Hopkins Researchers Develop Under-The-Skin Implant For Pain Treatment
...ication. "Different polymers will be available to meet the needs of a particular patient, so that patients requiring more pain control can get polymers that release more drug, and those with very stable requirements for pain medications can get one that lasts longer," says Stuart Grossman, M.D., associat...Raising The Retirement Age In The United States Could Save Billions In Social Security Payments
... retirement age, the federal government mustact to meet the future needs of the Social Security trust fund, Manton said. "Assuming that fertility stays at a fairly moderate level and you getthese large baby boom cohorts becoming eligible in 2011 -- when they firstpass age 65 -- something more than a simp...Program Provides Treatment For Prison-Released HIV-Positive Women
...ime registered nurse. In the program, team members meet with each woman, three to six months priorto her release, and up to five times depending on need, to discuss and designafter-release plans. This pre-release counseling focuses on medical care,housing, substance abuse treatment and family support. Tea...ACTG Protocol 185 Enrollment Halted
... in the number of women enrolled into the study to meet the initial guidelines of this study. Given the unexpectedly low rates of transmission and the low ability to detect a treatment difference under the current study design, the DSMB recommended that further enrollment into the study be discontinued a...Studies Find Public Policies For Children And Teenagers Not Very Effective
...ustprovide shows that are specifically designed to meet theeducational and informational needs of children. "The Children's Television Act (CTA) was supposed to forcenetworks to make their television programs more educational andinformative, yet it clearly has not achieved that goal," saidpsycholog...Many Medical Screening Tests May Be Unnecessary.
...ic evidence demonstrating that the screening tests meet a minimum criteria of effectiveness. For example, the article points out that there is considerable disagreement in the medical community over the routine use of mammograms in women under the age of 50 and prostate specific antigen tests in men. Th......et current funding of Urban Indian Health programs meet only an estimated 22%of this demand. Recent dramatic changes in the funding of Medicare, Medicaid, aswell as the major welfare reform bill also are putting clinic budgets at risk.Finally, the general growth of managed care is putting additional pres...Stress: It's Not Just All In Your Head; Scientists Map The Wear And Tear Of Daily Life
...f stress hormones thathelp our bodies charge up to meet the challenge. "During episodes of acute stress, stress hormones provide a protectivefunction by activating the body's defenses," says McEwen, "butwhen these same protective hormones are produced repeatedly, or in excess,because of chronic stress, ...Radon, Especially In Combination With Smoking, Contributes To Lung Cancer Deaths
...that. If the radon in these homes were reduced to meet the EPA guideline, the committee said, then about one-third of the radon-related lung cancer deaths that occur each year could be prevented. Although the majority of preventable deaths would be among smokers, perhaps 1,000 non-smokers also would avo...Hospitals Discourage Consumer Questioning Of Bills, Study Suggests
... who actually call for an audit of their bills may meet whatamounts to explicit hostility. Using Threats to Avert Challenges to Bills The study's most disturbing finding was that some hospitals try to preventpatients who call from launching a formal investigation of their bills by usingintimidating ima...Scientists will meet June 16 to 24 in Brooklyn Park, Minn., to reviewt...The working group writing the advisory report will meet in publicsessions June 16-24 to discuss the research that has been done and vote, on thelast day, on...Safe And Effective Treatment For Acute Repetitive Seizures
..., and the National Institutes of Health in orderto meet a medical need." The NINDS, one of the National Institutes of Health located in Bethesda,Maryland, is the nation's leading supporter of research on the brain and thenervous system and a lead agency for the Congressionally designated Decade ofthe Brai...Thousands Of AIDS Deaths Could Be Prevented With Expanded Medicaid Coverage, UCSF Study Concludes
...HIV care and related drug therapy for patients who meet two conditions: lack ofinsurance for HIV antiretroviral drugs and an annual income below $10,000, whichis 125 percent of the national poverty level for a single person. The UCSF teamis the first to report on this type of benefit expansion. Study fin...Repairing Cranio-Facial Deformities From The Inside Out
... andeven speaking difficult since her teeth do not meet and her tongue is in anawkward position. Howmedica Leibinger, the company that manufactures DynaForm, has chosenTemple as one of only three sites in the U.S. to be the first to offer thedevice to patients. Smith will be among a small group...New "Body-Friendly" Fat Substitute Can Help To Transform
... the first fat substitute designed specifically to meet U.S. Food andDrug Administration requirements for food products that can be advertised asgood for the heart, said chemist George E. Inglett, Ph.D., of the AgriculturalResearch Service (ARS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Peoria, whocreated th......Turner says, enabling them to develop compounds to meet specific needs, despitethe lack of initial clues as to what types of chemicals would do the job. Not only have combinatorial methods yielded powerful catalysts for polymerproduction, but they also have yielded the means to design new polymers to heal...Hypertension: Getting Pharmacists Involved Can Help
...-nine of the 95 patients were randomly assigned to meet with apharmacist before their regular physician visit. The pharmacists counseled themon diet, exercise, and other lifestyle factors, as well as on the importance offollowing their prescribed medications. Pharmacists also reviewed patients'...Beta Blocker Significantly Improves Heart Failure Survival
..., in which the heart does not pump enough blood to meet thebody's demands, is an increasing problem both in the United States and inEurope. It affects at least four million people in the United States, with about400,000 new cases diagnosed each year. It results in almost one millionhospitalizations each ...Children Of The Great Depression By Glen H. Elder, Jr.
...rlswho, if they could not quite master fate, could meet it resourcefully. Theirportrait is of course not entirely positive: their parents often suffered agreat deal, from material want in household, some fathers' loss of status andauthority, some mothers' forced assumption of domestic dominance; some chil...JAMA Study Shows Jefferson Medical College Program Brings Family Physicians To Small Town America
...is population are great and thisprogram has let us meet these needs to a large extent." Family practice in rural areas truly represents care for the family as awhole with physicians treating each generation. "Family practitioners in ruralareas provide general medical care, but also deliver babies...