March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...sed risk. The authors suggest that simple dietary restrictions may help to reduce the cancer risk associated with high transferrin saturation. They add that these findings call into question the strategy of the addition of iron to food by manufacturers. Transferrin Saturation, Dietary Iron Intake, and Risk of ...Disfigured patients may be forced to forego surgery
...GHTS, Ill. - Increasing insurance company denials, restrictions on covered procedures and a new tactic of excluding specific procedures may be forcing some adults and children to live with painful medical conditions or disfigurement. This restrictive access to care contributed to a 10 percent decline in reconstru...Top honor for head of Epilepsy Foundation
... education, employment, insurance, driving license restrictions and public awareness. The Bureau also works in close liaison with the International League against Epilepsy (ILAE), an organization of medical professionals involved in the medical and scientific issues of epilepsy....Immediate access to antibiotics stems spread of sexually transmitted diseases
...ram. If legislators are prepared to relax current restrictions on dispensing, as did Washington state for this study, then it could be effective elsewhere in cities where high rates of gonorrhea and Chlamydia remain persistent problems despite efforts to apply standard health approaches." Baltimore, Md., has am...Prestigious 2004 AAAS Philip Hauge Abelson Prize honors Maxine Singer
...uct of research and ensured the gradual removal of restrictions as understanding of the technology grew in subsequent years. Singer also has sought to address the decline of U.S. mathematics and science education, scientific literacy within the general population, and the underrepresentation of women and minoriti...State policies decrease youth smoking, drinking and sex
...es on cigarettes and beer, tobacco vending machine restrictions and more family planning clinics influenced the behavior of teenagers. However, we want to caution that state policies are neither the only nor the most important influence on risky behaviors by teens. Other factors, such as parental involvement, may...Privacy rule cuts research recruitment by more than half
...rican College of Epidemiology. After HIPAA, due to restrictions on researchers' ability to identify potentially eligible subjects, recruitment fell to an average range of 2.5 to 5.7 women a week. Inconsistencies among academic institutions concerning interpretation of HIPAA regulations remain a potent threat to a...Climate change and the future of air travel
...bstantial effect on the ability of simple altitude restrictions to be an effective policy. Current work is aiming to examine more complex aircraft routing strategies aimed at avoiding air masses that lead to persistent contrail formation. At present the production of contrails and their effect on the environment ...Complementary and alternative therapies and conventional medical therapies
... committee also noted that although there are some restrictions on what information and claims can be included on labels, officials at the Federal Trade Commission have described a proliferation of unfounded and exaggerated claims for supplements. This is of concern because many consumers use these products with...Drivers with epilepsy are on the road again
...ho have epilepsy from operating vehicles. Similar restrictions exist for persons with progressive vision loss, fo..., PhD. These are key factors in efforts to modify restrictions for PWE driving rights worldwide. According to Dr. Inoue, there are several countries where PWE are ...First US SARS vaccine trial opens at NIH
...tions, quarantines of exposed people and stringent restrictions on travel. The sudden appearance of SARS, its severity, and its ability to be spread far and fast by international travelers, spurred medical researchers. NIAID researchers developed the vaccine with unprecedented speed. Just 21 months passed from wh...Landmark survey reveals asthma in children remains significantly out of control in the United States
...uences including frequent symptoms, missed school, restrictions on activities, emotional distress, hospitalization..., 32% of parents and their children disagreed that restrictions on activities was the worse thing about having asthma, 45% disagreed that the child experienced any ...No long-term harm from repeated prenatal ultrasound examination
... times during pregnancy was associated with growth restrictions among new-born babies compared with children exposed to only one ultrasound examination in utero. The current analysis provides long-term follow-up data on the growth and development of children from the original study. Physical and developmental ass...Chocolate ingredient could put a stop to persistent coughs and lead to new cough medicines
...ts such as drowsiness. This means there will be no restrictions on when it can be taken. For example, people using heavy machinery or who are driving should not take codeine, but they could take theobromine."...Injury from epileptic seizures relatively rare, Mayo Clinic study find
... freedom to enjoy life," says Dr. So. "Unnecessary restrictions of activity can adversely affect quality of life, ...l or work settings to resist automatically placing restrictions on the patient. "People with well-controlled epilepsy should not arbitrarily be considered at high...Electroconvulsive therapy improves mood, quality of life
...ical Excellence (NICE) last year recommended sharp restrictions on the use of electroconvulsive therapy "until more information is available about ECT's effect on memory, quality of life and other pertinent health outcomes." NICE, an arm of Britain's National Health Service, said ECT should be used "only to achi......y without bowel preparation or substantial dietary restrictions to be as effective as traditional colonoscopy (with bowel preparation) in detecting colorectal polyps. "The elimination of purgative bowel preparation makes virtual colonoscopy a patient-friendly diagnostic test for colorectal cancer," said ...Socio-economic factors sway African-Americans
... (i.e. low income), public policy measures such as restrictions on smoking in public places and workplaces, industry restrictions on store advertisements and promotions, and increases in cigarette excise taxes would help to reduce...Workplace smoking bans help smokers cut back, says study
Employees in workplaces with no smoking restrictions smoke almost five more cigarettes daily than those whose workplaces completely ban smoking, says a study by the University of Toronto's Ontario Tobacco Research Unit (OTRU). "Usually, the reason given for banning smoking in the workplace is to benefi...FOSRENOL (R) maintains bone health status of end-stage renal disease patients
...as grown 400 percent over the last 20 years. Diet restrictions alone generally cannot control phosphorus levels and patients traditionally manage hyperphosphatemia by taking phosphorus-binding agents at every meal and snack. Such binders help to "soak up" phosphorus in the gastrointestinal tract, before it can ...