Undercooked meat is chief cause of parasite infection in pregnancy
...women, both with and without toxoplasma infection, across six European cities about their occupations, lifestyle and eating habits. Their knowledge about sources of infection was also assessed. The authors found that eating raw, undercooked or cured meat contributed to between 30 percent and 63 percent of...Insured minorities continue to face obstacles to health care, UCSF study reports
...(a leading health policy journal), compared access across racial/ethnic groups and documented cultural barri...ed care on minority populations and compare access across insurance plans. Analyzing data from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey that included resp...Workers' comp: perfect fit for chiropractic
..., the broad spectrum of workers' compensation laws across the country and some lingering medical biases have continued to prevent direct access to doctors of chiropractic in many instances, despite the fact that chiropractic adjustments have proven effective in reducing pain and returning employees to work ...Award-winning book looks at responsibility for sick babies in hospitals
...ers and the authority to follow the responsibility across organizational borders." With that message, the book offers an empirical, sociological answer to contemporary political debates about moral accountability. The authors help us see why some people take responsibility for their lives when others do not...Major new study finds long-acting calcium channel blockers inferior to other antihypertensive drugs
...New York. "The results are remarkably consistent across the trials," said Marco Pahor, M.D., professor of internal medicine at Wake Forest and the study's lead researcher. "In the CCB-treated patients, the risk of a heart attack was 27 percent higher, the risk of heart failure was 26 percent higher and th...New grants program to help create healing environments in hospitals through art
...the arts in healthcare movement has taken root all across the US during the past twenty years. The National ...y be refreshed and consoled. Patients and staff across the country value their first-hand experiences in the arts as an adjunct to their medical care. They...Invitation to take part in one-on-one interviews with experts on Avandia
... thiazolidinedione to receive centralized approval across the 15 countries of the European Union and has been approved in over 50 countries worldwide. Avandia has been linked with improvements in -cell function and reductions in insulin resistance, both fundamental causes of type 2 diabetes. To date, o...New dental anesthetic promises better pain control for patients
...to get chemotherapeutic agents across the blood-brain barrier in patients with brain tumors. Since the barrier is nature's mechanism to prevent toxins in the blood from crossing into the brain, it does not allow drug molecules t...Attachment helps young children inhale asthma medications, UF researcher says
...s inhaled. "The basic message I am trying to get across to pediatricians and family physicians is that the common misbelief that the nebulizer is more effective is just not right. And that physicians can make it more user-friendly for the parents to administer the medications, so that children will get ba...Silver-coated catheters cut infections & may save money, analysis finds
... infection, but that they were also cost-effective across the board, saving an average of $4 per patient catheterized. In other words, the more expensive catheters might pay for themselves - and then some. "These results are exciting from the perspective of both quality of care and cost. If our estimates ...Researchers take steps to growing replacement blood vessels
... which measure only a few micrometers across -- less than the width of a human hair. Normal viewing instruments would have torn the delicate surface of the gel, he said. They developed a method Moldovan characterizes as fast and ...... of eight accredited schools of public health from across the United States to receive a grant and a designation as a Public Health Training Center by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. "One of the most exciting things abo...Range of medical equipment carried in UK front line ambulances varies considerably
...rried by front line ambulances varies considerably across the UK, finds a study in Pre-Hospital Immediate Care. A survey of all 39 UK ambulance services showed that while they all carried basic equipment, there were significant discrepancies and areas of poor provision. Only one in five routinely carri...Why does an anti-depressant work for some people, but not others?
...ified a more widespread chain of events kicking in across a system of brain regions from one week to six weeks -- and only in the responders! This chain of events was not limited to the limbic and cortical sites. The cingulate, an area associated with emotional processing, and the hippocampus, an additional...High success rates for variety of heroin addiction treatment medications
...in-negative urine specimens differed significantly across the groups. More than one-third of the LAAM patients had 12 or more consecutive negative urine specimens, while only 8 percent of the low-dose methadone patients achieved this number. The percentage of high-dose methadone and buprenorphine patients r...Imaging technique predicts success of bypass surgery or angioplasty
...and since they cannot discern the extent of damage across the heart wall may have reduced diagnostic accuracy....Hartford Institute/AACN award honors nursing schools for innovative gerontology education
...cal Center, College of Nursing With four campuses across the state, the universitys nursing curriculum provides an innovative example of how to implement gerontologic content in a variety of settings. A required course, Gerontological Nursing, is an integral part of students theoretical and clinical lear...Iowa project links rural areas cross-state to top-notch medical advice
...t a course of care, for children hundreds of miles across the state," said National Library of Medicine Director, Donald A.B. Lindberg, M.D. "The patient is spared long car trips, parents don't have to miss work, and the family can tap into the best medical advice the state has to offer without leaving thei......ne this question," added Howland, "and the results across these studies are not consistent. For example, a number of studies have actually administered enough alcohol to induce intoxication among subjects and then tested their performance the next day using occupational training simulators, such as those u...