High cost of life-saving childrens vaccine may be keeping some doctors from giving it
...ts of today's toddlers, who may learn they have to pay out of pocket or travel to another location to get the $260, four-shot series that's recommended for all children under age 2 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Both options are sizable obstacles for many families, and may mean some c...Blood dilution during bypass surgery associated with kidney damage
...For this reason, it is important for physicians to pay special attention to their patients who are overweight or who have existing kidney damage," he said. Stafford-Smith pointed out that up to 20 percent of patients who are scheduled for bypass surgery have some degree of existing kidney damage, further...One use every seven years makes automated external defibrillators a good buy
...loss, provide free preventive health screenings or pay for effective services for those who cannot afford them, Cram said. In a follow-up study, the researchers are surveying public schools to determine whether they are buying defibrillators and the number of cardiac arrests at the sites. Public schools...New cholesterol fighter found in red wine
...t new food ingredient. People are just starting to pay attention to it," says study leader Waterhouse. "No one ever thought to look for it in wine." The compounds are believed to come from the waxy skin of grapes, which dissolve into the wine during its fermentation process. To better understand their di...Consumer-driven health care research findings released
...id it was easy to use the personal care account to pay for health services. Following are some additional findings: Definity employees are sensitive to premium differences among competing health plans. Employees and families with chronic conditions are more premium-sensitive. Of Definity members wh...'Shifty-eyed' monkeys offer window into brain's social reflexes
...animal model of how the brain controls what humans pay attention to in social situations. Such a model would enable scientists to better understand how processing of social attention works in the brain, and how it can go awry in such disorders as autism. Such basic studies, said the neurobiologists, cou...Actonel helped preserve bone quality at five years, new data show
... and esophageal or gastric ulcer. Patients should pay particular attention to the dosing instructions, as failure to take the drug according to instructions may compromise clinical benefits and may increase the risk of adverse events. In clinical trials, the overall incidence of adverse events with Act...A picture perfect test of well-being: Graphic assessment tool tunes into life satisfaction
...ard because if you live a long time, the price you pay for that is that your friends are gone." she said. Gueldner's broader goal is to use the tool to collect research data that can begin to help redefine societal notions of wellness and spur human service and health care policy changes that will allow ...New evidence eases some concerns about bone fracture risk with breast cancer drug
... In developing countries with limited resources to pay for more expensive new drugs it is particularly appropriate to continue to use tamoxifen."...Sept/Oct Annals of Family Medicine tip sheet
...llectively, the authors challenge policy makers to pay attention to the current crisis in continuity and to create systems that encourage long-term, trusting, healing patient-physician relationships. In This Issue: Health Plan Switches Adversely Affect Patients * A full-length press release detai...Damage to the frontal lobes can affect a person's ability to 'stay on the job'
...ry are conducted in future, encouraging doctors to pay closer attention to 'variability' of performance as a marker for impairment. The study is published in the November issue of the journal BRAIN. It was led by Dr. Donald Stuss, Director of The Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric...Repeated alcohol detoxifications can impair cognitive function
...k; a vigilance task, which measured the ability to pay attention and disinhibit a pre-potent response; and a delay task, which measured the ability to wait before a response in order to receive a reward. Results indicate that repeated withdrawals from alcohol are associated with increased impairment of c...Teens struggle to find accurate, useful health information online
...o deliver high quality health information, we must pay attention to issues of accessibility in cyberspace. There are very specific barriers to finding relevant health information on the Internet. They can be minimized, but we're just starting to get a handle on what these specific barriers are," Richards...Healthy hearts predict healthy old age, says University of Pittsburgh study
...ase and disability, healthy senior citizens should pay strict attention to controlling cardiovascular risk factors."...ACPM recommends reproductive health care benefits for adolescents
...mmended today that state health insurance programs pay for comprehensive reproductive health services for adolescents. Among ACPM's highest recommendations, State Children's Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP) should cover reproductive health assessments during periodic health examinations and cover the pr...Women & men differ in heart disease traits and treatment
...d treatment that both doctors and patients need to pay attention to. "Women may on the whole have more mild-looking disease than men, but even when they had similar-looking disease they were still under-treated," she says. "If your angiogram looks the same you should be getting the same medical therapy...More risk factors for heart disease increase Medicare cost
...relate to middle-age risk factors. People need to pay attention to health when they are middle-aged or y...medical field want to reduce expenses, they should pay attention to prevention," Liu said. In a companion study, Medicare costs in the last and usually a ...Air pollutants alone may cause asthma attacks
... this new experimental study shows that we need to pay closer attention to the intrinsic abilities of the air pollutant particles to induce asthma." The study, which appears in the November 2003 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, will enhance research methods and lead to a better ep...Big cut in heart failure problems from one hour of education
...eatment regimen. Because insurers often decline to pay for costs associated with the re-admission of heart failure patients within 30 days of a previous discharge, hospitals can save money and help patients if they reduce re-admissions. And, says Johnson, she feels that nurses who care for inpatient hear...... supported a program in which the government would pay for all health care. Support for national health insurance varied by specialty, location and practice setting. Doctors were most likely to back national health insurance if they practiced in inner cities or in nonprivate settings and if at least 20 p...