Hollywood Increases Film Portrayals Of People With Disabilities
... in his classes as a tool for examining realissues facing people with impairments in society. "I try to get my students to reflect on whether there is a realitybase," Safran said. "We are a society of film viewers, and special educationprofessionals can use movies to promote critical viewing skills ...Successful Cancer Therapy May Doom Later Treatments To Failure
... blood vessel pores is just one of many challenges facing drug agents. Ten years ago, Jain showed that just getting into the blood supply surrounding the tumors is a difficult task. "Nobody had measured resistance to blood flow in tumor vessels before. It was like walking into a wide open field," he says. J...Managed Care Symposium Sponsored By Society Of Actuaries Examines HEDIS, Stakeholders' Views
...e areasking is, are all the changes and challenges facing stakeholders ultimatelyresulting in high-quality, low-cost medical care that improves the overallhealth of the population? We (are offering) some ideas for looking at managedcare with an overall systems effectiveness perspective." "Research ...The Visible Humans: Coming Of Age
...d with scientists in 30 countries. "The challenge facing us now is how to take this massive amount of complicated data and make it useful for the everyday user," said Dr. Michael Ackerman, NLM's Assistant Director for High Performance Computing and Communications and Head of the Visible Human Project. Sc...AIDS Prevention: Does It Work? Paper Suggests New Way To Assess Prevention Programs
...s. The Challenge The study addresses a conundrum facing researchers: Since it is impossible toknow how many cases of HIV would have occurred in the absence of concertedprevention efforts, how does one count what doesn't happen? In proposing their model, the researchers observe that there have been few lar...Why Do We Make It Difficult For Students To Hear In Class?
...ly those with hearing or learningdisabilities, are facing unnecessary difficulties hearing their teachers becauseof inferior classroom acoustics. An alarmingly large proportion of classroomssuffers from high amounts of reverberation and background noise, making itdifficult even for those students with heal...Low Socio-Economic Status Heart Patients Need More Than Just Aggressive Cardiac Procedures
...Duke cardiologist Dr.Chen Tung. The issues facing this group of patients after treatment are complicatedand not easily solved, Tung said. Most need to drastically change theirlifestyles, may need physical rehabilitation, and need to take heartmedications -- aspects of continuing medical care that ...Study Shows Foreign-Trained Doctors Can Ease Rural Physician Shortages
...he primary-carephysician work force in rural areas facing doctor shortages than in rural areaswithout shortages. The study also revealed sharp differences among states regarding whichforeign medical graduates practice in rural areas. Researchers believeindividual state policies may help explain the...New approach supercharges immunotherapy
...onse. "This discovery addresses the basic question facing cancer immunotherapy," saidLiebowitz: "Why are the T cells that should attack tumors content to sit idlyby? Previous efforts to jump start an immune response have not been ableeffectively to reverse the immune tolerance that develops between a patien...... that leave many children missing inoculations and facing healthrisks that multiply medical costs. The pilot weighs the economic value ofcombining vaccines to reduce the number of injections or clinical visits. The article's author, Sheldon H. Jacobson of Virginia Tech, and hisco-writers focus on a ...T-Cell Memory Finding May Provide Key To Cancer, AIDS Vaccines
... may provide the solution to a fundamental problem facing vaccinesto treat AIDS or cancer. Researchers from the University of Chicago report inthe March 12 issue of the journal Science that the cells that are crucialplayers for any vaccine against HIV-infected or cancerous cells aredistressingly slow learne...Low Educational Level Increases Risk For Congestive Heart Failure
...education itself, but the socio-economicconditions facing people with less education that increases the risk," He adds. "People with more education can be expected to be somewhat more knowledgeableabout such health-related matters as nutrition and weight control. They alsousually have higher incomes, which...... During the pilot study, 24 breast cancer patients facing treatment decisionswere divided into a control and intervention group (12 women in each arm). Bothpatient groups participated in a medical consultation session. In theintervention group, a trained facilitator created and implemented a meetingagenda, ...Less Toxic Bone Marrow Transplant Technique May Have More Powerful Anti-Cancer Effect
...as been an all-or-nothing situation, with patients facing twohazards," says Spitzer. "If the transplanted marrow doesn't take or isrejected, patients are left with no immune system. When patients receivetransplants from less closely matched donors, they risk graft-versus-hostdisease, a life-threating comp...Noninvasive test aims to prevent sudden cardiac death
... that sudden cardiac death was the major challenge facing contemporary cardiology. "I couldn't have asked for a more important problem to work on -- not that we're done," Smith said. "But the T-wave alternans test is a step in the right direction. For patients diagnosed by this test and subsequently saved...Echinacea symposium presents new research on Chernobyl victims
... most effectivelyto safeguard a population that is facing high levels of radiation exposure; A study of how Echinacea purpurea can protect the male reproductive systemfrom the effects of radiation; A study of how effectively Echinacea purpurea can protect organs and tissuesfrom radiation damage. The resea...New gene therapy may allow patients to 'grow' their own bypass around blocked leg arteries
...ivefor restoring circulation to their leg, and are facing a high risk foramputation. Investigators hope that the additional blood flow will reduce painand numbness, heal wounds, and restore damaged tissue on the feet and legs. People who suffer from severe PAOD of the legs often experience severepa...Patients facing surgery can expect to have less post-operative pain ifthey use relaxation and music with their pain medicine. A new study by a CWRUnurse researcher has found that relaxation and music, separately or together,significantly reduce a patient's pain foll......entified three contributingfactors to the problems facing this workforce: health care deliveryorganizations are struggling to survive in California's competitive health caremarket; workers are being asked to be more flexible, more tolerant ofuncertainty, and more capable team members; and educators are havi......tients once thought too sick for most surgery- and facing an 80 percent chance of dying within a year if they don't receive aheart transplant - may now have a chance to have their ailing hearts repaired,in the first clinical trial of a promising surgical procedure developed at theUniversity of Michigan Heal...