Fw: InteliHealth Professional Connect for 09/13/1999

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>Today's Issue

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>* Routine Exercise Testing Advised For Select Men With Type 2

>Diabetes

>* Cost Of Lost Work Productivity Due To Depression Around

>Billion

>* Use Of Intraoperative MRI During Craniotomy Enhances Efficacy

>Of Surgery

>* AMA Names Its New Union And Appoints Governing Board

>* Study May Show Why Cocaine Can Trigger Heart Attacks

>* Researchers Find Genetic Basis For Body's Internal Clock

>* Asthma Underdiagnosed And Undertreated In Elderly

>* WHO Set To Declare That Western Pacific Is Polio-Free

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>Today In Health History

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>Swat!

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> After receiving a medical degree from the Bellvue Hospital

>Medical College in New York City, Walter went to work for

>the boards of health of New York City and Brooklyn. In 1875,

> joined the Army Medical Corps and served as an Army surgeon

>for more than 20 years. When in 1900, yellow fever broke out

>among U.S. troops in Cuba, he headed the commission of physicians

>who established that yellow fever was transmitted by the Aëdes

>aegypti mosquito. Later he proved that a virus carried by the

>mosquito caused the disease. Sanitary engineers were sent to

>eradicate the mosquito, resulting in Cuba being free of yellow

>fever by 1902. , who was born on this date in 1851, died of

>appendicitis in 1902. The Army hospital and medical center in

>Washington, D.C., is named in his honor.

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>Today's Top Stories

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>Routine Exercise Testing Advised For Select Men With Type 2

>Diabetes

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>WESTPORT, Sep 13 (Reuters Health) - A subpopulation of men with

>type 2 diabetes are at high risk of silent myocardial ischemia,

>even if they have no signs or symptoms of coronary artery disease

>(CAD), according to a report in the September issue of Diabetes

>Care. The study " ...emphasizes the need for a more active

>strategy to prevent CAD in these patients, " Dr. Blandine Janand-

>Delenne, of La Timone Hospital, Marseille, France, and colleagues

>say in the journal.

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>http://ipn.intelihealth.com/ipn/ihtIPN?c=241202

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>Cost Of Lost Work Productivity Due To Depression Around

>Billion

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>WESTPORT, Sep 13 (Reuters Health) - Findings from a survey of

>human resource professionals suggest that depression is a

>prevalent problem among workers and has a significant negative

>effect on workplace productivity. The survey comes from the

>National Foundation for Brain Research. Executive director

>Lawrence S. Hoffheimer commented in a foundation release that

> " [t]he burden of chronic depression goes beyond the human

>suffering and symptoms. Each year, the United States loses

>billion to lost productivity and medical treatment related to

>this illness. "

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>Use Of Intraoperative MRI During Craniotomy Enhances Efficacy Of

>Surgery

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>WESTPORT, Sep 13 (Reuters Health) - A new technique that allows

>neurosurgeons to utilize " real-time " magnetic resonance imaging

>(MRI) during craniosurgery could " ...revolutionize the field of

>neurosurgery, " as well as improve the safety and efficacy of

>surgery as a treatment for patients with brain tumors. " With

>intraoperative MRI, tumor resection is safer, the extent of

>resection can be directly evaluated and intraoperative

>complications can be noted if they occur, " Dr. McL. Black,

>of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and

>multicenter colleagues report in the September issue of

>Neurosurgery.

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>AMA Names Its New Union And Appoints Governing Board

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>WESTPORT, Sep 13 (Reuters Health) - The American Medical

>Association's new collective bargaining unit will be called

>Physicians for Responsible Negotiations--PRN. The AMA's board of

>trustees decided on the name and other details at a special board

>meeting September 9. In a press release, AMA president Dr.

> R. Reardon said, " We believe the name captures this

>organization's essential mission. " He said that PRN would

>represent " ...employed physicians and eligible resident

>physicians, and be a strong voice of organized medicine where

>it's needed--at the bargaining table. "

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>Study May Show Why Cocaine Can Trigger Heart Attacks

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>CHICAGO, Sep 13 (AP) — Cocaine delivers a " double whammy " to the

>blood stream that may explain how the drug triggers heart attacks

>in its users, a new study concludes.

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>http://ipn.intelihealth.com/ipn/ihtIPN?c=241241

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>Researchers Find Genetic Basis For Body's Internal Clock

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>NEW YORK, Sep 13 (Medical Tribune) - Scientists in Pennsylvania

>have discovered the genetic underpinnings of how cycles of light

>and dark affect the biological clock of the fruit fly.

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>http://ipn.intelihealth.com/ipn/ihtIPN?c=241235

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>Asthma Underdiagnosed And Undertreated In Elderly

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>NEW YORK, Sep 13 (Medical Tribune) - Asthma often goes

>unrecognized and untreated in the elderly, significantly

>diminishing their quality of life, new research suggests.

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>http://ipn.intelihealth.com/ipn/ihtIPN?c=241236

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>WHO Set To Declare That Western Pacific Is Polio-Free

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>TOKYO, Sep 13 (NYT Syndicate) — The Western Pacific, including

>Japan, is set to become the second region in the world to be

>declared a polio-free area, according to a World Health

>Organization (WHO) report.

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