HIV testing should be routine part of primary health care for sexually active
...o not consider themselves to be at risk and do not seek testing on their own. Health care providers also may not elicit accurate information about risk. Routine testing would decrease the stigma of requesting or accepting an HIV test." Two studies in the New England Journal of Medicine in February showe...Patients newly diagnosed with HIV are more likely to enter outpatient care with case management
...iency virus (HIV) are significantly more likely to seek medical treatment if they are followed even briefly by a case manager, according to findings of the national Antiretroviral Treatment Access Study (ARTAS). Physician/researchers in Atlanta, Baltimore, Los Angeles and Miami evaluated individuals rece...March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...st portion of the effect. While the study does not seek to disentangle the contribution of specific family...indings should encourage more family physicians to seek training in this procedure. Outpatient Colonoscopy by Rural Family Physicians By Robert J. Newman,...Physicians may not be accurate in their confidence levels of their diagnoses, says Pitt study
...sburgh study. "An overconfident physician will not seek help or may ignore help that is offered; someone u...upport occurs in two modes: either clinicians must seek medical information to supplement what they already know, or if it is 'pushed' to them in the form o...Professionalism and professional ethics in medicine
...isfaction or trust and more likely to disenroll or seek a second opinion," the authors found. (Arch Intern Med. 2005; 165: 625 630. Available post-embargo at www.archinternmed.com .) How Physicians Try to Reduce Patients' Prescription Costs To contact G. Caleb Alexander, M.D., M.S., call Catherine Gia...Hospital acquired infections present major problem for infants in developing countries
... communities in which they live are less likely to seek institutional care, even if advised." She adds: "Infection control in hospitals of developing countries must become part of the international agenda for health-systems improvement to achieve the Millennium Development Goals."...Specific test key to determine whether or not allergy symptoms are really allergy-related
...rsity. And most people with allergy symptoms first seek help from their family doctor. With hay fever season nearly upon us, anywhere from 20 to 50 million Americans will develop allergic rhinitis. Symptoms include red and watery eyes, irritated nasal passages, a runny nose and sneezing and coughing. Havi...Single mothers at higher risk for depression
...sion could interfere with their ability to parent, seek education and employment as well as significantly affect the entire families' quality of life. This study, published in a recent issue of Journal of Nursing Scholarship suggests that with nursing intervention for depressive symptoms particularly n...Virginity pledges do not reduce STD risk: May encourage high risk sexual behavior
...earman also note that pledgers were less likely to seek and obtain STD-related health care, possibly because of increased stigmatization or misperception of infection risk among pledgers. Because pledgers are less likely to be diagnosed and treated for STD infections, they may be more likely to have those...Sleeping Through the Night: Children's sleep expert advises parents
...ts are usually at their wits' end by the time they seek advice," says Mindell. "Sleeping Through the Night is user-friendly and provides simple strategies so that everyone in the family can get a good night's sleep." Dr. Mindell shares her experience as a pediatric sleep expert and offers advice on estab...Study: Two brain systems regulate how we call for help
...March 7-11. In monkeys and humans, it's natural to seek help from supportive individuals during trying times. Indeed, calling for help can be crucial to survival, says Kalin, a psychiatrist who has studied fear and social attachment in monkeys for two decades in an attempt to better understand anxiety and...$4 million grant boosts University of Michigan campaign for a new children's hospital
...regnant women. The U-M Health System soon hopes to seek permission from the University of Michigan's Board of Regents to proceed with the building project. The grant brings to $9.6 million the total funds raised through the Mott capital and program campaign, led by U-M Regent David Brandon and his wife, J...Acting techniques may help doctors empathize with their patients
...'s job." Larson also urged healthcare consumers to seek long-term, continuous relationships with physicians they like. "The better the physician knows you, the easier it is to develop an empathic, healing relationship."...Concerns over the future of children's health care in British general practice
...s may encourage parents to bypass primary care and seek emergency care in hospitals, while general practitioners have yet to take on a major role in managing chronic disorders, many of which persist into adult life, writes Professor David Hall. Health promotion for teenagers is also problematic because o...Brain-scanning technologies need standards, according to Stanford researcher
...r more sensitive ways of peering into the brain to seek out explanations for brain disease. In most cases these technologies are good news for patients, bringing new ways of understanding health and treatment options. However, standards defining ethical ways of moving forward with the new technology are n...Diabetes a bigger heart disease risk for women than for men
... would clarify these issues. Besides continuing to seek data on the sex-specific relative risk for CHD related to diabetes, researchers at the George Institute are leading a large scale randomized trial Action in Diabetes and Vascular Disease: Preterax and Diamicron MR Controlled Evaluation (ADVANCE) on 1...Immediate access to antibiotics stems spread of sexually transmitted diseases
...fy their sexual partners, who are then expected to seek medical evaluation and treatment - simply do not w...y inform their partners, and many partners fail to seek treatment, which leads to re-infection," says lead editorial author and infectious disease specialis...Radiologists offer non-surgical treatment for early-stage liver cancer
...t options with a hepatologist or oncologist and to seek consultation with an interventional radiologist experienced in tumor ablation," he said....Using the internet's power and anonymity to reduce problem drinking
... and low-motivation drinkers (those less likely to seek out services through other means). "MSB [showed] significant results for three important subgroups: females, persistent heavy drinkers, and low-motivation drinkers," said Emil Chiauzzi, vice president of product development at Inflexxion, Inc. "Fema...New study finds link between self-mutilation and risky sexual behavior
...n harming themselves. "When adolescents come in to seek clinicians, they'll know if a patient self-cuts, but very seldom do clinicians think that he or she is taking sexual risks too," says Brown. In addition to finding a link to sexual behavior, the study found that self-cutters were significantly more l...