Remembering Your Medications: Older Are Wiser
...otionally. "Being a very busy person is the single biggest risk factor we found," saysPark. "Having a life that's overly full leaves little time to attend to healthconcerns." For doctors, the implications of the research are clear. "Consider prescribingsimpler drug regimens for busy, middle-aged patients, ...JAMA Study Shows Jefferson Medical College Program Brings Family Physicians To Small Town America
...mber practicing five to 10 years ago. "The biggest impact of the PSAP program has been our ability to providedoctors to rural areas that have a limited number of physicians," explains Dr.Rabinowitz. "With more people living in rural Pennsylvania than in any otherstate in the nation, the medical need...TB, AIDS And State Prisons Subject Of Fresno Press Conference
...AIDS-related deaths worldwide; and TBis the single biggest killer worldwide of young women. Studies also show correctional facilities are high-risk settings fortuberculosis transmission and present a public health problem for correctionalfacility employees, inmates, the communities to which inmates are rele...Study Finds Lymph Node Surgery Unnecessary For Many Breast Cancer Patients
... studies initially tookplace, Parmigiani said. The biggest benefit of axillary node dissection surgery is for estrogen receptorpositive women with small tumors who can avoid chemotherapy if their lymph nodesare actually negative, Parmigiani said, but the benefit is small. For otherpatients, the statistical a...Testosterone Is Mixed Blessing To Men's Health
...indulge in risky behavior that leads to injury.The biggest detriment to health by far is the tendency for high testosterone mento smoke. Booth; Dr. Douglas A. Granger, assistant professor of biobehavioralhealth and director of Penn State's Behavioral Endocrinology Laboratory in theCollege of Health a...National Survey: Leg Crossing Is Taboo But Women Indulge Anyway
...urning to workafter pregnancy, which is the single biggest cause of poor leg vein health. Ifleg health is not maintained, women may experience normal inadequate legcirculation (NIC), which involves tired legs, sensations of leg tension and legswelling. Among the estimated one in 10 American women who experie...... Prozac, Zoloft and Paxil made antidepressants the biggest contributors to arecord-setting pharmacy benefit cost increase of 16.8 percent last year,according to a study by the country's largest independent pharmacy benefitmanager, Express Scripts, Inc. Not everyone was hit by the full cost increase. "Plan...Doctors find muscle-builder cream caused sex development in toddler
...ple, might grow rapidly for a year or so and bethe biggest child in the class but then stop growing and spend his life as avery short adult, the physician said. When growth plates - the parts of bonesthat lengthen - evolve from cartilage to bone, no more skeletal growth occurs. "We want to make it...Return to play not determined by the numbers
...mparison to the baseline test." One of the biggest problems is determining when post- injury scores haveactually returned to the baseline. Determining the point beyond which scoresare the same and not just appear to be the same through a chance variation isdifficult. Determining the margin of error...Annual UNC-CH study shows state gaining health providers, but big imbalances remain
...re providers wasnot restricted to North Carolina's biggest cities," Pirani said. "For example,the supply of primary-care physicians and nurse practitioners grew at thehighest rate in large, remote rural towns, and the greatest rate of increase inphysician assistants was in remote rural counties. This growth ...Fully endoscopic micro-surgery puts a former Jr. Olympic athlete back on the marathon trail
...yside flats of Marin County, California. While his biggest reasonfor running this marathon is to prove to himself that "he's back," he hasanother reason that is equally important: "I want to give back," he says. "I'vebeen given my life back, and now I'm determined to help others by raising moneyfor the Skull...Elderly less likely than other adults to have economic problems
... The biggest factor influencing whether people reported economic hardship was not their income level -- it wasthe presence of and number of children. While it's nosecret that raising child...New DNA chip method could improve cancer diagnosis
One of the biggest challenges in cancer treatment is choosing the right regimenfor a given patient. Treatment strategies work differently for differenttumors. In choosing effective treatments with minimal side effects, oncologistsrely heavily on biopsy reports that d......er the last 30 years. In each, doctors reportedthe biggest barriers of knowledge, attitudes and behavior that keep them fromfollowing the medical guidelines for specific diseases. The study was conductedby Michael Cabana, M.D., MPH, a pediatrician and lecturer in pediatrics at theUniversity of Michigan Healt...Depression costs UK economy 2 billion a year, conference will be told
...Fifteen per centsucceed. Depression is the second biggest cause of morbidity in the country. In no other specialist life-threatening disease is the management left to GPs,who are often inadequately trained to cope. Depressed people can become a burden to GPs, one third of whom admit to havinglittle intere...Home exercise equipment increased weight-loss success in study
...es long. Among all of the groups, the biggest weight loss occurred at sixmonths, after which people began to regain weight. The group with treadmills regained the leastamount. Also, women with treadmills doing shorter, multiple sessions ofdaily exercise lost more weight ......ping the growing pharmaceutical industry solve its biggest and most costly challenge: volunteer recruitment. "By enabling pharmaceutical companies to bring new products to market more quickly, we solve a crucial industry problem," said Scott M. Rifkin, M.D., founder and CEO of AmericasDoctor.com. "We als...Duke geneticists unraveling the tangled web of autism
...h with its own individual treatment. "One of the biggest difficulties has been coming up with a firm way of diagnosing autism," said Dr. Michael Cuccaro, associate professor of neuropsychiatry at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, and a collaborator on the project. "There has never been any defini...Expert calls for common sense, science in national response to medicinal herbs
...dividual herbal products -- "without question, the biggest single problem in the entire field" today. "There is absolutely no way that consumers can be assured that what is on the label is actually in the package, other than the reputation of the producer," Tyler said. "Unfortunately, the name of the origin...