States Must Be Held Accountable For New Health Plans For Children
...cting information, we will never know--and we will miss a critical opportunity to improve accountability in healthcare. The time for action is now, while these new plans are being established." The five-year insurance expansion was passed as part of the Balanced Budget Actof 1997. It allocates $20.3 bil...International Panel Evaluates Testing For Drug Resistance In HIV
... the predominant resistant strains in a patientbut miss other resistant strains present in smaller amounts. Also, becauseprevious drug treatment may lead to the survival of resistant strains--even atundetectable levels--interpretation of any resistance assays should also takeinto account the patient's co...Remembering Your Medications: Older Are Wiser
...t them all done, how often you're so busy that you miss scheduledbreaks or rest periods, or stay up later than normal, and how often you followother regular routines, including eating meals at about the same time each day,or engaging in regular activities at home, such as reading the paper, watching apart...Microwaves May Provide Early Detection Of Breast Cancer
... to the National Cancer Institute, X-raymammograms miss between 10 percent and 30 percent of malignant tumors. Many ofthe suspicious masses they do detect turn out to be benign -- after costly andinvasive biopsies. Ultrasound, MRI and new optical breast imaging techniques aregenerally not foreseen as fron...Americans Skip Dialysis; Swedes And Japanese Don't, Wake Forest Study Shows
...rology) said that Swedes and Japanese almost never miss a dialysistreatment. That's not true in the United States, despite specific physicianinstructions. "Even an occasional missed treatment places the patient as a much higherrisk of life-threatening conditions," Bleyer said. "We have long seen a...Nighttime Asthma Squeezes School Attendance
...attacks, which can be as severe asdaytime attacks, miss school and cause parents to miss work, and may alsoperform more poorly in school, says a study by Hopkins asthma researcher GregoryDi...WHO issues wake up call against microbial threats
...ational security and economic growth, and may soon miss its opportunity toprotect people from this risk. According to a global report released today by WHO, one in every two deathsamong young working age adults and children worldwide are caused by just sixinfectious diseases: AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis (...One in seven adolescents still doesn't have health insurance
...seen a doctor in more than a year. That means they miss out on preventivescreening for problems with visio...ng and chronic diseases such asdiabetes. They also miss what pediatricians call "anticipatory guidance" - theyhave no doctor to talk with them about sexual...Breaking the worst possible news in the best possible manner
... what'shappened. People often feel cheated if they miss seeing someone during theirlast minutes of life." Other recommendations, now in effect at Harborview, included assigning a nurseto the family through the admission and death process to help facilitate theflow of information. Social workers and chapl...New biomarker for cervical cancer
...n the siteof biopsy, results may be misleading and miss a clinically important lesion." Boggess adds: "Identifying an alternative screening method other thancolposcopy that could better predict which minimally abnormal Pap smears aremore likely to progress to pre-invasive or invasive cancer, would...HIV prevention program targets young gay men through social networks and peer support for safe sex
...ons that focus solely on one level of factors will miss men who engage in high-risk sex for other reasons," she said. At the individual level, for example, reasons for risk-taking include perceptions that safe sex is less enjoyable than unsafe sex, inaccurate beliefs about risky behaviors, and being de...Personal story aims to improve 'connections' between hard of hearing and the hearing world
...on't hear, but if we keep letting things go, we'll miss out on conversations, social connections that are ...e most typical type of hearing loss. "That means I miss higher pitched consonants like P's and S's and that numbers are difficult for me over the phone. Tha...Iowa project links rural areas cross-state to top-notch medical advice
...nt is spared long car trips, parents don't have to miss work, and the family can tap into the best medical... put in. Noon was chosen so that Samuel wouldn't miss classes and sohis teachers could attend the sessions, too. At the Ottumwa site, the Walkers' Behavio...Heavier white female workers earn less
...for example, that obese workers are more likely to miss work due to illness. However, this explanation is complicated by the fact that the analysis finds no evidence that weight lowers wages for black women." Nevertheless, he points out that the finding that weight lowers certain women's wages has becom...Landmark study uncovers reasons behind recurring back injury
...bat back injury -- the number one reason Americans miss work, after the common cold. Across the country in 1999, more than 420,000 people missed work because of back injury. Each lost an average of 6 days on the job, according to the U.S. Bureau ...New technology tested at Stanford offers unique view inside small intestines
...Snapping two images per second, the camera doesn't miss much. Doctors may be able to spot tumors, ulcers and bleeding. "More often than not, it's bleeding that we find," said Van Dam. Upon identifying the source, a surgeon can then remove the damaged portion of small intestine. Although the capsule's comp...Study: many poor children live in pain because barriers to dental care too great
...sit, which puts a heavy burden on parents who must miss work and those with little or no transportation. Statistics show that fewer than 20 percent of 15- to 20-year-old and fewer than 30 percent of 6- to 14-year-old Medicaid patients saw a dentist in 1998, Rozier said. Only 2 percent of 3-year-olds recei......e first year -- but more realistically, some women miss taking the pill on some days and so with typical use about 7 percent of women get pregnant while on the pill. The IUD typical failure rate is only 0.8 percent, and longer term IUDs are as effective at female tubal ligation. The survey of 811 membe...