Chronic stress can interfere with normal function of the immune system
...l support lessened the immunologic consequences of caring for a child with cancer, perhaps by helping the parents deal with the economic, work and family disruptions caused by the disease and its treatment. "These findings suggest a novel mechanism through which psychological stress could influence the onse...Intensivists reduce mortality and length of stay in ICU patients
...are approximately 6,000 ICUs in the United States, caring for 55,000 critically ill patients each day. Annual ICU costs are approximately $180 billion. Despite this large investment, there is no standard model for how an ICU should be staffed or organized," said Derek C. Angus, M.B., Ch.B., M.P.H., associat...New study finds women in Philadelphia region still face significant inequality at work and at home
..."And yet women are still the ones who provide most caring labor. They maintain households and provide care for our children, elders, ill and infirm. For this they earn 75 percent of what male workers earn. Women should be rewarded, not penalized, for their singular contributions. It is time for a change...'Enhanced' counseling, support interventions slash long-term risk of depression among AD caregivers
...g-term risk of depression among husbands and wives caring for spouses with Alzheimer's disease. The positive... them cope with crises and other issues related to caring for someone with AD. A second group of spouses was assigned to receive the usual support services fo...Robo-thespians help mothers of kids with cancer
...elp mothers cope with the stresses associated with caring for a child who has cancer. In the first clinical trial, 26 mothers of children being treated for malignancies gave "uniformly positive reviews" of the system, called "Carmen's Bright IDEAS," (CBI) developed by the University of Southern California, ...Study shows long-term stress appears to damage caregivers immune systems
... of 119 people consisted of men and women who were caring for a spouse with dementia, usually Alzheimer's disease. The other group consisted of 106 people who were not caregivers. When they entered the investigation, subjects' average age was 70.5 years. "Statistical analyses showed a more rapid increase in...UCLA study reveals surgeon shortage
...n School of Medicine at UCLA. "Such issues include caring for an older population who tend to have more co-existent diseases, improving the organization and efficiency of systems, and providing consistently high-quality care."...WHO leader backs call to action for child survival programmes
...families and communities in preventing disease and caring for their sick children." "Third, and most important in the longer term, there must be a commitment to building capacity for public-health programmes at the district level. As shown in the first paper in the series, epidemiological profiles vary acro...Physicians' emotional responses to patients' deaths increase with care length, says Pitt
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 1 The longer a doctor spends caring for a patient, the more vulnerable that doctor is ...esidents and primary attending physicians who were caring for 68 patients at the time of death at two U.S. teaching hospitals. They examined how training leve...Fruits, vegetables overlooked by healing heart patients
...udes five steps: pre-contemplation (not knowing or caring about a health risk); contemplation (knowing it, but not ready to do anything about it); preparation (getting ready to make an active effort); action (doing something positive for up to six months); maintenance (doing the right thing for more than si...Treating older adults for flu is cost-effective, but preventing it with a yearly flu shot is better
... outcomes and costs of a variety of strategies for caring for older adults with flu-like illness, including no testing or treatment, testing for flu before treatment with a newer or an older anti-flu drug, and treating without testing. For patients older than 65 who had not been vaccinated or who were at hi...Most adult survivors of childhood cancer consider themselves in good health
.... "Our findings underscore the need for physicians caring for young adult cancer survivors to be informed about treatment exposures and their potential long-term adverse effects," Hudson said. "Evaluations of survivors should address potential adverse effects on both physical and emotional health and provid...Joslin and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center sign new joint venture clinical agreement
...in Clinic brings to the joint venture expertise in caring for and educating people with diabetes and their families, as well as proven disease management techniques for identifying patients at risk for developing medical complications and preventing those complications. BIDMC offers an extensive pool of ph...More children survive cancer but the after-effects present a challenge to doctors
...t consider the best and most cost-effective way of caring for them, according to Jill Mann, Professor of Paediatric Oncology at the University of Birmingham, and Emeritus Consultant Paediatric Oncologist at the Birmingham Children's Hospital in the UK. Prof. Mann told delegates at ECCO12 The European Cance...University of Pittsburgh receives grant for research on cancer and aging
... new methods to train health care professionals in caring for the elderly....Caregivers of family members with dementia experience more health problems than noncaregivers
...een conducted on the physical health correlates of caring for a family member with dementia until now. In a ...re related to general distress and the distress of caring for an ill spouse or family member. According to the authors, this meta-analysis does not allow one ...Big cut in heart failure problems from one hour of education
...m to the health care system and to other hospitals caring for heart failure patients could be sizable. Heart failure is the chief cause of about 1 million hospital admissions each year many of them repeat visits by patients whose symptoms worsened after they went home from the hospital because they failed ...Caregivers for patients with dementia need more support before patient dies, less after
...exhibited high levels of depressive symptoms while caring for the relative with dementia, after the death, they had clinically lower depression within three months and significant declines in depression after a year. In addition, the vast majority of caregivers, 72 percent, reported that the death of their ...St. Paul nurse receives Guardian Angel Award named for UT Southwestern vice president
DALLAS Nov. 14, 2003 Two decades of caring for the sickest of newborns and their anguished families has taught Aziza Young quite a bit about joy and sorrow. "This line of work can be emotionally wrenching, but the fulfillment I get from being a part of the journey these babies take is a wond......damage, mental retardation and death. The cost of caring for these children is thought to exceed $500 million per year. In addition to active infections, T. gondii in its latent stage infects the nervous system of an estimated 3 billion people, including about 30 percent of Americans. Although it has long...