Public policy should address the social factors behind ill health
...re is a strong basis for corrective action. Health improves when that action is taken, and health systems are run and financed more effectively."...Treating depression helps slow physical decline in older adults, study shows
...LIS -- Successful treatment of depression not only improves older adults' emotional health, but also helps the...ssful treatment of depression in older adults also improves their ability to perform tasks critical to independent living such as keeping track of medications o...Neurobehavioral function during coma, stroke rehabilitation effective for elderly
...ainty. Systematic tracking of recovery from coma improves medical and rehabilitation strategies, pg 19 This...d from the Disorders of Consciousness Scale (DOCS) improves medical and rehabilitation management during coma recovery. Investigators found that medical decisio...Implanted devices detect high-risk heart failure patients
...aid. "We would expect that as their heart function improves after implantation, their heart rate variability would improve as well." Heart failure is a condition marked by the inability of the heart muscles to pump enough oxygen and nutrients in the blood to the body's tissues. Also known as congestive heart ...New treatment options for some difficult cancers improve survival and quality of life
...dies show that the combination of surgery and IPHC improves overall survival and quality of life in these selected patients. "Patients with peritoneal cancer that has spread from the small bowel represent both a unique diagnostic and treatment challenge," said Perry Shen, M.D., assistant professor of surgica...York study tests enhanced care for depression patients
...idence to suggest that this collaborative approach improves depression care but all that evidence has been gathered outside the UK, mainly in the USA. In consultation with organisations in the field and patients, our research will develop a UK-appropriate protocol that is faithful to the original models, whil...Older women can benefit from chemotherapy to treat breast cancer
...women with early-stage breast cancer significantly improves both relapse-free and overall survival in women aged 50 to 69 years old, but data are lacking for women aged 70 years or older." The authors add that available data suggest that adjuvant chemotherapy may be significantly underused in older patients...Mayo Clinic researcher calls for improved newborn screening
...the last half of 2004. He says the system not only improves the value of screenings, but can make them more cost effective. He also reported that in the near future screening programs are likely to be further expanded to include testing beyond the newborn period for additional diseases such as Wilson's diseas...New test improves detection of bladder cancer
...ground information in the article. Early detection improves prognosis, treatment options, and quality of life. Although the 5-year survival rate is 95 percent when tumors are detected while they are confined to the mucosa (membrane), up to 25 percent of the approximately 60,000 bladder tumors predicted to be ...Stem cell therapy for spinal injury
...t have shown how the transplantation of stem cells improves recovery from spinal injury. However, a painful co...n of stem cells into the damaged area of the spine improves motor function (movement) inferior to the injury level, scientists found that the rats developed gre...NYU psychology researchers show how attention enhances visual perception
...as shown that involuntary, or transient, attention improves performance in simple, early visual processing tasks--it actually helps us see things better. The NYU study in Neuron shows the neural basis of this effect. It identifies an increase in neural activity in areas of the brain that respond to the attend...Older people get the big picture faster, and they are less inhibited
...ersity discovered that the ageing process actually improves certain abilities: Older people appear to be better and faster at grasping the big picture than their younger counterparts. "Going into the study, we knew that ageing changes the way people see the world," says Allison Sekuler, one of the senior auth...Stroke patients receive better care when hospitals 'get with the guidelines'
...s. These data provide evidence that system change improves hospital-based compliance with these acute treatment and secondary prevention strategies." LaBresh added: "The ability of our hospitals to significantly improve the use of secondary prevention measures is particularly exciting because these measure...15 minutes training enough to save lives with an automated external defibrillator
...uickly and safely. Their performance significantly improves after basic theoretical explanation of the device. The reaction of untrained individuals to real emergency situations requiring the use of a defibrillator is likely to be different from their performance in simulated situations. But the authors beli...Auditory screening for newborns can be successful, UT Southwestern researchers report
...oviding outpatient retesting at the birth hospital improves the number who returned for follow-up. "Our study demonstrates that Universal Newborn Hearing Screening can be successfully implemented in a public hospital with a larger number of annual births than many U.S. states and territories, including Rhode...Type of weight loss surgery more effective at reducing insulin resistance
...r severely obese patients leads to weight loss and improves insulin sensitivity. In a study published in the current issue of The American Journal of Medicine , researchers from the State University of Campinas, So Paulo, Brazil; Catholic University, Rome, Italy; and the University of Pisa, Italy, found that...Collaborative care, training boosts adolescent depression treatment in primary care clinics
...treatments into primary care clinics significantly improves health outcomes, quality of life, and depression c...dy indicate that a collaborative care program that improves access to best-practice depression care, supports parents and youth in selecting preferred treatment...New treatment guidelines for pregnant women with asthma
...ies have shown that taking inhaled corticosteroids improves lung function during pregnancy and reduces asthma exacerbations--and other large, prospective studies found no relation between taking inhaled corticosteroids and congenital abnormalities or other adverse pregnancy outcomes," said Michael Schatz, M.D...Macular degeneration patients benefit from self-management training
... depression that often occurs in AMD patients, and improves the AMD patients' function, self-efficacy and emotional status, compared with the control patients in the two other groups. "The most important feature of the study is that it achieved maintenance of benefits at 6-months. This is unusual. The bigge...New therapeutic vaccine for HIV/AIDS eliminates needles and excessive toxicity
...IV/AIDS, offers a new option which complements and improves present drug therapies. The vaccine, applied topically to the skin, has demonstrated efficacy in boosting immune responses and controlling virus replication in chronically infected monkeys. This treatment possibly offers a new, non-invasive option ...