Many children improperly measured in doctors offices
...two years old and younger) should be measured on a length board....Study discovers a way to keep infants safe from second-hand smoke
...in the air quality lasted at least six months, the length of the follow-up period. In a key part of the experiment, the researchers used monitors to detect nicotine in the air of the families homes, giving the smokers an objective readout of the extent to which their indoor air was contaminated. The interve...Practical guidance for treatment of heart failure is launched
...ed with interventions which would improve both the length and the quality of their lives. This new guidance is designed to answer common questions that non-specialist healthcare professionals may have regarding heart failure treatment and should, hopefully encourage more doctors, especially those in primar...Prevention Research Center to study benefits of home-based exercise in heart failure
...educed emergency room visits, hospital admissions, length of hospital stays and costs of care over a one-year period. Participants in the current study will receive the program of individualized case management, with or without the addition of the exercise program. A physical activity/cardiac rehabilitation...Landmark study uncovers reasons behind recurring back injury
...ving slowly just increases the length of time the spine has to endure those extra forces," Marras said. Marras directs Ohio State's Biodynamics Laboratory, where he and his colleagues conducted this study to compare how people ...New technology tested at Stanford offers unique view inside small intestines
... to know for sure-no small feat, given the 20-foot length of the organ. "[The M2A capsule] lets us see what's happening in the small intestine for the first time," Van Dam said. In preparation for the procedure, a patient fasts for eight hours to prevent food in the small intestine from obscuring tr...HIV/AIDS impact on education intensifies economic downfall
...arly a decade, disruptions of the system over this length of time could lead to a significant reduction in the education level of Mozambique's population. Indeed, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization (WHO) estimate that in 1999 alone, so many teachers in sub-Saharan Africa died in the epidemic that 860,...Persistent mild depression in older adults may lower immunity and ability to fight off disease
...depression. In this study, it seems that it is the length of time of the depression, not the severity that is affecting a persons immunity. This information along with previous research findings suggests that depressive symptoms can exacerbate and accelerate the immunological declines that typically accompa...Sleep less, live longer? Increased death rate associated with sleeping 8 hours or more
... have not been available until recently due to the length of time required to input and analyze the vast amount and variety of data from the 1.1 million participants. Previous sleep studies have indicated that both short- and long-duration sleep had higher mortality rates, Kripke said. However, none of th...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for February (second issue)
... reduced by thousands of dollars by decreasing ICU length of stay. Yet many factors interfere. For example,...s are not amenable to cost savingsthrough reducing length of stay unless beds are closed and personnel fired. The results of various studies show that the mo...Study details costs of providing care inconsistent with patient wishes
...ndings have implications for health care costs and length of survival," she said. "Costs are lower for those persons who report that their medical care is consistent with their preference to focus on their comfort. This provides the alluring possibility of an ethically defensible reduction in health care co...New awards, expanded focus for Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group
...estimated to be much higher. Because the average length of time between HIV infection and the development of AIDS is 10 years, it is believed that many adults became infected as adolescents. Most adolescents infected with HIV are at an early stage of disease and are ideal candidates for early interventio...Study finds that physicians working outside their specialty may provide lower-quality care
...alty. Using adjusted mortality rates and adjusted length of hospital stay as indexes of quality of care, re...ubspecialists outside their subspecialty, adjusted length of hospital stay were longer for patients than those cared for by subspecialists practicing within t...Immune system in hamsters bolstered during winter, especially in times of stress, study finds
... Hamsters take a cue from the decreasing length of days as winter approaches a... said. "We found that the animals seem to use the length of day to warn of the onset of these stressors and then to enhance their ...American Thoracic Society Journal news tips for March (second issue)
... MDR-TB transmission by using restriction fragment length polymorphism testing and by cross-matching contact information to the Tuberculosis Registry. During the study period, 102 MDR-TB cases wereidentified. Only four molecular clusters of two MDR-TB cases each and a closely related pair were identified ...Improving communications and support for doctors, patients and partners
...said: The response rate appears low, but given the length of the 27-point questionnaire, the demands on GPs time, and the fact that GPs were not paid for their time to complete the survey, we felt this response rate was as expected. Also, the concordance of responses between the three divisions of General ...Death after inserting Hickman line was probably avoidable
...ting a Hickman line could have been avoided if the length of introducers used in these procedures was reduce...the design of the equipment, and in particular the length of the introducing dilator. The internal jugular vein in the neck is always within easy reach of a s...Surgeon warns that hospitals need to face the resource implications of breast reconstruction surgery
...ectomy plus TRAM2 reconstruction. He compared the length of time of surgery, the duration of their stay in ...nd the need for further surgery. He found that the length of in-patient stay for mastectomy, mastectomy plus expander and mastectomy plus TRAM was 7.1 days, 5...Calcium channel gene may play a role in severity of neurodegenerative brain disease
...time. In successive generations, for example, the length of the C-A-G repeat becomes longer and causes the disease to occur at an earlier age. However, only about 60 percent of the variation in age of onset can be explained by the C-A-G repeat length, with the remaining 40 percent having no relationship t...Study shows loosening managed care restrictions may improve doctor-patient relationship
...me it took to travel to a doctors appointment, the length of time it took to get an appointment, and the length of each office visit. Participants indicated whether their health plan used a provider network, requ...