Long-term follow-up of mortality in patients with community-acquired pneumonia
...riod included age, nutritional status, preexisting illnesses ("comorbidity"), nursing home residence, male sex,...rom other factors. Although the presence of other illnesses (comorbidity) might seem to be the logical explanation for the increased risk of death, some studies...NIEHS and American Public Health Association sponsor program
...lt environment plays a significant role in chronic illnesses such as obesity, asthma and cardiovascular disease," said co-moderator Allen Dearry, Ph.D., director of NIEHS' Division of Research Coordination, Planning and Translation. "Communities, biomedical scientists, planners and policy makers need to work t...Repetitive work tasks linked to bone damage
...e up the majority (65 percent) of all occupational illnesses and cost industry tens of billions of dollars each year. To show how the tissue damage caused symptoms of WMSDs, the researchers analyzed behaviors in rats such as decreased movement performance and task avoidance. "These behaviors increased accordi...Book explores how children use imagination to battle chronic illness
For children who suffer from chronic illnesses such as diabetes and asthma, the physical pain they endure may sometimes be equaled even eclipsed by the emotional stress they encounter on a regular basis. A recent book by a Penn State researcher chronicles the everyday trials and tribulations of...New studies show factors responsible for enhanced response to music
...thods of rehabilitation for people recovering from illnesses and injuries that affect the brain. For their recent studies, Saito and her colleagues used fMRI to record the brain function of 20 right-handed volunteers as they performed different singing/speaking tasks: 1) singing along with a singing voice; 2)...More risk factors for heart disease increase Medicare cost
...trend toward greater expenditures for all types of illnesses in those with more risk factors, the researchers reported. Total Medicare costs for all illness between age 65 and death were $75,111 for men with no risk factors, and $105,083 in men with three or more. In women, the trend was less striking: total...Among elderly, depression more prevalent in Hispanics and blacks
...r depression included potentially life-threatening illnesses such as cancer, heart or lung disease and stroke, limitations in activities of daily living, lack of regular exercise and tobacco use. RACIAL DISPARITIES Having fewer economic resources -- less education, income or wealth; lack of private health ...Study finds VA maintained quality despite shift to outpatient care
...ts. The patients included in the study had serious illnesses such as lung, kidney or heart disease, so scaling back regular hospital admissions might have forced the need for more emergency care. "We thought emergency and urgent-care visits would increase or survival rates would drop if access to hospital ca...Assistance program for families of critically ill patients expands across the U.S.
...rs, mostly to parents, who are suffering long-term illnesses in intensive care units. The strain of traveling four hours on average, sleeping on waiting room couches, and eating from vending machines takes its toll on family members, making life and death decisions more difficult. The CHEST Foundation and El...A healthcare software solution to improve follow-up care of patients
...d be used to monitor diabetes in children or other illnesses where diet is all-important. This could, for example, help to reduce the long term complications caused by diabetes such as damage to the eyes, nerves and kidneys. "Nutrition is of critical importance for certain patients," says Bernard d'Oriano, Man...NIMH funds $1.98 million study of advance directives for patients with mental illnesses
...phrenia, bipolar disorder and other serious mental illnesses are treated primarily in the community but may, in... and testing new ways to help patients with mental illnesses prepare their own legally valid advance instructions for mental health treatment. They also are work...Another US airport travel hazard dirty hands
...ecent outbreaks of infectious diseases. Although illnesses as deadly as SARS and as troublesome as the common cold or gastric distress can be spread hand-to-hand, the survey sponsored by the American Society of Microbiology (ASM) found that many people passing through major US airports don't wash their hands...Annals of Internal Medicine, tip sheet, September 2, 2003
... anthrax and 4,694 patients with viral respiratory illnesses found that fever and cough were common in both infections (Article, p. 337). Mental confusion or loss of consciousness, shortness of breath, and nausea and vomiting more often indicated anthrax, while sore throat and runny nose more often indicated v...Study: Stereotypes prevail in media coverage of depression
... health problems. Instead of describing depressive illnesses in terms of specific symptoms and medical terms, a...her doctors' own notes on patients with depressive illnesses are also increasingly including non-medical terms and descriptions. He is currently concluding an ef...Wyeth chemists honored for Prevnar first combined pneumococcal vaccine for infants
...treptococcus pneumoniae , which are linked to such illnesses and conditions as pneumonia, hearing loss and brain damage. The Wyeth Pharmaceuticals team will be honored Sept. 7 at the American Chemical Society's 226th national meeting in New York City, along with chemists from Abbott Laboratories, Merck Researc...Depression doubles risk of death after bypass surgery
...ready being treated for depression or other mental illnesses were excluded from the analysis. All of the patients took a standardized test to assess symptoms of depression the day before surgery as well as 6 months after surgery. The test is known as the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) s...American Psychiatric Association issues statement on compulsive shopping
...a carefully constructed, numerical index of mental illnesses grouped by categories and sub-categories Darrel A. Regier, M.D., M.P.H., Director, American Psychiatric Association's Division of Research who coordinates development of the DSM states, "at this time there are no plans or processes set up to add co...Educational attainment may predict drinking outcomes following alcohol treatment
..., marital status, income levels, other psychiatric illnesses they might have had, severity of the drinking problem, age of onset of the drinking problem, family history, and parental income levels. However, despite searching for factors that might affect our results, educational attainment still stood out." G...Sickness records can predict employee deaths
...ckness absences may well capture the full array of illnesses employees experience during their job contract, say the authors. These routinely collected data could be used as a global measure of health differentials between employees....ID Migraine screener found to be highly reliable in detecting migraine in undiagnosed patients
...quivalent to or greater than other chronic medical illnesses such as angina, diabetes, and hypertension. The economic impact of migraine is also substantial, with the annual cost to employers, in terms of reduced productivity and days missed from work, estimated at more than $13 billion, and annual medical co...