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Nearly Half Of Rheumatoid Arthritis Sufferers Feel Early Treatment Would Have Given Them More Independence
A UK survey of 575 rheumatoid arthritis sufferers highlights the importance of maintaining independence and the significant impact that early diagnosis and treatment can have. Over 94% of those surveyed claimed that their independence was compromised in some way, with over 60% saying it was compromised significantly. With earlier treatment of their disease, nearly half of the respondents felt that they would have been more independent today, making it vital that people are aware of the significance of early intervention.
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Diet To Reduce Mild Hyperoxaluria In Patients With Idiopathic Calcium Oxalate Stone Formation: A Pilot Study
UroToday.com - You pass what you eat! If you eat wisely, passage shouldn"t be painful. This may be especially true for stone formers. To be sure, high fluid intake resulting in a urine output of > 2 liters per day is key; however, what is eaten also plays a role. In this study among 56 hyperoxaluric patients on a low oxalate diet, the institution of a low salt (4-5 grams/day), low animal protein (approximately 20 grams per day vs. a norm of 50 grams per day), and normal calcium diet over a 3 month period, resulted in a statistically significant drop in 24 hour urine calcium (364 to 263 mg/d) and oxalate (50 to 35 mg/d).
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Health Reform Legislation Will Impact Preventive And Wellness Programs
Reuters reports: "Efforts to overhaul the U.S. healthcare system and expand coverage to millions of uninsured could lead some wellness programs to expand and others to constrict, experts say.... In all of the bills in Congress, insurers would be required to cover some preventive services, and all of the bills include prevention and wellness incentives. That could alter what care and coverage are included in wellness programs, such as nutritional counseling or similar programs. ... One incentive under consideration would give tax credits to companies for wellness programs, said Maya Rockeymoore, head of Washington, D.C.-based Global Policy Solutions consultants."
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6 'Major Health Agencies' Form Alliance To Address Chronic Diseases In Developing Countries

A group of "major health agencies" from Australia, Canada, China, the U.K. and the U.S., which "together control 80 percent of the world"s public health-research funding," have joined together to form the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD) to combat chronic diseases in developing countries, Time reports (Walsh, Time, 6/16). GACD "will focus on the world"s most fatal non-communicable diseases: cardiovascular diseases - mainly heart disease and stroke - cancer, especially lung cancer, chronic respiratory conditions, and Type 2 diabetes, which is linked to obesity," AFP/Google.com reports (AFP/Google.com, 6/15). According to Time, "the line between diseases of the rich (heart disease, diabetes, lung cancer) and those of the poor (HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria) has blurred. As citizens of developing nations get fatter and take up tobacco-smoking - habits of the developed world - they are also under increasing threat from the same chronic noncommunicable diseases (CNCD) that ail the wealthy." Twice as many people worldwide now die from CNCDs as from "infectious diseases, maternal and infant problems and malnutrition combined," writes Time (Time, 6/16). Without intervention, health experts believe that 388 million people around the world will die of these diseases within the next decade. Elizabeth Nabel, head of the U.S. National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the NIH, said chronic diseases are the cause of 60 percent of deaths worldwide, "80 percent of which are in low and middle income countries." She added that a key goal of GACD is to train individuals "that would be able to be the health research and health care leaders" in developing countries (AFP/Google.com, 6/15). The GACD aims "to pool its members" experience and res to identify, test and implement the best ways to slow the progress of chronic diseases - both in developed and developing nations," Time writes. However, this could be "a tall order, particularly since no specific funding has been allocated for the GACD, and because chronic diseases work slowly, frequently falling to the bottom of global health priorities," according to the magazine (Time, 6/16). GACD"s charter members include: the Australia National Health and Medical Research Council; the Canadian Institutes of Health Research; the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences; the U.K. Medical Research Council; NHLBI; and the Fogarty International Center (McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for Global Health release, 6/15). This information was reprinted from globalhealth.kff.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Global Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at globalhealth.kff.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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