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		<title>Does iPad belong in Healthcare?</title>
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Does iPad have a chance in healthcare? 
Yes, and for two reasons. The first is this:In the past healthcare technology has always been about the hardware – building a box that promises to do something, and then trying to educate patients or providers on how to use the box. That hasn’t worked because of bad interface design; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Reform Debate Has Begun</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s official.  The nation’s healthcare system is in crisis and President Barack Obama vowed, on his campaign trail, to fix it.  He’s taken the first step toward doing just that by convening representatives from his White House Cabinet, Congress, the medical and insurance communities, and the public.  The healthcare reform debate has begun in earnest.
In [...]]]></description>
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		<title>it&#8217;s not your grandfather&#8217;s pharmacy anymore . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Upstate HomeCare Maintaints 797 Compliant Pharmacy To Ensure The Highest Level Of Safety In Our Compounded Drugs.

During the 1960s, the practice of pharmacy began growing and evolving. In response to an increasing number of patient injuries due to medication delivery and sterile compounding, the industry began calling attention to safety.
The United States Pharmacopeia (USP) drafted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.upstatehomecare.com/upstatehealth/its-not-your-grandfathers-pharmacy-anymore/</link>
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		<title>iTunes U</title>
		<description><![CDATA[iTunes University.
iTunes U is a part of the iTunes Store featuring free lectures, language lessons, audiobooks, and more, that you can enjoy on your iPod, iPhone, Mac or PC. Explore over 50,000 educational audio and video files from top universities, museums and public media organizations from around the world. With iTunes U, there&#8217;s no end [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Eggs for Breakfast Speeds Weight Loss</title>
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Study participants who ate two eggs for breakfast every day for two months lost 65% more weight than participants in the same study who ate a bagel for breakfast, even though the bagel and the eggs contained an equal number of calories. The egg-eaters also lost 61% more body mass and felt more energetic than [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.upstatehomecare.com/upstatehealth/two-eggs-for-breakfast-speeds-weight-loss/</link>
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		<title>Upstate HomeCare acquires PharmHealth Infusion Inc.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PHI Pharmacy is an independent Pharmacy dedicated to the art and science of compounding, and the dispensing of I.V. admixtures, oral &#38; injectable medications.
PHI&#8217;s mission is to provide infusion services in the comfort of the patient&#8217;s home while maintaining high quality care that is also cost effective.
PharmHealth Infusion, Inc. (PHI) is Rochester&#8217;s only locally owned [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.upstatehomecare.com/upstatehealth/upstate-homecare-merges-with-pharmhealth-infusion-inc/</link>
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		<title>Want To Lose Weight? Keep A Food Diary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[US researchers working on a study comparing approaches to weight loss, found that keeping a food diary can double weight loss as part of a managed programme; they said that the more food records they kept, the more weight the participants lost.
The study was carried out by investigators from Kaiser Permanente&#8217;s Center for Health Research, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.upstatehomecare.com/upstatehealth/want-to-lose-weight-keep-a-food-diary/</link>
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		<title>Pharmacists As Educators Can Improve Asthma Outcomes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[New research has shown that up to 90 per cent of people on asthma medications are using their inhalers incorrectly leading to poor asthma control, increased hospital visits and increased cost of treatment.
The study then went on to show how a brief educational chat with a pharmacist about inhaler technique and stickers on the medication [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.upstatehomecare.com/upstatehealth/pharmacists-improving-asthma-outcomes/</link>
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