Patients newly diagnosed with HIV are more likely to enter outpatient care with case management
...archers estimated the cost for the case management intervention to be approximately $4,000 per additional person linked to care beyond the number expected under standard of care. Previous research has shown that about one-third of individuals who know they are HIV-infected are not receiving care, and many delay...March/April 2005 Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...Time Reporting the 24-month follow-up data on an intervention to foster increased cancer screening in community centers, researchers found the intervention had a persistent, although modest, effect on screening after two years. Patients who received care a...Benefits of lung cancer screening with CT questioned
...urn out to be benign," Dr. Swensen said. Surgical intervention to diagnose these nodules is expensive and may impact quality of life and mortality. According to Dr. Swensen, a small percentage of patients will have chronic pain as a result of surgery, and the average mortality rate from lung cancer surgery range...ESC releases the first European Guidelines on Percutaneous Coronary Interventions (PCI)
...orted only in the high-risk groups. 5. Deferral of intervention does not improve outcome. Routine stenting is recommended on the basis of the predictability of the results and its immediate safety. 6. In patients with STEMI (ST-segment elevation - myocardial infarction), primary PCI within 12 hours after onset o...Abuse and HIV status linked to suicide risk
... suicidal thoughts. It may be the case that crisis intervention is needed to help women in these situations," said Dr. Gielen, who is also a professor in the Bloomberg School of Public Health's Department of Health Policy and Management....New self-help technology set to combat eating disorders
...sufferers. Other key advantages of the interactive intervention are that it allows an individually tailored delive...typical individual treatment time of 12 hours. The intervention has considerable potential for use in primary care and other settings as a first step in BN treatmen...Study shows use of budesonide reduced the risk of asthma related events by 40% in children
... - March 19, 2005 New data indicated that earlier intervention with once-daily budesonide, an inhaled corticosteroid delivered by dry powder inhaler to children with mild persistent asthma, significantly reduced the long-term risk and frequency of severe asthma-related events as well as the need for other inhale...Simple intervention encourages sun protection behaviors
...of California, San Diego, and colleagues tested an intervention designed to address individuals' concerns about ap...heir sunbathing and sun protection practices. The intervention group (95 students) had two photos taken of their faces, one under normal light and one with a UV fi...Mailman School of Public Health receives Manhattan Tobacco Cessation Center grant
... the effect of a community-based smoking cessation intervention among Chinese Americans in order to estimate smoking prevalence among New York City Chinese Americans....Protein that helps skin cancer spread identified by Stanford researchers
...dding the fragment to RDEB cells that lacked it-an intervention that restored cancer-forming ability. Further proof came from work in normal skin cells. The group blocked that protein fragment using an antibody and once again tried to induce the cells to become cancerous. They failed. Without that fragment, the c...Single mothers at higher risk for depression
...of Nursing Scholarship suggests that with nursing intervention for depressive symptoms particularly negative thinking the rate at which these at-risk women develop depression could be decreased. Depression is the number one mental illness in the United States costing an estimated $44 billion with employers re......e (by 87 times) over the next year. Prevention and intervention efforts should focus on these areas of risk."...Cardiologists underestimate racial and ethnic disparities in care
... reducing disparities. "In the long run, no single intervention is likely to reduce or eliminate disparities," researchers conclude. "Nevertheless, the combination of increasing awareness, improving quality and increasing patients demand for and participation in high-quality care will likely contribute to addres...Use of potentially inappropriate medications among elderly common in some European countries
...tion use and research should focus on outcomes and intervention strategies," the authors write. "Despite previous criticism of the expert panels' criteria for their simplicity, these tools increase clinicians' awareness about potentially inappropriate medications for older patients. Thoughtful adoption of these ...Treating depression helps slow physical decline in older adults, study shows
...han those who had usual care. One hallmark of the intervention was the "stepped care" approach or the ability to increase the intensity of the treatment over time if patients did not respond to initial treatments. This study is part of Project IMPACT, which followed 1,801 patients age 60 and older with major dep...Alcohol intervention attempted for violent males
...ducted a randomized trial of a brief psychological intervention for males with maxillofacial injury, to evaluate t...e Database). In was concluded that a brief alcohol intervention applied immediately after sentencing for an alcohol-related violent offence had no effect on alcohol...Cockroach allergens have greatest impact on childhood asthma in many US cities
...elop and implement a comprehensive, cost-effective intervention program aimed at reducing asthma incidence among children living in low socioeconomic areas....English-speaking Hispanic youth more likely to have sex early
... of our time." "The discovery of a single unifying intervention that could reduce or prevent some or all of these conditions would be hailed as one of the great accomplishments of modern medicine," the authors conclude. "This is the most powerful argument for why we must gain a greater understanding of the influe...Cognitive behavioral therapy and medication is effective in the treatment of panic disorder
... and treatment of panic disorder) or to receive an intervention consisting of up to six sessions in the course of ...e-behavioral and pharmacotherapeutic [medications] intervention resulted in sustained and gradually increasing improvement relative to treatment as usual," the auth...Study: Eye contact triggers threat signals in autistic children's brains
...nfancy, the knowledge could help doctors implement intervention approaches right from an early age....