Children with ADHD benefit from time outdoors enjoying nature
...ecent night's rest? Not to mention the stigma and expense of medication." Simply using nature, Kuo said, "may offer a way to help manage ADHD symptoms that is readily available, doesn't have any stigma associated with it, doesn't cost anything, and doesn't have any side effects -- except maybe splinters!...Call for randomised criminal-justice trials
...tain efficacy and cost-effectiveness may be at the expense of fewer medicines-of known efficacy and cost-effectiveness-being prescribed by the UK National Health Service."...Will email consultations improve patient care?
...communication may offer choice but probably at the expense of access. He believes that full research into the impact of a new technology is needed before any steps are taken to adopt it as the norm. "Give the patient a choice," urges IT expert John Charnock in a second letter. All government departments, inc...ACE inhibitors not needed for many heart disease patients, according to new study
...risk patients can avoid side effects and the added expense of ACE inhibitors without putting themselves at additional risk for cardiovascular complications," Dr. Braunwald said. The drug's side effects include cough, fainting spells, and a rare but serious allergic reaction known as angioedema. Heart disease...Government solutions won't cure kids' obesity, survey says
...n and exercise education in schools but not at the expense of other subjects like reading, math and science. The national survey of 1,047 households, conducted between January and March 2004, revealed that 41 percent believe that childhood overweight and obesity is a serious problem. Most of the people surve...Surgical treatment of migraines reduces sick days and increases employee productivity ASPS study
... 1.2 days per month and the employee out of pocket expense for annual treatment was reduced from approximately $7,612 to $925. Plastic surgeons successfully reduced the frequency, intensity or duration of migraines for 92 percent of the patients studied. In fact, the surgical treatment eliminated migraine he...Consumers to benefit from organic potato breakthrough
...s to do away with the copper sprays but not at the expense of areduction in crop size. Professor Carlo Leifert, leader of the Nafferton Ecological Farming Group atNewcastle University, said: "Until now it's been hard to find varieties of potato that can be grown organically but can resist blight, and it's ...Suffering from fatigue, abdominal discomfort or bloody diarrhea?
...monitor disease activity, and save researchers the expense of using endoscopy as part of clinical trials, says lead author Peter D.R. Higgins, M.D., Ph.D., lecturer in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Health System. "Current...Rat whisking may provide insight into debilitating eye disorder
... growing trend to fund research on diseases at the expense of basic science may be unwise and counterproductive. "We need to understand how a system works when it is normal in order to understand what goes wrong when it is broken," he said....The research assessment exercise is damaging UK medicine
...h stars to improve or maintain RAE ratings, at the expense of teaching and clinical practice. In every other industrialised country, clinical skills are highly prized. It is therefore disturbing that some schools, to save money, have failed to appoint professors when chair-holders retire or have redistribute...Patient knows best when it comes to ulcerative colitis, U-M study finds
...monitor disease activity, and save researchers the expense of using endoscopy as part of clinical trials, says lead author Peter D.R. Higgins, M.D., Ph.D., lecturer in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Medical School. "Curren...