What causes patients to delay seeking medical help?
...lances. Even those who had previously been told to phone an ambulance felt reluctant to do so. People were also reluctant to seek medical help during the night and at weekends. The decision to seek medical help is a complex interaction of knowledge and experience, beliefs, emotions, and the context of the ...First large doctor-patient e-mail study finds positive attitudes on both sides
...ders and patients. But it doesnt cut the number of phone calls or office visits patients make, nor the numb...t with their doctor through the usual ways mostly phone and office visits, but occasionally by e-mail. The study recorded how many patient e-mails, calls an...Black, Latino children with asthma get lesser care
... Harvard Medical School, the researchers conducted phone interviews with parents of children age 2 to 16 with asthma who were insured by Medicaid programs. The children received care from one of five health plans: Harvard Pilgrim and the Neighborhood Health Plan in Massachusetts; Group Health Cooperative i...Substance abuse increases in New York City in aftermath of September 11th
...vey participants by randomly dialing New York City phone numbers and screened potential respondents for Manhattan residents living in areas close to the World Trade Center. Interviews were conducted with 988 individuals between October 16th and November 15th, 2001 -- five to eight weeks after the terroris...UF research: For stroke recovery, two therapies better than one
... other to help them eat, help them drink, hold the phone or use the remote control," said Cauraugh, lead investigator on the American Heart Association-funded study. "You can't regain a previous life because of this protocol, but you can be significantly better off than if your arm is just hanging at your ...Drugs may not be best weapon against teen migraines, study finds
...cussed what they learned during a 20- to 30-minute phone conversation with project leaders. This contact l...e talked about what they should have read over the phone so they were exposed to the information." But for the most part, teens in the study were eager to l...Mad hatters, seafood jubilees, & Pfiesteria Files
...-mail at Sea.Grant.Communications@orst.edu or by phone at 541-737-2716. SEA GRANT CALENDAR SPOTLIGHT: Fourth International Conference on Recirculating Aquaculture, July 18-21, 2002, Roanoke, Virginia Join those in industry, government and academia in learning from leading experts in recirculating aq...Recirculated airplane cabin air does not cause more colds
...a pre-flight questionnaire and were interviewed by phone five to seven days after the flight. The researchers were unable to study passengers taking flights longer than two hours, since planes that do not recirculate air are used almost exclusively on shorter routes. "It could be that longer flights would...The Lancet Neurology press release
Is mobile phone use a health risk? Mobile phone ("cell phone") use has dramatically increased over the last decade, but doubts remain over its safet...Solving problems by phone improves well-being of stroke caregivers
...lso help stroke survivor's health could be just a phone call away, according to a study published in the A...oups. One received the problem-solving assistance phone conversations (intervention). Another group got phone calls that did not cover solving problems but...Leg maneuver may prevent fainting
...unter-maneuver. Each patient received a follow-up phone call seven to 14 months after testing to determine whether any new syncope episodes had occurred and whether they had tried the counter-maneuver. The follow-up interviews found that one patient had been diagnosed with a condition that could have con...For the blind, a computer navigation system with its own map
...n and other software. The user also carries a cell phone for wireless communication, an antenna and a backpack containing a Global Positioning System, receiver, batteries and other equipment. Housed in a lab in UF's computer engineering building, the database server holds a Geographic Information System, ...Virtual friend helps young asthma sufferers
...his week's BMJ. Doctors in Tayside set up a mobile phone text message service combining reminders to use an inhaler with sport news, celebrity gossip, and horoscopes. The messages were sent by a "virtual friend with asthma" to 30 young asthma sufferers. Focus groups before and after the study found that th...Patient race is a determinant in receiving coronary angiography referral
...rs supplemented the data found in the records with phone calls to patients. Because it is not known why fewer African Americans are referred for the procedure, researchers question if these patients are signaling to physicians, in direct or indirect ways, that they would not be willing to submit to an inva...Home injury found to be a major cause of deaths, largest study of its kind finds
...ergency and clinic records, previous studies and a phone survey of 1,003 U.S. households. She and her colleagues, Drs. Stephen Marshall, Anna Waller and Tamera Coyne-Beasley, conducted the investigation, along with help from staff and students at the Injury Prevention Research Center. Marshall is assis...'Glutaid' on the horizon? Study may someday spell relief for people on gluten-free diets
...gives you a book about the size of a New York City phone book, that lists all the things you can't eat. The..., if you go into a typical grocery store with that phone book, it will tell you that you can't buy 90 percent of the things in the store," Khosla said. The m...Training improves cognitive abilities of older adults
...tion quickly for use in tasks such as looking up a phone number, finding information on medicine bottles, and responding appropriately to traffic signs. Immediately following the 5-week training period, 87 percent of participants in speed training, 74 percent of participants in reasoning training, and 26...Depression related to poor health after bypass surgery
...urgery and six months after surgery in a follow-up phone call. Of the 89 participants, 25 men were significantly clinically depressed before their bypass surgery. "Of the 25 patients scoring positive for depression, six were hospitalized after the original surgery for cardiac reasons, compared with only tw...This is your heart on drugs: Study improves ER treatment for cocaine's heart effects
...he medical team asked them for their addresses and phone numbers, and contact information for friends or relatives who might be in touch with them. Patients also got information about the danger of using cocaine again. One month after the patients were discharged, the team attempted to contact them or the......o conduct business, including increased use of the phone and tele-conferencing, Carnegie Mellon researchers said. Our powerful BARN tools permit users to organize, retrieve, store and share information from multiple modes of collaboration, said Smailagic, a principal research scientist with...