Invasive pneumonia and antibiotic resistance decreased after childhood vaccine introduced
...ears old had a 71 percent decrease. In addition to declining rates of pneumonia in young children, the researchers also found significant drops in adults aged 20-39 (54 percent), 40-64 (25 percent) and 65 and older (39 percent) who did not receive vaccine, an effect known as "herd immunity." Increases in a...Job satisfaction? Not much for Britain's hard slog 'robot' workers
...for personal initiative, are the chief reasons for declining job satisfaction in Britain, according to new research sponsored by the ESRC. Feelings of insecurity, too high expectations and people being 'over-educated' and unable to find work to match their qualifications, are largely dismissed as factors, in t...Flu vaccination impact on elderly deaths may be over-estimated
...his 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 the National Institute o...Cell phone users drive like old folks
...tal accident rates high during teenage years, then declining until age 30 and staying relatively level until age 60, when accident rates climb again as age increases. Six participants in the new study rear-ended the pace car while driving the simulator. Four accidents (one older adult and three younger adult...Study shows drugs such as Vioxx and Celebrex were widely over-used long before recent problems
...0 percent of very low risk patients by 2001 before declining slightly in 2002. At the same time, 6.8 million patients, or 40 percent of those at low risk, got COX-2 drugs in 1999, which increased to 17.6 million or 66 percent of low risk patients in 2002. Over time, growth in COX-2 inhibitor use was most li...Insufficient sleep associated with overweight and obesity
...less sleep than they did a century ago. With these declining sleep times there has also been an increase in the number of both obese and severely obese people in the U.S. Robert D. Vorona, M.D., from Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, and colleagues examined patients' total sleep time per 24 hours i...Old T cells cripple immune function in the elderly
...fect is intrinsic to B cells or is a by-product of declining CD4 T cell helper functions. Eaton and colleagues transferred young or old CD4 T cells into mice lacking their own CD4 T cells to determine which cells are responsible for the age-related decline in B cell function. They show that B cell activatio...Acupuncture relieves pain and improves function in knee osteoarthritis
... sham and control groups. These results, shown by declining scores on the WOMAC index, held through week 26. Overall, those who received acupuncture had a 40 percent decrease in pain and a nearly 40 percent improvement in function compared to baseline assessments. "This trial, which builds upon our previ...Report finds new model of care can improve quality, lower costs and increase physician efficiency
...r overhead keeps going up. Increasing expenses and declining reimbursements are forcing many primary care physicians out of practice." The year 2003 was the third consecutive year that increases in production outpaced increases in compensation, according to the Medical Group Management Association's 2004 Physi...Federal forum reports Americans aging well, but gaps remain
...entage for women has remained relatively constant, declining slightly from 10 percent in 1965 to 9 percent in 2002. In 2002, 46 percent of people age 65 and over lived in a county where ozone concentrations reached levels that were above EPA standards compared with 26 percent in 2000. About 19 percent live...Obesity linked to another cancer - leukemia in older women
...ias, such as CLL and chronic myeloid leukemia, are declining in the United States, AML in people over age 65 has increased about 10 percent in the last 25 years. "The fact that survival rates for AML are extremely poor for older individuals makes identifying people who are at increased risk for this cancer of ...Model predicting colorectal cancer screening suggests higher mortality for virtual colonoscopy
...igher rate of mortality for virtual colonoscopy to declining sensitivity when the two tests are performed. In the model, the researchers assumed a rate of sensitivity for both virtual colonoscopy and traditional colonoscopy of 90 percent. Therefore, in an exam 10 percent of significant lesions (large polyps ...Ovarian cancer rates across Europe
...dy of ovarian cancer trends found that while it is declining in most northern European countries, it is increas...elling of ovarian cancer rates across Europe, with declining incidence, and especially mortality rates, in most northern countries, particularly in younger age g...Major overhaul needed in end-of life care for patients with dementia
...s, which reward providers for transferring rapidly declining patients into hospitals where the process of dying is prolonged. "The only parties who may not be better off from the transfer," note the authors, "are the patient and family." The solutions involve education, better prognostic tools, an...Major overhaul needed in end-of life care for patients with dementia
...s, which reward providers for transferring rapidly declining patients into hospitals where the process of dying is prolonged. "The only parties who may not be better off from the transfer," note the authors, "are the patient and family." The solutions involve education, better prognostic tools, and c...New class of compounds promises to revive failing hearts
...ebilitating condition characterized by the heart's declining ability to pump blood efficiently. The condition causes about 50,000 deaths annually and accounts for 1 million hospitalizations more than for all forms of cancer combined. Since the 1980s, nitroglycerin and other medications that release nitr...Siblings help children get along with others in kindergarten
...y also points out possible broader consequences of declining family size in the United States. "We're involved in a huge social change that has ramifications for all of us that are largely unexplored," he said. "People are growing up with fewer siblings as our families get smaller. It's worthwhile to...Parkinson's caregivers at risk for deteriorating health
...ble finding is that mutuality is a risk factor for declining health. "Mutuality is the quality of relationship itself between the patient and spouse - how much time they spend together, how much they enjoy each other, care for each other, how easy it is to be with each other," Carter explained. "We think high ...Reading test may validly estimate pre-dementia functioning
...regular words remain relatively intact. "Among the declining cognitive skills of a person's brain in early dementia, the ability to perform the NART stands out as a relatively resistant indicator of how good this brain used to be." Deary and his team note, however, that for subjects with a more severe degree o...Duration of hospital stay has shortened for patients with heart attack
..."However, we found no negative association between declining length of stay and short-term mortality after hospital discharge for AMI." "Much of the observed decline in hospital length of stay may be attributed to improvements in the management of AMI, including increased use of coronary reperfusion modalities...