Summa study finds portion control induces greatest weight loss
...archers in Akron, Ohio. The study is the first to document that patients who spend a longer time in the action and maintenance stages for portion control or planned exercise were more likely to lose weight. The reverse was also true. Patients who spend less time in the action and maintenance stages for port...Length of stay for inpatient medical rehab decreasing, efficiency increasing; death rate on the rise
... mortality requires further study. Our goal was to document the recent change in LOS and examine its association with functional status, living setting, and mortality. This goal is important in view of the introduction of a prospective payment system for inpatient medical rehabilitation by Centers for Medicar...Americans pay for unethical medical expert witnesses
...n response to this growing dilemma, ASPS created a document that calls for an expert witness to affirm, among ...he community. ASPS encourages members to sign this document before testifying and present it to the attorney representing the party for whom they intend to test...Slightly increased risk of Ischemic stroke found with tamoxifen
...her studied in trials with tamoxifen that not only document stroke events, but the type of strokes. Women should discuss their risk with their prescribing physician."...Postmenopausal women have lower grip strength than premenopausal women
...enter. "This is the first longitudinal study to document the effects of the natural menopausal transition on changes in physical function in a diverse group of women," said Lianne M. Kurina of the department of Health Studies at the University of Chicago. Gulati said that is possible that reduced levels o...Coast-mapping satellites will follow the tides
...s. And with mean sea level rising it is crucial to document the part of the land that will be most affected by this development. "Earth Observation promises to be a cost-effective way of maintaining our charts, although it will supplement ground-based surveying, not replace it. The need for people on the gro...Use of cameras to monitor nursing-home care is subject of controversy
...nursing homes could weed out abusive employees and document incidents of substandard care, while nursing-home owners term video surveillance an invasion of privacy that could actually decrease care by making it more difficult to attract and retain good staff. The controversy has its roots not only i...New report highlights lack of minorities in medicine
...of the House Committee on Health Care said. "This document will play a crucial role in the discussions and deliberations of the Special Commission to Eliminate Health Disparities." Governor Mitt Romney signed the special commission into law in April 2004 with the goal of developing a comprehensive state...Update on cholesterol guidelines: more-intensive treatment options for higher risk patients
...rdiology, and the American Heart Association. The document is based on a review of 5 major clinical trials of statin therapy** conducted since the 2001 release of the NCEP's cholesterol guidelines known as the Adult Treatment Panel (ATP) III Report. NHLBI, a component of the National Institutes of Health, c...Study: Too few doctors ask teens about smoking
...ude reminders prompting a physician to address and document tobacco use in the patient's medical record. The treatment picture is also somewhat better. Eighty percent of patients who said they had ever used tobacco had a detailed history of their tobacco use recorded in their medical record. Chart r...Patients not sticking to cholesterol drugs -- and the higher their co-pay, the lower their use
...urred the development of the new study in order to document the effect of co-pay level on adherence for patients with different levels of risk. For several years, Fendrick has championed a concept he calls "benefit-based co-pay" that would charge patients different co-pay amounts based on how much they......public access to the 8 million pages housed in its document depository located near Guildford, UK, and to any ...e access to information more difficult by delaying document production requested by public visitors and refusing to supply requested documents in an electronic ...Computer system makes 'chain' of health care stronger, safer
...eports, the system provides a way for residents to document a patient's progress in online notes that can then be accessed by any other member of the team, even long after the resident has gone home. Templates that can be copied and pasted for routine issues cut down on typing time. Information entered once s...Living wills don't work, study says
...ogy of making choices. The authors are taking on a document that has become ingrained in American medical cult...federal law to tell their patients about. It is a document that many experts recommend to avoid the kind of problems raised by the Terry Schiavo case in Florid...Tissue involved in brain development may offer new approach to stroke treatment
...e model," says Dr. Borlongan, who will continue to document exactly how the choroid plexus reduces stroke size and resulting neurological and motor function damage, at least in animals. "We know it does something," he says, but he is still working to determine if that 'something' is producing neurotrophic fac...Clinic-based intervention program improves smoking cessation rates, study says
...e clinicians are nurses and medical assistants who document the reasons for an office visit and check patients' vital signs. In 1996 (and updated in 2000), the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released its Smoking Cessation Clinical Practice Guideline, which recommends that all clinicians str...Study finds few new antibiotics are in the pipeline
...ical Infectious Diseases, now available online. To document trends, researchers evaluated Food and Drug Administration (FDA) databases of approved drugs and the research and development (R&D) programs of the world's largest pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies, by looking at the companies' websites and ...Environmental inequities cluster to harm poor children
... and well-being. He reviewed almost 200 studies to document the environment of childhood poverty in the current issue of American Psychologist (Vol. 59:2, 77-92, 2004). Evans details how children in poorer families, compared with children from more affluent backgrounds, suffer from greater family turmoil, ...National Academies news: Clinical research involving children
...oval of research protocols involving children, and document those decisions, the report adds. To assist review boards and investigators, HHS's Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) should use the committee's report to develop clearer guidance and examples. UNDERSTANDING AND AGREEING TO PARTICIPATION ...UNC neuroscientist awarded renewal of federal grant that began in 1957
...n's biological basishelped him become the first to document the existence of nociceptors, thesensory fibers specially activated by tissue damage and their relation tothe sensation of pain. "His nociceptor work has had an enormous impact on modern pain research," said Dr. William Snider, director of the UNC Ne...