Research: Concussion in rugby appears to be hidden epidemic
...r found 11.3 concussions per 100 player-seasons. A quarter of playing days lost from rugby involved such head injuries. By comparison, the UNC study showed a 100-fold higher incidence of concussion than an earlier investigation at an Australian high school did. The rate the new study uncovered was 40 percent...PET scan results change patient management for sixty percent of breast cancer patients
...s also significant on disease staging. More than a quarter (28%; n = 14) were upstaged and 8% (n = 4) were downstaged. Before the scan, 36% of the patients were reported as having stage IV cancer; after the scan, more than half (52%) were at this level as a result of finding previously undetected metastases....New research shows workplace homicides more likely at smaller businesses open late, Saturdays
...eaths in North Carolina between 1994 and the first quarter of 1998. They focused on 105 cases and 210 control workplaces in which killings did not occur. Fifty-nine of the killings took place in retail trade such as convenience stores, 14 in transportation such as taxis and 11 in manufacturing. The rest occu...Study: N.C. educates only a quarter of physicians practicing in the state
...hapel Hill study shows. The real figure is about a quarter -- 27.5 percent to be exact. "If we are going to i...ted from a foreign medical school, and more than a quarter of those studied in India. "We found that N.C. physicians who trained in foreign medical schools wer...One in four patients has been drinking before arrival at accident and emergency
... and one in two of those who had to be admitted. A quarter of all "domestic incidents" involved alcohol: in Scotland this is a significant cause of death, and is roughly twice the rate seen in England and Wales. While men outnumbered women by almost 2:1, alcohol levels between the two sexes were remarkably s...Study finds troubling trends in hepatitis C screening, diagnosis and referral
...g tests ordered by primary care physicians, only a quarter of the tests were ordered because the doctor identified the patient as having a potential risk factor, such as intravenous drug use or a blood transfusion before 1992. Another 65 percent had the test because of prior liver problems or because routine...Study: Children with more hours of child care act more aggressively
...irect assessments and the diversity of subjects, a quarter of whom are minorities. Besides UNC, which follows 130 children, other data collection centers are located at the universities of Arkansas at Little Rock, California at Irvine, Kansas, New Hampshire, Pittsburgh, Virginia, Washington at Seattle and ...No evidence that large numbers of physicians are leaving California, say UCSF researchers
...ears in racial and ethnic diversity. Only about a quarter of physicians practicing in California in 2000 attended medical school in the state. About 50 percent of the state's physicians attended school in another U.S. state and the remaining 25 percent attended school outside the U.S. A slight majority (55...Teenagers, drinking and driving: a quick trip to the grave
...5- to 20-year-old youth in the U.S. More than one quarter of the drivers killed in crashes had been drinking...ional Center for Health Statistics. More than one quarter of the drivers killed in crashes had been drinking. While all school-based alcohol prevention progr...Range of medical equipment carried in UK front line ambulances varies considerably
...d all ambulance services have this capacity. But a quarter of the services did not carry the appropriate oxygen mask to achieve this. Traction splints are not uniformly used, with almost a third of services not carrying them and almost four out of 10 services still rely on inflatable splints despite concerns...Study finds doctors often unaware that hospital patients have urinary catheters
...en't sure of patients' catheter status more than a quarter of the time. And, perhaps as a result, the researchers found that nearly one-third of patients using catheters didn't need them - putting them in needless discomfort and at unnecessary risk for urinary tract infections. "If out of sight means out of ......e plans," she explained. As with Latinos, only one quarter of African Americans report having a traditional job. Similarly, African Americans in the labor force are more likely than whites to have lower incomes and temporary jobs and to report poorer health status. They are two-thirds more likely than whites......anism makes it so that only about one third to one quarter of anti-rejection drugs are absorbed. Clinicians must compensate for this fact by delivering higher doses, but not without a price. Immunosuppressants, such as cyclosporine and tacrolimus, can produce a number of unwanted side effects as well as ma...Family history of high cholesterol often not detected until middle age
...ncy of the condition. They found that only about a quarter of the cases predicted were diagnosed routinely, and most remained undiagnosed until middle age. Lack of diagnosis was greatest among children and young adults: only two children under 10 years and 12 aged 10-19 years had been identified. These findi...US AIDS cases, deaths, and HIV infections appear stable
...f AIDS cases and deaths diagnosed in the U.S. each quarter (three month period) has remained roughly stable. Dr. Gayle presented data for the first two quarters of 1999, which demonstrate a continued stabilization, with roughly 4,000 AIDS deaths and 10,000 AIDS cases diagnosed each quarter. Prior to 1998, d...AAPS announces AAPS PharmSciTech, the association's second online journal
...ssue of the journal will be published in the first quarter of 2000. AAPS PharmSciTech covers the basic and applied research on pharmaceutical dosage forms, both traditional and novel, including the emerging area of biopharmaceuticals. The goal of the journal is to disseminate scientific and technical in...Depression costs UK economy 2 billion a year, conference will be told
...often directed at theirpartner can also result. A quarter of seriously ill depressives attempt suicide. Fifteen per centsucceed. Depression is the second biggest cause of morbidity in the country. In no other specialist life-threatening disease is the management left to GPs,who are often inadequately tra...Neighborhoods matter: who gets CPR?
....4%) ofthe 4,379 cases in this study, fewer than a quarter (22.7%) received CPR. Thelow rate of CPR is one of the reasons that death rates are so high, more than 95percent, following an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in a big city like Chicago,New York or Los Angeles. The researchers -- emergency medicine sp...Study: foreign-trained physicians vital to poor, under-served patients
...health center administrators andfound that about a quarter of centers depended on foreign-trained physicians. Ofthose, most administrators foresaw unfilled positions should foreign-trainedphysicians no longer be available. Findings also suggest that administrators believe that foreign-trainedphysicia...