Global prevention, funding and accountability debated in fight against HIV/AIDS
...listic terms that takeinto account already fragile national economies -- is more necessary than ever tocreate the conditions necessary to close the widening gaps in levels of income,future market opportunities, and human development by attracting privatecapital and promoting lasting economic growth. Zuniga c...Elderly less likely than other adults to have economic problems
...e of Control, which was a national telephone survey of 2,592 American adults.They also used the 1990 Survey of Work, Family and Well-Being, which was a telephone survey of 2,031 people across the country. ...Americans expect to live a year longer than statistics suggest
... Status and the Sense of Control, a national telephonepoll of 2,592 adults that asked, among other questions, "to what age do you expect to live?" He compared respondents' answers to life expectancy figurespublished ...Wake Forest to coordinate huge national study to prevent cardiovascular disease in diabetes
...versity School of Medicine hasbeen selected as the national coordinating center for a major study aimed atprev...s in the school's history. According to NHLBI, the national cost of theproject exceeds $96.7 million. Robert Byington, Ph.D., professor of public healt...National study focuses on families of people with diabetes and obesity
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- A new national research project headquartered atWake Forest Unive...demiology) at Wake Forest. As in IRAS, the national coordinating center for the IRAS Family Studywill be at Wake Forest, and the clinics will be in San ......id. Matthay credits the Children's Cancer Group, a national cooperative researchorganization, for enlisting th...s," Matthay said. The Children's Cancer Group is a national cooperative research organizationwhich coordinates research at 35 academic medical centers and their......n initiative by these threeorganizations to create national Transdisciplinary Tobacco Use Research Centers(TTURC) for studying tobacco use, new ways to reduce its use and combat itsconsequences. Led by Principal Investigator Stephanie S. O'Malley, Ph.D.,Yale's new TTURC center consists of a multidisciplinary...CWRU medical school announces $300 million campaign
...f themedical school is to compete effectively at a national level for researchfunding from the National Institutes of Health, the largest source of medicalresearch funds in the United States. The school ranks 11th in the nation with $129.9 million of NIH funding.It receives more NIH funding than any m...NIAID funds three Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) Research Centers
...r only newly appreciated. Afternearly 20 years of national and international research efforts, the cause orcauses of CFS remain unknown. NIAID established a CFS Research Centers program in 1991. The new four-yearawards will be made to the University of Medicine and Dentistry in Newark, NJ,the University of ...Hartford Institute/AACN award honors nursing schools for innovative gerontology education
...American Association of Colleges of Nursing is the national voicefor university and four-year-college education programs in nursing'the nation'slargest health care profession. Representing more that 500 member schools ofnursing at public and private institutions nationwide, AACN's educational,research, gover...Visionary physician pioneers alternative clubfoot treatment
...ica's best. The UI College of Medicine earns high national rankings for excellence in graduate education and quality biomedical research. Its researchers are world leaders in areas ranging from cardiovascular studies and brain mapping to age-related macular degeneration and cochlear implant research and imp...Announcement of new consumer medical internet service
...ICE WHAT: A media briefing to unveil the first national physician society-ownedhealth care service on the Internet that delivers credible content to consumersand patients, and connects them with their own physicians. This site iscontrolled by medical societies, the finest source of medical information fo...Women assaulted in military suffer depression, alcohol problems
... assaulted during her tour of duty, according to a national survey. Depression and alcohol problems plague these veterans. "The presence and magnitude of military-related sexual assault may be an issue not only of military and social concern, but also of importance to health care institutions and providers," ...Southeast appears to have a unique type of Lyme disease
...me disease here that meets the criteria of current national lab testing standards. Yet the majority of cases-- seven out of 10--are something different," Dr. Felz said. "The tick species transmitting this illness seems to be different and may be transmitting an organism that is very different. "Lyme disea...UCSF receives grant to fight cervical cancer
...nic Approaches toCommunity Health (REACH 2010)"- a national project that targets six healthpriority areas with the goal of eliminating, by the year 2010, disparities inhealth status experienced by racial and ethnic minority populations. "Vietnamese-American women have the highest cervical cancer incidence rat...Few physicians counsel adolescents about smoking
...ears 1991 through 1996, physicians responding to a national survey reported asking young patients ages 11 to 21 about their smoking habits at 71 percent of office visits. But they provided counseling and advice about smoking at less than 2 percent of overall office visits. In the 8.5 percent of office visits...Recipients of well-matched kidneys received locally require less long-term care
...land Journal of Medicine. The researchers compared national kidney transplant records from the United Network on Organ Sharing (UNOS) with Medicare claims for the same patients. All 27,050 had received an organ from a deceased donor between 1992 and 1997. They determined the cost of their care from 30 days to...Antibiotic prescribing in local communities is linked to localised resistance
...he debate on prescribing in the community from the national to the local level and provide preliminary evidence that doctors may have to face the broader consequences of their antibiotic prescribing among their own patients."...NPSF makes safe use of pharmaceuticals a national health priority
...ome of the problems identified include the lack of national leadership, lack of collaboration, widely divergen...rovement: to reposition pharmaceutical safety as a national issue rather than a regulatory issue; build public awareness of the issue; support research on medic...Wake Forest study finds both prevention and treatment needed to control heart disease
... people born as long ago as 1887, using four major national health surveys totaling 49,536 people - the first ...by physicians on their own patients, community and national campaigns could be used to encourage people to control their cholesterol - a broadening of the commu...