Phone counseling can help cut heart disease risk: study

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A greater percentage of people at high risk for heart disease keep up their exercise and diet programs when they get group telephone counseling, according to a study.


Brief counseling helps insomniacs

A brief round of counseling may help adults over 60 who suffer from chronic insomnia, according to a new study. After four weeks, 67 percent of those who were randomly assigned to receive therapy showed improvement versus 25 percent of those in the control group, who received only informational brochures about insomnia. Improvement was assessed by various measurements, including minutes ...


End-of-life counseling may end with TennCare cuts

Counseling services for dying patients in Tennessee would be eliminated under possible state budget cuts in TennCare, the states version of Medicaid.