Women's and Children's Hospital, Adelaide brings home national Diamond Serif Award
...tor Award for its innovative and proactive role in recognising the research achievements of our younger researchers and their contribution to the health of future generations," Dr Bates said. Award Committee Chairman Associate Professor Eric Haan said, " One of the strengths of the award was the way it used a v...Depression turns generation gap into a chasm
...service for help," he added. So if parents are not recognising their adolescent childrens problems, and adolescents are not revealing them to their parents, where is that professional help to come from? "A common source of help for these adolescents is school-based services," said Dr Sawyer. "Depressed adolesce...General public fails to recognise early signs of stroke
... 10 carers or partners. Participants reported that recognising symptoms was not easy. Many patients who had had a stroke did not initially take their symptoms seriously because the symptoms were not the same as those they had read about. They felt that none of the available written information about stroke succe...General decline in death rates from skin cancer in Scotland over past two decades
...elanoma is increasing each year, they appear to be recognising that they have a problem and are seeking treatment at an earlier stage. This explains the fact that mortality from melanoma has changed very little over the past 20 years. We still need to encourage a change in sun-exposure behaviour which, over a pe......c and inventive as younger people when it comes to recognising their options for how and where to live, according...o understand how older people are just as adept at recognising their environmental options as younger men and women." She continued: "The crucial question is 'How...Urgent need for investment in human resources to respond to global health crises
...eglect, decision makers should begin now, first by recognising the problem and second by fixing it through the immediate implementation of potentially effective strategies. Human resources do not exist in a vacuum, and great investment must be made to facilitate the systems to support and foster the efficacy of ...What might our health systems look like in 2020?
...les. This journey to reinvent healthcare begins by recognising that health systems are "sociotechnical" systems, where people and technologies interact, he writes. He proposes four rules, based on this thinking, which could help guide the active design of our health services. If health care is to evolve at a pac...Parents failing to recognise obesity in their children
...This compares with more than half (54%) of parents recognising overweight and obese girls. The study also revealed that some parents showed a lack of concern towards their children's weight problems. Although more than half of obese children's parents expressed some concern over their child's condition,...Consumers to benefit from organic potato breakthrough
...orts. It is encouraging that the supermarkets are recognising the challenges of growing organic potatoes and have started giving these new varieties a chance on the supermarket shelf."...2005: A critical year for action towards millennium development goals
...d to reviewing progress towards the goals in 2005, recognising that by this time only a decade would be left to fulfil the MDGs. The authors comment: 'We are now at the 5-year juncture with a stark realisation: many of the poorest regions of the world, most notably in sub-Saharan Africa, are far off-track to ac...... that medical professionals are equally trained in recognising women's risk profiles, disease onset and progression patterns as well as men's. Women's symptom profiles often vary markedly from those of their male counterparts. Women with heart disease are up to ten years older than men and present with much les...