Nicotine dependence & psychiatric disorders
...psychiatric disorders and its role in the national burden of smoking on health," said Ting-Kai Li, M.D., Director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at NIH. "This report fills that gap and points to a need to focus smoking cessation efforts on persons with nicotine dependence, especi...Dana-Farber receives CDC grants to develop health promotion/prevention programs in the work place
...or unions and tobacco control groups to reduce the burden of tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke among working families. The study, involving 16 apprenticeship programs, will include surveys to assess smoking behavior and related factors, a six-month smoking cessation intervention, and a follow-u...NIH awards 1,400 new student loan repayment contracts
...to launch their research careers unfettered by the burden of student loan debt." The five NIH Loan Repayment Programs are the Clinical Research LRP, Clinical Research for Individuals from Disadvantaged Backgrounds LRP, Contraception and Infertility Research LRP, Health Disparities LRP, and Pediatric Researc...NIA establishes new demography centers to enhance knowledge about older americans
...of this research will be on the measurement of the burden of disability and disease and on the causes and consequences of global aging. The center will have a particular emphasis on the effects of HIV/AIDS and will play an important role within the Harvard University Initiative for Global Health. Prince...New radiotherapy regime benefits young women with breast cancer
...e in early and late side effects and increases the burden on already overstretched resources. A balance therefore needs to be struck between providing optimal care with acceptable side effects whilst taking into account the availability of resources. The trial data was used to estimate the impact on the 5-y...Obese patients have higher health care costs than nonobese patients
... group had two. The authors write: "The economic burden of obesity is significant, even over the relativel..."Further study is needed to establish the economic burden of obesity using data from a longer period."...Breast cancer in Asian Americans is rising faster than in any other ethnic group
... state a logical and ideal place to understand the burden of cancer among Asian subgroups and Asians as a whole." According to Chen, the increase in breast cancer seen in Asian American women may be due to increased awareness of breast cancer among Asian women and their physicians, as well as to Westerniza...Two novel agents work synergistically to treat lung cancer in animal experiment
... showed that the combined treatment reduced cancer burden in the animals, shrinking tumors to 45 percent the size of tumors seen in untreated animals, and that none of the treatments produced measurable side effects. The researchers are continuing to study the combination of drugs to find a dosing ...Promising results for malaria vaccine trial
...atly contribute to reducing the intolerable global burden of this disease". In an accompanying commentary (p 1380), Philippe van de Perre and Jean-Pierre Dedet (University of Montpellier, France) states:"recent history of vaccinology tells us that vaccine development is a desperately long process. Decades ...Reconstituted blood is better for infants' heart surgery than fresh blood
...sing reconstituted blood would ease blood centers' burden of meeting the demand for whole blood, researchers said. Physicians estimate that 19,000 operations for congenital heart disease are performed annually in the United States, with the majority requiring cardiopulmonary bypass. One benefit of usi...News briefs from the journal Chest, October 2004
... identification of TB would reduce the significant burden on the US health system. The study appears in the October issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians. ...Problematic behaviour of dementing patients exacerbated
...lem among dementing patients and is a considerable burden for the carer. Partners of apathetic patients experience more difficulty with this aspect than with all other behavioural problems. Family members often do not know the best way to deal with such problems and these therefore form a significant sourc...Media invitation first annual EDCTP Forum
...d other interventions that will help reduce to the burden of diseases such as HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria in Africa. The first EDCTP Forum is hosted by the Instituto Superiore di Sanit on behalf of the EDCTP. DATE: 29 September 2004 TIME: 12:30 - 13:00 VENUE: Istituto Superiore Di Sanita (ISS), Vial...Chicken pox vaccine saves $$, protects whole population
...cken pox appears to have substantially reduced the burden of severe illness in all age groups," he says. "What remains to be seen is what the pattern will be as we get closer to having all children vaccinated, and how long the protective effect of the vaccine and the herd immunity lasts."...New data show SPIRIVA significantly reduces COPD exacerbations and related health resource burden
...g patient quality of life and reducing the related burden on health resources," Professor Daniel Dusser said. In this study, exacerbations were defined as the onset of 1 clinical symptom in the past 24 hours (worsening of dyspnoea, cough or sputum production; appearance of purulent sputum; fever [>38C] ...Cancer burden seen even many years after diagnosis
...there are few estimates available of the long-term burden of illness that occurs in addition to the cost of ...th being a cancer survivor. To better estimate the burden of surviving cancer, Robin Yabroff, Ph.D., of the National Cancer Institute, and colleagues from NCI...Women who early in life care for elderly parents are at higher risk of poverty later
...es have sought ways to lower costs by shifting the burden of elder care to families; as a result, approximat...tance. "What is needed is a system that shares the burden of elder care between private families and state and federal governments," said Wakabayashi. One wa...Northeastern professor warns big backpacks cause big back pains
...literally be a pain in the neck for students. The burden of a heavy backpack can eventually lead to the more serious problems of chronic back pain and scoliosis, according to NU physical therapy professor Mary Hickey. According to the American Physical Therapy Association, backpacks should weigh no more th...Medical database agreement to enhance ACG risk adjustment system
... care to a population is correlated to the illness burden of that population. ACGs are used to assess provider performance, identify future high-cost cases and develop innovative plan payment and financial risk-sharing arrangements by more than 175 healthcare organizations worldwide."With our ability to acc...4 out of 5 eligible patients missing opportunity to benefit from latest HIV breakthrough
...ignificant improvements in health far outweigh the burden of the injection. It is alarming that many of these patients offered FUZEON are not accepting the offer due to the fear of injection and are missing out on the modern era of HIV therapy," comments Professor Joep Lange, President of the International...