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(HealthDay News) — Hospital patients receiving treatment for heart disease who decide to discharge themselves before their doctors deem them ready end up costing hospitals more if and when they are readmitted.

The finding, set to be reported this week during the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research meeting in Atlanta, comes from work conducted by researchers at the University of Maryland school of Pharmacy (UM).

Sleep well, sleep better

By Karen Asp

Provided by AOLHealth

If sleep has plunged to the bottom of your to-do list, you're not alone. Although the National Sleep Foundation recommends getting seven to nine hours of sleep a night, the average American logs only six hours and 40 minutes.

If Jennisse Peatick, 36, ever had to stop exercising—well, the idea leaves her almost speechless. She doesn't know what would happen. "I started exercising because I was getting fat and I realized it was helping me deal with my ongoing depression," she says. Now the competitive cyclist and triathlete from Hillsborough, N.J., takes her daily exercise as regularly as she takes her antidepressant medication.

(HealthDay News) — An older person with knee pain who learns that the cause is arthritis — the wear-and-tear kind called osteoarthritis — probably will do the right things to treat it, and probably won’t consult a doctor or pharmacist, a new Canadian study finds.

“Most of the things they did were appropriate,” said Carlo Marra, associate professor of pharmaceutical sciences at the University of British Columbia. He is lead author of the report in the April issue of Arthritis Care & Research that followed 190 people who were told they had knee osteoarthritis.

When pressed for time, even making a smoothie can seem daunting. Jamba Juice’s All Natural At-Home Smoothie packets provide a convenient way to make a quick morning smoothie or post-workout treat in only a minute’s time!

The product: Jamba Juice All Natural At-Home Smoothies. ($3 to $3.49 for a package; available at grocery stores in May 2010)

Heather Harvey, 38 of Brooklyn, New York actively made the decision to make big changes in order to get healthy.

I was five months pregnant with my second child when I stepped on the scale—and it read 233. Seeing that number shocked me into action, so that same afternoon I walked into an Equinox gym and asked for help.