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why the irresponsible use of antibiotics in agriculture must stop The Alliance to Save Our Antibiotics is an alliance of health, medical, environmental and animal welfare groups working to stop the over-use of antibiotics in animal farming. It was founded by the Soil Association, Compassion

We would like to thank you for consideration of our request for a meeting, and for the scheduled meeting on September 22. On behalf of the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians (ASIPP), we would like to thank you for publishing the medical policy. This publication appears to have

In 1991, spending on home and community-based long-term care accounted for 14 percent of total Medicaid long-term care expenditures. By 2005, that number had increased to 37 percent.1 As the costs of providing long-term care services for the elderly and disabled continue to soar, more and more states, and their Medicaid budgets, are banking on a simple fact: people prefer to remain at home as they grow older and face the inevitable health challenges that come with aging. Keeping people in their homes or community-based facilities (adult day care, assisted living facilities), instead of institutional settings (hospitals, nursing homes) holds an added attraction for financially stretched states. With the plethora of services available today, it is a strategy that can result in better quality care, as well as being more cost-effective. For many years, the state- and federally-funded Medicaid long-term care system discouraged state programs from investing dollars in programs designed to keep elderly and disabled beneficiaries at home rather than in long-term care facilities. In 1989, Arizona (AZ) elected to challenge these restrictions by planning a program that applies managed care principles to long-term care, i.e., giving preference to lower-cost home and community-based services. Though faced with roadblocks from the federal government, the Arizona Health Care

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Study Committee with the support of Study Manager Maria Borowski, MA. The content of this

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Dietary arginine supplementation has been tested in a large number of illnesses including different patient populations in the intensive care unit, patients with atherosclerosis and in patients undergoing elective surgery. With the exception of patients undergoing elective surgery, dietary arginine supplementation has failed to deliver any significant clinical benefit, and in fact, in some cases has shown the potential evidence of harm. This lecture will explore the mechanisms that differentiate the nutritional requirements of patients undergoing elective surgery from those patient populations that will not derive a benefit from its use.

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