Safe Water, Medicines, Insecticides Greatest Needs After Mitch
...ding to experts at PAHO, which is working with the health sectorin Honduras, Nicaragua, and other Central Am..., outbreaks and epidemics are notautomatic. Public health problems are a consequence of other issues, such as thedestruction or disruption of water supplies."...Study Reveals Possible Link Between Osteoarthritis, Diet
... condition that will become an increasing national health problem asbaby boomers age, a new University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School ofMedicine study shows. The study, presented Monday (Nov. 9) at the American College ofRheumatology annual meeting in San Diego, suggests that middle-aged an...'Alternative' Medicine Becoming Mainstream, UF Study Finds
... mainstream. "With this survey, we've learned that health science faculty are prettymuch like anyone else wh...n the Collegeof Medicine's department of community health and family medicine, andEleanor Stoller of Case Western Reserve University. This week's JAMA is devo...Advisory: Researchers Present Work At Annual Meeting
...PILL? Joseph W. Brown, an assistant professor of health behavior and health education, will unveil the preliminary findings of a new study that examines who is using emergency ......e many potential heartattack patients could reduce health care costs and patient stays by usingnuclear imaging technologies in a more aggressive manner to identify patients atthe highest risk for heart attack, a pilot study has shown. An economic analysis demonstrated that patient costs for care usi...Duke Physicians: Clinicians Have Ethical Obligation To Consider Alternative Medicine
...atient's alternative therapy choices, thepatient's health could be jeopardized. Clinicians also are...gh to understand what the patient isdoing to reach health related goals," Sugarman said. Duke is developing a center for integrative medicine that wi...Drip And Ship: Start Drug Early, Especially If Plan To Transfer Heart Patient To Larger Hospital
... This alone may improve outcomes and lower health care costs, Greenbaumadded. Joining Greenbaum in the study were, from Duke, Dr. Robert Harrington,Dr. Michael Hudson, Cynthia MacAulay, Lisa Berdan, Dr. A Michael Lincoff, Dr.Robert Califf and Dr. E. Magnus Ohman; Dr. Gary Miller, Danville, V...Low Socio-Economic Status Heart Patients Need More Than Just Aggressive Cardiac Procedures
...ioplasty and coronarybypass procedures improve the health of patients with heart disease, thebenefits are less if patients don't have the financial means to protect that"investment" afterwards. In a study of 800 patients, Duke University Medical Center researchershave found that heart patients of l...Lifetime Risks And Costs Of Heart Disease Much Higher For Obese
...ndings indicate that obesity imposes a significant health and economicburden on individuals who are obese," ...s conducted the study to increase awareness of the health and economicconsequences of excess body weight. "The problem of obesity is reachingepidemic proport...PAHO Working With Affected Communities In Central America
...rveillance of communicable disease, and rebuilding health services, especially for thousands of people locat...e Mitch. Measures recommended by PAHO/WHO include: health education, sanitation and water supply, and vector control. Provided they receive generous material ...Hospital Stays Longer Than Three Days For 'Simple' Heart Attacks May Not Be Cost Effective
... in order to potentially save 16patients costs the health care system almost $12 million. Previous studies atDuke have shown that days four through six of a typical hospital stay could becut without compromising patient care. "Those resources might better be used in providing state-of-the-artthera...Setbacks To Health Progress In Central America
...ects of Hurricane Mitch could result insetbacks to health progress in Central America, according to official... intensively withCentral America since long before health became a bridge for peace in theconflict-ridden 1980s. Central America, one of the most vulnerable a......arameters to those in the European trial,including health status, days incapacitated, and time taken to retu...tivities. They also reported significantly better health status scores andgreater satisfaction with medication compared with the placebo group. All thesedif......ithic period were intendedprimarily to protect the health of mother and child during childbirth. White'sfindings contradict the long-held assumption that the main intent of thesestatuettes was to promote fertility. White's findings are based on a comprehensive examination of some 100 femalestatuettes that ...American Association Of Pharmaceutical Scientists Announces 1998 Award Winners
...Kotzan, Ph.D. Dr. Kotzan's research in policy and health outcomes is allowing policy makers tomake more eff...nded in 1986, the goal of AAPS is to improve human health through thedevelopment of better pharmaceuticals. For more information about AAPS, visitour web site...Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women
...r. Gary King, associate professor of biobehavioral health inthe College of Health and Human Development. ... Tobacco consumption remains overall a major health problem forindustrialized and developing countries alike. It is estimated that there are 1billion sm...New drugs, diagnostic tests, software needed to prepare US cities for chemical, biological attacks
...says. Because of their work inthese areas, public health departments, poison control centers, and metropoli...gical agents forboth the general public and mental health professionals. Improvement and field testing of computer models to predict the spread ofhazardous ...A New Era In Newborn Screening
...duce the new technology. Headvocated alliances of health departments with newborn screening programs, andreplacement of the current state-by-state approach with a regional approach toensure full benefits from "one of the most important preventive approaches inmedicine."...Low "Health Literacy" Increases Hospitalizations
...to wind up in a hospital as those whohave adequate health literacy, according to a study at a large inner-ci...d that 31.5 percentof the patients with inadequate health literacy were hospitalized at least onceduring that period, more than double the 14.9 percent of tho...PAHO To Provide $1 Million For Cholera Programs In Central America
...f the Pan American Health Organization said to the health authorities from Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, ...ragua. The meeting here marked the first time the health officials gathered since Hurricane Mitch struck the Central American isthmus at the end of October. ...