Emory Doctors Discuss "Killing Heat" In This Week's NEJM
...tices like opening shelters or giving fans to poor citizens during heat waves are "not enough," they say. "Unfortunately, the most well-intentioned efforts can be hampered by suspicion and fear," the authors say. "Air-conditioners have been turned off by victims who felt they could not afford the utility ......,are those which have been asked by many concerned citizens and which causedCongress, in 1992, to fund the accelerated research program EMFRAPID: Doeselectricity used heavily in some occupations, carried by transmission lines andemployed in homes cause increases in leukemia, brain tumors, breast cancer andrep...Comprehensive Effort Needed To Prevent And Treat Traumatic Injuries
...s and advocacy groups who personally interact with citizens toeducate them about such things as the proper use of infant car seats, bicyclehelmets, and smoke detectors, and safe storage of firearms. To support thistype of community-level approach, the report says, state resources must bestrengthened. Every ...New drugs, diagnostic tests, software needed to prepare US cities for chemical, biological attacks
...ligiouscult Aum Shinrikyo, and the arrests of U.S. citizens for obtaining biologicalagents that could have been used in an attack have heightened public awarenessof the threat. The study was funded by the Office of Emergency Preparedness of the U.S.Department of Health and Human Services. The Institute of M...Database technology threatens liberty
...t "it's a terribly frightening proposition for our citizens tohave their medical records, without their knowledge or consent, open toinspection by almost anyone and be sold to the highest bidder." (And bid theydo. Drug companies and hospitals spend $15 billion a year on technology used tomine medical data.) ...UCSF Cancer Center joins elite group of National Cancer Institute-designated centers
...ving designation as a NCI cancer center means that citizens of NorthernCalifornia will have access to the broad spectrum of cancer diagnosis and care,including experimental therapies, which is of incalculable benefit to ourpatients," says Haile T. Debas, MD, vice chancellor of medical affairs and deanof the U...Among Puerto Ricans, immigrant status overrated as barrier to adequate prenatal care
...tother immigrants, enjoy the benefit of being U.S. citizens by birth who comefrom a setting already well integrated into the Medicaid program. It is the psychological factors, especially those related to unwantedpregnancies, which are the most frequented cited barriers to seeking adequateprenatal hea...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...providing social services, fewer than 12 percentof citizens say the state spends too much. Only with regard to...ecommonwealth spends "too much." More than half of citizens surveyed respondedthat the state does not spend enough on social services for the elderly, and 57per...Mayo Clinic study reports that centenarians do well following surgery
"The main message of the study is that our oldest citizens can do well aftersurgery," says Mark Warner, M.D., a Mayo Clinic anesthesiologist and primaryauthor of the study that appeared in the Journal of the American GeriatricsSociety. "Many people believe that old people are fragile and frail and won'ttoler......rtunity to offer cutting-edgetreatment to Maryland citizens with serious mental illness." In addition to the Novartis agreement, the University of Maryland School ofMedicine has $138 million in research agreements and contracts. It ranks 13thamong public medical schools in direct NIH funding and 32nd in tota......aps even survive. Alcoholics,anorexics and senior citizens may be especially vulnerable, according torecent s... concern is the potentially large number of senior citizens whomay be apathetic about the quality of their diet, may not be eating enough,or may forget to eat a...Poorer people worse off after heart attack
...ity of life. "Ontario has to ensure thatits poorer citizens are not further disadvantaged as a result of ignoring theimportance of socioeconomic status in cardiovascular health," adds Alter, whoconducted this research as part of his PhD thesis at the University of Toronto. The study tracked 51,591 heart attac......ve hurricane-research effort that will benefit the citizens of Louisiana and the entire Gulf Coast region. The experts and the LSU departments in which they work are: LSU Coastal Studies Institute ( http://www.csi.lsu.edu )-- Shih Ang Hsu, professor, 225-388-2962, sahsu@antares.esl.lsu.edu . Hsu is ......eased a record 17.4 percent last year, with senior citizens 70 years or older seeing the biggest cost increases per prescription. Higher prescription costs and greater drug utilization drove the spending increase, which was less for plan sponsors that actively managed their pharmacy benefits. These are am...African American and Hispanic senior citizens who lack prescription drug benefits are three times more likely than white seniors to cut back on taking their medications, according to a study from researchers at San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Although income level and medication ......verages and frequencies presented as evidence, and citizens in a growing number of democracies must intelligently evaluate the kinds of information that their governments make public....Widespread knowledge of CPR, defibrillation vital for saving lives
... bystander CPR without dispatcher assistance (from citizens previously trained in CPR). Preliminary result... improve overall survival. According to Rea, citizens who perform CPR traditionally have received formal prior instruction in CPR. In an effort to increa...New fund brings children from Europe for lifesaving surgery
...enter. Through generous contributions from private citizens in the US, Germany and Poland; Polish and German media outlets and others, enough money was raised to start the Children's Hope Fund to continue the mission to save as many children's lives as possible. Three more children await surgery....UF study: Healthy aging depends on social as well as physical activity
... of the state. The universal stereotype of senior citizens playing Bingo proved groundless, as only 4 percent of the women surveyed said they played the game, Ashton-Shaeffer said. There are people who play Bingo and take it very seriously, but its a small number of people who do it on a regular basis and ma...Wake Forest establishes Maya Angelou Research Center on minority health
...ic Islanders, Native Americans, and Alaskan Native citizens - are less likely than white Americans to live long and healthy lives. These same groups are also underrepresented in the biomedical research community as participants, investigators or practitioners. As a result, doctors know less about the preven...