First proof that cutting Rx drugs due to cost harms health
...eir overall health, as excellent, very good, good, fair or poor. At the start of the study period, 5,650 o... back on medications characterized their health as fair or poor by the end of the study. By contrast, only 21.2 percent of those who had reported no cutback...UCI center finds perchlorate may be acceptable in drinking water at higher levels
...ts to promote health, to enhance the efficient and fair use of water resources and to protect the environment. The center considers the entire urban water system, including water use, water economics and the institutional systems. About the University of California, Irvine: The University of California, ...Poor kids' health insurance situation changes often, affecting their medical care, study finds
... to go a year without seeing a doctor, or to be in fair or poor health. The study is the first to show a link between health insurance transitions and child health care trends. It's published in the May issue of Ambulatory Pediatrics by a team from the Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit of the U-M...Government psoriasis research funding down over last decade while NIH budget up 148%
... and for improved patient access to treatments and fair reimbursement rates for these treatments. "I look ... for the meetings. "We psoriasis patients need our fair share of the great work being done at NIH." NIAMS funding for psoriasis research was $4.7 million in......ed media who may wish to quote extracts as part of fair dealing with this copyrighted material. Full attribution is required, and if publishing online a link to http://www.newscientist.com is also required. Advance permission is required before any and every reproduction of each article in full - plea...Controlling pain with your brain
...ed media who may wish to quote extracts as part of fair dealing with this copyrighted material. Full attribution is required, and if publishing online a link to http://www.newscientist.com is also required. Advance permission is required before any and every reproduction of each article in full - plea...Botox injections restore voices, confidence to voice disorder patients
...ing of their voice, of excellent, very good, good, fair or poor. This allowed them to look at categorical improvement -- for example, a patient who gave herself a "poor" rating before a Botox injection, and then gave herself a "good" overall rating several weeks after her injection, would have a categoric...UK industry is the loser from parallel trade in pharmaceuticals
...prices paid for pharmaceuticals in UK represents a fair return for the patent holder (because of the huge R&D costs required to bring these products to the market) then it should not seek to actively encourage parallel trade through the clawback scheme. Banning parallel trade from the EU into the UK would...High association between welfare, poor health: Study
...fare recipients were more likely to report poor or fair health, depression and distress than people not on welfare as well as fewer social supports. The study, published in the March/April issue of the Canadian Journal of Public Health, also found that welfare recipients whose activity was not restricted ...A new hypothesis about Alzheimer's disease
...e in neurodegenerative diseases. Also, there are a fair number of risk factors in common between the two diseases, including hypercholesterolemia and inflammation. In their new study, Kelly and his colleagues suggest that inflammation in the brain could create a perfect storm in which cholesterol and li...Cedars-Sinai March medical tipsheet
... no secret that children often get more than their fair share of cuts and bruises growing up, many parents don't know that certain play activities carry greater risks for injuries that can have long-term effects on their child's health and development. According to a pediatric orthopedic surgeon at Cedar...HIV treatment as a human right - learning from Thailand's experience
...es the efforts of society in Thailand to achieve a fair balance between international trade and public health. These efforts have focused on didanosine, an essential antiretroviral drug that in Thailand has become symbolic of how multinational companies and governments of industrialised countries protect ...Software that minimises facial disfigurement
...ed media who may wish to quote extracts as part of fair dealing with this copyrighted material. Full attribution is required, and if publishing online a link to http://www.newscientist.com is also required. Advance permission is required before any and every reproduction of each article in full - plea...Pioneering implants for deaf people
...ed media who may wish to quote extracts as part of fair dealing with this copyrighted material. Full attribution is required, and if publishing online a link to http://www.newscientist.com is also required. Advance permission is required before any and every reproduction of each article in full - plea...Electrical stimulation in patients with paralysis and spinal cord injury
...rans described their primary caregiver as being in fair or poor health, and one-fourth reported that their primary caregiver was unlikely to provide the same care five years from now. More than half stated that they did not have an alternate caregiver. Weight-bearing conditions alter foot shape, pg# 517...Study questions benefits of costly schizophrenia drug
...lly along with the haloperidol, as is needed for a fair and clinically informative comparison," said lead author Robert Rosenheck, MD, director of VA's Northeast Program Evaluation Center in West Haven, Connecticut, and a professor of psychiatry and public health at Yale University Medical School. "That'...Panel: Clinical use of embryonic stem cells jeopardized by Bush's policy on federal funding
...e in future clinical trials, nor would they ensure fair access to new stem cell-based therapies, according...ticipate and consider issues of patient safety and fair access that are likely to arise for Americans. The federal government is by far the largest funder o...UCLA study examines health of California seniors
...iors with limited English abilities report poor or fair health (versus good, very good or excellent). Both... million residents age 65 and older report poor or fair health, and 26 percent nationwide. About 40 percent of older adults in San Francisco, Kern and Tular...Minority children: over- or underrepresented in medical research?
...ral, "our data suggest that black children do have fair access to the potential benefits of clinical trials," note the authors. "Hispanic children may not," added co-author Lainie Ross, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of pediatrics and assistant director of the McLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics ...Caregivers refuse Alzheimers medications when patients quality of life threatened
... assesses the patient's overall quality of life as fair or poor. For example, a husband may decline treatment of his spouse when she can no longer remember family members and can only communicate with them as strangers. When there is risk to the medication, the number of caregivers who decline treatmen...