Author Archives: Vernon Rowe

Clinical Trial: Spasticity in MS

Researchers are conducting a study to evaluate an investigational drug for spasticity in people with MS. View more information about this clinical trial. As one of the MS centers participating in the study, Rowe Neurology Institute is now enrolling patients.

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Back Pain and Sleep Breathing Disorders | Rowe Neurology Institute

No patient has been more candid about her feelings about RNI than this woman. She came to RNI for acute back pain that flared up on vacation away from Kansas City. It made her suddenly unable to walk anywhere, shop,

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Hospital Fees Drive Rising Cost of Health Care

Steven Brill writes in Time Magazine that hospital profit margins are extraordinarily high for supposedly non-profit institutions, and are largely responsible for the rising health care costs in the United States.

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Myths and Truths About Bedtime Habits and Insomnia

People with chronic insomnia try many tricks to fall asleep. While some help, some have been shown to make sleep harder.

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Diagnosing Dementia: Is the Folstein Test Reliable?

The mini-mental status examination (MMSE), or Folstein Test, should never be used as the sole test for dementia, because it ignores factors only a neurological examination and more thorough neurocognitive testing can accurately evaluate.

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Health Care Pricing and Facility Fees

In Kansas City Star Opinion piece, an Overland Park doctor details how two emergency rooms made overly expensive choices about how to deliver care.

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Patients Must Educate Themselves About Health Care Costs

53% of Consumers ‘Oblivious’ to Healthcare Costs. Patients can only fight rising costs by educating themselves.

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KC Writers Anthology Reflects RNI Patient-Centered Philosophy

If you want to understand a book, don’t open it in the middle. We at RNI place unusual emphasis on patient histories, even more unusual in this age of numbers-driven healthcare (and numbers-driven everything else, too).

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Bloomberg News Investigates Cost Inflation by Hospital Chains

Bloomberg News published an exceptional piece on how monopolistic hospital chains are using their political leverage to drive medical costs up for everyone.

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Mildred Grosby, RN

Infusion Center nurse

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