sentiment: 0.130473
  • Mean: 0.0652365
  • Standard Deviation: 0

Heather Andrus

Overall Sentiment: 0.0572137

Relevance: 0.15957

Jill Bloser

Overall Sentiment: 0.0368515

Relevance: 0.152375

Lilian

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.148288

Key:

  • Aggregate Sentiment is meant to be an indicator of an individual's overall sentiment.
  • The Mean is meant to be an indicator of an individual's average comment sentiment.
  • The Standard Deviation, when there are enough quotes, will indicate an individual's consistency of sentiment (i.e. a Standard Deviation of 0 would mean they were very consistent in their sentiment and 1 would mean they were very inconsistent).

Note that quote stats are likely to be meaningless beyond the aggregate score due to the tiny sample size. However, they are always provided just in case you find something useful there.

Additional Info:

HealthCondition: meningitis

Overall Sentiment: -0.400143

Relevance: 0.924323

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