Definitive CWRU study says exercise, no smoking leads to longer life in adults over 75
...he says that the wheels of science grind slowly in collecting information, but the message from this study is that practicing healthy behaviors such as exercising and not smoking should be carried out throughout ones life. Stopping them diminishes their benefits, she concludes. Kahana provides baby boo...Other highlights in the June 5 issue of JNCI
...sting that registries could be a good resource for collecting data on the quality of cancer care. The findings a...at registries could provide the infrastructure for collecting data on the quality of cancer care; they recommend that funding be increased to support data collect...Mount Carmel is first health system in Ohio to install Bridge Medical patient safety software
...int is fully deployed," said Sheets, "we can begin collecting valuable prospective and retrospective patient and medication-use data. InfoPoint allows us to analyze this data and extract important information for use in patient care. Experts have found that 'the best-managed hospitals make extensive use of tech...Peto and Doll win King Olav Vs Prize for Outstanding Cancer Research
...y smokers die prematurely. He is adept not only at collecting and analysing statistics, but at presenting them in simple terms which anyone can understand. For instance: "Smoking kills six people a minute world-wide." "A quarter of 20-year olds who smoke regularly will be killed by tobacco in middle age." "...Teen drug use linked with later health problems
...School of Medicine and Columbia University started collecting data on the children in 1975, when the subjects were one through 10 years of age. Four follow-up interviews were conducted in 1983, 1986, 1992, and 1997. By the time of the last interview, the average subject was 27 years old. WHAT IT MEANS: This s...Recruitment of 50,000 sisters of women with breast cancer
...re years that it may take to get results. Besides collecting biological and environmental samples - blood, urine, toenail clippings and household dust - from participants at the outset, Sister Study researchers will use questionnaires to gather a multitude of data about health histories, environmental exposure...D.C. surveillance system considered a model for early disease detection
...do not have the same standardized requirements for collecting patient data. However, there are other methods of data collection that are relatively uniform across medical professionals outside the military and government that have the potential to be adapted to a similar surveillance system....Children's Hospital Boston releases results at the American Academy of Pediatrics Annual Meeting
...al Boston is the largest such center in the nation collecting data on this issue. Shannon reports that pediatricians are treating increasing numbers of children experiencing headaches, respiratory ailments, eye irritation, lethargy and a lack of concentration associated with the schools they attend. ADVANCES ...UCLA geneticists find location of major gene in ADHD; targeted region also linked to autism
...n chromosome 16. UCLA researchers spent five years collecting clinical, cognitive and genetic data from 203 families with multiple ADHD children. Their initial search for shared DNA markers suggested regions on chromosomes 16, 10 and 12. Focusing their attention on chromosome 16, researchers found a series of m...Drug combination opens clogged arteries faster, keeps them open longer
...ctivity, but not the total picture," Roe said. "By collecting data for a much longer period, we obviously gather much greater volumes of detailed data. Instead of a snapshot, it's more like a movie." With this approach, the researchers were able to follow how the drugs worked over time. For example, the researc...Students eat excessive amounts of fat at school
...ores and bag lunches brought from home. Along with collecting information on the quantity of each item sold, the researchers also surveyed children on their daily menu choices. Their analysis revealed that cafeteria lunches contained an average of 31.1 grams of fat, cafeteria breakfasts contained an average of ...Soaking in the genius of Mother Nature
...nfinitesimal quantities as to make the prospect of collecting and commercializing their use impractical. Enter Handy and his research team. After more than two years of work, Handy's group last month successfully synthesized the molecular skeleton of the lamellarins, an accomplishment that will now allow them t...Foot and mouth report recommends major changes to the lamb supply chain
...ands that every vehicle must be disinfected before collecting animals from each farm. Alan Waller, chairman of the Institute of Logistics and Transport, said, "Traceability, information exchange and cost efficiency are key tenets of modern supply-chain management. The outcome of this report demonstrates the n...Aircraft technology helps diagnose artificial hip, knee problems
...ct ever since. Once she perfects the technique for collecting the wear debris, she will begin creating the atlas. Meyer said the atlas will be designed so doctors can easily compare a patient's age, activity level, implant type and time since implantation with the size and composition of the wear debris to qui...Breastfeeding rates unaffected by changes in hospital length of stay
...s and mothers over a seven-and-a-half-year period, collecting demographic and utilization data as well as information on how infants were fed during the first 90 days of life. Not surprisingly, they found that the length of time women stayed in the hospital after delivery changed significantly following the two...Glucowatch Biographer reported to improve diabetes control in children
...very 10 minutes, automatically and non-invasively, collecting glucose through the skin, not from blood. It also creates an "electronic diary," storing up to 8,500 glucose values that can be reviewed at the touch of a button, or uploaded into a software program (GlucoWatch Analyzer), helping detect trends and...Study: Transferred patients hurt big hospitals' rankings
...s one of the most popular computerized systems for collecting and assessing intensive care patient health, and scoring the quality of care. It scores based on comparisons of actual patient outcomes with expected outcomes generated by a computer model. The system, called APACHE III for Acute Physiology and Chron...Depression doubles risk of death after bypass surgery
...nclusions. However, the Duke researchers have been collecting clinical and psychological data on heart surgery patients for more than two decades, which allows them to perform these long-term outcomes studies. "We were very surprised at the strength of the association between depression and mortality," said Mar...School PE lessons don't reflect kids' activity levels
...mation but give cause for reflection on methods of collecting activity data, the provision of physical education in school, and the competing demands of the school curriculum," they conclude....Nursing home residents, minorities under-treated for recurrent stroke
...e resident assessments when patients are admitted, collecting information on demographics, clinical diagnoses, physical and cognitive functioning, and medication use. The researchers evaluated data from five states Kansas, Maine, Ohio, New York, and Mississippi between 1992 and 1996. Researchers identified 1...