New study shows abuse homicides more common than records reveal
...orsays. Records in other states likely are just as inaccurate since all states usethe same international system of coding causes of death. Researchers estimated that from 1985 through 1996, 9,467 homicides amongU.S. children under age 11 resulted from abuse rather than the 2,973 reported,said Dr. Marcia...HIV prevention program targets young gay men through social networks and peer support for safe sex
...s that safe sex is less enjoyable than unsafe sex, inaccurate beliefs about risky behaviors, and being depressed. Interpersonal reasons include poor communication skills and having a boyfriend, while social factors include a lack of support for safer sex and frequent visits to gay bars or public cruising areas...New dental anesthetic promises better pain control for patients
... effectively numbed, it's because of an inaccurate injection - which, in turn, is because the anesthetist hasn't understood the patient's anatomy," Reader said. "So I studied the anatomy. But it didn't help. We gave more anesthetic, but that...Landmark school-based 'social influences' smoking-prevention program found not to work
...ist influences to smoke, but also to correct their inaccurate perceptions about smoking and motivate them to want to be smoke-free. The program was delivered by regular classroom teachers who had been specifically trained for the task by Hutchinson Center staff. Lessons engaged students in a wide variety of act...Many children improperly measured in doctors offices
...ds to be done, we found children are measured with inaccurate equipment and incorrect technique which yields imprecise measurements," Lipman said. "The implications of that could be that these are children who have growth problems that are unrecognized or are inappropriately referred to specialists when no prob...Most popular websites not necessarily of highest quality
...ity measures studies. Furthermore, the presence of inaccurate information did not differ between more popular and less popular sites. These results show that type rather than quality of content determines popularity of websites, say the authors. It remains the responsibility of the medical community to ensure a...New website to could stop intensive care beds going to waste
...ailable information on spare beds can be outdated, inaccurate or simply hard to find. These problems can result in critically ill patients being transferred large distances at great risk to their health. One tragic example of these problems occurred in the UK, where a road traffic accident victim died while on ...Eliminating health disparities requires community involvement
...utions, lack of culturally relevant interventions, inaccurate individual health beliefs, and racism and discrimination within communities and institutions, says Stephen Thomas, Ph.D., professor of minority health at the University of Pittsburgh and co-editor of the issue. Among the programs studied were those ...Computers prove to greatly reduce prescription errors
... down prescribers to clarify illegible or possibly inaccurate prescriptions. A new study by researchers at Oregon Health & Science University shows that prescriptions written on a computer are less likely to contain errors. A study by the OHSU School of Medicine's Department of Emergency Medicine study found th...Scientists develop technique that uses ultrafast lasers to obtain hi-quality images of brain tissue
...re of regions of the brain were simply tedious and inaccurate in comparison with the rapid assays for genes and proteins brought about by the revolution in molecular biology. The technique we have developed makes it possible to take a chunk of tissue and come up with hard numbers on sizes of structures or expr...Doctors over-estimate survival of terminally ill patients
... that doctors' survival predictions are frequently inaccurate and usually over-optimistic, being out by more than a month a quarter of the time. However, their predictions become more accurate closer to death. Despite their tendency to be over-optimistic, predictions of up to six months are nevertheless reliabl...Researcher invents new graphing method
...g School of Public Health believe they are in fact inaccurate and misleading. Currently, the 3-D bar graph is used in countless computer programs, scientific journals and newspapers to display financial, medical and other information in which two variables lead to an outcome. Alvaro Muoz, PhD, a professor of e...Nov/Dec 2003 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...cervical cancer mortality, that some Pap tests are inaccurate and therefore need to be repeated, a suspicion tha...cervical cancer mortality, that some Pap tests are inaccurate and therefore need to be repeated, a suspicion that recommendations for reducing the frequency of te...Online bladder cancer information often outdated
...ercent of Web sites about bladder cancer contained inaccurate or outdated information. And of a list of 41 facto...es have found online information about melanoma is inaccurate only 14 percent of the time and for sarcoma, only 6 percent of the time." The research points to the...News briefs from the journal CHEST, May 2004
...etry, which can lead to significantly elevated and inaccurate test results. One common error is caused at "zeroing" when the sensor measures an air pressure gradient when there is actually no airflow. This causes falsely elevated air volumes and shifts the entire volume-time curve. Errors also can occur when...Emory study finds mental health and heart disease tightly linked
... levels of positive mental health are likely to be inaccurate and possibly underestimated, he says. "We seriously underestimate the connection between mental health and cardiovascular disease, especially for post-menopausal women. We are not doing as well in treating mental health on par with other risk factors...African-Americans more likely to die of colon cancer
...nt to age, advanced stage of disease at diagnosis, inaccurate staging, and differences in treatment between racial groups as being possible factors. A team of researchers led by Dr. Upender Manne of the University of Alabama-Birmingham investigated the reasons for racial differences in CRC survival between 199 ...Radiological risks are not explained well
...s undergoing such examinations often receive no or inaccurate information about these risks. Such practices disregard patients' rights and violate basic principles of modern medical practice, argues an expert in this week's BMJ. Assessing radiological risk is certainly complicated, but some key information shou...News briefs from the journal Chest, October 2004
...und that auditory assessment of medicine level was inaccurate because the number of audible "puffs" in each cani...lso found the flotation method of assessment to be inaccurate and dangerous due to water collection at the top of the valve system. Although researchers conclude......ative American women had less information and more inaccurate beliefs about screening compared to Caucasian women. For example, 43 percent of women did not identify "mammogram" as a breast cancer screening test, with a significantly larger proportion of Caucasians (70 percent) able to do so. African-Americans ...