Study finds drops work as well as patch for 'lazy eye'
...lder children is muchless effective. Most eye care professionals treat amblyopia by placing anopaque adhesive patch, or "eye bandage," on the skin to cover theunaffected eye. This forces the child to use the eye with amblyopia, whichstimulates vision in the eye with amblyopia and helps the part of thebrain that ma...Eye drops to treat childhood eye disorder work as well as patching the eye
...der children is much less effective. Most eye care professionals treat amblyopia by placing an opaque adhesive patc... (PEDIG) found that only three percent of eye care professionals prescribed atropine eye drops as a primary treatment of amblyopia, while 97 percent preferred patchi...Patient leaflets may not be effective in the real world
...hat time constraints and other pressures on health professionals resulted in a lack of discussion of the content of the leaflets. Health professionals also promoted normative practices rather than choice and, as women valued their opinions, this ensur...UIC awarded $1.25 million for AIDS prevention program in Malawi
..., Norr believes the project will encourage medical professionals to improve health-care services for victims of AIDS, often neglected because their cases are viewed as hopeless, and engage in more community outreach programs to limit the disease's spread. "In Malawi, the National AIDS Control Programme estimates t...Majority of parents schedule child's first dental visit two years too late
...contribute both to the success of pediatric dental professionals in treating children and to the development of oral care products that meet a childs needs. A total of 1,000 households with expectant mothers and mothers of children, newborn through 12 years old, were surveyed by telephone in January 2002....SNM Technologists Section announces 2002 Fellows
...ted. They join an elite group of nuclear medicine professionals who have received this honor, and the leadership of the Technologist Section is very proud of April and Valerie for their respective accomplishments which have earned them this honor, Clarke said. Established by the SNMTS National Council in 1995, th...Improving communications and support for doctors, patients and partners
...nurses and other primary and secondary health care professionals to review the basic outline of the information proposed for the booklet, then the professionals were asked to refine the information and finally the consumer groups reviewed the revised informatio...Surgeons dont offer women choices of treatment as often as they could
...t decision-making. This suggests that health care professionals should be cautious about stereotyping women and should be systematic in assessing each womans preference for participation in decision-making. Also, this research proved how vital it is for the women to receive adequate information for making a choic...Modest survival benefit from chemotherapy for patients with glioma brain tumours
...tainty about quality of life mean that some health professionals would consider radiotherapy alone to be a justified standard therapy, whereas others might believe that the appropriate standard therapy should now include a nitrosourea [class of chemotherapeutic agent]. Both camps are likely to agree that the small...First multimedia resource to give patients their own voice
...t will have just as valuable a role for the health professionals as for patients. "The medical training syllabus ha...ly like to have the illness. DIPEx provide health professionals with a systematic analysis of patients experiences that should improve communication and lead to sha......st world. But first, doctors and other health-care professionals need to face up to the problem and debate a strategy to deal with it-which is the aim of this series....Obese lung-transplant recipients at higher risk of death
...indings should force a discussion among transplant professionals about what to do with obese patients who may need lung transplantation, Rodrigue said. Perhaps the bottom line is that lung-transplant programs should offer behavioral health services to their patients to help them lose weight and make other necessar...Accountability in Clinical Research: Balancing Risk and Benefit
...day's health care consumers, payers, providers and professionals recognize the significant impact that errors and patient harm have on patients, family members and staff safety. These and related issues will be probed April 22-24, at the NPSF Annenberg IV Conference, Patient Safety: Let's Get Practical....Tobacco industry strategies for influencing European community tobacco advertising legislation
...l probably require agreement between public-health professionals and the tobacco industry. Such an agreement may necessitate finding an acceptable way in which the industry can be allowed to make a profit in a declining market. The idea that the public-health establishment should sit down and settle an agreement w...Nations only National Healthcare Outreach Mapping Center established
...es of libraries nationwide on behalf of healthcare professionals and consumers. Examples of these outreach efforts ...uth Lilly Medical Library serves practicing health professionals throughout Indiana and is a designated resource library in the National Network of Libraries of Med...Call to action to tackle global health impact of child prostitution
...is weeks issue of THE LANCET are calling on health professionals to join forces with NGOs, governments, and UN agen...d reintegration programmes. We propose that health professionals collaborate with NGOs, governments, and UN agencies to establish an International Campaign to Preven...Young adults dont heed warning message of heart attack or stroke in family
...l, Kip concludes, the results indicate that health professionals need to better communicate the well-documented association between family history of heart attack and stroke and increased personal risk when working with young adults. Perhaps greater emphasis on this strategy at the teachable moment when a family e...American Stroke Association kicks off American Stroke Month
...; providing hospitals, neurologists and healthcare professionals with protocols to help improve stroke treatment; and promoting guidelines for proper care of stroke survivors. "Any high-risk patient should be strongly directed to reduce modifiable risk factors such as smoking and uncontrolled hypertension. We sho...Low referral rates, low income keep women out of cardiac rehab programs
... programs should include appropriate mental health professionals to identify and address vital psychosocial aspects of recovery such as those that predict a patients likelihood of participating in a cardiac rehabilitation program....Mayo Medical School students selected for Howard Hughes Medical Institute Research Scholars Program
...rticipate." Mayo Clinic has been educating medical professionals since its earliest days, when physicians from throughout the world traveled to Rochester, Minn., to train with the Mayo brothers....