Most adult survivors of childhood cancer consider themselves in good health
...that only 10.9 percent of adult survivors reported fair or poor health, even though 43.6 percent reported some sort of impairment linked to childhood cancer or its treatment. Factors associated with reporting at least one health-related problem were the same as those in the general population: being femal...Hospital care quality differs markedly by state: annual HealthGrades study
...different hospitals, in order to make accurate and fair comparisons. HealthGrades compares the actual and the predicted mortality or complication rates for specific procedures and diagnoses to assign a one-, three-, or five-star rating. The full methodology is available at www.healthgrades.com . Abou...Successful prostate surgery: It's quality of surgery not quantity that matters most
...s able to distinguish whether the quality is good, fair or poor for each of the parameters assessed."......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 www.newscientist.com is also required. Advance permission is required before any and every reproduction of each article in full - please contac...Asthma at school is disruptive to routine underdiagnosed, often poorly understood, survey suggest
...student and staff awareness of asthma triggers was fair or poor. Likewise, more than half the school nurs...s awareness about managing their child's asthma as fair or poor. The American Lung Association offers several educational programs to help manage asthma, in...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, August 19, 2003
...ld encourage prevention of medical errors, provide fair compensation relative to severity of injury, would be less costly to administer than the current tort system, and provide an environment in which physicians who participate in patient safety and compensation initiatives do not risk "financial and pro...CRP increases in children as weight increases
...r testing CRP in all children. CRP has received a fair amount of attention in adults, but we really didn't know much about it in children. However, as with any risk marker, it is useful to look at potential relationships in different age groups." Ford analyzed data collected by the National Health and N...Sun exposure seems to reduce risk of multiple sclerosis
...and the associations persisted after adjusting for fair skin and exposure after onset of disease, say the authors. They suggest that insufficient ultraviolet radiation or vitamin D, or both, may influence the development of multiple sclerosis.......lications/risk.html ) The trouble with riskToss a fair coin and you know that the chances of it landing head or tail side up are identical. But suppose you toss it seven times in succession and see, to your surprise, that tails have come up on each occasion; what is the likelihood of an eighth toss givin...New study finds women in Philadelphia region still face significant inequality at work and at home
...celerate the pace of women's progress in achieving fair and equitable compensation for their work. Between September 2001 and August 2002, researchers conducted a telephone survey of residents in the Philadelphia metropolitan area to determine public attitudes and priorities. The research team also inter...Pharmaceutical industry still failing health needs of less-developed countries
...themselves. Restoration of true market forces and fair pricing of drugs is a better long term solution to shortages than 'ad hoc' donations. These issues are particularly relevant and timely as the World Trade Organisation is holding a ministerial meeting in Sydney and improving access to affordable ess...Steep increase in antidepressant use, study shows
...logy graduate student Michiel Hemels. "First, it's fair to say that more people are diagnosed. There is more awareness, better understanding and less embarrassment by people to admit having depression. But a question remains, Is there more depression? While there are many possible causes - the collapse of...Polishing the crystal ball: risk prediction methods need update
...uracy of the TIMI score was good in STEMI but only fair in NSTEMI, researchers say. The PREDICT score was consistently superior to that of the TIMI scores, mostly because PREDICT incorporates the effect of other diseases such as diabetes or hypertension (comorbidity). The study also showed that ejection...No extra disease seen in chemical-exposed Gulf War veterans
... veterans were much more likely to report being in fair to poor health or say that they had moderate to severe impairment compared with their non-deployed counterparts, says McCauley. There was also a trend for deployed subjects to report more cases of cancer, although this number did not reach statis...Making individual health insurance market work
..." write authors Vip Patel and Mark Pauly. Ensuring fair market rules for the individual market are important for a sizable share of the population, since it is the main source of insurance coverage for nonpoor working families whose employers don't offer insurance. The Health Insurance Portability and Ac...Childhood cancer survivors: Good health for some, long-term complications for others
...ly 11 percent reporting their general health to be fair or poor and 12 percent reporting experiencing major medical conditions. Female survivors were found to be at higher risk of impaired health, including mental health, anxiety and physical activity. Survivors of brain tumors, Hodgkin's disease, bone tu...Document destruction practices obliterate tobacco company defenses in critical Australian decision
... that BAT's document destruction activities made a fair trial impossible. CASE BACKGROUND Rolah Ann McCabe...rendered it impossible for the plaintiff to have a fair trial; 2. The defendant, through counsel, solicitors and deponents to affidavits, has misled the cou...Eye drops to treat childhood eye disorder work as well as patching the eye
...in 49 percent of the patients, good in 34 percent, fair in 13 percent, and poor in five percent. Atropine ...in 78 percent of the patients, good in 18 percent, fair in three percent, and poor in one percent. On a questionnaire completed by the childs parent or guar....... To this end more robust approaches to monitoring fair access is needed' she adds. '......e good or excellent rate their oral health as only fair to poor, a study of 560 adults in the Detroit metr... healthy, one-third perceived their oral health as fair to poor." Those who considered their oral health to be under par had higher dental anxiety, lower ed...