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...al Ambulatory Medical Care Surveyshowed healthcare professionals counsel women less often than men aboutexercise, nutrition, and weight reduction. There are alarming trends in the prevalence and management of riskfactors in women. The prevalence of obesity in American women is increasing. About 25 percen...British Adolescents Need Government Support To Help Clean Up Their Act
...se in British adolescents and he calls upon health professionals to welcome the government's move to address these ...sing teenage behaviour and encourages other health professionals to welcome the initiative....E-mail Is A Powerful Tool In Doctor-Patient Relationship
...cation is now available to patients and healthcare professionals via email, writes Dr Badal Pal in a personal view in this week's BMJ. Dr Pal says that with email, doctors can provide followup and continuity of care which is unavailable through other means. "They can clarify advice previously given and point pat...New cancer treatment facility opens
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Health care professionals often do not seek treatment for their own chemicaldependencies. In an effort to provide guidance to their colleagues on this issue, a group ofbehavioral therapists at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in Chicagohave published a book calle...Hearts N' Parks - an innovative North Carolina program to prevent heart disease launched
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...clude that there is a role for primary care health professionals in identifying those families in need of psychiatric support and referring them to the appropriate services....Breaking the barriers of distance and time
...stance and geographical barriers betweenhealthcare professionals and their clients into dust. In a vast country such asCanada, an Edmonton doctor can consult with a colleague and patient in a remote,northern community for an ultrasound. X-rays and detailed graphical files can bedownloaded for diagnosis in urban ho...Statement from Dr. Claude Lenfant, director, NHLBI and Dr. Phillip Gorden, director, NIDDK
...med above pledge to worktogether to educate health professionals and the public about diabetes as amajor CVD risk factor....U-M School of Public Health to direct national asthma program
...rganizations, community residents,schools, housing professionals and other organizations that have a role inasthma management issues. Funds will be awarded over a four-year period to establish up to eightcommunity-based coalitions. In the fall of 2000, the project will awardone-year organization and planning gran...Global prevention, funding and accountability debated in fight against HIV/AIDS
...nfrastructure, training and educationof healthcare professionals needed to obtain the desired impact. Self-interest and the human development club As the chasm between the world's haves and have nots continues to grow,development aid contributed by industrialized, market-economy countries is at arecord low. Jose...Americans expect to live a year longer than statistics suggest
... had a retirement plan and professionals to determinehow much money employees needed after they retired," he said. "But increasingly employers have shifted awayfrom that toward individually managed retirement savings...Institute publishes "Principles of Drug Addiction Treatment"
...ctionTreatment booklet is intended for health care professionals and the generalpublic. Among the principles and concepts spelled out in this guide, Dr. Leshneremphasized two points: treatment of addiction is as successful as treatment ofother chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and asthma, and for ...Issues surrounding genetic medicine and the Jewish population to be explored at conference
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