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New MADIT II Clinical Data Analysis Shows Long-Term Survival Benefit For Implantable Defibrillator Therapy
Boston Scientific Corporation (NYSE: BSX) announced that an analysis of long-term data from the MADIT II clinical study demonstrates that the life-saving benefits of implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) therapy remain sustainable at eight years. This is the first time long-term data have been presented regarding the life-saving benefits of ICDs in a primary prevention population. The analysis was presented during a late-breaking session at the Heart Rhythm Society Scientific Sessions in Boston.
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It is estimated that 1.4 billion people live in extreme poverty, on less than $2 a day. In 2000, 189 nations declared that they would "free all men, women, and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty". These nations signed up to Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to combat poverty by 2015. To help meet these complex challenges and "make poverty history" more knowledge and evidence is needed. A launch event Wednesday 22nd July 2009 at the Department for International Development (DFID) marks a new phase of research collaboration between the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and DFID which will provide more robust social science research to address poverty alleviation amongst the poorest countries and peoples of the world.
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As Calif. Budget Shrinks, Services For Elderly Slip

"Advocates for the elderly in California say recent budget cuts are dramatically affecting the ability of social service programs to keep up with demand" at a time when "the state"s elderly population - and the incidents of elder abuse - are exploding," NPR reports. One example is Contra Costa County, where the Aging and Adult Services Program laid off two-thirds of the staff who "investigate abuse complaints of elderly and dependent adults." The county is now "turning over virtually all of its self-neglect cases to some other agency - often, the police." The Contra Costa situation is "so severe that the county grand jury recently concluded that Adult Protective Services no longer has the res to carry out its legal mandate to investigate physical and financial abuse complaints." This comes at a time when complaints of elder abuse are on the rise. According to "national studies," only "1 in 5 elder abuse cases is reported" (Siler, 6/3). Meanwhile, in Pennsylvania, Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell is "proposing to allow an additional 30,000 seniors to enroll in the state"s prescription-drug program for older residents, a move called essential to helping them survive the difficult economic times," the Philadelphia Inquirer reports. Rendell says he is "working with House Democrats to push through legislation that would raise the current income eligibility limits for seniors to qualify for the state"s popular PACENET program." He says the expansion should be ""a slam-dunk" since it won"t cost taxpayers a dime." The money for the program, which is "funded by the Pennsylvania lottery" would be augmented by "requiring pharmaceutical companies to give the state the same drug rebates that it gives to the federal government"s Medicaid program." If approved, Rendell"s proposal would expand the program, "which now covers about 220,000 people 65 and older" and would increase payments to pharmacies filling PACENET prescriptions. The "state chapter of AARP lauded the idea," but House Majority Leader Sam Smith "said yesterday that he is skeptical of the notion that the program could be expanded so greatly without the state paying more" (Couloumbis and Cattabiani, 6/3). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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