Poor kids' health insurance situation changes often, affecting their medical care, study finds
...recent news about America's uninsured, a new study finds a troubling undercurrent: millions of low-income children whose health care gets interrupted because they start the year with one kind of insurance, but end it with another kind -- or go without any coverage at all for part of the year. More than 5....Improving health care for children with special needs
... authors write. "Even the most motivated practice finds change difficult to implement. Many primary care providers believe that implementing the medical home concept is the right thing to do but question how they can do so and remain solvent." To make the process easier, the authors developed a medical h...Kidney cancer surgery safer at high-volume hospitals
...y University of Michigan Health System researchers finds that patients undergoing surgery for kidney cancer are less likely to die at hospitals that perform the operations frequently. The study appears in the May issue of Urology . In the first study to look nationwide at the relationship between surgical...Web technology can help chronically ill patients
...ided for patients with chronic medical conditions, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Current healthcare systems, with their focus on the clinic visit, do not meet the needs of many patients with chronic conditions. Researchers designed a web based diabetes support programme for patients at the University o...Recent research finds boys have more literacy problems than girls
...ity of Warwick, Coventry and Kings College, London finds that boys really do have more reading difficulties than girls. The study into reading disabilities, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association , confirms that boys are much more prone to having trouble than girls, and it's not simp...Dad's death helps national expert evaluate end-of-life care
...y to ease his suffering the type of treatment one finds at hospice. But it wasn't clear that he was going to die within six months, the time frame that Medicare has traditionally used to decide whether to accept a patient into a hospice program. "He never would have gotten into a hospice program 14 years ...A new study at Johns Hopkins finds that many hospitalized patients prefer visits from their own physician to those of the physicians on duty, even when those "visits" are virtual "telerounds." Last year, researchers in Hopkins' Department of Urology introduced a robot electronically ...Most household cleaners remove peanut allergens, Hopkins study shows
...take note: a Johns Hopkins Children's Center study finds that most soaps and household cleaners will remove enough peanut allergen from hands and dining surfaces at home and in schools to prevent an attack. Comparing how well assorted cleaners or plain water remove Ara h 1, the most common peanut allergen,...Striking differences found in self harm services
...are of self harm patients in hospitals in England, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Each year in England and Wales, more than 140,000 people present to hospital after an episode of self harm. Improving the general hospital management of these people is a key area in preventing suicide. The study, by rese...Wavefront LASIK demonstrated superior to conventional LASIK
...Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery (ASCRS) finds that "Custom" or Wavefront-guided LASIK produces superior vision quality compared to traditional LASIK eye surgery. "While conventional LASIK is good, we're finding that wavefront guided LASIK yields sharper and higher quality vision, and higher pat...New figures reveal social gradient of heart failure
...n a regular basis compared with affluent patients, finds new research available on bmj.com . Using data from a large health project in Scotland, researchers examined the influence of social and economic deprivation on the diagnosis and treatment of 2,186 adults with heart failure. They found that the inci...Sounds of New York, evidence for a preferred ear, ultrasound for the eye
...usic-store CD-listening station that automatically finds the chorus section and other key parts of a song so that a user could jump to these sections without having to search for them with a fast-forward button (2pMU6). NEW YORK SUBWAY AND TRAFFIC SOUNDS Many New York City musicians sweeten the urban sou...Alcohol use and victimization among college women
...etimes research looks at a commonsensical idea and finds that it doesn't make sense, so it kind of goes both ways sometimes research supports common sense and sometimes it doesn't." For this study, researchers interviewed 94 college women (32% Freshmen, 36% Sophomores, 20% Juniors, and 12% Seniors...Poorest in India are biggest consumers of tobacco
...o is raised in this week's BMJ. A study from India finds that those with the lowest standard of living smoke and chew tobacco more than others do. The analysis is based on the 1998-9 national family health survey of over 300,000 adults across 26 Indian states. Factors such as age, sex, education, caste, an...Social problems linked to mental illness in Pakistan
...rotect against the development of these disorders, finds researchers in this week's BMJ. These disorders are an emerging public health threat in low income countries. Researchers analysed 20 studies conducted in Pakistan that focused on anxiety and depressive disorders in adults. Relationship problems, fi...Men with family history of prostate cancer accurately predict higher risk, UMHS study finds
...se as well, often at an earlier age. New research finds these brothers are aware of their increased risk and many have taken vitamins or supplements to improve their health. The research is reported in two papers from the University of Michigan Health System. Men participating in the research study said t...UCLA research explores biology of fear
...ess and extinguish conditioned fear, the UCLA team finds yohimbine helps mice learn to overcome the fear faster by enhancing the effects of the natural release of adrenaline. Adrenaline prompts physiological changes such as increased heart and metabolism rates in response to physical and mental stress. Wri...New study finds even a 'small' amount of psoriasis can negatively impact daily life
... of the Journal of Investigative Dermatology (JID) finds that many adults with relatively small areas of psoriasis on their skin nevertheless report high levels of dissatisfaction with their current treatment, and also feel that psoriasis is a problem in their daily life. In all, an estimated 1.75 million ...Researchers say criterion for diagnosing child abuse based on faulty evidence
... is available, we urge caution in interpreting eye finds out of context."Lantz said the 14-month-old child also had other eye injuries that some professionals consider diagnostic for child abuse. He said the evidence base for these assumptions has problems similar to the evidence surrounding perimacular re...High death risk among young people in hospital with diabetes
...ot only from natural causes but also from suicide, finds a study in this week's BMJ. Researchers in Oxford analysed all NHS hospital admissions from 1968 to 1996 for diabetes in people aged under 30 years. Deaths were monitored for three years to 1999. There were 4,992 admissions for diabetes among people ...