Satellite survey enhances knowledge of Tuscan landslides
...urces, SLAM products have the advantage of uniform coverage of the entire area of the river basin," explained Nicola Casagli of GNDCI. "They also provide important information on the temporal evolution of slope movements, which is very difficult to obtain ordinarily. "The final results are now undergoing a p...Sudan surveys show high rates of death and malnutrition among displaced population
...ears were affected. Reported measles vaccination coverage ranged from 46 percent to 70 percent." The surveys also found that even if households had access to food and nonfood items, many still lacked access to safe water and sanitation. "Additional efforts from humanitarian and governmental actors are urg...Disfigured patients may be forced to forego surgery
...urgeons continue to see healthcare providers limit coverage on procedures such as skin lesion and tumor remova...t five years. Other procedures being excluded from coverage are breast reduction and some breast reconstruction techniques, which forces patients to make health...Blacks less likely to get expensive, newer heart treatments
...k patients were also less likely to have insurance coverage or have a cardiologist as their primary health care provider during hospitalization. Researchers found that high-risk blacks were as likely or more likely than whites to receive older and more established treatments such as aspirin, beta blockers, A...Government wasting your taxpayer money on ineffective drug cure
...and Medicaid Services (CMS) initiated the national coverage determination for use of L-carnitine in qualified ...bmitted in the first six months following national coverage of L-carnitine. Based on recommended doses of L-carnitine, the cost per treatment for an average per...Openness is key to winning the war over MMR
...t considerable ground. One of the lowest levels of coverage of MMR is now found in London, at around 75%. Pare..., writes Professor Paul Bellaby. The high level of coverage achieved before that point had so far reduced the risk of contracting the diseases that parents bega...End AIDS drug waiting lists, HIV care providers tell policymakers
...ion of programs designed to fill in gaps in health coverage for uninsured or underinsured people with HIV/AIDS. Ryan White programs provide aid ranging from social and support services like legal services, child care, and housing assistance to access to antiretroviral medications through the AIDS Drug Assist...Many children are undervaccinated or have delayed vaccinations in their first 2 years of life
...g to vaccination providers to estimate vaccination coverage rates for U.S. children aged 19 to 35 months. Data for this study were limited to 14,810 children aged 24 to 35 months. The researchers wanted to determine the cumulative days children were undervaccinated during the first 24 months of life for each...Three out of the four million newborn babies who die each year could be saved
...ctive interventions to prevent neonatal mortality, coverage of many of these interventions is low. Lead autho...ecially in poor rural areas. In countries with low coverage of skilled clinical care for maternal and child health, the staff, infrastructure and support needed...Medical technologies may hinder rather than help newborn survival
...robably the most cost-effective policy: increasing coverage of syphilis screening, making sure that unimmunised women receive tetanus toxoid, and careful monitoring in labour. As Barros and colleagues show, the risks of medicalisation should not be ignored because they might offset the gains resulting from im...Unsafe water and poor sanitation causes 4000 children to die each day
...ed efforts to confront the reality that sanitation coverage rates in the developing world barely keep pace with population growth. Four out of ten people in the world do not have access to a simple pit latrine. The authors state that although access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation can have a stron...Elderly receiving inappropriate prescriptions from their doctor's office
...s despite more than a decade of research and media coverage of this issue," the authors write, calling their work indicative of "the need to understand more fully the rationale behind the continued use of these medications." An association between potentially inappropriate medications and negative outcomes wo...Insurance incentives might help smokers quit, study says
... advice to quit. Incentives such as full insurance coverage for smoking-cessation therapies slightly improved quit rates, the studies showed, but the payments to clinics did not improve quit rates significantly. There were also no signs that the incentives had caused the clinics to change their usual advice ...How often should women get mammograms?
...ier stage. With screening guidelines and financial coverage varying among health systems and insurers sometim...y are in good health." But payors differ in their coverage for the tests: in Great Britain, said Zelen, the National Health System pays for mammograms only at ...Americans support most uses of reproductive genetic testing, report on US attitudes reveals
...aracteristics of a child. "Public debate and media coverage of reproductive genetic technologies hide a surprising level of concordance among Americans for using genetic testing to identify risks of disease," says Kathy Hudson, director of the Johns Hopkins University-affiliated Center, which evaluated the st...Flu vaccination impact on elderly deaths may be over-estimated
...no correlation between this increasing vaccination coverage after 1980 and declining deaths rates in any age group. Observational studies may introduce a systematic bias that leads to a substantial over-estimate of the impact of influenza vaccination on mortality, the authors suggest. Lone Simonsen, Ph.D., of...British conservatives should beware of Australian health service reforms
...stem. Various incentives and penalties have driven coverage up from 30% to 45% of the population, but the strategy of subsidising insurance premiums has been expensive and primarily benefited the wealthy. Admissions to private hospitals have increased, but admissions to public hospitals have also increased, s...States find alternate routes to health coverage
... officials worked hard in 2004 to keep health care coverage on their agendas, according to a new report, State...ves program (SCI), tells the story of state health coverage activities from the previous year. As the only report to provide a comprehensive analysis of state a...Illness and medical bills cause half of all bankruptcies
...ith private insurance, however, one-third had lost coverage at least temporarily by the time they filed for ba...- were incurred by those who initially had private coverage but lost it in the course of their illness. Many families were bankrupted by medical expenses well ...Women's heart risk underestimated by doctors, resulting in less preventive care than in men
...er among OBGyns and PCPs, as was lack of insurance coverage for lifestyle interventions. This suggests that policy makers and insurers need to address system constraints to better serve public health." Cardiologists, OBGyns, and PCPs did not rate themselves as very effective in helping patients prevent cardi...