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Philips Expands Home Healthcare Commitment With Portable Life-support Ventilator
Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI) introduced the Trilogy100 portable at-home life-support ventilator. The highly versatile, lightweight (11 lb / 5 kg) device marks a milestone in home ventilation from a recognized leader in respiratory care. Respironics first introduced bi-level positive airway pressure for noninvasive ventilation nearly 20 years ago.
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Researchers Examine The Psychological Impact Of Child Abuse
According to a new Mayo Clinic study, a history of child abuse significantly impacts the wide range of challenges facing depressed inpatients. Included are an increase in suicide attempts, prevalence of substance use disorder, and a higher incidence rate of personality disorder. Additionally, these victims also had an earlier onset of mental illness and an increase in psychiatric hospitalizations for psychiatric issues. The study was presented at the American Psychiatric Association 2009 Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
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Cooling Therapy For Cardiac Arrest Survivors Is As Cost-Effective As Accepted Treatments For Other Conditions
Cooling unconscious cardiac arrest survivors can increase survival and has a cost effectiveness comparable to other widely accepted treatments in modern health care, researchers report in Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes.
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Study Suggests Smoking May Worsen MS

A new study has revealed a possible link between smoking and more rapid progression of disability in multiple sclerosis (MS). The journal Archives of Neurology yesterday reported the results of a Boston study that examined 1465 people with MS over three years. The study, carried out at the Harvard Medical School, divided participants into three groups: those who had never smoked, ex-smokers and current smokers. The results showed that people with MS who already smoked had significantly increased disability at the beginning of the study and were more likely to have primary progressive MS. Furthermore, the study found that current smokers were more than twice as likely to progress from relapsing remitting MS to secondary progressive MS in the time that the study was being conducted. MRI scans also revealed that the number of lesions increased in the group of participants that smoked compared with the non-smoking group of participants. Dr Susan Kohlhaas, Research Communications Officer at the MS Society said: "The study suggests that cigarette smoke may influence progression of MS, but other environmental factors that may be linked to MS are not considered in this study. These will need to be looked at in more detail before firm conclusions can be drawn about the role of smoking in MS." For a breakdown of study results, see Research News. Multiple Sclerosis Society


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