The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has announced a 14-day extension of the comment period for its proposed rule to provide minimum wage and overtime protections for nearly 2 million workers who provide in-home care services.
Medicare cuts would include psychotherapy payment reduction
February 24, 2012
Medicare recipients currently receiving mental health outpatient services will be affected by the payroll tax legislation passed by Congress last week.
A new, easy-to-read website on drug abuse designed for adults with a low reading literacy level (eighth grade or below) has been launched by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health.
In the February 2012 issue of the International Journal of Audiology researchers at Western Michigan University’s Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology identify the distribution of typical noise levels present in daily life and identify factors associated with average sound levels.
Blood levels of trans–fatty acids (TFAs) in white adults in the U.S. population decreased by 58 percent from 2000 to 2009 according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study published in the Feb. 8 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Distortion-product otoacoustic emissions (DPOAEs) provide a window into real-time cochlear mechanical function. Yet, relationships between the changes in DPOAE metrics and auditory sensitivity are still poorly understood.