Nurse Practitioners Reducing Costs, Expanding Care
... Americans are hearing when they call theirprimary health care provider, and the trend is growing. That's be...them on the front line of primary and preventative health care. The reason goes directly to the bottom line. "The skyrocketing cost of health care has...... made forabout 20 variables, including age and the health of the patient prior to havinga stroke or one of the other three health conditions. "Basically what we found is that, not surprisingly, major teachinghospitals, pri...Statistician Keeps Health Researchers Ahead Of The Curve
...ld ease withdrawal pain. Researchersstudying men's health needed to know how HIV infection affects immune ce...ard statistical methods provide just a snapshot of health conditions at asingle point in time. In the growth study, for example, standard methods couldhave to...Immunex's TRAIL Molecule Shows Potential As Anti-Tumor Agent
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...es of different stakeholders, primarily consumers, health plansponsors and health care providers. Results and related presentations were givenat a symposium held May 4-5, 1998, in Mi...Public And Private Healthcare Must Pool Resources To Beat Cancer
...318 13 March 1999 pp736-7 The public and private health sectors should pool their resources to establish a UK Cancer Centre writes Professor Karol Sikora in this week's BMJ. The author, who heads up the WHO Cancer Programme, suggests that by setting up such a centre in London, such an initiative could pu......erience. Findout if the physician can address your health concerns and the needs of othermembers of your family. Many hospitals, including Cedars-Sinai, offer a freephysician referral service which can not only put you in touch with the type ofdoctor you need, but can also provide you with background inform...Far Few Drugs Are Tested On Children
... liability for the outcome rests with them ortheir health authority, rather than the drugs company. ...y." In 1997 in Britain, a House of Commons health committee on the needs ofyoung people expressed astonishment at this situation. Since then, however,...Komen Foundation Announces Application Deadline For 1999 National Grants
... available for doctoral candidates in thefields of health and social sciences to conduct dissertation resear...dentify unique needs,trends and barriers to breast health care among populations such as AfricanAmerican, Asian/Pacific Islander, Hispanic, Native American, L...In today's increasingly competitive health care environment, many changes areoccurring to imp...on remains does this new specialty provideimproved health care? A new report by UC San Francisco health policy researchers says a rigorousevaluation of the s...Morning Coffee Boosts Blood Pressure, Stress Hormones All Day
...ss of stress hormones has been shown to compromise health in a variety ofways, from damaging blood vessels t...c blood-pressure-- the lower number used to assess health risk -- was associated with at least a34 percent increase in stroke and a 21 percent increase in the...Doctors Missing Chance To Help Teens Who Smoke
... Tobacco, a worldwide groupof scientists promoting health through understanding smoking prevention andcessation. The Massachusetts General Hospital researchers analyzed data from anannual survey of a random sample of office-based physicians. Physiciansdetermined the tobacco-use status of more than two-thir...Prenatal Smoking Leads To Antisocial Behavior In Children
...a worldwide assembly of scientistspromoting public health through understanding smoking prevention and cessation. Their study followed 77 African American inner-city youth from infancythrough adolescence. Offspring of smoking mothers showed difficulty withattention as infants, but this deficit did not pers...Evidence For A Heart Failure Epidemic Released
...epidemic. And theyare issuing a call to action for health care systems to meet the need. In the largest health system study of its kind, researchers at the Henry FordHeart and Vascular Institute found that the a...New Book (And Web Site) Use 'Currency' Of Aging To Guide And Motivate Healthy Choices
...er" but tells them exactly how much differenceeach health decision, or combination of decisions, will make. ...ay." "RealAge," he explained, "unifies an array of health topics by determiningexactly how they affect youth and vigor. It serves as a guide to makinginformed...National Pilot Study To Test Whether Soy Can Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk
...a D. Paskett, Ph.D., associate professor of public health sciences(epidemiology) and principal investigator, in explaining the rationale for thestudy. She said the pilot study of 160 men would evaluate the effect of soy onmarkers for prostate cancer risk. "We do not know conclusively how soy willaffect the ...Flu Shots Keep Health Workers On The Job
...omplications, may also have tremendous benefitsfor health care workers. A new study has shown that doctors a...ed annually. Thestudy authors also postulated that health workers likely spread less diseasewhen they get influenza vaccine and stay healthy. In a ran...Stent Procedures May Be Unnecessary In Some Heart Cases
...lly need it,and there are many of them, and reduce health care expenditures at the sametime." Ohman added that since this is a retrospective database analysis, thenext step is to validate the results in a prospective trial. The researchers analyzed data from 5,143 patients who received balloonangioplasty an...New U-M Analysis Of Brain At Work
...nvolved in specific mental activities should allow health careprofessionals to devise more effective compensatory therapies, according toSmith. "If you know that an area involved in processing short-term memory forspatial information has been damaged," he says, "you can work on developing moreelaborate ver...More Evidence Of Possible Adverse Effects From New Hormone Use In Women With Heart Disease
...merous "observational" studies which followed the health of women who chose to use estrogen and/or progesti...T also tend to do other things that benefit their health and reduce their risk of heart disease, such as exercising regularly, following a sensible diet and...