Minorities who experience pain don't receive the same care as Caucasians
...ace and ethnicity. Readers can anticipate further coverage on the disparities and differences in pain medicine, as three more articles are scheduled to publish in future issues this year....Good medicine, good economics: African-Americans need equal treatment for pain, SLU study finds
...ta. "As an insurance system that provides uniform coverage for workers injured in the course of their employment in the United States, Workers' Compensation should be equitable with regard to case management of persons with low back injuries, regardless of race or socioeconomic status. Similarly, outcomes of...Post election 2004: What's in store for health policy
...s major health policy concerns, including Medicare coverage decisions, malpractice reform and child health policy issues such as SCHIP reauthorization and the child obesity epidemic. Speakers include: Governor Kathleen Sebelius (D-Kan.) David Brailer, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology M...Women In Government report on eliminating cervical cancer
...ould be, based on cervical cancer screening rates, coverage of routine screening tests in public insurance programs and passage of state legislation to make cervical cancer elimination a priority. "The report findings reveal that too many American women remain unscreened or under-screened for cervical cancer...Business/gov't address health care costs and prevention
...h care purchasers who collectively provide health coverage for more than 50 million U.S. workers, retirees, and their families. The Business Group fosters the development of a quality health care delivery system and works with other organizations to promote safety and ensure access to superior new technology...Health care costs higher for children with special health care needs
...at would extend the breadth and depth of insurance coverage are needed to ensure that all families of CSHCN are protected against burdensome expenses."...Timing appears essential to combining antiangiogenesis and radiation therapy
... Mirroring the pattern of oxygen supply, pericyte coverage of blood vessels peaked around day 5 and then fell...he investigators also showed that greater pericyte coverage was the result of more pericytes being attracted to the tumor vessels, rather than the removal of pe...Report on health insurance coverage of Iowa children shows gaps
A new report on health insurance coverage of Iowa children indicates that nearly 90,000 chil...selves may be less likely to seek or use insurance coverage for their children. "Financial ability to pay for services is only one part of access to care. It's ...NHLBI statement on oral contraceptive study
...ety of Reproductive Medicine and subsequent media coverage may have created the impression that OC use is linked to lower risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). However, the WHI review of the abstract shows no evidence that OC use is linked to lower risk of CVD. The abstract used information provided by ...Multi-center study finds therapy boosts kidney transplants in 'highly sensitized' patients
...icare and other insurance providers began offering coverage for IVIG therapy in certain situations. Using IVIG to get even half of the sensitized patients transplanted and off of long-term dialysis would bring huge savings, according to cost analyses. "From a financial standpoint and from a quality of life s...Voluntary health organizations, publishers announce major information initiative
...wareness of clinical research, heightened by media coverage and fueled by the spread of broadband Internet, has led more and more patients to go online to find the latest information about treatment options. Still, even many knowledgeable consumers can find it difficult to fully understand, evaluate, and make...Direct payments to households in poor countries could improve maternal & child health
...ntervention had a large impact (1520% increase) in coverage of antenatal care and well-child check-ups. Childh...uld therefore be started more opportunely, and the coverage of growth monitoring was markedly increased. The transfer of resources to local health teams could n...ESA service makes customised maps available to African aid workers
...chnical enhancements, it is foreseen to extend the coverage by integrating data on Asia, the Middle East and South America. The creation of user profiles is an improvement that will allow users to retrieve a previous customised mapping project that they have designed and then built on the earlier version, if ...Chernobyl disaster caused cancer cases in Sweden
...h counties into six classes on the basis of ground coverage of cesium 137. Most of the parishes in the seven counties, 333 out of 450, were impacted by the fallout. One class comprising 117 parishes received no fallout, and the individuals in these parishes were used as a control group. Those people aged 0-60...Most seniors switch doctors only if forced
... of involuntary discontinuity because of insurance coverage changes and further instability in the physician workforce," the researchers concluded. "This would probably have a significant negative impact on the quality of primary health care services available to the elderly."...Encouraging results from vaccine trial to reduce cervical cancer
... national vaccination programmes to guarantee high coverage in adolescents before they become sexually active? Should both girls and boys be vaccinated? How many oncogenic HPV types should the vaccine contain? Is resurgence of oncogenic HPV types not included in the vaccine a real threat? When is booster vacc...University of Pennsylvania Health System launches life-saving eICU technology
...lth System's Penn E-lert will permit remote "live" coverage of Intensive Care Units (ICUs) by practicing, critical-care physicians intensivists via a comprehensive telemedicine system that includes early-warning software, order entry, clinical decision support, electronic documentation, and remote physiolog...Rehabilitation professionals in nationwide survey cite barriers to assistive technology transfer
... together to enlist federal government support for coverage of every single piece of technology a person needs to function more independently and have a better quality of life. 2. Design products with mass appeal. Incorporate more universal design principles in research to broaden the application of new prod......ever, this approach has failed to provide adequate coverage in Britain and should be replaced by universal immunisation, writes Nicholas Beeching of the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. The hepatitis B virus causes up to a million deaths worldwide every year. In the United Kingdom, 4,500 acute hepatitis B...