Below you'll find a list of all posts from December 21, 2010
To Kristen Mack, The Chicago Tribune, December 20, 2010 (The Chicago Tribune today released a Rahm Emanuel statement in which he promises to reduce City workers’ health care costs by $500M, or 20%, with “… just 4 percent of the city’s workforce accounting for roughly 65 percent of the city’s health care costs…”) While I applaud this incentive, to make …
QUESTION: Iron deficiency anemia can cause a high platelet count but can it also cause platelets to clump? My Lab work said my platelets were clumped on my blood smear but appeared to be increased in number so a manual differential in 8 weeks. This is the second sample in two months to show clumping.
Rahm Emanuel said today city workers should take better care of themselves — with City Hall’s help — as one way to save taxpayers money by reducing health care costs. In 2011, Chicago taxpayers will spend nearly $500 million on health care costs for city employees, their families and retirees, Emanuel said. If elected mayor, he said he is committed …
Question: Do Statins really improve the risk of coronary artery disease? Answer: A paper published in this issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, reviewed the association of statin therapy and cardiovascular outcomes, but found little difference between treated and untreated patients. As the current focus of statin therapy is to reduce low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), rather than increase high-density lipoprotein …
Current national guidelines for CVD risk reduction are primarily focused on strategies to reduce levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), with the most recent focus being on “lower is better” rather than an effort to increase high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C). A careful examination of randomized, controlled trials (RCTs) using statins demonstrates that even with intensive statin therapy and intensive LDL-C …