Study finds that coordinating care of chronically ill patients does not increase liability
... for more than half of all medical spending. "They endure higher rates of avoidable complications and hospitalizations," Hall said. "Improving care coordination can substantially improve health outcomes and lower costs." Coordinating care can also reduce medial errors. "So it is important to remove any pe...Stanford study shows hypnosis helps kids undergoing difficult procedure
...wanted to find a way to help her daughter, Hannah, endure an awkward and painful medical examination in which doctors insert a catheter into her bladder, inject a dye and ask her to urinate while being X-rayed. The girl had been through the procedure four times by age 7, and she dreaded going through it aga...Democracy is good for your health
...emocracies enjoy better health than those who must endure repressive regimes. Using published freedom ratings, researchers explored the effect of democracy on life expectancy and mother and infant deaths in 170 countries, representing 98% of the world's population. Overall, 45% of the countries were free, 3...Rice cartilage experts win $1.5M NIH grant to bioengineer TMJ discs
...limpse of the pain and suffering that TMJ patients endure on a daily basis," Athanasiou said. "It is my fervent hope that our work can help some of these people live normal and pain-free lives."...Marijuana-like compounds may aid array of debiliating conditions ranging from Parkinson's to pain
...ficult to treat. An estimated 50 million Americans endure some type of persistent pain that lasts for months, even years, including back pain, headaches, arthritis pain, and cancer pain. "We found that the combination of a marijuana-like compound with either the mild pain medication ibuprofen or rofecoxib ...Minimally invasive surgery for heart rhythm abnormality proven effective
...Not all patients, therefore, are healthy enough to endure the operation. Damiano and his colleagues developed an alternative using two electrodes that pass a current through a section of heart tissue, heating and killing a thin band of tissue. This bipolar radiofrequency variation of the Cox maze procedure...Elevated rates of trauma may put urban American Indian women at increased risk for contracting HIV
Urban American Indian women endure extremely high rates of physical and sexual trauma and, as a result, may engage in risky behaviors that place them at high risk for becoming infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS, according to a new study focusing on American Indians in the Ne...Chemical brain scans may help reassure brain tumor patients
...et doctors take a brain biopsy? Or, in some cases, endure another brutal round of treatment just in case the tumor has returned? But a new University of Michigan study shows that a relatively new kind of brain scan may give these patients the reassurance -- or early warning -- that they can't get from the u...Controlling pain with your brain
...ct of pain. During the scans the volunteers had to endure painful heat on the palm of their hand. They were asked to try to increase or decrease the signal from the brain scanner and to periodically rate their pain sensations. It took just three 13-minute sessions in the scanner for the eight volunteers to...Would it be worth it to pay for donated kidneys?
...e done in the first place because the donor has to endure a major operation that can result in serious complications and even death. But donors are heavily screened prior to surgery and have to be extremely healthy people. Schnitzler says death from complications of the procedure is so rare it's even hard ...UCLA yoga study seeks breast cancer survivors
...ring and after treatment. Research suggests it can endure for years after treatment is completed. "Our goal is to reduce the side effects of cancer treatment and improve long-term quality of life," Bower said. The yoga study seeks women between the ages of 45 and 65 who completed treatment between one and f...National Inventors Hall of Fame announces 2004 class of inventors
... the lives of slaves who were previously forced to endure the dangerous and backbreaking task of boiling sugar cane in open cauldrons. His process elevated the U.S. from a minor role in the sugar industry to a major producer. John Roebling (1806-1869) Suspension Bridge The age of the suspension bridge w...When alcohol consumption evolves from a 'social lubricant' into a 'crutch'
...cohol, but perhaps just enough to enable them to endure being in a social situation. "Individuals with high social anxiety do not use alcohol indiscriminately," said Thomas, "they may drink to cope with social-interaction situations, like meeting people for the first time, but not in performance-type sit...Radiation treatment is an option for elderly prostate cancer patients
... patients with radiation rests on whether they can endure it, the results from the 33 elderly men in this study show that they can, according to Dr. Deutsch. "When an 80-year-old patient comes to me with prostate cancer, assuming he's otherwise healthy, I'm going to treat him with radiation," Dr. Deutsch sa...Computer-assisted breast imaging systems help find and characterize cancers
... possible, and to minimize the number of women who endure a biopsy only to find out their condition is benign. Several commercial CAD systems for reading traditional film mammograms to increase detection but not classification -- have been on the market for a few years. But Sahiner and his colleagues hope ...CT scans find tiny bladder, kidney & urinary cancers
...ve rates often mean that high-risk patients either endure a series of tests and scans before getting a firm diagnosis, or get a false sense of security from a mistakenly "clean" report and only get diagnosed much later. "Our experience to date with MDCTU in patients with prior bladder and urinary tract canc...Re-examining alcohol problems among American Indian communities
...ture is a heavier burden for Indian men, thus they endure more stress and are likely to use more alcohol. The much lower rates of alcohol abuse among the SW women than the NP women is very intriguing, but there is no readily obvious explanation for this. It could be that there are cultural/historical reas...Caregivers for patients with dementia need more support before patient dies, less after
...y caregivers of patients with end-of-life dementia endure a protracted and stressful period of caregiving pr...of dollars a year, while the caregivers themselves endure both emotional and financial stress. Because the number of people in this situation will increase ma...Book explores how children use imagination to battle chronic illness
...uch as diabetes and asthma, the physical pain they endure may sometimes be equaled even eclipsed by the emotional stress they encounter on a regular basis. A recent book by a Penn State researcher chronicles the everyday trials and tribulations of young diabetes and asthma sufferers and their families a......e life of a memory, and helps explain how memories endure or are forgotten including the role that sleep plays in safeguarding memories. "To initiate a memory is almost like creating a word processing file on a computer," explains the study's first author, Matthew Walker, Ph.D., instructor of psychiatry a...