Mammography Messages Need To Be Tailored For Older Women
...erroneous beliefs, fears and practical issues that deter womenfrom getting mammograms. The findings are published in the Januaryissue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine . About half the women had received a mammogramwithin the past two years. About a third were not thinking ofbeing tested, a...Higher Prices Won't Stop Teenage Smokers
...r study indicates that higher prices don't work to deter youth smoking," says Mathios. "There is good evidence that higher taxes reduce total tobacco sales and adult smoking," says Kenkel, a health economist with strong interests in public-policy issues. "Higher taxes reduce adult smoking by encouraging c...Protecting Breast Feeding From Breast Milk Substitutes
...lations should be more systematic in an attempt to deter such promotional activities. The author believes that doctors should also be warned that the baby milk manufacturers try to gain endorsement by association' by allying themselves with prestigious national bodies, such as by sponsoring a paediatric c......ans to violatepatient confidentiality, which could deter many patients from seeking care orcould jeopardize patient safety. "We conducted this study because intimate partner violence is a problem of highpriority in the health care and legal communities. However, the Californiareporting law, enacted in 19...Phobias deter chronically ill from seeking regular treatment
...ss can result in a loss ofmedical coverage and may deter patients from seeking medical care. "Common psychiatric conditions should play an important role in studies ofquality and continuity of care and in efforts to optimize health outcomes for acomplete population and not just for those who regularly use...Landmark school-based 'social influences' smoking-prevention program found not to work
...ing prevention via school programs isn't enough to deter youth from smoking. "Surprisingly and disappointingly, we found a striking similarity in smoking prevalence between the experimental and control groups," says Peterson, a member of the Hutchinson Center's Public Health Sciences Division and a profess...Rubber bullets not safe for crowd control
... acknowledged. Techniques used by police forces to deter such activity must be effective and able to keep serious injuries to demonstrators to a minimum. We reported a substantial number of severe injuries and fatalities inflicted by use of rubber bullets when vulnerable upper-body regions such as the head...What is the best way to fund the NHS?
...ould pay more, but no evidence exists that charges deter only unnecessary use. It is also wrong to think that social insurance eliminates waiting lists, they add. Like Britain, the Netherlands has long waiting lists and sends patients abroad for elective surgery. The main advantage of funding from general ...Working out may keep breast cells working well
...tists are unsure exactly how physical activity may deter BCIS. One theory is that physical activity lowers levels of female hormones. Heavy exercise may change menstrual function and lower levels of hormones such as estradiol and progesterone, especially during adolescence. Even among recreational athletes...Breast cancer patients with BRCA 1/2 mutations twice as likely to choose double mastectomy
...by insurance. "Such barriers, however, should not deter the oncology community from encouraging widespread access to genetic counseling and testing for high-risk cancer patients, but rather should commit us to the elimination of these barriers," Daly added....Rectal artesunate could be initial treatment option for moderate to severe malaria
...early administration of rectal artesunate does not deter patients from reaching a health-care facility that can provide further effective antimalarial treatment and appropriate supportive management, prereferral rectal artesunate has the potential to reduce malaria related morbidity and mortality. This tre...Teenage smoking still 'worryingly high': Girls twice as likely as boys to puff away
...rgeting young people at age 11-14 is not enough to deter them from taking up smoking a couple of years later. The new work built on a study begun in 1998, which involved seven visits to more than 1,500 children from the age of 11-12 until 13-14 at schools in the Leeds area. Material pointing out the dange...Circumcised newborns respond best to anesthetic relief
...ion procedure," she says. However, that should not deter doctors from using anesthetics, she says. "The results of this review show that dorsal penile nerve block and ring block are the most effective, and that the topical anesthetics, although less effective, can also be recommended over no treatment for ...Widely used breast cancer drug not linked to stroke
...er diagnosis is small, and our findings should not deter women from this treatment. Chemotherapy remains a key component of breast cancer therapy," she adds. Oncologists have prescribed tamoxifen to treat postmenopausal breast cancer since 1978. Since then, the drug has also been shown to reduce the ri...Female condoms overlooked in fight against spread of HIV/AIDS
...oping microbicides--gels--that could be applied to deter the spread of the virus, rather than advocating for female-controlled preventive methods like the condom and diaphragm, which already exist, she added. The condom, which attaches to the cervix, also takes some initial training in learning to...International study provides culture-by-culture clues to family violence and abuse
...ffective way to punish individual offenders and to deter abusive behaviors on the larger social scale. The Department of Psychology at Boston University offers programs of research in three general areas: brain, behavior, and cognition; clinical psychology; or human development. Boston Uni...Patient protection laws don't favor health providers
...s with health plans. He found that the laws do not deter health plans from being selective about which providers they include, do not create significant barriers to terminating providers and do not greatly improve the economic situation of providers. "We found that managed care patient protection laws do n......osol is common but is controllable, and should not deter use of inhaled colistin. The study appears in the February issue of CHEST, the peer-reviewed journal of the American College of Chest Physicians....