Study of energy and health in Africa focuses spotlight on charcoal and forest management
...e transition to clean charcoal without drastically increasing pollution and decimating tropical forests would be an excellent way to help achieve several of the United Nations' 'millennium development goals' at the same time. It also presents an opportunity for the developed world to invest in the African conti...Charcoal and forest management could reduce greenhouse gas levels & save lives in Africa
...e transition to clean charcoal without drastically increasing pollution and decimating tropical forests would be an excellent way to achieve several of the United Nation's "millennium development goals," among them reducing child mortality, and ensuring gender equity and environmental sustainability, and to inv...UW study shows blacks and Latinos are more satisfied with physicians of the same race
...ifying the patients who want same-race physicians, increasing access to minority physicians and improving the ways patients can choose physicians may be potent options for reducing disparities."...Study finds that coordinating care of chronically ill patients does not increase liability
...ctors might do wrong," Hall explained. Instead of increasing liability, care coordination may lower liability risks. "Every medical function carries some liability risk and care coordination is no exception, but the extent of these risks appears to be broadly commensurate with other risks to primary care pract...March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...dressing discrimination in the health care system, increasing access to minority physicians and improving the wa...otent options for reducing disparities than simply increasing the number of minority physicians and attempting to teach cultural competence. Patients' Beliefs a...Mouse model reveals potential way to reduce cardiac deaths in kidney patients
...nsulin resistance. The condition, which is rapidly increasing in both adults and children, is also associated wi...ly decreasing the flexibility of blood vessels and increasing the work the heart has to do to create a pulse. "Vascular stiffness happens to patients with end-sta...Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
... best communicate financial disclosure information increasing trust and supporting the physician-patient relationship. "Of the six different disclosure strategies, 'addressing emotions' and 'negotiation' were associated with the best outcomes, while 'common enemy' and 'denying influences' were most negatively p......atins' effects on patients. Statins, especially in increasing doses, have been associated with asymptomatic elevation of aminotransferases, though this occurs in fewer than three percent of statin users. Notably, this outcome has also occurred with similar frequency in placebo-treated patients in clinical trial...Researchers search for first sign of congestive heart failure
...deo game. The body naturally responds to stress by increasing blood vessel constriction and fluid volume inside vessels. The kidneys help with volume by retaining sodium. Natriuresis is the body's way of eliminating sodium so pressures can return to pre-stress levels. Dr. Harshfield's studies have shown certain...Research offers hope of new treatments for liver damage
... the same age group. Liver failure is also rapidly increasing in younger people with the deaths in the UK of 500 men and 300 women aged 25-44, in 2003." Professor John Iredale of the University of Southampton said: "We are facing a huge increase in the numbers of patients with advanced liver fibrosis (scarring)...Child care may affect entire community's risks of infection
... despite the large group centers' apparent role in increasing the risk of infection. "I think that child care or any group play situation has real developmental and social benefits," said lead author Susan Huang, MD, MPH, of Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. "The take-home message really ...NYU College of Dentistry study equates poor oral health with preterm birth risk
...uch factors as the growing use of fertility drugs, increasing teenage pregnancy and smoking levels, and physicans' improved ability to successfully deliver high-risk pregnancies that might otherwise have ended in miscarriage. It has been estimated that hospital-related costs for each preterm delivery were about...NIH state-of-the-science panel calls for 'demedicalization' of menopause
... hormones may be inappropriate. Although there is increasing interest in bioidentical or "natural" hormones for treating menopausal symptoms, the panel found scant data on the benefits and adverse effects of these compounds. The panel also found that overall, there have been very few well-designed studies to ...Risky surgery not always necessary to treat cervical disease
...ime are infected and the numbers are significantly increasing throughout the world....Opponents of needle-exchange programs should think about their message to drug users
...reducing the incidence of blood-borne diseases and increasing access to treatment for drug users, Martin said. ...firming that NEPs can save lives and money without increasing drug abuse. Last year, for example, California became another state that allows pharmacy sales of u...ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...ior preservation of myocardium. Furthermore, with increasing time to presentation, major-adverse-cardiac-event rates increase after thrombolysis, but appear to remain relatively stable after primary PCI. Within the first 3 hours after onset of chest pain or other symptoms, both reperfusion strategies seem equ...Targeting mutant B-Raf protein reduces melanoma development
...S. Hershey Medical Center. "With cases of melanoma increasing at about 4 percent per year and no effective treatments available for advanced-stage disease, it's imperative that we continue to look for important proteins that could be targeted therapeutically. Studies like this one that identify how inhibiting i...New self-help technology set to combat eating disorders
...en not readily available. Eating disorders are an increasing problem is Scotland, with about 10% of young women affected by such conditions. Given the rise in the number of sufferers and the under-provision of eating disorder services, a major challenge is to make treatment more accessible. Now, computer-bas...Success of liver transplantation may be most influenced by three risk factors
...ant." The authors demonstrate similar findings for increasing donor age, cold ischemia time and urgent UNOS status on patient survival. "From these findings, we can develop preliminary models of pretransplant characteristics to help predict postransplant survival," the authors conclude. "In future studies we ho......ncer, including the most deadly form, melanoma, is increasing more rapidly than that of any other type of cancer, according to background information in the article. Public education has been successful in raising awareness about the dangers of UV exposure, but has been less successful in motivating protective ...