ID Migraine screener found to be highly reliable in detecting migraine in undiagnosed patients
...ht represent an important step toward reducing the burden of this illness." "Headaches sometimes have serious causes not identified by the screener. Whether a patient has migraine or headaches due to other conditions, the ID migraine screener can help facilitate patient physician communication and the exch...Medicare+Choice enrollees face continued cost increases in 2003, costs have doubled since 1999
...monwealth Fund. "The steadily increasing financial burden on sicker beneficiaries is of notable concern." Average Annual Out-of-Pocket Cost-Sharing for Medicare+Choice Enrollees, 19992003 1999 - $976 2000 - $1185 2001 - $1438 2002 - $1786 2003 - $1964 Note: Results are weighted by plan enrollment. Out-of...Atrial fibrillation hospitalizations triple since 1985, will continue climb
... of congestive heart failure presages a staggering burden on the Medicare system and the quality of life for affected persons," the authors write. "The real message here is about prevention," Mensah says. "We need to concentrate our efforts on measures that will reduce these hospitalizations and the need ...Tackling major risk factors simultaneously key to improving global health
...e deaths worldwide and around 40% of total disease burden in 2000 resulted from the joint effects of the main risk factors assessed. The investigators used comprehensive reviews of data on risk-factor levels and epidemiological studies in their estimates. They reported their results in terms of gain in hea...WHO leader backs call to action for child survival programmes
...amily, will also contribute to reducing the future burden of obesity, diabetes, and other non-communicable diseases." "Second, more of the children and mothers who are dying must be reached, by scaling up the delivery of effective interventions and achieving and maintaining high coverage rates, especially a...OneWorld Health begins final testing of drug to cure deadly kala azar in India
...r VL, particularly in India, which has the largest burden for this disease in the world. Paromomycin is an off-patent medicine that was previously approved by the Food and Drug Administration and marketed in the U.S. as a broad-spectrum antibiotic. Transmitted by the bite of a sand fly, VL is a deadly vecto...Injuries cost China over $12 billion a year
.... "Injuries pose a tremendous economic and social burden for the Chinese people," said co-author, Timothy B... 1998 Second National Service Survey. The economic burden was measured in direct costs in hospital fees, physician fees and medicine. Indirect costs were calc...Peanut Allergy: Major Advances in Treatment and Education
...ood Discoveries that could relieve some of the burden the allergy puts on families WHEN: July 10, 2003 at 11 a.m. EST CALL IN INFORMATION: To register for press conference, please contact John Gardner, Media Relations Coordinator, at 414-272-6071 or jgardner@aaaai.org . WHO: Donald Y. M. Leu...Stanford research pinpoints online consumer health use
...about which they have questions, without putting a burden on health-care providers," said Baker, adding that the researchers' intent is not to "throw a cold bucket of water" on the Internet. "Forty percent is a significant number, and the Internet is clearly an important tool for disseminating information o...UNC physician says patient, doctor education improves health outcomes
...mmunication is an important strategy to lessen the burden of low health literacy. We desperately need more research to understand how to improve health outcomes for people with low health literacy, he said. Funding for such research has traditionally been poor, but the potential health payoffs are enormous...Clear public health message on cannabis needed
...ublic health hazard. When the likely mental health burden is added, these signals cannot be ignored, they conclude....Alcohol makes auto crash injuries worse for drivers and passengers, study finds
...We as a society may be grossly underestimating the burden of injury attributable to alcohol, and the need for more research and preventive efforts," Maio adds. "Until we can learn more about this effect and how it can be prevented, anyone who drinks before getting in a motor vehicle, even as a passenger, sh...Economic evaluation shows add-on therapy with Keppra(r) is a cost-effective alternative
...ult, the World Bank estimates that 1% of the total burden of disease around the world is caused by epilepsy ...or the family, and it also places a major economic burden on society. For the first time, evidence shows that the incremental cost of treating patients with ...Trachoma leaves millions blind, costs $2.9 billon to global economy
...iative have calculated the human toll and economic burden of trachoma, a chronic infection that causes blind... The results appear in the article "Estimating the burden of trachomatous visual loss" in the April 2003 issue of Ophthalmic Epidemiology. Kevin D. Frick, PhD...Patients benefit when doctor uses computer, not paper, to write prescriptions
...er entry system wasn't a real burden for Ohio State's health system, he said. "There weren't any significant negative results, despite the major cultural change that stemmed from introducing this new technology. In many cas...Fossil fuels for household use are viable option for world's poor
...d as one of the top 10 risk factors for the global burden of disease, accounting for 1.6 million premature d... switch to more fuel efficient vehicles shifts the burden of reducing emissions onto the richer nations," said Smith. "We in the United States have the obliga...$15 million grant spurs cancer collaboration; M. D. Anderson, University of Puerto Rico
...enhance cancer research capability and address the burden of cancer in minority populations, particularly Hispanics," says Gabriel Lopez-Berestein, M.D., principal investigator and professor of bioimmunotherapy at M. D. Anderson. "Findings from this research may enable us to develop ethnic-specific cancer p...Targeting bone metastasis and hypercalcemia
...only decreases bone lesions but also reduces tumor burden in animals. Preliminary results from human patients treated with bisphosphonates, a group of drugs also used to prevent and treat osteoporosis, suggest that the same might be true in humans. An article in the November 18 issue of the Journal of Clin...Molecular tag pinpoints which breast cancer tumors are most likely to spread
... "My hope is that this technique may help ease the burden of chemotherapy among breast cancer patients," says Keyomarsi. "Women who don't overexpress cyclin E may not need chemotherapy, which kills all dividing cells and can do significant damage to other tissues and organs." For those patients who have hi...... the widespread use of coffee and the large health burden of type 2 diabetes, our finding of an inverse association between coffee consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes could have important public-health implications. However, our findings need to be replicated and possible adverse effects on other health...