Information technology is key to decreasing surgery costs, UI researcher finds
...you neverhave down time. The problem is there is a lot of down time -- on the order of 35percent." The s... States each year, a savings of $150 per case is a lot of money," Dextersaid. "Right now, you hear about how managed care companies are interested indecrea......'s weight. Yet, among those women who hadgained a lot of weight, they found essentially no reduction in their risk atall, regardless of how much they exercised. "Exercise didn't really protectwomen who gained weight," says Carpenter. "But among women who maintained astable weight, the breast cancer risk...Hospital study shows more patients could qualify for free care coverage
... Care Finance andPolicy (DHCFP). "We found that a lot of care written off to bad debt is delivered to patientswho are actually quite poor, which has potentially serious implications, sincethese patients may be reluctant to obtain treatment in the future if they fearbeing billed for services they cannot ...Hearts N' Parks - an innovative North Carolina program to prevent heart disease launched
...t the residents of Mecklenburg County will learn a lot while havinga great time in our facility," he added. The Hearts N' Parks activities that will take place this summer in NorthCarolina will emphasize the importance of leading a heart-healthy lifestyle fromchildhood through old age. Participan...Self-assembly of new microstructured material defies textbook physics
...en repelled all others. "At this point there was a lot ofhead-scratching, to put it mildly," says Nelson. "Every high-school student istaught that oppositely charged objects attract -- so how could the membraneswitch from attracting to repelling the beads?" The key to the puzzle, say theresearchers, is t...Aspirin's role in colon cancer prevention focus of $5 million grant
... than treat it. "This program integrates a lot of different but related efforts inpathology, surgery, clinical pharmacology, biochemistry and medicine," said Dr.Raymond N. DuBois, Mina Cobb Wallace Professor of Gastroenterology and CancerPrevention and director of the division of Gastroenterology...Researchers learn how stress slows wound healing
...rson's health. "There is a lot in the medical literature suggesting, ifpossible, that a patient should not be under stress beforesurgery," explained Jan Kiecolt-Glaser, professor of psychiatry and psychology at O...Stress common in AIDS victims who respond well to drug therapy
...y participant illustrate thesituation: " there's a lot more uncertainty now for me, I think. Because I made my peace along time ago about the dying issue and nowit's 'uh-oh' It's a good 'uh-oh' but at the same time, when you're financiallydevastated because of the disease, it's a very scaryand uncertain ...Red wine can help maintain immune system, UF researcher finds
...t helped -- or hurt --by red wine. "There's been a lot of publicity lately on the health benefits of red wine, butwe also know that alcohol suppresses the immune system," said Percival, aresearcher in UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences. "So we wanted tofind out whether red wine had a suppre...National Cancer Institute to support statewide UNC-CH colon cancer study
...ll said. Diets high in fat and thosethat include a lot of meat -- especially grilled meats - appear to bo... deaths could be avoided,"Campbell said. "That's a lot of people because colon cancer is, overall, thesecond leading cause of cancer deaths among Americans...13 lifelines successfully used in unique umbilical cord blood transplant into ailing adult
...k you, I wouldn't be alivetoday if it wasn't for a lot of wonderful people." CorCell and Dr. Gryn began this "non-matched" research project late in 1997,collecting the umbilical cord blood donated by some 50 women immediatelyfollowing the births of their newborns. CorCell then tested the blood which was...Vanderbilt School of Nursing begins graduate program in correctional health
...stemby providing this program of study. You hear a lot about helping the underserved; however, traditionally, health care education programs have not paidmuch attention to this population-- the incarcerated. They are truly a portionof the under served and in need of quality health care." As the prison sy......dle schools, noted Dr. Espelage, "kids who bully a lot also saythey've been victimized too. Nearly 80 to 90 percent of adolescents report someform of victimization from a bully at school." Researchers Christine S. Asidao, M.A., Shontelle Vion, M.A., and Dr. Espelagealso found similar results from a st...... we start by learning to drive in an empty parking lot andnot on the freeway with all of its complexity, "adds Busse. "To be good atreading, writing and mathematics we also need to coordinate and recall all kindsof basic information automatically." The UW researchers say children with the dual re......re moving into a periodwhere they will be facing a lot of peer pressure to be just like everyone else,even though they really are not. It's a time when they will need the strongsupport of parents and teachers, as well as access to high-achieving friends,who can help them maintain a motivation to succeed ...Unprotected anal sex increasing in San Francisco
...l," said Ekstrand. "Many of these young men have a lot to lose by getting infected." New combination therapy treatments don't work for everyone, and for some men,they result in terrible side effects, said Ekstrand. The emergence and spreadof resistant strains of HIV is also a danger. Although rates of...UNC-CH nutrition expert says nation should regulate some diet supplements
...the public, he said. A dietarysupplement harming a lot of people could result in a public reaction that woulddamage the entire supplement industry just as the thalidomide debacle injuredthe drug industry years ago. "In addition, with no requirement to show efficacy or safety, corporateinvestments...UCSF to attack HIV at molecular level with new center and $7 million in state funds
...d out at this early stage whether or not thereis a lot of resistant HIV being spread in the community," said Robert Grant,MD, MPH, director of the Gladstone/UCSF Virology Core Laboratory, who willoversee this research. One of the most important areas of HIV/AIDS research is vaccine development,emphasized...UI study indicates physicians' questions are often not pursued
...ynecology, reflects an area physiciansare seeing a lot of but often do not know enough about. These topics, and thetypes of questions asked regarding causes, dosages, and procedures, are goodindicators of what medical schools and texts should focus on. "Texts, in particular, often need to focus more on ...U.S., Mexican scientific societies honor former Penn State professor
...2 pounds) of progesterone-at the time, the largest lot ever produced. In 1944, Marker teamed with two entrepreneurs in Mexico, Emiric Somlo andFederico Lehmann, to found Syntex, S.A. Marker stayed with the company for alittle over a year before he left and founded Botanica-mex, which improved uponproduc...